Just echoing what Chris said below, although I do know of at least one exception.
https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AccessControl still technically works with MediaWiki
1.26+, however it is known to be far from perfect at accomplishing its goal and to
potentially have serious flaws that could breach privacy.
Instead of using an extension like this, I suggest setting
$wgGroupPermissions[‘*’][‘read’] = false and $wgGroupPermissions[‘user’][‘read’] = false
in LocalSettings.php. Then define a new user group that you want to have read access to
the wiki and grant the read right to that group, like so:
$wgGroupPermissions[‘newgroupname’][‘read’] = true;
Unfortunately, Chris is right that the MediaWiki developers don’t like partial access
restrictions. Either it’s all open or it’s all closed.
— Amanda
On Tuesday, December 26, 2017, 5:38 PM, chris tharp <tharpenator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Martin,
A quick note: The Lockdown extension has not worked since Mediawiki 1.26. If I’m not
mistaken almost all the access restriction extensions no longer work (several of the older
extensions, like Lockdown & SemanticACL, were good at access restrictions). The
philosophy that a wiki must be totally open, regardless of the needs of many, especially
Enterprise users, seems to have a firm hold on the mind-set of Mediawiki developers.
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 26, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Martin Urbanec
<martin.urbanec(a)wikimedia.cz> wrote:
Just a note, because it may not be clear from what I written above. This
will require a) having the shared content public b) having the external
users accounts on the wiki. I beleive that you was asked for
account-removing because they should not have access to the entrie wiki,
but only to limited subset of pages. The extension Lockdown allows you to
accomplish such thing.
Martin
út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:17 odesílatel Martin Urbanec <
martin.urbanec(a)wikimedia.cz> napsal:
Hello,
just a info: MediaWiki is not a CMS but a Wiki. This may be not 100%
secure but it should work. You may want to have a look at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown .
Best,
Martin Urbanec
(cs.wikipedia)
út 26. 12. 2017 v 22:39 odesílatel Bryan Hilderbrand <bryanh(a)tegnosis.wiki>
napsal:
Hi all,
I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on December 19th
regarding "Dump of Recent Changes".
I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some external users
that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to remove these
external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of the content.
What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate wiki that
automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. Moko's post) and
some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)?
I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The content that
needs
to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection and
daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via Dropbox).
I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks!
Regards,
Bryan
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection
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