On 06/02/2016 01:22 AM, Malte Gell wrote:
Can a certain wiki site not be restricted to allow only certain people to post stuff?
It depends what you mean by 'certain". If you mean an open one such as Wikipedia, then probably not, since it's based on 'mass contribution'. All the Wiki's I've installed have been geared to contributions only by register/approved users, with granularity of access levels, For example any registered user might comment in the comment field, but even so that may need approval by an editor/moderator, or if not approval then the possibility of review. Mainline content is another level of access; that too can be subject to review/editing/approval. While all this is S.O.P on things like WordPress blogs, there are many wiki engines that don't offer such features. I grew up using the Perl-based wikis derived from Leuf+Cunningham's original work, like TikiWiki. When I encountered the MediaWiki code I was amazed at how bloated and incapable it was by comparison. I've used and set up and tested many wikis along the way, from very public ones to small-fast personal ones; they are great for documentation and because of what Wikipedia has done, the concept is familiar to most corporate workers, and they immediately pick up on the extensions that deal with, for example, comments and feedback that seem like blogs. So, yes, in the sense that 'certain' means a site that has been designed with a capable wiki engine such as FosWiki, and the plugins for the levels of access control (role based perhaps) and correctly configured, the answer is yes. But isn't the issue of "correctly configured" always a proviso? -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-security+owner@opensuse.org