So I'm guessing that in the field:
-- The protection type (edit, move, etc) pr_type varchar(255) NOT NULL,
pr_type = "read" will not be supported/undefined because "its a wiki" (whatever that means)? Seems like a bad way to go, and actually the time limiting factor on reads could be useful as contentious pages could be restricted for a period of time, whilst people work out what to do with them qv potentially libelous comments...
On 2/12/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/02/07, Alex Powell alexp@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
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