Please note that the mediawiki devs have two positions, completely open, or completely closed wiki. Mediawiki was never intended to be a CMS which is why most access control extensions are hacks and work ok at best, and are not given as much scrutiny/review as other systems
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 5:44 PM Amanda Quad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
