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In interface message "Viewinguserrights", replace "rights" with "groups"
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Hello! I'd like to request a change to the interface message Viewinguserrights.

Right now, it contains:

Viewing user rights of {{GENDER:$1|user}} <strong>[[User:$1|$1]]</strong> $2

I would like to suggest that "rights" be replaced with "groups", because they describe different things — as mw:Manual:User rights says, "User rights are permissions (like the ability to edit pages or to block users) that can be assigned to different user groups" (bolding in original). Viewinguserrights is displayed on Special:UserRights, which (confusingly) does not display user rights but rather user groups.

I would also like to suggest that the pointless {{GENDER}} call be removed: the word "user" is redundant with "user rights" or "user groups".

In all, my proposed change would be to:

Viewing user groups of <strong>[[User:$1|$1]]</strong> $2

Thank you!

Event Timeline

Tol renamed this task from Wording in interface message `Viewinguserrights` to Wording in interface message "Viewinguserrights".Nov 19 2021, 3:33 AM
Aklapper renamed this task from Wording in interface message "Viewinguserrights" to In interface message "Viewinguserrights", replace "rights" with "groups".Nov 19 2021, 11:07 AM

Change 740117 had a related patch set uploaded (by Majavah; author: Majavah):

[mediawiki/core@master] i18n: Adjust viewinguserrights message

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/740117

Change 740117 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] i18n: Adjust Special:UserRights messages to refer to user groups not rights

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/740117

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