On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Casey Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Sumana Harihareswara > <[email protected]> wrote: > > In response to this review, I've suggested to the author of the > > page-by-page authentication extension update the page on his site to > > mark it deprecated, or remove it, and warn people not to use it. Thanks > > all. > > Just a note that I think our stance on per-page access restrictions > has always been: "Do this at your own risk. This is not supported and > will probably never be. We suggest you use another piece of software > if you really need this." MediaWiki really isn't designed to be a > content management system with very granular access settings, which is > why we don't officially support it. > > You might want to point out these pages to him too: > * < > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_viewing_of_certain_specific_pages > > > * < > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Security_issues_with_authorization_extensions > > > > -- > Casey Brown > Cbrown1023 > Very much agreed! The original author here isn't really the audience for that message; the people who keep searching for this functionality and coming to his HOWTO page are. So I'll ask him to add those as well. Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
