[Mediawiki-l] Permissions based on sections

[Dave Sigafoos]

>>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).

Althought it might not be the right thing to do .. why couldn't you have
a TAG that is parsed and remove a section?

Once again the whole discussion of security and what should and should
not be done is another thing ..


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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas
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Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:22
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Permissions based on sections

On 05/10/2007, GT4NE1 <gt4ne1 at 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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