Peter wrote:

Hi,

We've written a script that imports data from a non-wiki source into our wiki by transforming it to XML import files, and importing it with the importdump.php maintenance script. This all works very well, except that we would like to protect the imported pages. As specified in the help pages, I've included a line <restrictions>edit=sysop:move=sysop</restrictions> in the page element. Unfortunately, this doesn't work (I've tried other values as well).

Is this just reserved syntax for a planned feature, or should it actually work? I've noticed that something does happen for the restrictions element in the php code, but I can't work out what. If it should work, can anyone tell me what the syntax is supposed to be?

many thank, Peter

I think it's with ; not :

What about using http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespaceProtection to protect the pages?