On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com wrote:

How do you enable MediaWiki's "native protection of nonexistent pages" mentioned at:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Protected_titles#Method_1:_Protecting_...

I've searched meta and mediawiki.org but can't seem to find the instructions.

I thought it might involve the page MediaWiki:Titleblacklist, but when I add entries, they don't seem to have an effect (1.13 alpha). Also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_page#Protected seems to imply this system message is just an alternate method.

Thanks! DanB

You don't need to do anything to enable MediaWiki's native protection of nonexistent pages: Protect them in the same manner you would protect an existing page (index.php?title=foo&action=protect, or do it the slow way and search for the page, click to create it when prompted, and then select the "protect" tab).