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Page protection
One of the powers available to administrators and bureaucrats is page protection, which they can use to prevent certain contributors from editing a page. In this tutorial, I will explain the methods of doing this.
- 1 Protection
- 1.1 Technical aspects
- 1.2 Social aspects
- 2 Permanent protection
There are three levels on protection:
- No protection,
- Unregistered and/or new users (account is less than 3 days old) may not edit—"semi-protection,"
- Only administrators and bureaucrats can edit—"full protection."
You can configure protection levels for both editing and moving. By default, the values are automatically equalized, but you can set up different tiers for them by checking the box between the two panels. You may choose to apply so-called "cascading protecti…