Dear SMW users and developers, the Halo team will soon release a new access control extension, called HaloACL.
Yet another Access Control – What‘s different? * MediaWiki‘s access control is based on actions. Either an action is allowed for a user or it is forbidden. * Drawback: Fine grained control is not possible. * Permission ACL (one of the best access control extensions): * Advantages: Can control access to pages, instances of categories and namespaces. * Drawbacks: * Only administrators can change access rights * There is only one Access Control List which is not suitable for intense use (i.e. thousands of individual rights) * Uses Mediawiki groups which can only be defined by administrators * Access Control with HaloACL is very flexible * HaloACL can protect individual pages, instances of categories and namespaces. (Values of semantic properties will follow). * Users can define their own groups which can contain users and other groups. * Every user can easily protect his own articles. * HaloACL supports the actions: read, edit with form, wysiwyg, annotate, edit, create, move, delete * Access rights can be defined and reused in other access rights. * Every user can define a rights template that is automatically applied to his newly created articles. * Supports a whitelist * A comprehensive GUI is planned. * HaloACL will work with or without SMW. For everybody who is interested, I have set up a testwiki at http://testwiki.ontoprise.com/aclwiki/index.php/Main_Page User: acl Pwd: acl Access control extensions are always very critical. Even small bugs can make them useless. So please play with it and try to get access to the content of the articles: * ProtectedArticle * ProtectedArticleInCategory * User:ProtectedUser If you can read one of these articles then please follow the instructions you find there. Best Thomas -- Thomas Schweitzer Professional Services ontoprise GmbH - know how to use Know-how --- ontoprise ist Generalunternehmer für Vulcans Semantic Wiki im Projekt Halo http://www.ontoprise.de/ --- Amalienbadstraße 36 (Raumfabrik 29); 76227 Karlsruhe Tel.: +49 (0) 721 509 809 39; Fax: +49 (0) 721 509 809 11 eMail: schweit...@ontoprise.de; www: http://www.ontoprise.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Amtsgericht Mannheim, HRB 9540 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Angele, Dipl.Wi.-Ing. Hans-Peter Schnurr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
