Last modified: 2013-03-14 02:27:32 UTC
When a user (or IP) gets blocked, then the page shows at top still the button "Edit page". When he clicks on the button, there is a message telling he's blocked. Would it be possible to change the field name and behaviour to "View source", so that a blocked user can still see the source?
Why? The user is still able to read articles, so I think it's not necessary to show him that he's blocked when he doesn't try do edit.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4990 ***
Due to caching requirements we can't do this.
Re-opening this for further consideration. A few points: * a half-decade has passed, so the caching situation may be different now; * we might be able to do this only for logged-in users (but keep the current behavior for IP blocks and IP range blocks); and * on smaller sites, the performance issues shouldn't be nearly as bad, so this may be something we can stick behind $wgMiserMode, to at least allow most wikis to behave sanely here. Or we could investigate doing this in client-side JavaScript. Offering an "edit this page" tab and section edit links when we know the user is blocked is kind of insanely bad user interface/user experience.
