[Foundation-l] Global groups

[Pedro Sanchez]

I think this is available to any sysop:                <====
Also I note the only few actions already requiring higher access

And finally, becuse it's not clear from your previous mail.

NOT EVERY ONE OF THESE BITS IS SET FOR STEWARDS
pretty much only the "sysop" marked ones

== 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    (this = bot)
> *  Search deleted pages               <====
> *  Administrate global accounts     <------- also meta's bureaucrats
> *  Merge their account               <====  (this available to ANY user
> now)
> *  Check user's IP addresses and other information       = This is
> checkuser
> *  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   <---- dev?
> *  Import pages from other wikis
> *  Import pages from a file upload
> *  Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks               <====
> *  Grant and revoke bot flags                  <--------- bureaucrat
> *  Make users into sysops or bureaucrats <--------- bureaucrat
> *  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  <----------- only available at meta, commons and a couple other
> wikis
> *  Override the spoofing checks
> *  View a previously hidden revision     <===== (unless it means oversight(
> *  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  <------------ bureaucrat
> *  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   (not set for stewards as global right(
>

Hope that clears the impressions that stewards suddenly got all mighty and
got a dozen of new powers