[Mediawiki-l] status of permissions

[Iv Ray]

Hello everyone,

I spent the last weeks researching lightly on the permissions situation 
at MediaWiki and I found out the following -

a) MediaWiki is not made for permissions, however

b) MediaWiki starts to enter the corporate world, so extensions 
implementing permissions start to appear, but

c) Because MediaWiki isn't uniformly developed (eg. not all reads go 
over a read class, etc.) this isn't working very well.

While I fully respect a), I see the reasons behind b), because our 
company (50 people), looking for a straight 
almost-turn-key-out-of-the-box intranet solution, chose MediaWiki in 
order to capitalize on the experience people have made with Wikipedia.

Having the treind, described in b), could somebody explain in a calm, 
non-partisan way if c) is true and if there is a honest and stable mood 
in this direction, or we should, generally speaking, forget it?

If the answer is positive, we are ready to contribute.

Regards,
Iv