On 12/18/05, Maurice Rabb <WikiAdmin(a)personalbacon.com> wrote:
Dear Sy Ali,
I had the same problem until I noticed that there is a link to a
patch at bug 1924, embedded in the Possible_solution (Namespace-Based
Restriction) section of Hidden Pages.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924
I modified the wiki so that it is more obvious. Check out:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hidden_pages#Possible_solution_.
28Namespace-Based_Restriction.29
Thanks for leading me down the right road. I don't want to go so far
as to work with hackish solutions. To get this functionality, I'll
have to wait for a mediawiki fork which does have security.. since
like many others I use mediawiki as a cms.
I can think of a alternate method which would rewrite certain URLs
into protected "directories" which would work fairly well, but
unfortunately I don't nor will I ever understand enough to implement
it myself.