Why don't you just set all the respective user permissions to FALSE and modifiy the "error"-message accordingly for the users + big announce on front page?
Jérémie Bouillon wrote:
Is there a "maintenance mode" in MediaWiki?
Something simple I can trigger so that nothing can be edited/added for a while for a whole MW install, while I do some work on it ?
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