When a page is edit protected it is not possible to delete the page without the necessary edit rights. Should it be possible to change the pagelang without the necessary edit rights? In my opinion not.
If yes, than another way is needed to allow sysop to disable the pagelang function on a per page base to break "pagelang wars".
Version: 1.25-git
Severity: normal
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Feature | None | T24985 Forcing the language for {{PLURAL}} rule | ||
| Resolved | Kunalgrover05 | T37489 The source language of a page should be arbitrary | |||
| Resolved | None | T11360 Specify default language on a per-page basis | |||
| Resolved | None | T74965 Special:PageLanguage permission checks: Allow pagelang changes when edit protected? |
There is a patch in place with pending reviews. It was based on a suggestion from Siebrand to not allow the changes in case of protected pages.
In my opinion too, it's best to keep changing page language under edit rights.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/143015/
Change 143015 had a related patch set uploaded (by TTO):
Special:PageLanguage: Ensure the user has permission to edit the page
Change 343333 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mainframe98; owner: Mainframe98):
[mediawiki/core@master] Perform a permission check on the title when changing the page language
Change 343333 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Perform a permission check on the title when changing the page language