[Building Sakai] RWiki and public access

Johns, Cheryl cheryl.johns at yale.edu
Mon Mar 9 12:16:53 PDT 2009


Thanks Beth, but how do non-site members access that wiki?

-----Original Message-----
From: Beth Kirschner [mailto:bkirschn at umich.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:12 PM
To: Johns, Cheryl
Cc: sakai-dev list
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] RWiki and public access

Cheryl,

    Go into the Wiki tool, select "Info" and look for the checkboxes  
next to "Public", select the "Read" checkbox and "Save". You don't  
have to worry about roles.

- Beth

On Mar 9, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Johns, Cheryl wrote:

> I'm reading up on how to make a Wiki public, but I don't have a firm  
> grasp on what constitutes a user with the .anon role and how a  
> public wiki would be accessed by such a user.
>
> Do you have to add a user to a site and assign them to the .anon  
> role for them to view the wiki and thus, they would not have access  
> to any of the other site tools?  I know that the .anon role has  
> access to pages like !gateway and !error, but I'm not clear on how  
> this works for the wiki.
>
> Public, I'm guessing, is not synonymous with 'world-readable' in  
> this case.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>     Cheryl Johns
>     Applications Support Manager, Instructional Solutions
>
>     http://cmi2.yale.edu
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>     Yale University
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