Yep, I meant sections of a site rather than sections of a page.
Wasn't sure what to call it in Mediawiki since they don't really do
that. :)
I did find the info about namespaces after I sent the original email.
Something like that might work for me. It seems others have done what
I am wanting to do with namespaces and some of the extensions.
At this point though, it seems like either creating different wikis
for each department and using some interwiki linking extensions or
using another CMS altogether might work better.
Thanks,
GT
On 10/5/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 05/10/2007, GT4NE1 <gt4ne1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I think I already know the answer to this, but I thought I would run
it by some people with more expierience with Mediawiki than I.
I want to create a wiki where I can create different sections that
different groups will use and assign permissions for each of the
groups.
Think departments in a company and creating different department
groups and not allow people outside of that department group to see
that department section.
From everything I've been reading this would be sort of like page by
page permissions only with sections and while there are some page by
page extensions, there is a disclaimer on the ones that require a core
code change that Mediawiki wasn't really designed for page by page
permissions.
I guess my question is am I right in my conclusions? Has anyone had
any success implementing some of the page by page permissions
extensions whether it be the ones requiring core code changes or not?
If anyone has had experience setting up this kind of environment and
can recommend an alternative CMS, I would appreciate it as well.
Looks like you've read it right. By "sections" you mean sections of
the site, rather than sections of a page, right? There's no way you
could have different permissions for different sections of the same
page (although you might be able to do something with transclusion to
simulate it). If you have each of the sections of the site as a
namespace, you should be able to use one of the existing extensions
(which may well involve changing the core code, but there should be
instructions on what to change) to pretty much exactly what you want.
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