Pages and subpages in the MediaWiki namespace are fully protected by default and admins can't change the protection level, so, please remove the MediaWiki namespace as an option in the namespace dropdown menu in [[Special:Protectedpages]]. It is meaningless.
Version: 1.11.x
Severity: enhancement
le.korrigan wrote:
The namespace "MediaWiki_talk" has been excluded from the namespace selector as well, but as far as I know these pages can be protected/unprotected like any page. Shouldn't they be available in the namespace selector?
Yes, skipping MediaWiki_talk is wrong.
Instead of passing a list of namespace to skip, imho there should be some is_namespace_protectable() (similar to title.php:isNamespaceProtected()), to be used in SpecialProtectedpages.php (make the fourth evil parameter a function pointer?), skintemplate.php:buildContentActionUrls(), OutputPage.php:readOnlyPage()?, protectionform.php:show()...
This whole thing seems like a really bad idea, and I recommend reverting it.
It's perfectly possible to add additional protection onto a MediaWiki: namespace page, for instance a higher-than-'editinterface' level or some cascading protection.