you can do this by editing the LocalSettings.php file # # Permission keys given to users in each group. # All users are implicitly in the '*' group including anonymous visitors; # logged-in users are all implicitly in the 'user' group. These will be # combined with the permissions of all groups that a given user is listed # in in the user_groups table. # # This replaces wgWhitelistAccount and wgWhitelistEdit # # The following line should be commented, otherwise these settings will # throw away the settings on DefaultSettings.php (you probably don't want this). # With this line commented you will only overwrite the settings you explicitly # define here (that's what you probably want). #$wgGroupPermissions = array(); $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false; As for the other requests, I am unsure, I just installed my first media wiki over the weekend so I too am very new to it. -- Tim Neudecker <mailto:tim@KyoLogic.com> On Mar 20, 2006, at 3:46 PM, iubito wrote: