I want to set up a wiki which will contain a series of private sections, where
each section will only be accessible to a specific set of users. When someone
registers as a user they're given their own private section: one or more pages
that only they and their friends can read and edit.
Then, to give a friend read/write access to their private section, they'd fill
out a form with a username and email address. An automatically generated
password would be sent to their friend's email, and that user will then be
given read/write access to the section.
I want there to be a common section that everyone can see, and the admin should
be able to see all the sections.
I don't want users of one section to know about the other sections. But,
security that specifically relates to this setup isn't that big of an issue:
one user probably isn't going to try hacking into another user's section. This
is also probably not going to be a high-traffic site.
I was thinking of using categories and it looks like there are extensions that
limit access to categories that I can use or modify. I can hack the core code
if necessary, but I'd prefer not to do that. Also, this will be on shared
hosting.
Are categories the best way to do this? Are their extensions that would make
this easier? Are there tutorials already showing how to set something like this
up?
I'd prefer to avoid creating a wiki family because it seems like that would
make administration more difficult. With just one wiki the admin would be able
to see everything without going to Special:Allpages for each of the wikis in
the wiki farm.
I currently run a basic MW wiki, but I'm not familiar with all of MW's
features. Can someone suggest the best way to do this, bearing in mind that
security between the various sections isn't that much of a concern and also
that I want to make administration as easy as possible (unless it will require
much more work)?
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