Wiki: use groups to restrict pages

[ivansanchez]

I'm writing this as the 2023 CRO.

The current _modus operandi_ for the elections is to collect information about all candidates in a wiki page, and protect that wiki page from edits. But in order to do this, the CROs have to be wiki administrators.

It'd be nice to have finer permissions instead, so that no administrator privileges would be needed. See: ​https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Restrict_access_by_category_and_group

[cvvergara]

Looking at this Extension instead, as the one in the ticket is no longer mantained:

​https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AccessControl

[cvvergara]

I can see this ​this semi protected page

This example more or less is the intention: I can view the source, But i can not edit (Unless I register, which I am not doing)

[cvvergara]

On ​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Test-page

Want:

• anyone can read
• Only Cvvergara and latot can modify

Got:

• No one can can read (exept admins)
• Any admin can edit

[cvvergara]

Currently we have ​1.35

Section to be followed ​MediaWiki versions 1.29 – 1.36

[cvvergara]

will be better to wait until we update media wiki to 1.39 or above. and elections are over.

[robe]

I'll try upgrading staging to wiki 1.41 like I did with grass-wiki, I worked out the ldap issues when adding ldap wiki support to grass-wiki, which was what was stopping me from going beyond wiki 1.35 on wiki.osgeo.org.