Since James opened the comments recently…

This need of course covers the private categories…

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I think we ended up deciding that this extra permissions level would be called "trusted members" ? I don't see the discussion on this page, so it must have taken place somewhere else.

When this is implemented, it'd be great if there were at least two extra levels added.

One extra level might be enough, but in the future if someone requires that extra level, it will already be there and they won't need to request it. Surely adding two additional levels isn't much harder than adding one additional level? :)

Thanks,

I'v just started a school community site (notes from lectures, other materials), i wish this feature to :)
mainly for creating groups of students.

This being rejected is an enormous blow to the notion of making social applications within wikidot. Which is sad, because with data forms evolving, listpages and live templates and private categories, we were getting REALLY close to something amazing.

It's also one of the most popular weneeds, both here and at the community's old wishlist.

… and one the most hard to do. Probably no-one wants a total stop of Wikidot development for 3 months just to add custom user groups.

Why is this wish rejected????

@Squark, Maybe one reason that you don't see the stats is that nobody that needs multiple user-groups can use Wikidot.

Wikidot is very good for bridging the gap between a dumb web-server and a full LAMP platform, but it's implementation even of Blogs and Fora is a long way behind the state of the art.

So it is no surprise that most of your users are using it to host a pure web-site. If they need user-groups, they will discount Wikidot immediately and go to webs.com, LeFora or some other provider

In the vast majority of cases where the raison-d'etre of the site is person-to-person communication, multiple user groups is a basic requirement. The last time I considered something like this I could work my way around it… by making every member create a private site of their own and linking them all up together, but in the end we went elsewhere. That might happen a lot more often than you realise.

It's only those of us on these fora that are thinking of what Wikidot might become. LeFora make the point that only about one in a thousand of their customers post on the support forum to support or challenge any change in service. The others just put up with it or leave.

By definition, your current user-base does not use multiple user groups, and so you can not use them for evidence. You will never know how many prospective users you have lost by not supporting multiple user groups. The only indication you have is the popularity of this wish. You do need to consider the silent majority, of course you do, but you should also consider that over 40 votes on here is a huge opinion that may indicate a wider market than you currently serve.

Please implement the user groups, or the ability to assign specific user permissions to a specific category. Or allow us to create custom permission groups and assign users to those.

I think this is a NEEDED Feature, as sometimes one has a Sub Group or individual USER GROUP (Special Interest Group, Moderators and/or Administrators, … ), to cater for within a Wiki.

Alternative:
Currently, the (only) other alternative would be to create a completely new Wiki for that purpose, which is very often an OVERKILL !