Re: Protection expiry

Thank you all for your responses, as usual here I learned a lot! The
tracking category seems to work just fine, so I'll stick to that for the
moment.

wgEnableProtectionIndicators
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableProtectionIndicators> seems
like a godsend for small wikis, as it looks very configure-and-forget to
me. However, for Wikipedias that took their templates from enwiki it's
probably too simple, since these versions sometime exapand into banners
instead of locks, have reasons etc.

Have a good weeked folks!
  Strainu

În vin., 10 oct. 2025 la 20:34, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> a
scris:

> By the way, MediaWiki has recently gained the ability to display
> protection indicators by itself, without the need to keep templates in
> sync with the page protection:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableProtectionIndicators
>
> If your templates are not too complex, it's possible you could enable
> that option on your wiki and replace the templates. The appearance of
> the indicators can be customized with some MediaWiki: messages and
> site CSS, per the docs on that page.
>
> Among Wikimedia wikis, the option is currently only enabled on
> https://az.wikipedia.org/ (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371440),
> so you can have a look at the protected pages there to see how it
> works in practice.
>
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 at 15:07, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to automate wrangling protection templates. Adding them is
> trivial, but I'm having issues with the removal. The best I have is go
> waaay back on protections, check the expiration date and see if the page is
> still protected. But that's both expensive and useless for long-term
> protections.
> >
> > Is there any event/notification/anything at all available through the
> API that would allow me to know which pages' protection expired recently
> without keeping a list of protected pages?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >    Strainu
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