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This doesn’t work to block certain groups from accessing certain pages. I have no idea why it doesn’t work, because it looks like it ought to work that way.

It’s largely untested.

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Hidden_pages

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20071012033239/http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hidden_pages

# create Test-ExtraNamespace:
$wgExtraNamespaces =
        array(100 => "testnamespace",
              101 => "testnamespace_talk"
              );

# restrict access to this extra-namespace
$wgRestrictedNamespaces =
        array(100 => "testgroup",
              101 => "testgroup"
             );
# allow only 'sysop' and 'testgroup' for restrictedNamespace 'testnamespace'
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['testgroup'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['testgroup']['testgroup'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['testgroup']['read']           = true;
#$wgGroupPermissions['testgroup' ]['edit']          = false;

To test ∞

• create a page in the test namespace, e.g. [[testnamespace:foobar]]

• After creation, the page ‘foobar’ can be viewed / edited only by the groups you defined above.