Well for starters the read rights for addon namespaces would be a nice 
first step.

On 21. 07. 2011 20:35, Andrew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Casey Brown<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> 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.
> I don't want to derail this thread, but I will say this:
>
> Even though this is what people say in #mediawiki, I know many
> respected developers who don't share this approach, especially the
> "will probably never be supported" part. The security issues are
> well-known and in some extensions worked around — regardless, having
> an understanding of what parts of code read page text contributes to
> our overall code quality and security, and is definitely a worthwhile
> enterprise.
>


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