[Mediawiki-l] access controls in 1.9.3

[Platonides]

Frederich, Eric P21322 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just upgraded our corporate Wiki to MediaWiki 1.9.3.
> Almost a year ago when I first installed the Wiki here, I was looking
> around for some access control solutions.
> I was wondering if any work has been done recently to have per-page
> access controls or if the situation is still like it was before.
> 
> If nothing is built into 1.9.3, are there any good compatible extensions
> to use for this?
> 
> What my users are looking for is a way for some pages themselves to be
> only editable by a handful of people but the discussion page is editable
> by anyone.

If you only want to restrict by namespace, it's much easier. You could 
code an an extension for it or even use the builtin 
$wgNamespaceProtection (including everything but Talk namespace).