Last modified: 2014-05-16 12:37:17 UTC
A recent weird bug cropped up on Wikidata where *some* sysops are unable to edit sysop protected pages. Two currently protected pages are; https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5268366 and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16503. After speaking with Addshore, it turns out we both have this weird issue. His solution tested out was granting both of us confirmed user flags (log: [1]) which apparently made us able to edit protected items. This seems like an awfully weird bug which really should be looked into in more depth. Also this is a Wikibase issue as all other non wikibase pages are editable without the confirmed user flag. [1] https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=Addshore&page=×tamp=20131213235000&limit=2
I had the same issue, though it did not get solved by adding the confirmed group when I first tried. (I fullyprotected an item, then tried to edit, which didn't work. Then added the confirmed group and tried to edit, didn't work either. Maybe I forgot to clear cache). Cheers.
Oh well nevermind. I tried again and it worked. Cheers.
I see that the edit and add links are greyed out too, and they say the page is protected. However when I used the labelLister to edit a description it worked, https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q5268366&diff=prev&oldid=103258789
Is this still happening?
This is still happening. Just tested now.
I have done some testing on testwikidatawiki with the following results: Account User:Vogone@testwikidatawiki (member of groups: Administrators, Autoconfirmed users, Bureaucrats, Users): With bureaucrat rights assigned, the bug wasn't reproducable. The other groups (Administrators, Autoconfirmed users, Users) didn't seem to affect the bug at all. Account User:VogoTest@testwikidatawiki (member of groups: Administrators, OAuth administrators, Users): With oauthadmin rights (used as a random user group with meaningless user rights here) assigned, the bug wasn't reproducable. The other groups (Administrators, Users) didn't seem to affect the bug at all. Account User:VogoTest2@testwikidatawiki (member of groups: Administrators, IP block exemptions, Users): With ip-block-exempt rights assigned, the bug wasn't reproducable. The other groups (Administrators, Users) didn't seem to affect the bug at all. The same was tested with rollback/propertycreator/confirmed (bug wasn't reproducable) and translationadmin/flooder (bug was reproducable) instead of ip-block-exempt rights assigned.
There is one more thing I found out. Apparently non-admins who are in global groups (tested global groups: Global_sysops, stewards) but /no/ local sysops aren't affected by this bug either. However, global sysops who have the local sysop flag assigned at the same time are affected. (https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=DerHexer&page=User%3AVogone%40testwikidatawiki&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_review_log=1&hide_thanks_log=1)
Vogone asked me to test something on my Wikibase repo and the results were... interesting to say the least. I have four users. User A is an administrator and bureaucrat. This user can edit a sysop protected item with no issue. User B is sysop only. This user can not edit a sysop protected item. User C is an administrator and 'adminguy' (my dupe sysop group), they can edit the sysop protected item. User D is an 'adminguy' only. This user *can* edit a sysop protected item. Therefore, I am making a weird conclusion that the only thing stopping sysops editing a sysop protected item is because they are a sysop (with the group name 'sysop' specifically). Global sysops on Wikimedia can edit sysop protected items because they are either a) not a local admin or b) not a 'sysop' only.
Change 122124 had a related patch set uploaded by Hoo man: Fix edit restriction handling https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/122124
Change 122124 merged by jenkins-bot: Fix edit restriction handling https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/122124
Change 124310 had a related patch set uploaded by Aude: Fix edit restriction handling https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/124310
Change has been approved and will be backported
Change 124310 merged by jenkins-bot: Fix edit restriction handling https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/124310
