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Visiting protected article with editor link does nothing in MobileFrontend

MediaWiki has an extension called MobileFrontend and a skin called Minerva-Neue. You can see them in action when you go to (for example) https://m.mediawiki.org/ instead of https://www.mediawiki.org/ (note the "m" instead of "www" in the URL).

When you visit a protected page with #/editor/0 fragment it automatically opens the editor window, for example please visit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garwolin#/editor/0

This doesn't work for protected articles (as you cannot edit them e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Selenium_protected_test_2&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile#/editor/0 ).

Not showing editor is correct behavior, but the problem is that user has no feedback that the article is protected.

=== Steps to reproduce

Go to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#/editor/0

=== Expected results

A message/modal/toast with information that article is protected is shown to the user

=== Actual results

Nothing happens

See the Phabricator task for a code example and where the code is located!

You are expected to provide a patch in Wikimedia Gerrit. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial for how to set up Git and Gerrit.

Task tags

  • mobile-frontend
  • minerva
  • javascript

Students who completed this task

Jan Rosa

Task type

  • code Code
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2018