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Merge "uploader" group into "autoconfirmed" and "confirmed" groups in Fawiki
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Based on this consensus in Persian Wikipedia, merging the uploader group into the confirmed and autoconfirmed is requested. The group has been added back in 2008 after the group was added to English Wikipedia, but wasn't removed in 2009 once English Wikipedia removed it.
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User rights do not necessarily be tied to enwiki ;). But okay, going to process.

To confirm, does this request mean to allow all autoconfirmed to upload?

Change 505228 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Urbanecm):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove uploader user group from fawiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/505228

User rights do not necessarily be tied to enwiki ;). But okay, going to process.

The general reason for this proposal was removing redundancy and further improve user experience. (personally, I don't think that this right needs a separate log entry or a notification to the user, it's pretty useless to begin with :))

To confirm, does this request mean to allow all autoconfirmed to upload?

Yes, since the new blocking system allows for namespace-specific blocks - so taking away the uploader right isn't the only option if someone abused upload right -, there isn't a reason why autoconfirmed shouldn't be able to upload.

Change 505228 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove uploader user group from fawiki and merge it with autoconfirmed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/505228

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-05-29T11:43:28Z] <urbanecm@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: [[:gerrit:505228|Remove uploader user group from fawiki and merge it with autoconfirmed]], part 1 (T221441) (duration: 00m 55s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-05-29T11:44:52Z] <urbanecm@deploy1001> Synchronized dblists/commonsuploads.dblist: [[:gerrit:505228|Remove uploader user group from fawiki and merge it with autoconfirmed]], part 2 (T221441) (duration: 00m 55s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-05-29T11:45:43Z] <Urbanecm> Started mwscript emptyUserGroup.php --wiki=fawiki 'uploader' (T221441)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-05-29T13:12:49Z] <Urbanecm> mwscript emptyUserGroup.php --wiki=fawiki 'uploader' finished (T221441)

Deployed&removed all users from uploader group.