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Bug 69607 - Split 'protect' right in two distinct permissions (instead of using '$wgCascadingRestrictionLevels')
Split 'protect' right in two distinct permissions (instead of using '$wgCasca...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Page protection (Other open bugs)
1.24rc
All All
: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2014-08-15 14:08 UTC by Calak
Modified: 2014-08-20 03:17 UTC (History)
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Description Calak 2014-08-15 14:08:11 UTC 
It is better that we split 'protect' right rather than using '$wgCascadingRestrictionLevels':

1- 'protect': Change protection levels
2- 'editcascadeprotected': Edit cascade-protected pages (exactly like 'editsemiprotected' and 'editprotected' rights)

Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages are two different concepts.
Comment 1 Vogone 2014-08-16 10:14:47 UTC 
And what makes you feel 'editprotected' would be inappropriate for this purpose? Cascading protections are still protections, not something different level of protection.
Comment 2 Calak 2014-08-16 10:59:31 UTC 
Because 'editcascadeprotected' can be temporary.
For example now (August 16) you can not edit "Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 16" on en.wikipedia, but you can edit it on other days.
So 'editprotected' is not like 'editcascadeprotected'; a user with 'editcascadeprotected' right should not be able to edit all protected pages like 'editprotected' right.
Comment 3 Jackmcbarn 2014-08-20 03:17:52 UTC 
If you can edit cascading-protected pages, you can protect arbitrary pages by transcluding them in cascading-protected pages. This makes it equivalent to protect anyway, so there's no reason to split the rights. WONTFIX. (And I think this is also a duplicate of something, though I'm not sure which offhand).
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