Terraria Wiki:Protected pages
Protected pages are pages that are locked from modification by most editors. Pages are protected when there is disruption that cannot be prevented through other means, such as blocks. The Terraria Wiki is built on the principle that anyone can edit, and therefore aims to have as many pages open for public editing as possible so that anyone can add material and correct issues.
Protection is a technical restriction applied only by administrators, either indefinitely or scheduled for expiration after a specified time. It can be applied to the page edit, page move, page create, and file upload actions. Even when a page is protected from editing, the source code (wikitext) of the page can still be viewed and copied by anyone.
All users may request protection or unprotection of a certain page or suggest edits to a protected page on the admin noticeboard or the respective page's talk page.
A protected page is automatically marked at its top right by a padlock icon, as seen on this page.
Reasons
- Content pages may be protected due to trolling and vandalism.
- Other times, disagreements among well-meaning editors that have led to "edit warring" may result in temporary page protection, so editors can take a break from editing controversial content until they can arrive at a consensus through discussion elsewhere (on talk pages, noticeboards, or Discord).
- Other page types, like templates/modules, wiki rules, and other wiki documentation pages are often protected permanently because they are important, could make it easy for people to accidentally (or purposely) cause wide-reaching problems, and shouldn't require frequent editing by the general public anyway.
- Archive pages are permanently protected to preserve their state prior to archival.
Types
- Edit protection: protects the page from being edited.
- Move protection: protects the page from being moved (renamed).
- Creation protection: prevents a page from being created.
- Upload protection: prevents new versions of a file from being uploaded, but it does not prevent editing of the file's description page (unless edit protection is applied).
Permissions
Protected pages can only be edited by users with the editprotected user right. This right is granted to wiki administrators.
All pages in the MediaWiki namespace are automatically protected by the software, as they define part of the site interface. MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js are notable examples of pages with significant impact. Editing pages in this namespace requires the editinterface user right, which is granted to interface administrators.
See also
- Special:Log/protect, the log of all protections and unprotections
- Special:ProtectedPages, the full list of all protected pages
- Special:ProtectedTitles, the full list of all page titles protected from being created