[Mediawiki-l] disable entire namespace

[Frank Ralf]

> Is there a way, on installation of a new wiki, to completely disable the
> talk namespace? No talk pages, "not nowhere, not nohow," as the wizard
> said.

In addition to Chad's hint you might have a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NamespacePermissions_Extension

But I think this extension will only work with custom namespaces, not the built-in ones.

hth
Frank