You already have the 'Transwiki importers' (import from other wikis only) and 'Importers' (import from other wikis and from file upload) groups set up. What you need now is a set group to be able to add/remove people from them.

So, the ndswiki community needs to decide:

- Transwiki importers or full importers? - Which group should be able to add/remove people to/from the importer group? (Maybe admins can add and bureaucrats remove?)

Then someone will need to create a bughttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimediain the under Site Configuration for a configuration change. The usual process from there is someone writing the actual PHP file change, uploading it for review and eventually a WMF staff member with shell access approving and deploying it.

Hope this helps, Krenair

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Marcus Buck wiki@marcusbuck.org wrote:

Hello, On Wikipedia the right to import articles via Special:Import is bound to the user group 'administrator' by default.

On nds.wp we discussed that it would be useful for us if we could give import rights to some trusted users without giving them admin rights. It would be unnecessary overhead if these users have to contact an admin every time they want to translate an article from another wiki.

Could you give me some technical advice how we could do this and how much effort it is? What would be the easiest way to achieve this and what exactly would I have to request on Bugzilla to get the functionality?

There seems to be the user group ''importer' but apparently it has additional rights to the import rights of an admin and cannot be used to achieve what we want, am I right? So I guess we need to create a new separate user group?

Thank You User:Slomox Marcus Buck

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