[Mediawiki-l] Creating a Private Wiki

[Platonides]

Schiz0 wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I run a members-only forum. I'm in the process of adding a Wiki to the
> site, and I'd like to restrict the wiki to only members logged into
> the forum. Would there be any problems to adding session_start() to
> the top of the wiki's index.php (as well as some checks to validate
> the session cookie from the forum)?
> 
> What would be the best way to restrict this? I don't want non-members
> to be able to view, edit, or register an account on the wiki at all,
> so I don't see how I would be able to do this using the Wiki settings.
> 
> Thanks for all suggestions.

Use an Auth plugin to get the credentials from the forum. Then restrict
view and edits to the user group.