Just echoing what Chris said below, although I do know of at least one exception. https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AccessControl still technically works with MediaWiki 1.26+, however it is known to be far from perfect at accomplishing its goal and to potentially have serious flaws that could breach privacy. Instead of using an extension like this, I suggest setting $wgGroupPermissions[‘*’][‘read’] = false and $wgGroupPermissions[‘user’][‘read’] = false in LocalSettings.php. Then define a new user group that you want to have read access to the wiki and grant the read right to that group, like so: $wgGroupPermissions[‘newgroupname’][‘read’] = true; Unfortunately, Chris is right that the MediaWiki developers don’t like partial access restrictions. Either it’s all open or it’s all closed. — Amanda
On Tuesday, December 26, 2017, 5:38 PM, chris tharp <[email protected]> wrote: Martin, A quick note: The Lockdown extension has not worked since Mediawiki 1.26. If I’m not mistaken almost all the access restriction extensions no longer work (several of the older extensions, like Lockdown & SemanticACL, were good at access restrictions). The philosophy that a wiki must be totally open, regardless of the needs of many, especially Enterprise users, seems to have a firm hold on the mind-set of Mediawiki developers. Sent from my iPad > On Dec 26, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Martin Urbanec <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Just a note, because it may not be clear from what I written above. This > will require a) having the shared content public b) having the external > users accounts on the wiki. I beleive that you was asked for > account-removing because they should not have access to the entrie wiki, > but only to limited subset of pages. The extension Lockdown allows you to > accomplish such thing. > > Martin > > út 26. 12. 2017 v 23:17 odesílatel Martin Urbanec < > [email protected]> napsal: > >> Hello, >> >> just a info: MediaWiki is not a CMS but a Wiki. This may be not 100% >> secure but it should work. You may want to have a look at >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown . >> >> Best, >> Martin Urbanec >> (cs.wikipedia) >> >> út 26. 12. 2017 v 22:39 odesílatel Bryan Hilderbrand <[email protected]> >> napsal: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have a question that may be similar to G. Moko's post on December 19th >>> regarding "Dump of Recent Changes". >>> >>> I have a private enterprise wiki that currently has some external users >>> that have been granted read-only access. I have been asked to remove these >>> external users from the wiki, but they need access to some of the content. >>> >>> What is the best way to handle this? Extensions? Separate wiki that >>> automatically updates from the main using dumps (like G. Moko's post) and >>> some filtering (flagged pages, etc.)? >>> >>> I'm considering adding the collection extension [1]. The content that >>> needs >>> to be shared could be added and maintained by the collection and >>> daily/weekly pdf books could be distributed (possibly via Dropbox). >>> >>> I welcome any thoughts on or suggestions. Thanks! >>> >>> Regards, >>> Bryan >>> >>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> To unsubscribe, go to: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
