The thought of using two wiki's did occur to me and I considered doing it the same way
as the various languages do (i.e. [[en.PageTitle]] for the english version versus
[[fr.PageTitle]] for ther french version) and do something like [[priv.PageTitle]] and
[[publ.PageTitle]] but I have no experiance doing various language wiki so the whole thing
would be new to me. The biggest concern/goal is for the user's experiance to be simple
and not have them need to keep track of what is where.
What woudl be geat is if there is an extension that can force an update to a second wiki
such that only the protected wiki would user editable and then the extention tag could be
dropped in to the article to push updates to the public wiki. That would be really slick!
--- Does that exist? If not...can we (the group) make it?
I'll help :-)
I just don't know where to start - lol
- Rich (revansx)
---- Jim Wilson <wilson.jim.r(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The safest (easiest?) way I can think of is to have a
separate wiki that is
decidedly public. Meaning publicly viewable (you can of course lock down
editorship however you want).
Locking down read access to certain pages is a tough problem not solvable
with a vanilla install alone - it takes extensions to do it. There may be
extensions out there that can help you, but I'm not sure.
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 5/29/07, revansx(a)cox.net <revansx(a)cox.net> wrote:
Dear mediawiki admin experts,
I have a configuration goal for my installation of mediawiki that might
technically only be a web-server related modification, but I am convinced
that the solution (if it is even possible) will requires the advanced
insights of this group of experts. Here's the situation: I have set-up a
mediawiki (1.6.10) on a dedicated company server (Red Hat, Apache 2.0.52)
which uniformly (www and intranet) limits browser accessibility to users who
have a company username and password which they are required to provide to
the browser in order to view the wiki articles. wiki user-accounts for
authoring are handled by the LDAP module. This part all works great. --- The
problem is --- that I am now being asked if it is possible to make certain
pages "publicly" accessible and not protected behind a secure browser
authentication against the company's domain (after we've gone to such
excellent lengths to protect all of the content!!!) I am being asked if
specific articles and/or all of the articles in certain namespace can be
made to be an exception to our global restrictions on who can "see" the
articles. A specific example is the "Main Page" and any of the User's
pages.
So, does anyone know how to configure a mediawiki such that "some" pages
require secure browser authentication even just to see them? If so, the
ideal solution would behave such that new pages are created inaccessible
from the public by default. --- sincerest thanks all. - Rich (revansx)
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