Brian Bell wrote: > On 2009-12-11 17:36, Platonides wrote: >> Try with the lockdown extension >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown >> >> Note that mediawiki is not designed for keeping secrets, so there may be >> a way of reading the page that isn't blocked. A game is not a critical >> thing, but cheaters aren't welcome either. Be careful with the page >> names, there might be ways of reading the title but not the content (the >> silliest, a forgotten link on a now-visible page). And in your case just >> knowing the page title might be quite relevant for the players. >> > > Thank you for the suggestion. I understand the nature of the wiki is > counter to what I was asking and that the work-arounds are not DoD > (Department of Defense) stringent.
Interestingly, MediaWiki *is* used in DoD type installations. The method of lockdown is usually to have a separate wiki at each security level thus security is controlled at the server level instead of within the Wiki itself. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
