The MediaWiki namespace is protected for a reason, and while some users have reported that parts of it can be unprotected, the behaviour is not official and is rather hit-and-miss. Administrator rights are required in order to alter that aspect of the wiki.
Rob Church
On 13/12/05, Aron Rubin arubin@atl.lmco.com wrote:
Martin Baumann wrote:
Hi,
I am definitely loogen on as SysOp. When I click 'unprotect' I am asked for a reason for unprotecting this site. No matter what I enter here after I clicked the Confirm button I am redirected to just the same site and the same procedure starts. The site is not unprotected !!!
What can be the reason for such a thing?
I experienced this myself. I noticed that event though I unprotected Mediawiki:Sidebar as Admin, I could not edit it. However, I discovered that when I logged on as my own user identity, I was then able to edit the page. Hope this helps.
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