Closed wiki - Meta-Wiki Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Wikimedia News Translations Recent changes Special pages Random page Help Babel Community Wikimedia Forum Mailing lists Requests Babylon Reports Research Planet Wikimedia Beyond the Web Meet Wikimedians Events Movement affiliates Search Search English Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide Beginning 1 See also Toggle the table of contents Closed wiki Add languages Add links Content page Discussion English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Print/export Create a book Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki Translate this page Other languages: Bahasa Indonesia Cebuano Deutsch English Esperanto Latina Tagalog Tiếng Việt Türkçe dansk español français italiano magyar polski português română suomi čeština русский српски / srpski עברית العربية روچ کپتین بلوچی বাংলা ગુજરાતી ភាសាខ្មែរ Ἀρχαία ἑλληνικὴ 中文 日本語 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gí 한국어 A closed wiki or locked wiki is a public wiki where editing has been disabled for everybody except for a limited number of users belonging to some local or global user groups (usually stewards). The content wikis are locked when the respective projects are closed. (See Closing projects policy.) Non-content wikis may be closed when they are not needed anymore. Any closed wiki is still available to read. The lock (soft lock) is done by removing edit, move, upload and other edit related user rights (see core-Permissions.php for a full list) from the *, user, autoconfirmed and sysop local user groups and then assigning these rights to the local steward user group. So, among local users only stewards are able to edit closed wikis. Global users who have the edit user right are also able to edit them. Currently, only members of stewards, interface editors, system administrators, founder and staff global groups have the edit user right.[1] See also [edit] A full list of closed wikis ↑ Special:GlobalGroupPermissions Retrieved from "https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Closed_wiki&oldid=30549979" Category: Wikimedia projects This page was last edited on 16 May 2026, at 19:10. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Privacy policy About Meta-Wiki Disclaimers Legal & safety contacts Code of Conduct Developers Statistics Cookie statement Mobile view Search Search Toggle the table of contents Closed wiki Add languages Add topic