Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for technical administration/Restrict editing of Guild and Guild talk namespaces

Request to restrict the editing of Guild: and Guild_talk: namespaces

Type

MediaWiki configuration

Additional software requirements

None

Additional server-side maintenance requirements

The following lines are already in LocalSettings.php:

$wgExtraNamespaces[100] = "Guild";
$wgExtraNamespaces[101] = "Guild_talk";
$wgContentNamespaces[]  = 100;

The following two lines are proposed to be added beneath the above in LocalSettings.php:

$wgNamespaceProtection[100] = array( 'editArenaNet' );
$wgNamespaceProtection[101] = array( 'editArenaNet_talk' );

This will restrict editing of the Guild namespace to users with the editArenaNet / editArenaNet_talk permissions (i.e. Sysops, Bcrats and ArenaNet staff), as already successfully used on the old ArenaNet namespace on this wiki.

See Manual:Using custom namespaces on the MediaWiki wiki for more information.

Reason for request

As discussed on Guild Wars Wiki talk:Community portal#Proposal to lock down the Guild namespace. Content within the Guild namespace no longer serves a useful purpose.

What else uses it

I believe the ArenaNet namespace already uses this exact setup (should be nearby on the same page, a few lines above or below) - e.g. ArenaNet:Developer updates/20070305 cannot be edited by regular users.