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→Set previous version pages to be protected
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_table#page_restrictions }}
That updates a blob field to force protection without having to do the pages individually. You need to do the above sql statement for each page that you want to protect...
* Copy the resulting SQL statement to a text file <code>protectoldpages.txt</code>
* Then run the SQL statement by either using phpmyadmin("SQL" tab to run the query) or the commandline.
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