[Mediawiki-l] How do I partially lock the database?

[Rob Church]

On 05/04/06, Garrett Baumgartner <baumgarg at 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