RuneScape:Protectsite

Administrators have the option of enabling a site-wide semi- or sysop only protection for up to 24 hours at a time. It can be accessed by going to Special:Protectsite.

This feature may only be used in the event of:


 * Extreme vandalism by one or more users that occurs at a fast enough pace that administrator(s) cannot keep up
 * A wiki-wide update (for example, if major changes were being made to templates that would affect 500 articles)

The wiki should only be fully protected if the vandalism is caused by multiple autoconfirmed users. In other cases a site-wide semi-protection should be used instead. The length of the protection is generally decided at the discretion of the administrator enabling the protection. Abuse of this feature can lead to the revoking of sysop privileges and all site-wide protections, semi- or full, must be posted on and reviewed by the community on the Yew Grove to determine whether or not they were necessary as well as to decide if any recourses against the administrator in question are necessary.