Forum:Can you protect an entire Forum?

We are looking at setting up an all Admin forum on our wiki in order to talk about subjects in a group that have to do with site maintenance. I was wondering whether or not there was some form of cascading protection so that you do not have to go through and protect every single page as soon as it is posted? - Regards, Gaelen S.Talk • Contribs 05:44, May 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't think it's possible, regardless, it's a bad idea. Wikis are open. Administrators are not "superusers", they are merely trusted with the delete, block and protect tools. All discussion should be open to the whole community. 10:39, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think it may be possible with Help:Protect site.  Manyman  Talk  12:09, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * No, it is not possible to protect an entire namespace, and Special:Protectsite won't do it either. Ajraddatz Talk 18:29, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * If you block the user then maybe they won't have the ability to get in the forum.  Tommy  talk page 19:12, May 20, 2010 (UTC)

I am not trying to block anybody from seeing the forum, I would just like to make it more of a administrator specific page so that there can be discussion primarily for admins. I would be very appreciative for any help that anyone can provide! - Regards, Gaelen S.Talk • Contribs 22:35, May 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry to say that it seems to me that no one can provide help with this since there's no way to auto protect pages base on a category or anything.
 * You could make a talk page admin only but that is only one page. But a talk page can be reused. And olders messages removed.
 * On every wikis i've started, i have a page that is protected but it's only a list of things usefull to admin like the CSS and others pages from the message namespace.
 * Beside, i dont think either that simples users should be left out of any discussion or talking because when that happen, they also feel like not belonging to the community and might just leave.
 * Every users on Wikia have the right to express their opinion on any matter even if admins rights would be needed to carry out what is needed to be.
 * — TulipVorlax 02:27, May 21, 2010 (UTC)