On 9/29/05, Benoit Brosseau <brosseaub(a)mancomm.ca> wrote:
ok i am new to this so bare with me
If you want to strip, feel free, but I'll keep my clothes on thanks.
i have a class that i want to use mediawiki for
i have 4 groups of students
how do i set it up so :
anyone can read all the content
only members of the group can edit the group pages
only members can leave comments
You really can't. It sounds like you are looking for a contents
management system and not a wiki.
Mediawiki (like Ward Cunningham's wikiwiki web, and all the wikis in
between is designed around the philosophy that anyone can edit, and
everyone will police the result. It only supports very broad sets of
capabilities for users, and doesn't really support a permissions model
on individual artifacts.
Such questions come up here often, because users always want to warp
software to meet their own ends. But as neat as mediawiki is as a wiki
implementation, it's really not a good base for a restrictive content
management system.
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