Special:CommunityConfiguration/BlockedDomain should be editable by interface-admin users
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	Aug 21 2025, 10:13 PM

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Description

As a follow-up to the issue reported in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393240#11108852

Steps to replicate the issue:

A user with interface-admin rights only (and not a sysop) goes to Special:CommunityConfiguration/BlockedDomain

What happens?:

the form Special:CommunityConfiguration/BlockedDomain is not editable

What should have happened instead?:

any form on Special:CommunityConfiguration should be editable by interface-admin and sysop users

Software version :

the issue was reported on frwiki wmf.15
the issue was confirmed on enwiki beta

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

interface-admin user can edit MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json
interface-admin can edit Special:CommunityConfiguration/GrowthSuggestedEdits,

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Allow Interface Admins to use Special:CommunityConfiguration/BlockedDomain form	mediawiki/extensions/AbuseFilter	master	+3 -0

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Mentioned Here: T393240: Special:BlockedExternalDomains should make use of Community Configuration

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Change #1245299 had a related patch set uploaded (by Escargot bleu; author: Escargot bleu):

[mediawiki/extensions/AbuseFilter@master] Allow Interface Admins to use Special:CommunityConfiguration/BlockedDomain form

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1245299

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 27 2026, 10:47 AM

I don't like the idea of this. First off I've never seen the point of non-admin iadmins, but also this has absolutely nothing to do with the core responsibility of interface admins (editing CSS and JavaScript)

JJMC89 awarded a token.Feb 28 2026, 12:54 AM

In T402598#11660321, @Pppery wrote:

I don't like the idea of this. First off I've never seen the point of non-admin iadmins, but also this has absolutely nothing to do with the core responsibility of interface admins (editing CSS and JavaScript)

Interface admins can already edit MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json as well as MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. This task is about making things coherent since this form automates editing MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json.

At some point on frwiki, most edits on MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json were done by non-admins interface admins. I do not know about other wikis, but on frwiki (and I've seen a similar comment for zhwiki) obtaining sysop rights has become so hard that it is much easier to get interface admins rights only.

Declining this for now, as there hasn't been any effort to address the concerns raised. As I commented in the patch, one option may be to limit the scope of the change to the relevant project rather than applying it globally.

Pppery edited projects, added: Patch-Needs-Improvement; removed: Patch-For-Review.Apr 30 2026, 6:10 AM

Change #1245299 abandoned by Urbanecm:

[mediawiki/extensions/AbuseFilter@master] Allow Interface Admins to use Special:CommunityConfiguration/BlockedDomain form

Reason:

abandoning, to reflect the status of the task