[Mediawiki-l] Questions about Priviledges/Tuning in MediaWiki

[johan.boye at latecoere.fr]

> Categories are tags added to pages; restricting content 
> access based on them is dangerous, as users could open up 
> holes just by adding or removing them. If you must try to 
> restrict (edit) access, then I would recommend doing it by 
> namespace (custom namespace tutorial/overview at
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces) 
> and using the $wgNamespacePermissions configuration variable.


> 
> Wikipedia does this with JavaScript; we provide support 
> functions to allow this. Have a look at 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js - search for 
> "Extra toolbar options".
> 


  Thanks Rob, gonna check out your both advices

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