[[MediaWiki:Wikieditor-toolbar-dialogs-preference/en]]
Appearance
Fragment of a discussion from Translating talk:MediaWiki/LiquidThreads
If you think it's worth your while, provide a patch. I think that the warnings & hints or whatever you get, when you try to alter English source message, suffice for the time being - while/because there are things of higher priority on which to spent scarce developer time.
Sorry, I was assuming you wanted to inhibit editing automatically.
Surely protecting thousands of pages manually is not good use of time (and we need to make sure bots and special cases still work).