It took me a long time to figure out what the Node - Administer Content (internally known as administer-nodes) permission was for. Documentation for it elsewhere is scarce and IMHO the title (which we can't change now, clearly) is misleading.
The description (after the usual "trusted role"' warning) reads:
Promote, change ownership, edit revisions, and perform other tasks across all content types.
To me, the title "Administer Content" implies full edit permissions, but that's not the case, e.g.:
From my testing and checking the source code, it seems, providing I already have permission to edit a content type (without this you can't do anything), Administer Content gives me the Author (uid, created) and Promotion (promoted, sticky) panels on the edit screen, plus the Revisions tab.
NB: we still refer to "administer nodes" rather than "administer content" in a few places ("Role requires" text in other permissions) - I've submitted a separate patch to fix this.
Can we:
Current suggested new text:
Warning: Give to trusted roles only; this permission has security implications. Change ownership, date/time, promote or make sticky and edit past revisions for content in all content types. Does not include view, edit or delete.
Agree wording. Write patch.
New description on /admin/people/permissions.
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Needs work
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Makes Drupal easier to use. Preferred over UX, D7UX, etc.
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After reading the current description in Drupal 11 I still didn't understand completely what the "administer nodes" permission does. After examining \Drupal\node\NodeAccessControlHandler::checkFieldAccess i did. It still felt strange to me that this is single permission covers all node types. Shouldn't it be split in a permission per node type as is done for the view/edit/etc permissions?