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
Hoi,
MediaWiki is a versatile tool. Gartner wrote at some stage: "Knowledge
management became affordable thanks to the MediaWiki boys". The point
being, yes it is a wiki engine at its core, it is however used in many
settings. There have been several requests for per-page access
permissions. There have been implementations of this. They just did not
make it into the MediaWiki SVN. This is a shame because as a consequence
you have a fork. Forking is really unproductive. With some regularity
the same issue raises its ugly head again; often resulting in a new fork.
Thanks,
GerardM