[Mediawiki-l] Multiple wikis sharing single database and same database prefix

[Jim Hu]

We discovered this when we had a split wiki with private and public  
parts.  And then we ran a Nutch search engine against our own wiki  
and saw all these hits that weren't supposed to be there.

The watermark idea sounds like it might be interesting.  You wouldn't  
have to map the IPs...so what if the public users see the fact that  
it's a public wiki?
Or, maybe you could just set up your private users to use a different  
skin that displays the warning.
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054


On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Jason Armistead wrote:

> Jim Hu wrote:
>
>> Unless your users are a lot more disciplined than mine, new page
>> creation will leak across the namespaces.
>>
>> Actually, what will happen is that everyone in the protected
>> namespaces will create new pages in Main.
>
> Maybe the answer is to somehow use the IP address of the "Private"
> users to map the page background of the "Public" wiki to a
> watermarked background that says "Warning: Public wiki".  Everyone
> outside that IP net-block just gets a regular background.
>
> Or maybe it's possible to re-map the standard NS_MAIN namespace to
> the NS_PRIVATE (custom) one.
>
> It all sounds like it's getting messy ...
>
> Sigh !
>
> Anyone got any other bright ideas ???
>
>
>
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