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Add the ability for administrators to add and remove the confirmed user group
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Add the ability for administrators ('sysops') to add and remove the 'confirmed' user group on Wikifunctions.

Community discussion at: https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Project_chat#Add_the_ability_for_administrators_to_add_and_remove_the_confirmed_user_group

Reasoning at discussion:

If anyone were to request the confirmed (Not autoconfirmed) usergroup, there should be no real reason why this is restricted to Bureaucrats as it is at the moment (WF group rights). The ability for admins to complete this is somewhat standard with commons, wikidata and enwiki allowing it, with a notable exception being Meta-Wiki. There is a section available at Requests for user groups#Confirmed to request this, however with a lack of any non Wikifunctions Staff bureaucrats, and Wikifunctions staff wanting to step away from general user group granting, admins and stewards are the only user groups able to grant general user groups for the community.

Event Timeline

Ameisenigel changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Aug 16 2023, 10:58 AM
Terasail changed the task status from Stalled to Open.Aug 31 2023, 11:49 AM

Discussion has been open for 2 weeks, on Wikifunctions:Project chat without objection and with support for the change.

Change 954363 had a related patch set uploaded (by Terasail; author: Terasail):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add 'confirmed' to Wikifunctions sysop add and remove

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/954363

Change 954363 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add 'confirmed' to Wikifunctions sysop add and remove

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/954363

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-09-28T20:18:18Z] <thcipriani@deploy2002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:954363|Add 'confirmed' to Wikifunctions sysop add and remove (T344261)]], [[gerrit:948196|add 'autopatrol' to Wikifunctions' functioneer group (T344085)]], [[gerrit:947495|add autopatrolled group with autopatrol right for Wikifunctions (T343946)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-09-28T20:19:37Z] <thcipriani@deploy2002> mdaniels5757 and thcipriani and terasail: Backport for [[gerrit:954363|Add 'confirmed' to Wikifunctions sysop add and remove (T344261)]], [[gerrit:948196|add 'autopatrol' to Wikifunctions' functioneer group (T344085)]], [[gerrit:947495|add autopatrolled group with autopatrol right for Wikifunctions (T343946)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-09-28T20:28:24Z] <thcipriani@deploy2002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:954363|Add 'confirmed' to Wikifunctions sysop add and remove (T344261)]], [[gerrit:948196|add 'autopatrol' to Wikifunctions' functioneer group (T344085)]], [[gerrit:947495|add autopatrolled group with autopatrol right for Wikifunctions (T343946)]] (duration: 10m 06s)