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NewUserMessage should mark its accounts as a system user
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Currently, MediaWiki-extensions-NewUserMessage doesn't mark its system account (determined via MediaWiki:Newusermessage-editor) as one. This is mostly because NewUserMessage predates the logic of system accounts by many years. However, it would be useful to mark it as such retrospectively, to properly indicate what kind of account it is at Special:UserRights and similar.

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SubjectAuthorRepoBranchLines +/-
Revert "Mark Newusermessage-editor as a system user"Bugreportermediawiki/extensions/NewUserMessagemaster+6 -3
Mark Newusermessage-editor as a system userCoderAnimeshPathakmediawiki/extensions/NewUserMessagemaster+3 -6
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Urbanecm created this task.Sep 11 2026, 8:37 PM
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Hii,
I'd like to work on this task

gerritbot added a comment.Sep 12 2026, 12:34 PM

Change #1340504 had a related patch set uploaded (by CoderAnimeshPathak; author: CoderAnimeshPathak):

[mediawiki/extensions/NewUserMessage@master] Mark Newusermessage-editor as a system user

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1340504

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 12 2026, 12:34 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Sep 12 2026, 3:34 PM

Change #1340504 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/NewUserMessage@master] Mark Newusermessage-editor as a system user

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1340504

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.20; 2026-09-15).Sep 12 2026, 4:00 PM
Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 12 2026, 4:30 PM
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Bugreporter added subscribers: Nikerabbit, Bugreporter.EditedMon, Sep 14, 3:02 AM

@Nikerabbit why is this patch merged so quickly? This change result in new security issue. (Revert this change will at least prevent it from happening.)

gerritbot added a comment.Mon, Sep 14, 3:06 AM

Change #1340816 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bugreporter; author: Bugreporter):

[mediawiki/extensions/NewUserMessage@master] Revert "Mark Newusermessage-editor as a system user"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1340816

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mon, Sep 14, 3:06 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Mon, Sep 14, 4:42 AM

Change #1340816 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/NewUserMessage@master] Revert "Mark Newusermessage-editor as a system user"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1340816

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Mon, Sep 14, 5:30 AM
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