Pages protected by title blacklist extension show "edit" tab instead of "view source" even if the editor cannot edit them
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	28bytes
	Apr 18 2011, 1:24 AM

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Example: if a non-logged-in user pulls up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Editnotices/Page/Template_talk:Did_you_know

...they are presented with an Edit tab, even though they cannot edit it.

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Severity: normal

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Reference: bz28589

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Mentioned In: T274427: For ZObject pages the user can't edit, don't show View Source, and/or don't enter edit mode
T175459: change blocked user's edit tabs to view source tabs
T129604: Uneditable pages still displaying edit tabs

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:30 PM

• bzimport added a project: TitleBlacklist.

• bzimport set Reference to bz28589.

28bytes created this task.Apr 18 2011, 1:24 AM

Is this related to bug 14104?

Based on talk on irc, this page is protected via title blacklist extension.

The title blacklist extension uses the getUserPermissionsErrorsExpensive hook, which means that its only checked when we absolutely have to (aka on an actual edit, not on when we decide what to display the edit tab as). I have no idea how expensive title blacklist is, but presumably its using that hook for a reason and probably isn't going to change.

However, with that said when we're actually on an edit page (aka http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Editnotices/Page/Template_talk:Did_you_know&action=edit ) we do have to do the expensive check, and we should probably re-use that when building the skin elements. (However I'm not sure how easy that'd be to do in practice).

(In reply to comment #1)