You can block the people from editing every page, with the following lines in LocalSettings.php: $wgGroupPermissions["*"]["edit"] = false; $wgGroupPermissions["user"]["edit"] = false; $wgGroupPermissions["sysop"]["edit"] = false; However it will also stop people from editing talk pages. You also can block the user creations, so users won't be able to register at all (except with permission by you), and anonymous users won't be able to edit: $wgGroupPermissions["*"]["edit"] = false; $wgGroupPermissions["*"]["createaccount"] = false; Again, it will stop them from editing talk pages. However, there are two more permissions - "createpage" and "createtalk" - which are seperated. You can ask in Bugzilla to add seperate permissions - "editpage" and "edittalk" - for this purpose. You can also develop it in your code. As for the "lock database" of the developers: as far as I understand, there is no developer permission in the downloaded MediaWiki (it's an extension, I think, and so is the permission to lock databases), and the "lock database" affects talk pages as well as content pages. rotemliss Garrett Baumgartner wrote:

On 05/04/06, Garrett Baumgartner <baumgarg(a)hotmail.com> wrote: No. MediaWiki doesn't contain this sort of access control. You could hack this in, however. Prevents writes to the database. Rob Church