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Private User Pages on Mediawiki

vscam

Hello,

I am running the latest version of wiki for the public website.
Is it possible to create private user pages there? I.e. only user can see its own user page, but not any other. Perhaps some extensions exist for that?

Thanks in advance!

aklapper

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_viewing_of_certain_specific_pages states “MediaWiki was not written to provide per-page access restrictions”

Tgr

Possible but not well supported, you probably shouldn’t use it for any truly sensitive information.
(Also, seems a little pointless. If only the user can see it, it’s basically a private document. Why not use something truly private like Google Docs then?)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Page_specific_user_rights_extensions has a list of extensions which control per-page view permissions to some extent.