Florian Knorn a écrit : Your question is not clear: you can set the protection on pages using a few ways, and this will apply from the beginning = their creation. I guess you already know about user rights and protection in mediawiki, but as it seems that nobody has yet answered your post, I give a few links: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Setting_user_rights_in_MediaWiki don't forget to have a look at the Talk paged of these articles: often, you will find experiences and tips on how users founds solutions to specific problems (for example, how to protect a specific namespace) Do post again, explaining what the specificity of the protection is if you need more advice... and **do** give the version of your mediawiki. Some solutions only apply since 1.6 1.7 or 1.8. Hope it helps François

Ok, managed to do it myself (I'm getting better, hehe :-)) In case somebody finds this useful, here is my semi-quick&dirty solution: 1. In your LocalSettings.php create a variable $wgDefaultProtectionLevel = array( 'edit' => 'mitarbeiter', 'move' => 'mitarbeiter'); ... where you should replace 'mitarbeiter' by the specific level you want / need. 2. In includes/Article.php find the insertNewArticle function (for me it [with MediaWiki 1.8.2] it was around line 1100...), and add the following code to the end of the function (but, of course, before the doRedirect command): /* default protection level hack */ global $wgDefaultProtectionLevel; $ok = $this->updateRestrictions( $wgDefaultProtectionLevel, 'Initial protect' ); if( !$ok ) { throw new FatalError( "Unknown error at restriction save time." ); } /* end default protection level hack */ There you go, new pages should now automatically be protected with the levels you chose in the LocalSettings... Cheers everyone, Florian :-) Florian Knorn wrote: