[Mediawiki-l] How to set up page owners

[James Mohr]

Hi All!

I would to set up a system where each page has an owner. This owner can then 
assign access rights to the page. In the first phase, all I really want is 
that the owner can specify who can edit the page. In fact, for the start, it 
could be as simply as an on-off switch where editing it allowed or not. 

The first thing that comes to mind is a new data table (I am not happy with 
the idea of editing existing tables). The table could have fields like this:

ownerID:pageID:edit_on

Where ownerID is the userID of the owner and edit_on is either 0 or 1. 
Expanding this idea, I could have:

ownerID:pageID:AuthorID:privileges 

Where AuthorID is another UserID and privileges is simply a bitmap (a la UNIX 
chmod) which indicates what the AuthorCan do to the page (read, edit, 
delete?). 

I would prefer not to reinvent the wheel. So, if a mechanism exists aleady 
that is even close to that functionality, I would really appreaciate a shove 
in the right direction.

Regards,

jimmo
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