The UserPageEditProtection extension creates a new userright that allows for the restriction of who can edit other users' userpages. This pattern is already enforced on wikis like metawiki using AbuseFilters and now jawiki appears to need this functionality. It would be nice to have this ability as a configuration variable in mediawiki-core.
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Related Changes in Gerrit:
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Request | neriah | T392754 Enable UserPageEditProtection on jawiki | ||
| Resolved | neriah | T410654 Upstream UserPageEditProtection to MediaWiki core | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T434383 wgRestrictUserPageEditing: There should be a way to allow editing on a specific user page |
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cc @Kghbln fyi as you're listed as an author in UserPageEditProtection's extension.json.
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Thank you. I have no objections from my side to move the extension’s functionality into MediaWiki core.
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Change #1283109 had a related patch set uploaded (by Neriah; author: neriah):
[mediawiki/core@master] Add UserPageEditProtection to core
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Adding Product Safety and Integrity sprint as I'm providing code review (asked to by neriah but not necessarily within Product Safety and Integrity owned code)
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Change #1283109 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Add UserPageEditProtection to core
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Should we announce in Tech News that this feature can now be enabled? It could be used by wikis that have been doing this until now with the abuse filter (T392754#11392644)
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@neriah, I am responding to the user notice tag. How should this be worded for tech news?
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From now on, wikis can restrict editing in the "User" namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRestrictUserPageEditing]
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Change #1316033 had a related patch set uploaded (by Krinkle; author: Krinkle):
[mediawiki/extensions/UserPageEditProtection@master] i18n: Remove right-editalluserpages message that clashes with core
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Change #1316033 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/UserPageEditProtection@master] i18n: Remove right-editalluserpages message that clashes with core
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@neriah there is feedback about this change on Diff: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/07/27/tech-news-2026-issue-31/#comments. You might want to check it out.