On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:50:55PM +0000, Rowan Collins wrote:
Wouldn't I have to each new page to the config file by hand in that case?
No. "Protection" is an action performed by anyone with (in all current versions of MediaWiki) "sysop" status, through the normal web interface - see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Administration and linked pages for a few further clues about this. [Basically, if you are logged in with sysop privileges, you should see an extra tab above articles marked "protect" or "unprotect".]
I think he means that each newly created page would have to be manually set to protected, which would indeed be a nuisance.