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Requested wiki configuration change: remove changetags right from users on wikidatawiki
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On Wikidata, we want to remove the changetags right from most users, and only give it to sysops, so that ordinary users cannot add and remove tags on arbitrary edits or log actions. Users should keep the applychangetags right, which will allow them to add tags on their own edits and log actions as they are made. Well-written user scripts and gadgets should use the tags parameter to the various APIs (T229917), rather than adding tags with action=tag separately, which means that the ability to modify tags after the fact is mainly abused for vandalism (typical example).

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We discussed it off-ticket but for posterity: Good to go from my side.

Change 771691 had a related patch set uploaded (by Lucas Werkmeister; author: Lucas Werkmeister):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove changetags right from users on wikidatawiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/771691

Change 771691 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove changetags right from users on wikidatawiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/771691

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-03-21T13:11:20Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Config: [[gerrit:771691|Remove changetags right from users on wikidatawiki and testwikidatawiki (T303682)]] (while keeping applychangetags right) (duration: 00m 49s)

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Should be done; usergroups API output looks good to me. Please let me know if any issues come up.