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Bug 21076 - undelete permission doesn't actually let you undelete
undelete permission doesn't actually let you undelete
Status: REOPENED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Page deletion (Other open bugs)
1.16.x
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:...
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Reported: 2009-10-10 03:42 UTC by Mike.lifeguard
Modified: 2011-09-28 17:31 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Mike.lifeguard 2009-10-10 03:42:00 UTC
Signed in as a user with the undelete right (also browsearchive, deletedhistory, but not deletedtext), I cannot undelete the page.
Comment 1 Aaron Schulz 2009-10-10 03:59:13 UTC
What user account? Sysops should already have deletedtext
Comment 2 Mike.lifeguard 2009-10-10 04:00:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> What user account? Sysops should already have deletedtext
> 

Steward accounts have an arbitrary set of permissions as members of a global group.
Comment 3 Aaron Schulz 2009-10-10 04:01:52 UTC
Seems like stewards need deletedtext then
Comment 4 Mike.lifeguard 2009-10-10 04:04:04 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Seems like stewards need deletedtext then
> 

That's my point - the undelete right isn't sufficient to undelete. Something is wrong with that. Granted, it makes little sense to have the ability to undelete a page without the ability to view the deleted content, but that's what the userright is advertised as.
Comment 5 Aaron Schulz 2009-10-10 18:29:57 UTC
Changed in r57622
Comment 6 Dan Bolser 2011-09-28 17:29:44 UTC
I found that, indeed, undelete now implies deletedtext as suggested by this fix, however, undelete does not imply deletedhistory, leading to exactly the same issue as described here, namely, a user with the undelete permission may not be able to delete a page.

1.17.0 (r96975)
Comment 7 Dan Bolser 2011-09-28 17:31:24 UTC
P.S. I started this page to help document Special:Undelete
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Undelete

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