Please note that the mediawiki devs have two positions, completely open, or
completely closed wiki. Mediawiki was never intended to be a CMS which is
why most access control extensions are hacks and work ok at best, and are
not given as much scrutiny/review as other systems
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 5:44 PM Amanda Quad <amandaquad(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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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