Show extra-Mediawiki namespace restriction on Special:ListGroupRights
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	Ammarpad
	Dec 16 2019, 10:33 AM

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Currently the namespace protection table on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights shows something like this

Namespace	Right(s) allowing user to edit
MediaWiki	Edit the user interface (editinterface)
Gadget	Edit gadget JavaScript and CSS pages (gadgets-edit)
Gadget definition	Edit gadget definitions (gadgets-definition-edit)

Therefore it assumes all users with (editinterface) permission (sysop for instance) can edit all pages in MediaWiki namespace. This was true before, but not any longer. (editinterface) alone is not sufficient to edit for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:History_copyright

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Add extra description to Special:ListGroupRights for mw/user namespace	mediawiki/core	master	+48 -4

Customize query in gerrit

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Ammarpad created this task.Dec 16 2019, 10:33 AM

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I think you want to expose wgRawHtmlMessages - it's documented as:

List of messages which might contain raw HTML.
Extensions should add their messages here. The list is used for access control:
changing messages listed here will require editsitecss and editsitejs rights.

and includes the following by default:

'copyright',
'history_copyright',
'googlesearch',
'feedback-terms',
'feedback-termsofuse',

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Change 618863 had a related patch set uploaded (by Umherirrender; owner: Umherirrender):
[mediawiki/core@master] Add extra description to Special:ListGroupRights for mw/user namespace

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/618863

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 6 2020, 9:50 PM

Change 618863 abandoned by Umherirrender:

[mediawiki/core@master] Add extra description to Special:ListGroupRights for mw/user namespace

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https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/618863

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 6 2021, 10:10 PM

Izno edited projects, added MediaWiki-User-management; removed MediaWiki-Special-pages.Apr 24 2022, 12:48 AM

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