Transcluded pages, and locked transclusion sources, do this just fine.

If you control the server you can set up a group security mechanism and put
the auto-generated pages in their own namespace, which only a few users can
edit, so you don't even have to mess with per-page permission stuff...



On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, John Major <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello-
>
> I have a use case which I am having trouble figuring out how to implement:
>
> mediawiki pages are auto generated by a bot which creates a 'base
> page' containing details about some analysis results.
>
> I'd like the auto generated results to appear on an editable page(say
> as a block of text, or a table) that allows users to add information
> to the same base page that the auto generated information is stored
> on.... but not allow changes to the auto-generated content.
>
> It is important that the auto generated content is displayed with the
> user additions/content.
>
> I feel like I've read how to do this someplace, but in digging around
> in the docs have not had luck finding out how.
>
> Thank you in advance-
> John
>
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