[Foundation-l] Global groups

[Milos Rancic]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the addition! Of course, I didn't intend to make an alarm.

And thanks for the detailed information from the next email.