User:Raidarr/Restrict editing to authorized users

This is a guide to restrict changing a wiki to only the groups that need to edit. There are several ways to do this, but this assumes you want to restrict page editing to 'confirmed' users and yourself.

Through permissions
This assumes the wiki has public visibility, ie, you did not create it as private.
 * Go to Special:ManageWiki/permissions on your wiki.
 * Begin with the (everyone) group.
 * Remove the following rights: createpage, createtalk, and edit.
 * Enter a reason and hit Save.
 * Go to the Users group and remove changetags, createpage, createtalk, edit, editcontentmodel, move,and upload. Enter reason, hit save.
 * Go to the Confirmed users, the group you'd be giving to people who edit the wiki.
 * Add changetags, createpage, createtalk, edit, editcontentmodel, move,and upload to the permissions through the unassigned permissions tab. Reason, save.
 * This should result in a wiki where nobody can meaningfully affect it without being confirmed. You can do this through Special:UserRights. You can add these rights to the administrator group as well to ensure you aren't disrupted, or add yourself to the confirmed users group.

Caveats
Things not to do which I will add later.

Through namespaces
This is more work than the permissions method, which is why I haven't filled this out yet.