[Mediawiki-l] Importing XML with restrictions tag

[Peter Bloem | Gridline B.V.]

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