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Remove changetags permission for registered users on the Simple English Wikipedia
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A discussion was held to discuss the removal the changetags permission from registered users. It was agreed that the right to edit tags should be removed from normal registered users, as this has been misused several times. Tagging should be left to edit filters.

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Change 930206 had a related patch set uploaded (by Stang; author: Stang):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] simplewiki: Remove "changetags" from registered user

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/930206

Change 930206 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] simplewiki: Remove "changetags" from registered user

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/930206

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-06-14T20:03:54Z] <taavi@deploy1002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:930206|simplewiki: Remove "changetags" from registered user (T339124)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-06-14T20:06:02Z] <taavi@deploy1002> taavi and stang: Backport for [[gerrit:930206|simplewiki: Remove "changetags" from registered user (T339124)]] synced to the testservers: mwdebug2001.codfw.wmnet, mwdebug1001.eqiad.wmnet, mwdebug1002.eqiad.wmnet, mwdebug2002.codfw.wmnet

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-06-14T20:12:49Z] <taavi@deploy1002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:930206|simplewiki: Remove "changetags" from registered user (T339124)]] (duration: 08m 55s)