On 05/04/06, Garrett Baumgartner baumgarg@hotmail.com wrote:
How do I protect the database in Mediawiki such that people in the Sysop group can edit the database normally, but regular users can only edit Talk pages? Would this involve somehow protecting specific namespaces (e.g., everything except Talk)? Is it even possible?
No. MediaWiki doesn't contain this sort of access control. You could hack this in, however.
Also, what precisely does the dev-level "lock database" do?
Prevents writes to the database.
Rob Church