When our employees search if they were to type in the namespace ie; H1: everything in H1 shows up in a dropdown search. Ideally we would like that not to be searchable. Is there a fix or existing solution for that?
Topic on Extension talk:Lockdown
This is not possible with this extension. You can restrict access but not appearance in search results.
Thank you Karsten. At least I know. That is unfortunate. I would like to see this extension lockdown access further. I am also finding that media uploaded to a lockdown namespace is also not protected. Do you know if there is a MW freelancer group where I might hire someone that has the ability to add these features?
I am working with a company providing professional MediaWiki development. You may want to contact us.
MediaWiki is simply not designed for that kind of use case, read access restrictions are bound to be "leaky". Hence the fat warning at the top of the extetension documentation.
Filtering search results based on a users access permissions would be possible in theory, but I can't think of an easy way to make that performant. You'd probably need a custom search "engine" implementation.
Karsten is right, best talk to a professional MediaWiki consultancy to analyze your use case and offer solutions. Besides Professional Wiki, a few well known ones are WikiWorks, WikiTeq, and Hallo Welt.