Re: [Phpwiki-talk] PhpWiki enhancements and a humble request for some feedback...

[Rui C. <rui...@ac...>]

Reini Urban wrote:
> Rui Carmo schrieb:
> 
>> That's great to know. We've been drafting a set of "ideal" Wiki 
>> characteristics at http://mac.against.org/space/LiveWiki, and that's 
>> one of the main topics of discussion (that and authentication, since 
>> we need to integrate with internal systems).
> 
> Rui,
> You write in your wanted feature set there:
> * "Page ACLs (drwxrwxrwx-like, with "d" being reserved for sysadmin 
> override)"
> 
> So you think that there should be pages, which shouldn't be accessed by 
> root (the wikiadmin)?
> I wouldn't consider this a good idea, esp. when people can upload random 
> attachments.

No, that means the root user would be able to override permissions 
without destroying them. The first character would be used for a special 
flag (pretty much the same as when you do a mknod and list the results). 
A full user/capability ACL model would be better, but it's harder to 
implement and manage.

> * Could you elaborate on the "World Domination" button, please?
> 
> GOD mode in DOOM would be Sign In as wikiadmin, or?

That was an inside joke aimed at Davi, the guy who added to the wish 
list. I'm OS-agnostic and he's a Debian-unstable addict, so we're 
constantly teasing each other. :)

> * Markup permissions configurable. for example, guests can use "style 
> markup" (b,i,u), editors can use links, powerusers can include <code> 
> (eval anyone?)
> 
> Good idea for group ACL attributes.

Yes, and using an XML parser to render data helps a bit, since you can 
(for instance) use different XSLs according to the user level (blanking 
out or rendering links in different formats, for instance). The XML 
approach looks real promising at this point (but I'm not the one 
investigating it, so I can't go into any real detail).

I'll be cleaning up SeeAlso and DotGraph this weekend, if time permits. 
Should I send them to anyone in particular when I'm finished?

R.