Extension:BizzWiki

Purpose
Do you require better permission management out of your Mediawiki installation? Then read on.

Strictly speaking 'BizzWiki' isn't an extension but a collection of patches and extensions to a Mediawiki installation that brings better permission management functionality. One distinguishing factor of this project is its installation simplicity: just uncompress in the Mediawiki installation and add one 'require' line in the  file.

Features

 * Hierarchical Namespace Level Permission functionality
 * 'Raw' permission
 * 'Viewsource' permission
 * 'Browse' permission
 * 'Search' permission
 * 'Readlog' permission
 * Enhancement of standard Mediawiki permissions to namespace awareness
 * Patrol
 * Delete
 * Move
 * Purge
 * Read, Edit, MinorEdit, Create, Createpage, Createtalk
 * Rollback
 * Upload, Reupload, Reupload-shared
 * Protect
 * File Manager functionality (see Extension:BizzWiki/File Manager)
 * Secure (require 'commitfile' and 'readfile' rights)
 * Ability to change (under revision control) file system files
 * InterWikiLink Manager (see Extension:BizzWiki/InterWikiLink Manager)
 * Ability to edit the 'interwiki' table through a normal article page
 * Sidebar enhancement (see Extension:BizzWiki/SidebarEx)
 * Ability to define group contextual sidebars
 * Show Redirect Page Text (see Extension:BizzWiki/Show Redirect Page Text)
 * Ability to view additional text included in a redirect page
 * Special Pages Manager
 * Ability to add 'special pages' that reside in another namespace (see Extension:SpecialPagesManager)
 * Page resides in the database instead of a PHP file
 * Form processing can be handled through Extension:BizzWiki/Form Processor extension

Installation
See  in SVN under. In short,
 * Install Mediawiki (v1.10 for now but with follow on to >1.10 planned)
 * Once the installation is up and running, uncompress the BizzWiki archive in the root of the Mediawiki installation
 * Add  to the end of
 * Apply any required customization to  file

Download
From Google Project Hosting
 * REL1_10_1.
 * REL1_10_2.

Roadmap

 * Availability features such as Replication
 * 'SuperGroups' functionality: the ability to 'partition' a Mediawiki installation amongst private user groups
 * Central management of User table