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Bug 18728 - Non-admins can no longer to see page protection settings.


Summary:	Non-admins can no longer to see page protection settings.

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Page protection (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Reported:	2009-05-09 10:58 UTC by Lejonel
Modified:	2012-07-20 18:40 UTC (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Description Lejonel 2009-05-09 10:58:34 UTC

It used to be possible for all users to see the protection settings by using action=protect. This is broken in recent versions. When I try just looking at the settings, only a message saying I can't change settings is diplayed.

Comment 1 Stefano Codari 2009-05-09 16:42:45 UTC

See bug 18677

Comment 2 Nakon 2009-05-09 18:09:52 UTC

The page was recently patched to prevent this action.  This appears to bring the page in line with the delete and move interfaces.

Comment 3 Simon Walker 2009-05-09 18:22:37 UTC

Besides, can't you just look in the page history for the history item which shows the protection event? Or even the protection log?

Comment 4 Gurch 2009-05-10 04:29:41 UTC

this is by design.

Comment 5 Andrew Garrett 2009-05-10 04:35:41 UTC

Since when was hiding the protection settings from regular users expected behaviour, and why is this so?

I don't recall this being discussed anywhere, it seems terribly untransparent, and there are plenty of ways of finding this out.

I would treat this as a regression, not a bug fix.

Comment 6 Andrew Garrett 2009-05-10 04:40:05 UTC

See bug 18677.

Comment 7 Roan Kattouw 2009-05-10 09:18:39 UTC

Fixed in r50420

Comment 8 MZMcBride 2012-07-20 18:40:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #7)
> Fixed in r50420

I'm still unsure whether this was the appropriate course of action. I've filed bug 38536 just now ("Add page protection status to MediaWiki's info action"), which is a proper solution to the OP's bug request. Additional comments about this bug are here: bug 18677 comment 8.

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