Una wrote:
Hi. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access mentions a method of rudimentary access control involving two mediawiki wikis, one public, one private, with a shared user database. That sounds like what I want to migrate a pair of existing e-mail discussion groups onto wikis. The groups share a lot of content and members, but one group is public and the other is (nominally) private.
The difficulty is, "shared user database" is a redlink. Could anyone here help me fill in the details?
Could this be the correct link: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgSharedDB
Yep, that'll be the one. User groups (and thus rights assignments) are separate in each database, so you can manually put users into a privileged group to get read access on the other one.
At least, in theory it should work. ;)
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)