Protection is used to restrict the making of changes to a page (edit or move), the creation of a page, or the upload of a file.
MediaWiki handles existing and not-existing pages differently, because not-existing pages don't have a page ID. That's why protection information is stored in two different tables, and listing of such pages are separate.
Information about protected pages or titles is stored in the page_restrictions and protected_titles tables.
A list of protected pages can be found at Special:ProtectedPages. A list of protected titles can be found at Special:ProtectedTitles.
A page can be protected with the protect API.
A list of protected pages can be retrieved with the allpages API, using the apprtype parameter. A list of protected titles can be retrieved with the protectedtitles API.
The protect.php maintenance script can be used to protect and unprotect pages from the command line.
This page was last edited on 12 January 2017, at 10:52.