Thanks George.

I also found this extension which does exactly what I need:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProtectText

john

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:37 PM, George Herbert
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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