Nicholas Buttle wrote:
I'm trying to put together a wiki for an
Architectural
firm.
1. They want categories somewhat like you have in
Twiki. However, I've had a look at Twiki and I find
it pretty difficult to get to grips with so I imagine
it'll be user unfriendly in the firm. Is there a way
of changing the side bar if you navigate to a category
page? ie the sidebar becomes the subcategory bar when
you get to the selected category.
Sorry, you'd have to develop this capability yourself.
Consider using TWiki if that's what your client wants. :)
2. What level of user access control is there in
mediawiki? We're after 'locking down' certain pages
and leaving others open to editing by just about
everybody.
Very limited capabilities in this regard; MediaWiki is aimed at
open-access sites. If you need multiple levels of read access or pages
which can only be read by certain users, for instance, MediaWiki is not
suitable. There may be third-party hacks to try to support this but they
are likely to be insecure, and using them may put you or your client's
data at risk.
If you just want to protect a few pages against editing by
non-administrators, that's fine.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com / brion @
wikimedia.org)