Hmm, from the looks of things, the extension only assigns the edit permission to admins but never grants the group any of the other permissions it revokes. It could be worth an upstream ticket, but we could easily assign the permission (createpage) to admins on request.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202423

Certainly I like the idea of only admins being allowed to create pages. It is the biggest benefit I saw in the ProtectSite extension. Editing control is good rather than having to set it at each page. It's not the best extension I've ever come across :-) The time out should be optional really.

We can up the limit on the time out too, but there's no real way to get rid of it entirely.

Yes the up on the time out would be good. Then I can add a reminder in my calendar for when I know it is due to expire. Can it be for a fairly extensive period? 3 months or so would be good.

@Michaeldakin Looking at our settings page, it seems that we have set the limit to "indefinite" on a wiki, so would you like to try that? Also, you never mentioned the name of your wiki.

On the topic of 'createpage', the patch I created was approved by the project owner, however, it still needs to be backported to our version of MediaWiki in order for it to work on Miraheze.

Hi, My wiki is https://wiki.campaign-labour.org/wiki/Main_Page

Indefinite would be ideal for ProtectSite. I can control if I want to reduce protection at any stage, rather than rely on my flaky memory to switch it back on when it times out.

Thanks for the createpage patch. Much appreciated.

@Michaeldakin I will add your wiki to the configuration to allow indefinite ProtectSite.