[Mediawiki-l] Locking "Templates" pages?

Mon Jun 19 20:30:10 UTC 2006

In order to keep some control over the "look" of our site, we'd like to 
restrict creating and editing of "Template:" pages to sysops; users 
could request new templates, and if we were satisfied they were of 
general interest, we'd create them, and document then on our template 
documentation page.

I'm aware that there is no standard mechanism for assigning particular 
access privileges based on namespace (we don't really want to use one of 
the custom plugins unless it's pretty sure it will end up in the next 
version of MW), but is there any "good" (semi-approved) way to 
write-protect this particular namespace?

Thanks,
Ken