Is there a easyer way to protect a list of pages perhaps by a maintenance script or the like? The only way I've found is Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages.
It somehow boring to open each single page , click the settings, save ...
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There's protect.php. See also Manual:Protection
This is only on V 1.25+ , I'm on V 1.23+. There is further no explanation how to use it.
protect.php as well as the mechanisms described on Manual:Protection will also work in 1.23.