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Remove "userrights" access from En.WP's Founder flag
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Hi,

Please remove the following access from En.WP's founder flag per Jimbo’s request to improve overall site security (ref). Thank you.

  • Edit all user rights (userrights)

As a courtesy, the group should continue to exist (with no permissions assigned to it).

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Urbanecm subscribed.

Verified with Nahid / T&S off-Phab, proceeding. Clarified the description to note the group should continue existing as a courtesy.

Change 908614 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] enwiki: Remove userrights from `founder`

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/908614

Change 908614 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] enwiki: Remove userrights from `founder`

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/908614

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-04-13T20:32:41Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:908614|enwiki: Remove userrights from founder (T334692)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-04-13T20:33:58Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> urbanecm: Backport for [[gerrit:908614|enwiki: Remove userrights from founder (T334692)]] synced to the testservers: mwdebug1001.eqiad.wmnet, mwdebug2001.codfw.wmnet, mwdebug1002.eqiad.wmnet, mwdebug2002.codfw.wmnet

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-04-13T20:38:36Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:908614|enwiki: Remove userrights from founder (T334692)]] (duration: 05m 55s)

This is now deployed.