When trying to edit a protected page in the Module namespace, Lua debugging console is not shown, even though it could be useful to test the protected module. See e.g. en:Module:Arguments (when not logged in as an enwiki admin, obviously.
There is a trivial workaround of editing any other (even nonexisting) page in the module namespace and starting the console session with some local m = require("Module:TheProtectedModule"), but why not make it easier?
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allow Lua console on protected module pages | mediawiki/extensions/Scribunto | master | +33 -5 |
This used to be blocked by the lack of a hook in Core to do so, but now that we have 'EditPage::showReadOnlyForm:initial' it should be reasonably easy. Although the code in modules/ext.scribunto.edit.js would need to be able to handle not having any "mw-scribunto-console" div injected into the page text.
Change 200172 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mormegil):
Allow Lua console on protected module pages
Should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.25wmf24, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap for the schedule.