Categories red links vs. $wgGroupPermissions
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	Jidanni
	Jan 28 2007, 5:11 PM

Description

Consider a red link in Special:Categories.

Well if we have something like
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit']=false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit']=false;

when the user clicks on the red (or maybe black, with a red"?") link,
he will see View source... This page has been locked to prevent
editing.

But the list of pages in that category are gone!
Doesn't happen on blue links.
He must manually remove the action=edit if he is to see it.

Version: 1.16.x
Severity: normal
URL: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php?title=Category:SquirrelMail&action=edit

		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Declined		None	T9897 allow stopping needless editing of categories
		Invalid		None	T10812 Categories red links vs. $wgGroupPermissions

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:34 PM

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Maybe you should fill out your category descriptions.

As of 1.16, the user will at most be lead to a page with bug 17630.
He will no longer suffer the following scenario:

Permission error
You do not have permission to do that, for the following reason:

Do what? All the user did was click on a link.
That it was a boobytrapped action=edit link is not something the user should have to know

The action you have requested is limited to users in the group user.

"What action? Clicking?" the user wonders.

Which in fact is a much more polite link, despite bug 17630

And the worst of all, the categories don't even show at the bottom.