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action=protect
- Voor deze module zijn leesrechten nodig.
- Voor deze module zijn schrijfrechten nodig.
- This module only accepts POST requests.
Change the protection level of a page.
- title
Title of the page to (un)protect. Cannot be used together with pageid.
- pageid
ID of the page to (un)protect. Cannot be used together with title.
- protections
List of protection levels, formatted action=level (e.g. edit=sysop).
Note: Any actions not listed will have restrictions removed.
- This parameter is required.
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- expiry
Expiry timestamps. If only one timestamp is set, it'll be used for all protections. Use infinite, indefinite, infinity, or never, for a never-expiring protection.
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- Standaard: infinite
- reason
Reason for (un)protecting.
- Default: (empty)
- cascade
Enable cascading protection (i.e. protect pages included in this page). Ignored if all protection levels given do not support cascading.
- watch
- Verouderd.
If set, add the page being (un)protected to the current user's watchlist.
- watchlist
Unconditionally add or remove the page from the current user's watchlist, use preferences or do not change watch.
- One value: watch, unwatch, preferences, nochange
- Standaard: preferences
- token
A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens
- This parameter is required.
- Protect a page.
- api.php?action=protect&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC&protections=edit=sysop|move=sysop&cascade=&expiry=20070901163000|never
- Unprotect a page by setting restrictions to all.
- api.php?action=protect&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC&protections=edit=all|move=all&reason=Lifting%20restrictions
- Unprotect a page by setting no restrictions.
- api.php?action=protect&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC&protections=&reason=Lifting%20restrictions