Module:Protection banner

This module creates protection banners and padlock icons that are placed at the top of protected pages.

Usage

Most users will not need to use this module directly. For adding protection templates to pages you can use the {{pp}} template, or you may find it more convenient to use one of the more specific protection templates in the table below.

From wikitext

{{#invoke:Protection banner|main
| 1        = reason
| small    = yes/no
| action   = action
| date     = protection date
| user     = username
| section  = talk page section name
| category = no
}}

The #invoke syntax can be used for creating protection templates more specific than {{pp}}. For example, it is possible to create a protection template which always shows a padlock icon by using the code {{#invoke:Protection banner|main|small=yes}}. Pages which call this template will still be able to use other arguments, like action. However, this only works one level deep; a page calling a template which calls another template containing the above code will not automatically be able to use parameters like action.

Note: You should no longer specify the expiry, as it is automatically retrieved in all cases.

From Lua

First, load the module.

local mProtectionBanner = require('Module:Protection banner')

Then you can make protection banners by using the _main function.

mProtectionBanner._main(args, cfg, titleObj)

args is a table of arguments to pass to the module. For possible keys and values for this table, see the parameters section. The cfg and titleObj variables are intended only for testing; cfg specifies a customised config table to use instead of Module:Protection banner/config, and titleObj specifies a mw.title object to use instead of the current title. args, cfg and titleObj are all optional.

Parameters

All parameters are optional.

• 1 - the reason that the page was protected. If set, this must be one of the values listed in the reasons table.
• small - if set to "yes", "y", "1", or "true", a padlock icon is generated instead of a full protection banner.
• action - the protection action. Must be one of "edit" (for normal protection), "move" (for move-protection) or "autoreview" (for pending changes). The default value is "edit".
• date - the protection date. This must be valid input to the second parameter of the #time parser function. This argument has an effect for reasons that use the PROTECTIONDATE parameter in their configuration. As of July 2014, those were the "office" and "reset" reasons.
• user - the username of the user to generate links for. As of July 2014, this only has an effect when the "usertalk" reason is specified.
• section - the section name of the protected page's talk page where discussion is taking place. This works for most, but not all, values of reason.
• category - categories are suppressed if this is set to "no", "n", "0", or "false".

Reasons

The following table contains the available reasons, plus the actions for which they are available.

Reason	Action	Description
blp	edit	For pages protected to promote compliance with the biographies of living persons policy
dispute	edit	For pages protected due to editing disputes
dmca	edit	For pages protected by the Wikimedia Foundation due to Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests
ecp	edit	For articles in topic areas authorized by ArbCom or meets the criteria for community use
mainpage	edit	For pages protected for being displayed on the Main Page
office	edit	For pages protected by the Wikimedia Foundation
reset	edit	For pages protected by the Wikimedia Foundation and "reset" to a bare-bones version
sock	edit	For pages protected due to sock puppetry
template	edit	For high-risk templates and Lua modules
usertalk	edit	For pages protected against disruptive edits by a particular user
vandalism	edit	For pages protected against vandalism
dispute	move	For pages protected against page moves due to disputes over the page title
vandalism	move	For pages protected against page-move vandalism

Errors

Below is a list of some of the common errors that this module can produce, and how to fix them.

Invalid protection date

This error is produced if you supply an |date= parameter value that is not recognised as a valid date by the #time parser function. If in doubt, you can just use a date in the format "dd Month YYYY", e.g. "25 May 2024". To see a full range of valid inputs, see the #time documentation (only the first parameter, the format string, may be specified).

Invalid action

This error is produced if you specify an invalid protection action. There are only three valid actions: edit (the default, for normal protection), move (for move-protection), and autoreview (for pending changes). This should only be possible if you are using a template that supports manually specifying the protection action, such as {{pp}}, or if you are using #invoke directly. If this is not the case, please leave a message on Module talk:Protection banner.

Reasons cannot contain the pipe character

This error is produced if you specify a reason using the |1= parameter that includes a pipe character ("|"). Please check that you are not entering the {{!}} template into this parameter by mistake. The pipe character is disallowed as the module uses it internally. A list of valid reasons can be seen in the reasons section.

Other errors

If you see an error other than the ones above, it is likely to either be a bug in the module or mistake in the configuration. Please post a message about it at Module talk:Protection banner.

Technical details

This module uses configuration data from Module:Protection banner/config. Most of the module's behaviour can be configured there, making it easily portable across different wikis and different languages.

General test cases for the module can be found at Module:Protection banner/testcases, and test cases specific to enwiki's config can be found at Module:Protection banner/config/testcases.

Bug reports and feature requests should be made on the module's talk page.

---

-- This module implements {{pp-meta}} and its daughter templates such as
-- {{pp-dispute}}, {{pp-vandalism}} and {{pp-sock}}.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Configuration
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

local cfg = {}

cfg.reasons = {
	blp = {
		categoryOrder = 'reason',
		banner = 'blp'
	},
	dispute = {
		categoryOrder = 'reason',
		banner = 'dispute'
	},
	office = {
		categoryOrder = 'reason',
		banner = 'office'
	},
	sock = {
		categoryOrder = 'reason',
		banner = 'sock'
	},
	usertalk = {
		banner = 'usertalk'
	},
	vandalism = {
		categoryOrder = 'namespace',
		banner = 'vandalism'
	}
}

cfg.banners = {
	-- $1 = "until" or "or until" depending on the expiry
	-- $2 = "disputes", with or without a section link
	-- $3 = the type of the page, e.g. "article", "template", or "page"
	-- $4 = A blurb "it has been protected for x years, x months and x days."
	blp = {
		text = 'to promote compliance with'
			.. '[[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons'
			.. "|Wikipedia's policy on the biographies"
			.. ' of living people]]',
		tooltip = 'to promote compliance with the policy on biographies of'
			.. ' living people'
	},
	dispute = {
		text = '$1 editing $2 have been resolved',
		tooltip = 'due to editing disputes',
		dispute = true
	},
	office = {
		text = 'This $3 is currently under the scrutiny of the'
			.. ' [[Wikipedia:Office actions|Wikimedia Foundation Office]]'
			.. ' and is protected. $4'
	},
	sock = {
		text = 'to prevent [[Wikipedia:Sock puppetry|sock puppets]] of'
			.. ' [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked]] or'
			.. ' [[Wikipedia:List of banned users|banned users]]'
			.. ' from editing it',
		tooltip = 'to prevent sock puppets of blocked or banned users from'
			.. ' editing it'
	},
	usertalk = {
		text = '',
		explanation = 'If you cannot edit this user talk page and you need to'
			.. ' make a change or leave a message, you can'
			.. ' [[Wikipedia:Requests for page protection'
			.. '#Current requests for edits to a protected page'
			.. '|request an edit]],'
			.. ' [[Wikipedia:Requests for page protection'
			.. '#Current requests for reduction in protection level'
			.. '|request unprotection]],'
			.. ' [[Special:Userlogin|log in]],'
			.. ' or [[Special:UserLogin/signup|create an account]].'
	},
	vandalism = {
		text = 'due to [[Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalism]]',
		tooltip = 'due to vandalism'
	},
}

cfg.categories = {
	-- The key strings follow this format:
	-- type, level, ns, reason, expiry
	['all-all-all-all-all']                  = 'Wikipedia protected pages',
	['all-all-all-office-all']               = 'Wikipedia Office-protected pages',
	['edit-all-template-all-all']            = 'Wikipedia protected templates',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-all-all-all']       = 'Wikipedia semi-protected pages',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-all-all-indef']     = 'Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-all-blp-all']       = 'Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected biographies of living people',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-all-blp-temp']      = 'Wikipedia temporarily semi-protected biographies of living people',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-all-dispute-all']   = 'Wikipedia pages semi-protected due to dispute',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-all-sock-all']      = 'Wikipedia pages semi-protected from banned users',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-all-vandalism-all'] = 'Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-category-all-all']  = 'Wikipedia semi-protected categories',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-file-all-all']      = 'Semi-protected images',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-portal-all-all']    = 'Semi-protected portals',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-project-all-all']   = 'Semi-protected project pages',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-talk-all-all']      = 'Semi-protected talk pages',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-template-all-all']  = 'Wikipedia semi-protected templates',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-template-all-all']  = 'Wikipedia semi-protected templates',
	['edit-autoconfirmed-user-all-all']      = 'Wikipedia semi-protected user and user talk pages',
	['edit-sysop-all-blp-all']               = 'Wikipedia indefinitely protected biographies of living people',
	['edit-sysop-all-blp-temp']              = 'Wikipedia temporarily protected biographies of living people',
	['edit-sysop-all-dispute-all']           = 'Wikipedia pages protected due to dispute',
	['edit-sysop-all-sock-all']              = 'Wikipedia pages protected from banned users',
	['edit-sysop-all-vandalism-all']         = 'Wikipedia pages protected against vandalism',
	['edit-sysop-category-all-all']          = 'Wikipedia protected categories',
	['edit-sysop-file-all-all']              = 'Protected images',
	['edit-sysop-project-all-all']           = 'Protected project pages',
	['edit-sysop-talk-all-all']              = 'Protected talk pages',
	['edit-sysop-template-all-all']          = 'Wikipedia protected templates',
	['edit-sysop-user-all-all']              = 'Wikipedia protected user and user talk pages',
	['move-sysop-all-all-all']               = 'Wikipedia move-protected pages',
	['move-sysop-all-all-indef']             = 'Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages',
	['move-sysop-all-dispute-all']           = 'Wikipedia pages move-protected due to dispute',
	['move-sysop-all-vandalism-all']         = 'Wikipedia pages move-protected due to vandalism',
	['move-sysop-portal-all-all']            = 'Wikipedia move-protected portals',
	['move-sysop-portal-all-all']            = 'Wikipedia move-protected portals',
	['move-sysop-project-all-all']           = 'Wikipedia move-protected project pages',
	['move-sysop-talk-all-all']              = 'Wikipedia move-protected talk pages',
	['move-sysop-template-all-all']          = 'Wikipedia move-protected templates',
	['move-sysop-user-all-all']              = 'Wikipedia move-protected user and user talk pages',
	['pc-autoconfirmed-all-all-all']         = 'Wikipedia pending changes protected pages (level 1)',
	['pc-reviewer-all-all-all']              = 'Wikipedia pending changes protected pages (level 2)',
}

cfg.categoryNamespaces = {
	[2] = 'user',
	[3] = 'user',
	[4] = 'project',
	[6] = 'file',
	[10] = 'template',
	[12] = 'project',
	[14] = 'category',
	[100] = 'portal',
}

cfg.pagetypeNamespaces = {
	[0] = 'article',
	[6] = 'file',
	[10] = 'template',
	[14] = 'category',
	[828] = 'module',
	default = 'page'
}

--[[
-- Not currently used
local error_categories = {
	incorrect = 'Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates',
	no_expiry = 'Wikipedia protected pages without expiry',
	create = 'Wikipedia pages tagged as create-protected',
	template = 'Wikipedia template-protected pages other than templates and modules'
}
--]]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Main functions
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Initialise necessary modules.
local mArguments = require('Module:Arguments')
local mMessageBox -- only needs to be loaded if we are outputting a banner, so lazily initialise

-- Define often-used functions as local variables.
local tconcat = table.concat
local tinsert = table.insert
local tremove = table.remove
local ceil = math.ceil
local format = string.format

local function toTableEnd(t, pos)
	-- Sends the value at position pos to the end of array t, and shifts the
	-- other items down accordingly.
	return tinsert(t, tremove(t, pos))
end

local p = {}

function p.getPagetype(ns)
	-- Returns a string with the page's type. Takes a namespace number as input.
	local pagetype = pagetypeNamespaces[ns] or pagetypeNamespaces.default
	if not pagetype then
		error('the page type could not be found; please define a name for the key "default"')
	end
	return pagetype
end

function p.matchNamespace(ns)
	-- Matches a namespace number to a string that can be passed to the
	-- namespace parameter of p.getCategoryName.
	if not ns or type(ns) ~= 'number' then
		return nil
	end
	local nskey = cfg.categoryNamespaces[ns]
	if not nskey and ns % 2 == 1 then
			nskey = 'talk'
	end
	return nskey
end

function p.getCategoryName(cats, action, level, namespace, reason, expiry)
	--[[
	-- Gets a category name from the category table, given a combination of
	-- the protection type, the protection level, the namespace number, the
	-- reason for protection, and the expiry date.
	--]]
	cats = cats or cfg.categories

	--[[
	-- Define the properties table. Each property is a table containing the
	-- canonical order that the property is tested in, the position the
	-- property has in the category key strings, and the property value itself.
	--]]
	local properties = {
		expiry = {order = 1, keypos = 5, val = expiry},
		namespace = {order = 2, keypos = 3, val = p.matchNamespace(namespace)},
		reason = {order = 3, keypos = 4, val = reason},
		level = {order = 4, keypos = 2, val = level},
		action = {order = 5, keypos = 1, val = action}
	}

	--[[
	-- Load the category order configuration for the reason specified.
	-- The configuration is stored in the categoryOrder field of each reason
	-- subtable of cfg.reasons. If the value is a table, then the order is the
	-- values specified in the table. If the value is a string, then the
	-- property corresponding to that string is tested last (i.e. it is the most
	-- important, because it keeps its specified value the longest) and the
	-- other properties are tested in the canonical order. If the value is of
	-- any other type then the canonical order is used.
	--]]
	local reasonTable = reason and cfg.reasons[reason]
	local categoryOrder = reasonTable and reasonTable.categoryOrder
	local categoryOrderType = type(categoryOrder)
	local configOrder = {}
	if categoryOrderType == 'table' then
		local dupes = {}
		for i = 1, 5 do
			local propertiesKey = categoryOrder[i]
			if not propertiesKey then
				local msg = 'no entry found for key '
					.. i
					.. ' in the cfg.reasons.'
					.. reason
					.. '.categoryOrder table'
				error(msg)
			end
			local property = properties[propertiesKey]
			if not property then
				local msg = 'invalid value "'
					.. propertiesKey
					.. '" detected in the cfg.reasons.'
					.. reason
					.. '.categoryOrder table'
				error(msg)
			end
			if dupes[propertiesKey] then
				local msg = 'duplicate values "'
					.. propertiesKey
					.. '" detected in the cfg.reasons.'
					.. reason
					.. '.categoryOrder table'
				error(msg)
			else
				dupes[propertiesKey] = true
			end
			configOrder[i] = property
		end
	else
		for propertiesKey, t in pairs(properties) do
			configOrder[t.order] = t
		end
		if categoryOrderType == 'string' then
			local property = properties[categoryOrder]
			if not property then
				local msg = '"'
					.. categoryOrder
					.. '" is not a valid value of cfg.reasons.'
					.. reason
					.. '.categoryOrder'
				error(msg)
			end
			toTableEnd(configOrder, property.order)
		end
	end

	--[[
	-- Define the attempt order. Properties with no value defined are moved
	-- to the end, where they will later be given the value "all". This is
	-- to cut down on the number of table lookups in the cats table, which
	-- grows exponentially with the number of properties with valid values.
	-- We keep track of the number of active properties with the noActive
	-- parameter.
	--]]
	local active, inactive = {}, {}
	for i, t in ipairs(configOrder) do
		if t.val then
			active[#active + 1] = t
		else
			inactive[#inactive + 1] = t
		end
	end
	local noActive = #active
	local attemptOrder = active
	for i, t in ipairs(inactive) do
		attemptOrder[#attemptOrder + 1] = t
	end

	--[[
	-- Check increasingly generic key combinations until we find a match.
	-- If a specific category exists for the combination of properties
	-- we are given, that match will be found first. If not, we keep
	-- trying different key combinations until we match using the key
	-- "all-all-all-all-all".
	--
	-- To generate the keys, we index the property subtables using a
	-- binary matrix with indexes i and j. j is only calculated up to
	-- the number of active properties. For example, if there were three
	-- active properties, the matrix would look like this, with 0
	-- corresponding to the string "all", and 1 corresponding to the
	-- val field in the property table:
	-- 
	--   j 1  2  3
	-- i  
	-- 1   1  1  1
	-- 2   0  1  1
	-- 3   1  0  1
	-- 4   0  0  1
	-- 5   1  1  0
	-- 6   0  1  0
	-- 7   1  0  0
	-- 8   0  0  0
	-- 
	-- Values of j higher than the number of active properties are set
	-- to the string "all".
	--
	-- A key for the category table is constructed for each value of i.
	-- The correct position of the value in the key is determined by the
	-- pos field in the property table.
	--]]
	for i = 1, 2^noActive do
		local key = {}
		for j, t in ipairs(attemptOrder) do
			if j > noActive then
				key[t.keypos] = 'all'
			else
				local quotient = i / 2 ^ (j - 1)
				quotient = ceil(quotient)
				if quotient % 2 == 1 then
					key[t.keypos] = t.val
				else
					key[t.keypos] = 'all'
				end
			end
		end
		key = tconcat(key, '-')
		local attempt = cats[key]
		if attempt then
			return attempt
		end
	end
	error(
		'No category match found;'
		.. ' please define the category for key "all-all-all-all-all"'
	)
end

function p.renderImageLink(image, size, link, text, alt)
	--[[
	-- Renders the image link wikitext All parameters are optional
	-- apart from the display text.
	--
	-- @parameters:
	-- image - the image name
	-- size - the image size, as a number
	-- link - page linked to by the image
	-- text - the tooltip text
	-- alt - the alt text
	--
	-- All parameters are optional apart from the text parameter.
	--]]
	image = image or 'Transparent.gif'
	size = size or 20
	if link then
		link = '|link=' .. link
	else
		link = ''
	end
	text = text or error('No text parameter supplied to p.renderImageLink')
	if alt then
		alt = '|alt=' .. alt
	else
		alt = ''
	end
	return string.format('[[Image:%s|%dpx%s|%s%s]]', image, size, link, text, alt)
end

function p.renderPadlock(image, right)
	--[[
	-- Renders the html of the padlock seen in the top-right-hand corner
	-- of protected pages.
	-- 
	-- @parameters:
	-- image - the image wikitext (required)
	-- right - the "right" css property value, as a string (optional)
	--]]
	image = image or error('No image parameter specified in p.renderPadlock')
	local root = mw.html.create('div')
	root
		:addClass('metadata topicon nopopups')
		:attr('id', 'protected-icon')
		:css{display = 'none', right = right or '55px'}
		:wikitext(image)
	return tostring(root)
end

function p.renderBanner(page, image, text)
	--[[
	-- Renders the large protection banner placed at the top of articles,
	-- using the data provided in the data table.
	-- 
	-- @parameters:
	-- page - demo page parameter to pass to {{mbox}}
	-- image - the image wikitext
	-- text - the text to display
	--
	-- All parameters are optional.
	--]]
	mMessageBox = require('Module:Message box')
	local mbargs = { -- arguments for the message box module
		page = page,
		type = 'protection',
		image = image,
		text = text
	}
	return mMessageBox.main('mbox', mbargs)
end

return p