On Jun 5, 2013 12:00 AM, "Tyler Romeo" <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm sure you did, but it's kind of useless if nobody provides an
explanation. Do you really expect me to just accept that "some WMF
engineers somewhere decided it was best"?
Your original message seemed to me to assume we were all careless and
didn't even consider it.
There's a difference between the permissions
interface in the actual API
and the permissions interface in the UI. A bot may ask for
"read|writeapi|edit|createpage|createtalk", but the UI will only show the
user "Create and edit pages", because all users can read so there's no
point in asking, writeapi is an implied permissions needed for edit, and
createpage and createtalk are two sides of the same coin. In other words,
In other words, you'd rather have us implement another rights grouping
system in addition to the existing groups system. Which seems to me to be
just as complex, and less flexible unless we add otherwise-useless rights
like "editmyuserjs".