[Mediawiki-l] Restricted Namespaces

[Dan Davis]

On 5/24/06, Dan Davis <hokie99cpe+wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone have much experience with the Restricted Namespaces patch?
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hidden_pages#version_1.5
> http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924
>
> I've got it installed and configured... works great.
>
> When a user logs in, a list of the namespaces to which s/he has access
> is presented. I would like to add that list to the sidebar between the
> navigation box (MediaWiki:Sidebar) and the search box
> (MediaWiki:Search).

Figured out how to do this myself.... I've attached the patch to
Skin.php if anyone is interested. It really makes the restricted
namespaces patch much more useful.

Question now... is it possible to do this with an extension rather
than editing source itself?

Dan