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

Quickest and easiest is to simply get the communities approval for both the rights (point to existing discussion) and the people who are going to have the rights (point to discussion) and ask for a steward (1) to assign the rights. I doubt that you are going to have huge amounts, and someone usually needs to assign rights, so a bugzilla often becomes superfluous with the simpler task of getting the stewards to do it. The right exists, and can be assigned already, just needs telling someone with the capability to do it.

(1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Permissions

Regards, Andrew