Extended confirmed rights are sometimes given to staff/volunteers without local autoconfirmed rights to allow them to edit protected pages. However, the extendedconfirmed group at the moment includes only the extendedconfirmed right. This means that such users can edit extendedconfirmed-protected pages, but not semi-protected pages, an ostensibly lower protection level. Local administrators are unable to grant the confirmed group, so the only workaround is to increase the protection level of semi-protected pages to extendedconfirmed-protected, which is undesirable.
I request that the editsemiprotected right be added to the extendedconfirmed group.