Test Wiki:Admin School/Protection

= Protecting Pages =

As said before, protection is a very powerful tool and should only be used when necessary to prevent vandalism or to stop edit disuptes. Let's practice! (copy and paste the url into a new tab so you can look at this page for reference on what to do.


 * 1) At the top of this page, you will see a link that says Protect, click on it.
 * 2) You should be seeing a page that says CONFIRM PROTECTION
 * 3) Depending on the type of protection you want to provide, click on Block Unregistered Users Only or Sysops Only. If you click on Block Unregistered Users Only, this will only prevent users who havent registered with the site to edit the page. Sysops only will prevent any user who isn't an Administrator to edit the page.
 * 4) You should see two rows titled Edit and Move. Edit obviously means protection against editing. Move means that depending on an individuals access level, he or she may not be able to move the page to a new title. It is recommended that you do NOT uncheck unlock move permissions unless you are sure you want to do this.
 * 5) For the purpose of this exercise, click on Sysops Only.
 * 6) In the Expires space, you can place any form of time. 1 minute, 1 hour, 24 hours, 42 hours, 1 day, 1 month, 1 year. If left blank the protection will never expire. Type in 15 minutes. This means that after 15 minutes the page will automatically be unprotected. This should give you enough time to play with the unprotection.
 * 7) In the comments section you should place a valid reason for protecting the page, so other admins can see the history. Type in Admin School test. 
 * 8) Click SAVE
 * 9) The page should reload and is now protected. The tab at the top of the page that used to say Protect should say Unprotect. If so, you have successfully protected the page. Congrats!

To practice unprotection, go to Test Wiki:Admin School/Unprotection