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I am thinking of making my personal wiki open for more general use, but there are a lot of pages which I want protected from editing by anyone other than admins.

I could go one by one to change them, but is there a way to do them in one go (either through an extension that I've not found, or by direct database manipulation)?

Any advice would be most welcome

You may use $wgNamespaceProtection, placing those pages on a specific namespace.

That would work - but then I would need to move them all to a specific namespace, which is as much work!

In the end, I just ended up spending the time doing them one by one anyway, only took a couple of hours!

Thanks for the reply, anyway!

You could have used PWB to either move or protect them massively.