[Mediawiki-l] How to set up page owners

Thu Sep 7 23:13:48 UTC 2006

James,

Why would you need to implement this kind of solution in the software?

In our wiki we have pages, which are usually edited by just one or a few 
people, but we do this simply out of agreement - just like it's consensus 
not to edit other people's userpages on Wikipedia. Sometimes the best 
solutions are the ones where the technical stuff doesn't get in the way. I 
find wikis to be so strong (contrary to most CMS-systems), because it relies 
so heavily on trusting users to figure out not just to input the content of 
the wiki, but also to figure out amongst themselves, collaboratively, how to 
organize the content, along the way as they go.

Just my 2 cents.

Best wishes,
Morten
http://morten.crewscut.com
morten at crewscut.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Mohr" <mediawiki at jimmo.com>
To: <mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to set up page owners

> On Thursday 07 September 2006 13:07, Brion Vibber wrote:
>> James Mohr wrote:
>> > I would to set up a system where each page has an owner. This owner can
>> > then assign access rights to the page.
>>
>> I would highly recommend against trying to use MediaWiki as a base for 
>> this
>> sort of permissions system. It will be a lot of work and will probably 
>> have
>> security holes.
>>
>> I strongly, strongly, strongly recommend first looking for a wiki or CMS
>> which supports your requirements before you throw away a lot of effort
>> trying to bend MediaWiki into something it's not.
>>
>> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
> Hi Brion!
>
> Coming from you, that recommendation definately means a lot and it is
> definately something to consider. On the other hand, it is always nice to
> limit the number of systems/software packages one has to administer. It 
> might
> be worth staying with a single wiki/CMS system and to say right up front 
> that
> only the owner of the page can edit it, thus limiting and potential holes
> (i.e. if ( UserID = OwnerID) then ...). However, it is definately food for
> thought.
>
> Another thing to consider is that open source projects allow you to bend 
> them
> into something they're not, or at least something that wasn't planned for 
> at
> the outset. That's one of the really nice things about open source.
>
> Regards,
>
> jimmo
>
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