[Mediawiki-l] limit access to special namespace to logged in users only

[Rejo Zenger]

Hi,

I am looking for a "good" solution to limit the access to pages in the
"Special" namespace to logged in users only (except Userlogin of course,
otherwise no one would ever be able to login and see the other pages in
that namespace :)). 

A "good" solution would not be something of a dirty hack in the code of
Mediawiki or apache configuration, but it would be something like a
properly-coded extension or even a built-in feature of Mediawiki.

I am planning to deploy a Mediawiki install for a website that is being
maintained by a community of users, but of which special pages like the
history of edits, should only be disclosed to this who are allowed to
edit the pages (non-anonymous users). 

I am aware this is not specifically what Mediawiki was written for, and
I understand this one of the reasons this feature is not or not yet in
Mediawiki available. However, I presume, I am not the only one looking
for something like this.

Of course I did search Google, this lists's archives and the Mediawiki
site to find me an answer. The answers I have found until now seem all
to be in one way or another "a dirty hack" (an unmaintained extension, 
clumsy hack of Mediawiki code, etc). I do not mind creating a solution
myself, but I want to make sure I am not overlooking something. 

Thank you in advance for your help,

-- 
Rejo Zenger <rejo at zenger.nl> https://rejo.zenger.nl
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