[Mediawiki-l] Page access restiction (resend)

Tue Nov 22 09:48:07 UTC 2005

It seems that many people need this feature. Since I published this 
patch 
(http://conseil-recherche-innovation.net/index.php/1974/04/11/41-restrict-pages-under-mediawiki-15), 
we have 25% of visits on this single article. Generaly people need 
restriction feature to manage small wikis, private intranets. I guess 
they choose mediawiki for the syntax, templates, and 
reliabilty/community support, and not for the ability to manage projects 
as big as wikipedia nor encyclopedies.

 From a wikipedia point of view, I think nobody wants more restriction 
features (protect is enough). We cannot polute the core of MW with 
features not useful for WP, it's difficult to maintain patches for ages, 
and it's not necessary to carry WP specific features in a forked 
project. So my choice would be a fifth... E. To write some 
specifications from needs, abstract the problem, and start a new project 
:) Any ideas ?!...

Read you,
Jej

>Asking again...
>
>If someone were to get gung-ho about implementing access control
>measures in MediaWiki that go way beyond the immediate needs of
>Wikipedia, would you prefer that that person/group:
>
>A.  Submit patches for inclusion in mainline MediaWiki
>B.  Submit patches to extend the MediaWiki core to allow for a security
>layer
>C.  Submit patches to modularize/wrap some MediaWiki components (e.g.
>the parser) in a way that they can be used as libraries for an otherwise
>forked/rewritten wiki product
>D.  Fork MediaWiki
>
>Curious Robla
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