Hi,
OK, I know one of key feature of a Wiki is "unrestricted access to
everyone", but there are some times when you definitely want to have a
subpart of a Wiki to be more "private", or "read only", using a more
sophisticated scheme than white-lists (no, I don't want to create a
separate wiki).
So, I'm willing to give it a stab and see if I can turn that out into an
extension, as a small spare-time project (that would probably be completed
in 2012 I guess). In the meantime would you guys be open to add some hooks
into 1.4 / 1.5 ? Or pointing out where to put them ?
For example, I have the feeling Title::userCanEdit() and
Title::userCanRead() would be two interesting places to put event/hooks.
I'm not exactly sure what userCanRead() prevent from though, any clue ? For
example, if I check the "Special::Recent Changes", it seems to me that if
user can not read a given page P, he should certainly not be able to see
the comments that were entered when someone else modified that page P
(neither should he be able to see the "diffs"). My fear is that I miss one
of the many ways to see the contents of a page.
Actually I just checked 1.4 and it seems there is a new
Title::userCan($action) that seem to be called by
userCanRead/userCanEdit... A hook near the end maybe, before 'return true'
? It uses getRestrictions(), which seems to pull something out of the
cur_restrictions field, but this is not really documented, what's the
format of that column in 'cur', something like
edit:user1,user2;move:user3,user2, etc ?
Thanks
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Sebastien Barre