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Bug 9333 - Cascading protection does not affect <includeonly> content
Cascading protection does not affect <includeonly> content
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: 8575
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Reported: 2007-03-19 03:12 UTC by Jesse (Pathoschild)
Modified: 2011-03-13 18:05 UTC (History)
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Description Jesse (Pathoschild) 2007-03-19 03:12:47 UTC
Cascading protection does not affect transclusions wrapped with <includeonly>,
which affects content in protected templates or pages like "Project:Protected
inexistent pages".
Comment 1 Andrew Garrett 2007-03-19 04:48:11 UTC
This is difficult to fix (the list of included templates is created in a parse
operation) and of limited value. The intention of the cascading page protection
feature is to protect a page against template vandalism, not to provide hacks to
protect non-existent pages. Protecting non-existent pages should be a separate
feature.

Propose WONTFIX.
Comment 2 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2007-03-20 00:50:21 UTC
It seems logical for cascade protection to work properly whether the page is transcluded or 
viewed directly.  The parse operation that generates the list shouldn't strip either <noinclude> 
or <includeonly> sections.  I'm surprised if we don't have an option for that lying around 
somewhere, but it seems logical to add if we don't.

I don't see what this has to do with protection of nonexistent pages (bug 2919)?
Comment 3 Andrew Garrett 2007-04-11 08:06:01 UTC
The intention of cascading protection is to protect the "final product" page -
the one displayed to the user... not the actual page text itself - the raw
content stored in the text table. To do this, the templates included on the page
need to be protected - but the ones in includeonly needn't be, because they're
not shown on the final page displayed to users. Anyway, as I said, this is a
fairly difficult bug to fix, because it involves re-parsing things, as opposed
to piggybacking off parse operations that would have occurred anyway (as the
behaviour is currently). This is problematic from a performance perspective.

As I'm not involved with the project in any meaningful way anymore, I shan't
close this. However, I would recommend it be closed as WONTFIX.

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