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Cmorgan at statelibrary

Oct 13, 2008, 8:14 AM

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Special logins for wikis

We are working with two different but similar issues here.

We have one wiki set up that is supposed to be public, but one group of
users needs to have a private section. We set up a namespace for that
section, but we can't figure out how to create pages for that namespace.
We don't want any other users to see that namespace, except those that
will be editing it. I'm thinking that those requiring access to that
namespace would be manually added?

We have a request for a wiki that would be entirely private, for a
specific group of gov't users. For that one, I believe all registrations
would be manually approved, and no pages can be seen unless the user is
logged in.

Are we on the right track here? Is there anything special we should have
loaded out? We are running

Thanks very much!

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Catherine Buck Morgan
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South Carolina State Library
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Phone: 803-734-8651 | Fax: 803-734-4757
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Platonides at gmail

Oct 13, 2008, 8:45 AM

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Re: Special logins for wikis [In reply to]

Catherine Buck Morgan wrote:
> We are working with two different but similar issues here.


> We have a request for a wiki that would be entirely private, for a
> specific group of gov't users. For that one, I believe all registrations
> would be manually approved, and no pages can be seen unless the user is
> logged in.

That's easy to setup.


> We have one wiki set up that is supposed to be public, but one group of
> users needs to have a private section. We set up a namespace for that
> section, but we can't figure out how to create pages for that namespace.
> We don't want any other users to see that namespace, except those that
> will be editing it. I'm thinking that those requiring access to that
> namespace would be manually added?
>

But mediawiki doesn't support "secret namespaces". You could get it
using extensions, but it may unexpectedly leak. Using a another wiki
with the same logins would be safer.


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