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Remove autoconfirmed check
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Going back on our (my) previous decision, this really isn't necessary and will be needlessly convoluted with global login.

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So, I found an appropriate way to get this info with APIs with no additional authorization

If we do decide to bring this back, we can

  1. slightly modify an api call we're already making to get info about merged accounts (basically free)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=globaluserinfo&guiuser=Samwalton9&guiprop=editcount|merged

  1. make a followup call against either the listed home wiki, or the wiki with the highest editcount and check for autoconfirmed there (slight cost)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=Samwalton9&usprop=blockinfo|groups|editcount|registration

autoconfirm check removed in the latest global userid branch, which is deployed to staging.

which is now on prod.