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Hi Corey, we re trying to restrict access (We want to take content through a publication process i.e. not available to public at first).

We tried to disable edit rights to guest accounts based on Category with Cascading selected but it only applies to page selected, managing many pages like this will be high maintenance and ultimately lead to having some exposed when we miss them.

We saw this extension that seems to look like what we need:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Restrict_access_by_category_and_group

Additionally we need to disable even viewing of some categories for our guest account white list access approach where we disable viewing of all pages unless access is given.

We saw this:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_viewing_of_all_pages

  1. Disable reading by anonymous users $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; # But allow them to read e.g., these pages: $wgWhitelistRead = array ( "Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "Help:Contents", "-");
  2. Like previous, but for French (be careful of encoding! save file as UTF-8!)
  3. $wgWhitelistRead = array( ":Page Principale", "Special:Userlogin", "Aide en français");

What do you suggest?

Thanks a mil!!

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For number 1, that would mean making your wiki a private wiki. @Corey You need to go on Special:ManageWiki and select the private button for that (when you get sysadmin rights)

Hi, there's not much that can be done without knowing which wiki this is referring to. :)

Hi all, we have a category called 'Published' in our wiki which we want to have as visible to members we choose and the rest will be private while we build our information.

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Hey Corey,

Thanks, not sure what the status on this one is? Is https://mindgear.miraheze.org now a private wiki?

Appreciated! Please let me know if you need anything else from us.

Regards,
Marius

@Marius.vrstr Hi, yes mindgearwiki has been made private by @Corey