Chad -- why would Mediawiki be the wrong tool if someone wanted to exercise
some form of access control? Considering the number of extensions that have
created for different types of access control it seems to be a very popular
desire. Just because someone desires access control doesn't mean that they
don't want the wiki experience elsewhere in their website -- they just
don't want it on every page. (Implicitly Mediawiki developers agree with
this philosophy since all Mediawiki Namespace pages on every wiki have
access control). Strangely the only type of access control build into
Mediawiki is a top-down centralized type of access control, which is
strange when you think about it. Everyone agrees some type of access
control needs to build into the software, but Mediawiki, out of the
package, only allows a top-down centralized approach. Others just want more
varied types of access control than the off-the-shelf model presented
inside a standard Mediawiki.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue Jan 27 2015 at 3:41:12 PM Mlpearc <
mlpearc(a)everythingfoodanddrink.org>
wrote:
I second that, just because Wikipedia is open to
all editors does mean
our
installations have to be.
Perhaps MediaWiki is the wrong tool for you then?
-Chad
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