On Portuguese wikis, users/bots may have the eliminator flag and not sysop flag, to perform deletions.
Page.delete requires a sysop account.
Workaround is to use:
site.deletepage(page, u'reason', as_group='user')
Version: core-(2.0)
Severity: normal
See Also:
T57296: Wikia Helper and Staff rights
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Huji | T75545 Support Portuguese wiki flag 'eliminator' | |||
| Resolved | Huji | T71283 dualism between user and sysop needs to be overtaken | |||
| Resolved | BUG REPORT | Huji | T229293 invalid CSRF token error shown with each block | ||
| Resolved | BUG REPORT | Xqt | T233577 sysopnames are still required for tests | ||
| Resolved | Xqt | T245851 Run a CI test using sysop account | |||
| Resolved | BUG REPORT | Huji | T241879 Can't remove broken redirects without "sysopnames" defined | ||
| Resolved | Xqt | T243906 TestDeprecatedAttributes.test_lastrevid fails with AssertionError | |||
| Invalid | None | T242552 Update manuals - remove sysopnames references | |||
| Resolved | Feature | Xqt | T324000 Password from cookies is lost when a user changes |
A possible workaround is to add put the eliminator username in user-config's sysopnames
Change 209503 had a related patch set uploaded (by John Vandenberg):
Replace @must_be with @need_right
Why not use action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights to find out if the current bot user has the delete user right?
EDIT: already covered in T71283
I guess we should but this will be a big change. We should have a tracking task to coordinate the needed several steps.
Change 531589 had a related patch set uploaded (by Huji; owner: Huji):
[pywikibot/core@master] Check a user's rights before checking its group memberships
Change 531589 merged by jenkins-bot:
[pywikibot/core@master] Check a user's rights before checking its group memberships
Change 209503 abandoned by Xqt:
[WIP] Replace @must_be with @need_right
Reason:
In favour of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/pywikibot/core/ /565624/ and due to very outdated base