[pmwiki-users] Suggestions.

[Stirling Westrup]

I was hoping for some suggestions on how to set up a new PmWiki I'll be
creating shortly. It will be serving two not-quite-compatible purposes,
and I'm not sure of the best way to reconcile them.

The site will host a large amount of cross-indexed data about a
fictional space empire for a role-playing game scenario I'm developing.
Most of this data will originally be my-eyes-only.

When I get to the play-testing stage of things, I'll gradually want to
publish bits and pieces of the data as it gets discovered, thus giving
the players a record of what they've learned.

That's the part that I'm not sure how to handle. Quite often they will
discover parts of some information I have written, so I will need to
take an existing (hidden) page, remove information they have yet to
discover and then publish it as a new (visible) page.

My original idea was just to have two main groups called Public and
Private, and copy pages between them as appropriate. The problem is that
the complexities of the data is such that I'll want it in different
groups so I can find it again easily.

My next idea was that for every Group (such as Sectors), I have an
alternate Group-Private or maybe PrivGroup (such as Sectors-Private or
PrivSectors), and write some sort of pattern match in config.php to
implicitly control the security based on the group names.

I'm not really thrilled with that idea either, as I'll have to keep
remembering to add the Priv bit to all new groups I create as I go. This
is the kind of situation where I really wish there were hierarchical groups.

Does anyone have any suggestions for the best way to go about setting
something like this up?