We've got problems

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Thu Dec 18 21:43:47 UTC 2008


On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Whats the hangup?  HNP is our ACL plugin.  Some might remember when we
>> > said "A wiki is not a CMS" well, now we're being screwed by it.  It has
>> > been made clear to us that certain pages in the wiki must A) stay on the
>> > wiki and B) be editable by only a subset of people.  HNP is not supported
>> > by newer versions of mediawiki.
>>
>> Why do the pages have to stay on "THE" wiki.  Why not set up a 2nd
>> wiki instance for the sensitive pages and set up inter-wiki links so
>> that linking isn't cumbersome.
>>
>
> That very well may work.  G and quaid are working on something now.  As
> far as inter-wiki links.  I honestly know nothing about them.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking#Interwiki_links
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Guide_to_setting_up_interwiki_linking

That's about all I know either.

-- 
Jeff Ollie

"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then
I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the
terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve
them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and
unfairness of the universe."

	-- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"




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