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[regression] Editability requirement made deletion of translation pages impossible
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Description

You cannot delete this page because you do not have permission to edit it.

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows/diq&action=delete
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:PageTranslationDeletePage/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows/diq


Only FuzzyBot can edit a translation page directly, but translation admins sysops (pagetranslation + delete) are supposed to be able to delete.

(Spotted by Steinplitter.)


Version: unspecified
Severity: major

Details

Reference
bz69398

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 3:38 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz69398.

Adjusting priority accordingly.

Change 153362 had a related patch set uploaded by Jackmcbarn:
Revert "Do not allow a user to delete a page they can't edit"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/153362

To clarify, the actual moving or deleting is performed by the extension under FuzzyBot's name (using the job queue). [[mw:Special:Log/FuzzyBot]]

Change 153619 had a related patch set uploaded by Jackmcbarn:
Test only against protection for deleting

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/153619

Change 153362 abandoned by Parent5446:
Revert "Do not allow a user to delete a page they can't edit"

Reason:
In favor of Change-Id: I5a7c4147bd241dc086fda6c16827f9554d78599b

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/153362

Change 153619 merged by jenkins-bot:
Test only against protection for deleting

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/153619

This fix will be live on all WMF wikis as of August 28th.