[Mediawiki-l] Looking for MW Business Users

[Jack Eapen C]

Hi Ryan,

What I actually meant is that these extensions are available in the main
distribution itself instead of people are searching for it, downloading
it, copying files, changing files, etc. (I'm using your LDAP extension,
though I'm yet to experiment with the group synchronization :( )

By UI-based, access control mechanism, I meant not a UI to LDAP; but a
UI for access control within wiki.

I know the basic philosophy of wiki is not to restrict, but be as open
as possible. But still, that won't work always. In Wikipedia, even if
there's error in some article, that won't affect anyone critically. But
in a corporate wiki, the information may critical. E.g. our wiki deals
with configuration information of our s/w for banking and telecom
sector. if wrong information is there and if anyone uses that
information to configure the s/w, that may lead to error or unwanted
results. 

Regards,
 
Jack
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Lane, Ryan
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Looking for MW Business Users

> I hope (and I can only hope) somebody will come up with 
> features that make MW a natural choice in business wikis as 
> well. As Dave pointed out, an inbuilt WYSWYG editor is 
> everyone's dream. Other than that, I think a wiki 
> administrator would like to have built in features in MW as:
> 
> Different authentication mechanisms like LDAP, NTLM UI for 
> creating users, groups and assigning users to groups UI for 
> creating categories and assigning categories to articles 
> UI-based access control mechanism based on article 
> categories/user groups and usernames Review mechanism if 
> needed Rating of articles

If you mean, you'd like to see support those auth methods, support is
already available for them. The LDAP one will sync groups from LDAP, and
it is possible to have the wiki create LDAP accounts (if you *really*
want that). There are also quite a few access control extensions around,
that work on categories, and even per page; the regular saying goes that
the access control plugins can't be trusted regarding read rights...

If you only wanted the UI, then PHPldapAdmin, or some other LDAP admin
gui would solve at least part of your problem.

V/r,

Ryan Lane

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