AdministrationManual:Protect Site

WARNING: ONLY USE THIS FEATURE IN DIRE SITUATIONS ONLY, ABUSE WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE DEMOTION. The Protect Site feature is a very useful feature, especially in the event of an organized raid on the site. Only bureaucrats can use the protect site feature though. You can find the feature on Special:ProtectSite, but Bureaucrats have it on their sidebar.

Basic Overview
The main features of the page allow restriction of the following options:
 * Creation of new accounts
 * All users
 * Registered Users and Administrators
 * Administrators only
 * Allow creation of pages
 * All users (Obsolete, only registered users can edit the wiki)
 * Registered Users and Administrators (Obsolete, only registered users can edit the wiki)
 * Administrators only
 * Allow editing of pages
 * All users (Obsolete, only registered users can edit the wiki)
 * Registered Users and Administrators (Obsolete, only registered users can edit the wiki)
 * Administrators only
 * Moving Pages
 * All users
 * Registered Users and Administrators
 * File Uploads
 * All users
 * Registered Users and Administrators

The default time of site protection is one hour, but the maximum time the site can be protected is 1 week. You may also leave a comment, that may serve as the reason.

Valid Reasons
When protecting the site, please include a reason in the comment, if there is no comment, you will be asked to provide one. If there is none, you will be punished by demotion, additionally, putting "because I wanted to" or "because I felt like it" or any variation of that will also result in demotion.

Valid reasons include (but are not limited to),
 * Active raid (A ton users are editing the wiki with malicious intent, such as blanking pages, usually organized)
 * Editing pages to random stuff/Sillyness on April Fools day (Policy will stay in effect until a proper system for April Fools day is implemented)