Possibly related to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/293806 ?
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 9:33 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Brian M wrote:
Some people asking around about a new group that appears to have been globally rolled out to WMF wiki's; default name "basic" with only permission "torunblocked" - can anyone point me to this change?
Possibly related from early 2016: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/259062. Specifically: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/259062/9/includes/DefaultSettings.php
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Cross-referencing the on-wiki discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=732017821#footer.
Then new questions arise. What suddenly(?) changed to expose this user group? And why isn't the "highvolume" user group similarly exposed?
MZMcBride
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