On Czech Wikipedia template {{Archivováno}} is a redirect to {{Archiv}}. But if you try:
pywikibot.Page(cswiki, 'Page with Archivováno').botMayEdit()
it returns True.
(for pywikibot.Page(cswiki, 'Page with Archiv').botMayEdit() it correctly returns False)
Solution 1: Add all redirects to edit_restricted_templates - uhh, sometimes there can be too many redirects
Solution 2: Process all redirects to templates listed in edit_restricted_templates automatically from page.py
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T189996 botMayEdit should know about template redirects | |||
| Resolved | Dvorapa | T58188 core Page.templates has incompatible API change from compat |
Solution 2: Process all redirects to templates listed in edit_restricted_templates automatically from page.py
This will cost an additional API request and since botMayEdit is checked on every edit, it'll have a negative influence on the total time of the first edit on the site.
I'm not sure if that can be considered insignificant.