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Is it possible to make a Wikia that only a select people can view that is restricted via login/password? —This unsigned comment is by Ghickey75 (wall • contribs). Please sign your comments by adding "~~~~" in the source editor.

Wikia doesn't host private wikis. -- 16:50, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

That somewhat goes against the whole definition of "wikia"... I think what you are after is a "website". Plenty of web hosts around. Wikia is a wiki site.

(Reset indent) DarkMoonRising€talkcontribs05:52, July 14, 2012.

No, it's not possible to restrict viewing of pages. Every page on a wiki is publicly viewable, so it's not even possible to have an "admin discussion area". However, it is possible to restrict editing of certain pages to admin-only. --452 02:12, July 21, 2012 (UTC)

Just out of interest, isn't it possible to use the wgUserGroups variable to limit administrators and above to view pages? Something like:

$(document).ready(function() {
     if (wgUserGroups == "sysop" || wgUserGroups == "bureaucrat" || wgUserGroups == "helper" || wgUserGroups == "staff") $(".WikiaMainContent").css("display","block");
     else $(".WikiaMainContent").html("This page cannot be viewed by non-sysop users.");
});

MateyY (talk • contribs) 02:48, July 21, 2012 (UTC)

Disregarding the part where hindering people from viewing a page is likely against the Terms of Use, someone could just disable JavaScript in their browser, or use Special:Export or any number of tricks to view the page. Mathmagician ƒ(♫) 02:53 UTC, Sat, 21 July 2012