User blog comment:TOR/MediaWiki Upgrade/@comment-1331296-20120612173322/@comment-11536-20120612174543

TK-999: The upload protection option in MediaWiki 1.16 doesn't actually work, unfortunately. The create protection stops page creation but not uploading files at a particular title. This is fixed in later MediaWiki versions, so per Urbancowgurl, once we upgrade you should then be able to protect files from upload. :)