Hi all,
The new user levels functionality in 1.5 looks pretty cool (referring to
this):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_levels
One small concern I have is regarding terminology. This appears to be a
w:Role-Based Access Control
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-Based_Access_Control> system, but
with different terminology. See Role Based Access Controls at NIST
<http://csrc.nist.gov/rbac/> for the gory explanation.
Here's what I see as the difference:
Current MediaWiki 1.5 RBAC
Level Permission
User Group Role
Is my assessment of the situation correct? If so, it'd be nice to move
toward using more standard terminology. It's not something worth slowing
down a 1.5 release, but it'd be good to eventually align this
Rob