On 7/11/05, David 'DJ' Hedley spyders@btinternet.com wrote:
A feature in Mediawiki to allow a preference for logged-in users to "Disable editing" could be useful. A password could be set for the preference, so it would be needed to re-enable editing. Schools could benefit from this, if they could set-up one account for the network.
Something like this would be very handy. Any number of times I've looked through RC and found edit sequences that make me think a bunch of twelve year olds are sitting around library computers making rude comments about each other, just for the fun of having "Billy-Joe smells weird" appear on "thuh Internet".
But I'm not sure that this sort of thing can be stopped. You don't need to be logged in to make edits.