You might want to take a look at how it works inside the API : includes/api/ApiProtect.php
(see also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit_-_Protect) Alexis Vadtec wrote : > I've posted this question twice before without so much as a courtesy response > of > "Sorry, we don't know." I'd really appreciate some help with this, as I have > not > been able to track down any information on protecting pages (aside from "click > protect at the top of the page") and asking in the IRC chan on freenode > usually > goes unanswered as well. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Greetings all, > > Is it possible for an extension to set a page as "protected"? I have a tag > that > displays help info for my extension, I'd like to drop it in a page, and have > the > tag set the page as protected via a parameter. The idea is to allow the tag to > display its output but have the page be protected from editing. > > Thanks for any advice, much appreciated. > > - Vadtec _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
