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

[MHart]

> It seems that this extensions still leaves some holes, though. Like
> search results and action=edit.

We use a Google appliance on our sites - it cannot search restricted pages. 
Action=edit is a hole, yes, as an internal-only site though, we didn't try 
to force that.

I did at one time, though. To prevent action=edit on such pages, I hacked 
index.php (now it would be in includes/Wiki.php) to check the page content 
before any processing (via the page title requested) and restrict to users 
and groups in there.

You are correct in that any purely extension method cannot fully prevent 
viewing the page info - you have to hack the software to get that.

We also have a few wikis that are blocked by user name/password on the 
folder, but that goes back to the separate wiki that the requester wants to 
avoid.

- MHart