Module:Effective protection level/doc

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This Lua module is used in system messages.
Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Wikipedia user interface.
To avoid major disruption, any changes should be tested in the module's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own module sandbox. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Please discuss changes on the talk page before implementing them.

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 protected: 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 protected: sysop, templateeditor, extendedconfirmed, or autoconfirmed
The page being used in a cascading-protected 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: autoconfirmed
A non-Draft non-talk page being created: user
Anything else: *

Note that if a template-protected file is moved, both filemover and templateeditor are required, but this will return only templateeditor. This is not likely to be changed any time soon, since template protection currently shouldn't be used on files.