Thank you all for your responses, as usual here I learned a lot! The tracking category seems to work just fine, so I'll stick to that for the moment.
wgEnableProtectionIndicators https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableProtectionIndicators seems like a godsend for small wikis, as it looks very configure-and-forget to me. However, for Wikipedias that took their templates from enwiki it's probably too simple, since these versions sometime exapand into banners instead of locks, have reasons etc.
Have a good weeked folks! Strainu
În vin., 10 oct. 2025 la 20:34, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.com a scris:
By the way, MediaWiki has recently gained the ability to display protection indicators by itself, without the need to keep templates in sync with the page protection: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableProtectionIndicators
If your templates are not too complex, it's possible you could enable that option on your wiki and replace the templates. The appearance of the indicators can be customized with some MediaWiki: messages and site CSS, per the docs on that page.
Among Wikimedia wikis, the option is currently only enabled on https://az.wikipedia.org/ (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371440), so you can have a look at the protected pages there to see how it works in practice.
On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 at 15:07, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to automate wrangling protection templates. Adding them is
trivial, but I'm having issues with the removal. The best I have is go waaay back on protections, check the expiration date and see if the page is still protected. But that's both expensive and useless for long-term protections.
Is there any event/notification/anything at all available through the
API that would allow me to know which pages' protection expired recently without keeping a list of protected pages?
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