[Mediawiki-l] wikis for academic courses

[Gregory Szorc]

Since you don't want sharing between wikis, there are a few ways to do this:

1) Write a custom userCan hook extension that integrates your wiki's group
membership with article titles, etc
2) Make separate namespaces and apply permissions accordingly
3) Set up one MediaWiki install to host multiple wikis using
includes/SiteConfiguration.php and virtual sub-domains

Don't underestimate the flexibility of the userCan hook.  You could even use
it to deny access to specific articles that belong to a certain category.
However, if you rely on per-namespace, per-category, etc security
limitations, you can always have end-users screw everything up.  The most
secure way is completely separate wikis.  includes/SiteConfiguration.php can
help you set up a wiki farm with MediaWiki.

Gregory Szorc
gregory.szorc at gmail.com

On 6/12/06, Gilad Ravid <gilad at ravid.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> We use wikis (media wiki) in academic courses.
>
> We have doubts regard the wiki configuration.
>
> Currently we install separate wiki for each course (around 10 courses, no
> sharing between the courses, need to implement different security scheme
> to
> each course).
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> We are looking for more scalable solution.
>
> Do you think we shall continue with separate installation? different
> namespace for each course? Use categories? other ideas?
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>
>
> Thanks for your help
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>
>
> Gilad
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