Hi folks,
I'm starting to take a more active interest in MediaWiki access control
features, primarily in the area of integration with other applications
and authenticaion systems. My initial interest in this was picqued by
administrating a GForge site (
helixcommunity.org) where there have been
frequent requests for some form of wiki integration. However, my
interest is probably more abstract than that now (i.e. I want to solve
the general problem, rather than writing a one-off MediaWiki/GForge glue
layer).
As I've started my investigation, I've been looking at what
conversations have occurred in the past. I've tried to document what I
know so far here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_control
I've wanted to get a good idea for what's already been discussed and how
the code currently works before coming in swinging with my own ideas for
improvements that can be made.
A couple of questions:
1. I've included links to several bugs. I'd like to file a tracking
bug in BZ which is blocked by those bugs so that I get the benefit of
two-way links to all of the bugs. However, it doesn't appear that
metabugs are standard practice here. Is that by policy? More to the
point, would anyone mind if I filed an "Access control" tracking bug?
2. Is there anything major I'm missing?
I'll be on #mediawiki IRC semi-regularly (as "robla"), but you may have
to /msg me to get my attention.
Thanks
Rob