[21:17:21] <Peppi^>	 hello
[21:18:15] <Centauro>	 hi :)
[21:18:31] <Peppi^>	 not much chatter here lol
[21:19:13] <Centauro>	 yeah xd
[21:19:55] <mutante>	 everybody is staring though. lol, just kidding
[21:20:43] <Peppi^>	 so just installed mediawiki. I want to use it to post a user manual. I figure I should have 3 account types. 1 should be admin level, 2 should be able to post, and 3 should be just registered and can do nothing. Is that possible? 
[21:22:01] <Peppi^>	 basically I ok with anyone reading but only registered and authorized people should be able to post. 
[21:23:21] <mutante>	 Peppi^: check out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_editing
[21:23:46] <Peppi^>	 ok
[21:23:54] <Peppi^>	 looks like I need to make user groups I guess
[21:24:20] <mutante>	 I think you only need "logged in - can edit" 
[21:24:25] <mutante>	 or "not logged in - can't edit"
[21:24:39] <mutante>	 and the normal Admins 
[21:24:54] <Peppi^>	 ok going to go and read :) thanks for the help mutante an Centauro 
[21:24:55] <mutante>	 combined with what you said last time, how you approve the registration
[21:25:34] <Centauro>	 that's what we're here for
[21:25:38] <Centauro>	 :)
[21:25:55] <Peppi^>	 mutante, ya https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount
[21:30:18] <mutante>	 yea:)
[21:30:30] <mutante>	 so people ask to be registed but you need to confirm
[21:30:34] <mutante>	 once they are ..they can edit
[21:30:35] <mutante>	 the end
[21:31:00] <mutante>	 for a user who can't do anything besides read.. it is probably no differnce if they are even logged in
[21:31:25] <mutante>	 unless they want to use talk pages to talk to each other.. but then you get into "restrict just one namespace" part
[21:39:39] <Peppi^>	 mutante, what is talk pages?
[21:39:51] <Peppi^>	 I'm not familiar with it. 
[21:40:32] <mutante>	 Peppi^: every wiki page automatically has a corresponding page to discuss the contents of it.  example  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth    and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Earth
[21:40:41] <mutante>	 see the "Talk" link at the top of a page
[21:41:33] <Peppi^>	 hmm interesting 
[21:41:36] <mutante>	 additionally there are User: and User_talk pages. like profile pages and a place to send messages to other users
[21:42:31] <mutante>	  Talk: and User: are namespaces that you could restrict individually if you wanted to 
[21:44:43] <Peppi^>	 k going to read