[Mediawiki-l] Need to restrict areas of a wiki by user

[Andy Roberts]

On 06/12/06, Bob Bader <bader at cchmc.org> wrote:
> My boss had me implement a wiki (media wiki 1.63) n Mac Os X and we
> have restricted it so users have to log in with these settings in the
> localsettings.php
> -----------
> $wgWhitelistRead = array( "Main Page", "Special:Userlogin" );
> $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
> -------------------
>
>
> Now my boss wants to limit certain areas/pages of the wiki to
> specified users.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this?

These certain areas/pages will effectively constitute a seperate wiki
so one idea might be to implement it as such.  You could then use
interwiki to link between the two or more installations.  Not ideal,
but doable.

-- 
Andy Roberts

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