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? I don't want the database to be editable by just anyone off the internet but I do want it to be editable to anyone I trust enough to give sysopness.
Also, what precisely does the dev-level "lock database" do? Can the person with developer permissions still edit the database? Are the talk pages unaffected? I can't check because it didn't ask me to set up a dev account when I installed it (it did give me a bureaucrat / sysop though). I am looking at the table in PhpMyAdmin and the rows my default account has are:
1 bureaucrat 1 sysop
I tried adding another row for user 1 with the user group "developer" but that didn't work. I renamed it to "dev" and that didn't work either. What group is it?
Thanks.
- Garrett