[Foundation-l] Global groups

[Pedro Sanchez]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

While the list below may seem impressive, most of them are already available
to sysops

Use higher limits in api queries? yes
edit semiprotected pages? yes
Have own edits marked as patrolled? yes
Block other users from editing? yes
Block a user from sending email? yes

So again,  MOST of these rights are  already available to sysops and they
aren't "NEW" rights.
It's just that they can now be fine-grained controlled (instead of granting
sysop which would grant most here)

Reason I tell you this is because your mail sounds a  bit alarmist as in
"look how many powers we got!"
and truth is, we could already exercise them (by manually +sysop) and also
were being exercised by pretty much any sysop on any wiki

So not much is changed here regarding what stewards can access, just how
easily available are them



> == A1 ==
>
> The list of global permissions are below.
>
> *  Use higher limits in API queries
> *  Edit semi-protected pages
> *  Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
> *  Delete pages with large histories
> *  Block other users from editing
> *  Block a user from sending email
> *  Administer elections
> *  Be treated as an automated process
> *  Search deleted pages
> *  Administrate global accounts
> *  Merge their account
> *  Check user's IP addresses and other information
> *  Create new user accounts
> *  Create pages (which are not discussion pages)
> *  Create discussion pages
> *  Delete pages
> *  View deleted history entries, without their associated text
> *  Edit pages
> *  Edit the user interface
> *  Edit other users' CSS and JS files
> *  Edit membership to global groups
> *  Manage global groups
> *  Review and restore revisions hidden from Sysops
> *  Import pages from other wikis
> *  Import pages from a file upload
> *  Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks
> *  Grant and revoke bot flags
> *  Make users into sysops or bureaucrats
> *  Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits
> *  Mark edits as minor
> *  Move pages
> *  Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt
> *  nuke
> *  Override the spoofing checks
> *  View a previously hidden revision
> *  Mark others' edits as patrolled
> *  Change protection levels and edit protected pages
> *  Bypass automatic blocks of proxies
> *  Purge the site cache for a page without confirmation
> *  Read pages
> *  Rename users
> *  Overwrite an existing file
> *  Override files on the shared media repository locally
> *  Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page
> *  Perform captcha triggering actions without having to go through the
> captcha
> *  Not create a redirect from the old name when moving a page
> *  Override the title blacklist
> *  Submit a trackback
> *  Override the username blacklist
> *  Undelete a page
> *  View a list of unwatched pages
> *  Upload files
> *  Upload a file from a URL address
> *  Edit all user rights
>
> == Links ==
> [1] - Small wiki monitoring team:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_Wiki_Monitoring_Team
> [2] -
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_handbook#Adjusting_global_groups_.26_rights
> [3] - The example is the list of the stewards' permissions:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/steward
>
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