On 12/02/07, Alex Powell <alexp(a)exscien.com> wrote:
I noticed the SVN tables.sql now has a permissions
table. Dare I dream that
per page permissioning is on the way? Is the ethos of the wikipedia
changing, or has some money been thrown into the development? Is it likely
to be in 1.10, or a few versions away?
No, we've just split off page editing permissions (for protection)
into a new table, and introduced a few columns in advance, to
facilitate future features such as expiring protection. This was done
at the same time as cascading protection was introduced.
I am not aware of plans to introduce per-page access permissions to
the software beyond anything we already have, at this time. MediaWiki
is a wiki engine, not a content management system.
Rob Church