Protecting part of a page (eg, to annotate a historical document)

How do I protect part of a page with MediaWiki?

I want to let users annotate a historical document line by
line
without changing the historical document itself. Example:

Four score and seven years ago <- this would be protected
(no edit, no delete)
a score is 20 years <- would be editable/deletable
our fathers brought forth upon this continent <-
protected
[this section could be blank if no one had any annotations
on that line]
a new nation, conceived in liberty <- protected

Protected lines/section could only be unprotected, deleted,
or changed
by WikiSysop or equivalent. Ideally, protected sections
would be in a
different font/color/style to differentiate the original
document from
the annotations.

Can I do something like this directly? Using a plug-in?
Indirectly?

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On 05/01/07, Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jonesgmail.com> wrote:
> Can I do something like this directly? Using a plug-in?
Indirectly?

There is a "ProtectSection" extension in
Subversion. Whether it still
works, or whether it has flaws etc., I don't know.


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On 1/4/07, Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jonesgmail.com> wrote:
> How do I protect part of a page with MediaWiki?
>
<snip>
>
> Can I do something like this directly? Using a plug-in?
Indirectly?

Just a quick thought.. you could put your protected content
in
templates which are themselves protected.

Then you'd have to monitor the page to make sure nobody
removed/moves
the template reference.  =/
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