I see... Thank you ! In fact, thanks to the clue you gave me, I've just found this extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WhiteList
We're gonna check it out to see if it's what we're needing. Any other options ? Thanks indeed Regards MA_Xx On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Christensen, Courtney < [email protected]> wrote: > > Have you considered using the $whWhitelist to allow users to see only those > pages you want them to? It might be a little tedious to keep the list up, > but not more so than some of your other options. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Maximiliano Milicich > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Making only a part of the content visible for a > group of users > > > Hello, > > We've recently installed a wiki for IT dept usage but came to the > conclusion > that it would be very useful to let end users see some of the articles. The > thing is we don't want them to see all the content mainly because it would > confuse them. For instance, if they search for "Accounting" we want to > provide definitions and troubleshooting on the Accounting system that might > help them, but not every server list, SQL code and tech spec that we have. > > We've been looking around and found a couple of options based on > namespaces, > which we're still not sure will work the way we need (for one thing, > limiting search results for end users) and seem kind of hard to maintain. > > The simplest option seems to be keeping two separate wikis, but I don't > want > to disconnect the end users documents from our wiki because it's valuable > info for us too. What we're thinking about is having both wikis but > maintaining them in sync with some batch process that could export and > import all articles that belong to a certain category or even backup and > restore the entire database and afterwards delete non-end user articles. > That way, the end user wiki would be read-only and get updates every day. > In > both cases we'd have to know how to deal with images (seems easy with the > backup/restore option but no so much with the export / import). > > Do you think we're on the right path with any of these? Any other > suggestions? Here is our version info: > > Product Version > MediaWiki 1.15.1 > PHP 5.2.10 (isapi) > MySQL 5.0.22 > > Thank you in advance!! > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
