Thread:Project:Support desk/Disenabling edit/contribution functions

I have acquired a great amount of encyclopaedic material, in text form (Word files of various sizes), which I want to put on the web to create an arts resource that would be of interest to collectors, historians, students of architecture, theatre-goers, people interested in the arts in general... It would be something like the Wikipedia format, where you can click on one word and it takes you to another page (running into their 100s).

I think for my structure a form of MediaWiki is best, and I can envisage it more by comparing it to existing Wiki sites. Having said that, I will be the only contributor (or at least everything will go through me), so it will not actually be a Wiki! Is it viable/possible to disenable the edit/contribution functions on an existing MediaWiki template? [I know this defeats the purpose of a Wiki, but I have looked at other CMS and, for a mini-encyclopaedia, the Wiki structure just seems best for me.]