[Pmwiki-users] Publishing a part of your wiki -- Experience using PmWiki
John Rankin
john.rankin
Wed Sep 15 16:06:25 CDT 2004
On Wednesday, 15 September 2004 6:13 AM, chr at home.se wrote:
>How can you let other people see only some of your wiki pages, without
>letting them see too much?
>...
>
>Ideally I would like to be able to create a separate "public" wiki that I
>give outsiders access to, via some password. This wiki should only show a
>subset of the pages in the main wiki, but it can definitely not show the
>same sidebar (that would reveal too much). It may also be important that
>changes cannot propagate from this wiki to the original pages -- I'm
>ambivalent to allowing outsiders to edit pages in the "public" wiki, but
>there might be occasions when it is desirable.
>
>As for links in the "public" wiki, I think that links going to pages that
>have not been made public should optionally not be shown as links. A
>consequence of this is that the public wiki shouldn't be able to show the
>source of pages -- this could otherwise reveal more than you want. Is the
>source directive password protected?
>
>/Christian
>
>--
As I understand it, some web content management systems have the concept
of public and private pages, so that a set of pages can be reviewed and
approved inside an organisation, then be released to the wider world.
You can also quickly make private a public page that is found to be
incorrect or embarassing.
Conceptually, this could be achieved in a wiki with a checkbox on the
edit screen:
[ ] Public
or
[ ] Private
depending on what you want the default behaviour to be. I'd suggest that
in your case it should require a positive action (tick the box) to
release a page to the public.
To implement this would require something like:
- a place to define a list of 'private' addresses that are allowed
to view all pages; if it's a request from a public address to a
private page, deny access
- a modified page link function that checks whether a page is
public or private; if it's a reference to a private page from
a public page, display the link text only
Of course, access to a public page might still require a password.
I *think* this would be fairly easy to do in PmWiki 2.
No doubt there are other ways, but this is the simplest scheme I
could think of. Hope it helps.
--
JR
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John Rankin
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