Roan Kattouw wrote:
Yeah, why would you want that? You can protect MediaWiki: pages too (although editing them is already restricted to sysops by default), so you could protect this particular page so that only you can edit it (add a right to $wgRestrictionLevels and make sure only you have it).
Presumably he's not using memcached, and would like to avoid the extra database hits. For such uses, it'd be kind of nice to have a simple way of customizing system messages via LocalSettings.php.