I should've noted it before but there are 2 newthings/updates.

There was a bug in the ProtectSection extension. One line caused a PHP error which stopped people without permissions from using the newsection ability. I modified the code on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProtectSection to fix it. I also switched it to use of Source instead of pre because people who were copying it from the page instead of from the edit box ended up with a bug which made the <protect></protect> tags not stripped out from the page display.

I also created an extension for external includes. It was inspired of an amusing userpage, but it allows for something I haven't seen before, WikiText includes. Meaning that you can use an include on the raw output of a page, and have the WikiText included and parsed locally (Scary Transclusions are parsed remotely). I'm considering extending the extension later on to accept interwiki links or some other type of links. But for now it just does urls. To protect from XSS attacks the HTML includes can only be added by those with proper permissions. I'll thank the ProtectSection extension for showing me how to let those with permission add and modify it, while disallowing users without it from adding or modifying them but still letting them edit the actual page. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:C_Style_Wiki_Includes