HI Chris I was supporting a general position of Boris about the validity of some needing access control. I currently use SemanticACL so I can use restrict access on a per-page basis to a self-defined group within a page. It makes project management easier and it helps when that "page" group doesn't arise to the level of being a permanent user group.
On a boarder scope, which may be way outside the grounds of comfort, I support the wiki principle of trust the user. The page creator, if the admin of the site agrees, should be able to restrict access to themselves, a self-defined group of users, a user group, or public. Additionally the admin of the site should be to set the access control rights per Namespace. So maybe a main namespace page could never be restricted if the admin set it up that way, but a custom namespace could have creator access control.Of course, sysops should be able to over-ride the author's preference if it's a problem and additionally be able to reset the access rights (where access rights are allowed) how they think is right. Those are my quick thoughts on access group. Possible use cases: 1. User Space 2.Project Management -- self-defined page projects 3. Drafts 4.Portal Management 5. Encourage engagement by allowing an individual or group to "own" a page. I think of more if need be, but hopefully you understand my logic; even if you disagree that Mediawiki should support it. All the best to you On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Chris Steipp <cste...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Chris Tharp <tharpena...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I agree completely with Boris about access control. Only with a > combination of Two extensions: Lockdown and SemanticACL have I ever been > able to get to a reasonable level of access control that I desired for my > wikis. > > Chris, other than the User page protections you mentioned, are there > any other specific use cases? We're reworking some of the > authorization right now, and I'd like to support as many of the needs > of our stakeholders as we can. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
