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Cascading protection notice
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Author: cmhagar

Description:
Administrators are no longer shown a page protection message when editing a page
that is protected because of cascading protection. ("This page is currently
protected from editing because it is transcluded in the following pages, which
are protected with the "cascading" option enabled"). This is a recent change in
behavior.

It also happens that logged out users see the "edit this page" tab for pages
protected under cascading protection, rather than "view source", despite the
fact that they cannot edit the page. I do not know if this is a change in behavior.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
OS: Linux
Platform: PC

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Reference
bz9634

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:41 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.
• bzimport set Reference to bz9634.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Apr 19 2007, 8:20 PM
David_Levy added a comment.Apr 20 2007, 12:59 AM

For some reason, applying manual protection to a cascade-protected page causes
the the missing cascading protection message (and not the manual protection
message) to appear (despite the fact that MediaWiki recently was changed to have
the manual protection messages—including the semi-protection message, annoyingly
enough—override the cascading protection message).

• bzimport added a comment.Apr 20 2007, 11:22 PM

Selket.wiki wrote:

I can attest that logged in users see the "edit this page" tab as well.

aaron added a comment.Apr 21 2007, 5:37 PM

See bug 9401. Gah, I'll add them both then.

aaron added a comment.Apr 21 2007, 7:02 PM

Done in r21452.

David_Levy added a comment.Apr 21 2007, 7:10 PM

Based upon the description, that change addresses my parenthetical concern, but
it isn't clear from the wording that the actual bug reported by Christopher
Hagar has been resolved. I was merely noting that the cascading protection
message suddenly began appearing only when manual protection *was* applied (the
exact opposite of the expected behavior).

But yes, it is a very good idea to display both messages when both apply. This
will prevent a great deal of confusion.

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