On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:17 AM, <raymond(a)svn.wikimedia.org> wrote: I think you want $userrights->userCanExecute( $wgUser ). In fact, that's the generic way to check for permissions on special pages, although in all other cases I know of it just falls back to User::isAllowed. The catch is that you'll have to instantiate a SpecialPage object, although you won't actually be visiting the special page. It looks like it should work, from reading the code, although you might want to initialize UserrightsPage::$isself to true rather than false.