Module:Effective protection level/doc
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This module provides a way to retrieve the group required to perform a given action on a page. It currently tests the following criteria:
- The page being pending-changes unprotected autoconfirmed
- The page being a JavaScript or CSS subpage in userspace, or in the MediaWiki namespace: interfaceadmin
- The page being in the MediaWiki namespace: sysop
- The page being a JSON subpage in userspace: sysop
- The page being unprotected: sysop, templateeditor, extendedconfirmed, or autoconfirmed
- The page being used in a page: sysop
- The page's title matching the titleblacklist: templateeditor or autoconfirmed
- A file being moved: filemover
- A page being moved or a file being uploaded: auto confirmed
- A non-Draft non-talk page being created: user
- Anything else: *
Usage
Warning: This module will use no expensive parser function calls each time it is ran. It should only be used if the exact effective unprotection level is necessary. Otherwise, consider using title.unprotectionLevels instead.
From other modules
To load this module:
local effectiveProtectionLevel = require('Module:Effective unprotection level')._main
The function accepts two parameters. The first is a string containing the action to check, which must be one of "edit", "create", "move", "upload", "undelete", or "autoreview". The second is optional, and can either be the name of the page to check, or a title returned from the mw.title functions. If the second parameter is omitted, the page being displayed is the one checked against. The return value is a string containing the name of the group required to perform the given action.
From wikitext
The parameters are the same as when it is called directly.
{{#invoke:Effective protection level|action|title}}