Server Add on

Just curious if anyone would be interested in purchasing a server add on app.
The features that would be in it
1) Hide wikis from people not logged in (unless the wiki permissions are set that way)
2) Hide people (with no error screens)
3) Search will only bring up wikis you have access to
4) Add security questions to password and allow users to reset the password from the web app
Possible feature
Webmail
any other features people would like to see?

FWIW...
The easiest way to get most of that is with a web content management system (CMS). Most, because you're also spanning some other areas...
Apple's wiki stuff is nice, but it's pretty limited, and there are various very capable CMS packages available.
I happen to use Drupal, but WordPress is also popular, and there are a large number of CMS packages available, and with many tailored for various or specific uses or tasks.
The available CMS packages are more complex to install, and the installation and configuration instructions and upgrade instructions and the integration instructions often either don't cover OS X Server at all, or the available instructions cover specific (and usually older) versions.
With Mountain Lion Server, you're also left to scrounge up a webmail client if you need that.
There have been help desk package and help desk password reset discussions on the Mac Enterprise mailing list (and probably in the now-archived OS X Server Apple mailing lists), and there are various help desk packages available. This is also feasible of course, but can be mildly tricky to implement securely, as it's got a very large target painted on it. This given nefarious folks are going to try to reset the passwords of others, and given that you're going to need to store and to securely access password data. You'll want to bcrypt or scrypt the answers, too.
Put another way, you're looking at (or for) something that spans a CMS, (potentially) a web mail client, and a help desk.

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