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Remove rights to promote and demote bureaucrats and admins from Wikifunctions staff
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As the community is now capable of dealing with these rights themselves, let's remove the rights to promote and demote bureaucrats and admins from the Wikifunctions staff role.

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Once this is done, we can also close T343748

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Once this is done, we can also close T343748

This task is a subtask of T343748 since it only covers the first point of that (remove ability to grant/remove Administrators, Bureaucrats to/from any user).

Change #1041659 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [wikifunctionswiki] Remove right to promote/demote sysops and bureaucrats from staff

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1041659

Change #1041659 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [wikifunctionswiki] Remove right to promote/demote sysops and bureaucrats from staff

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1041659

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-17T20:01:57Z] <jforrester@deploy1002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1041659|[wikifunctionswiki] Remove right to promote/demote sysops and bureaucrats from staff (T365627)]], [[gerrit:1039767|Add a note that you cannot change wgCategoryCollation easily (T362494 T366809)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-17T20:06:59Z] <jforrester@deploy1002> jforrester: Backport for [[gerrit:1041659|[wikifunctionswiki] Remove right to promote/demote sysops and bureaucrats from staff (T365627)]], [[gerrit:1039767|Add a note that you cannot change wgCategoryCollation easily (T362494 T366809)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)