Talk:Private wikis

Semi-private
Hello there! I have a question. What if someone wants to have a semi-private (or semi-public) wiki, with some page public, and some private? Is there a way to do that, and is the privacy is real (no chance of bugs exposing the private pages to Google or to wiki readers?) What are the different level of privacy? I guess one of them is to forbid search engine crawler bot, so only the wiki readers can access the pages, one other is to allow users by name, with rights, reading or editing, but what are the other possibilities? Can a template make private pages (only allowed users) and public or semi-public pages?
 * Well, I believe the only method to make some pages visible is through  in LocalSettings.php. As far as I know, there is no way to do this on wiki (although it may be possible to hide/unhide entire namespaces). The ability to edit pages is down to group permissions and protection levels, each of which may be configured to do the things you want. So, if you want to make some pages public, open a task on Phabricator with the names of the pages you would want visible, and we can make it so. --  Void  Whispers 17:06, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Void for your reply! An admin told me about the AccessControl extension. Ideally, I'd like to have a custom namespace, and name my private pages in this namespace (like for instance private:page_name), so it would be very easy to manage private VS normal pages, or if it's not possible, adding a template to make the page invisible. I learnt it's possible to use a magic word to prevent the search engine bots to crawl my page. I know every method has flaws, no method are 100% safe, I'm aware of that. I'll have too many public pages to ask pages by pages. I need to manage them myself. Thanks for your help!

Link to Special:UserRights ends up at meta wiki, when you probably mean one's own wiki
Currently the step "Go to Special:UserRights;" contains a link to that page on meta. As expected, I can't modify permissions on meta. Should edits be made to direct owners of private wikis to the right URL?
 * Which wiki is this on? Are you sure your are clicking on the link on your wiki and not on Meta? Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 19:15, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * This page (Private wikis) is on the meta wiki. I do not see a way to click on its link "on my wiki." That level of description (e.g. "don't click here, instead copy and paste into https://YOUR-WIKI.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:UserRights") is exactly what I'm suggesting should be part of this page's text.

My own wiki is opmi - I've resolved the issue for myself, but only after about 5 minutes of confusion earlier. Aprokosch (talk) 19:32, 11 January 2018 (UTC)