leon wrote:

I think that's against the wiki way. It means that most users won't see how easy
to edit articles, but just protected pages.

robchur wrote:

That's part of learning how a wiki works. It's also part of running one. Use
built-in protection levels on the pages.

kattanaver wrote:

Manualy fixing all the vandalism was part of running one as well untill
protected pages were added.
Auto-protecting pages would save a lot of time for the people moderating and
catch things they would otherwise miss and do so much quicker.
It is not against the "wiki way" nor does it interfere with learning how it
works, the popular articles new users see are often protected already, is it
against the "wiki way" to protect users from opportunistic vandals?

robchur wrote:

Note that automatic protection based on page hits would have to be switched off
on Wikimedia wikis anyway, since we don't log them.