Module:Effective protection level

local p = {}

-- Returns the permission required to perform a given action on a given title. -- If no title is specified, the title of the page being displayed is used. function p.main(action, pagename) local frame = mw.getCurrentFrame local title if type(pagename) == 'table' then title = pagename pagename = title.prefixedText else title = mw.title.new(pagename) or mw.title.getCurrentTitle end if action ~= 'edit' and action ~= 'move' and action ~= 'create' and action ~= 'upload' then error( 'First parameter must be one of edit, move, create, upload', 2 ) end if title.namespace == 8 then -- MediaWiki namespace return 'sysop' elseif title.namespace == 2 and ( mw.ustring.find( pagename, '/.*%.js$') or mw.ustring.find( pagename, '/.*%.css$') ) then -- user .js or .css page return 'sysop' else local level = frame:callParserFunction('PROTECTIONLEVEL', action, pagename) if level == 'sysop' then return 'sysop' elseif frame:callParserFunction('CASCADINGSOURCES', pagename) ~= '' then -- used by a cascading-protected page return 'sysop' elseif title.namespace == 6 and action == 'move' then -- Special permission is required to move files. Note this breaks the hierarchy, because both templateeditor and filemover are required to move template-protected files. This isn't a real concern currently, since template protection shouldn't be applied to files. return 'filemover' elseif level ~= '' then return level -- If we get this far, the page is unprotected. Figure out what group is needed to perform the action they're trying to do normally, and return that. elseif action == 'upload' or action == 'move' then return 'autoconfirmed' elseif action == 'create' and title.namespace % 2 == 0 and title.namespace ~= 118 then -- You need to be registered, but not autoconfirmed, to create non-talk pages other than drafts return 'user' else return '*' end end end

-- Make this usable from wikitext rather than just other lua modules function p.p(frame) local parent = frame:getParent return p.main(parent.args.action or parent.args[1], parent.args.title or parent.args[2]) end

return p