This task was supposed to be opened on October 29, 2024, but since Plantaest completely forgot (and so did I), it’s only being opened now.
Per local consensus on WP:AN (TNCBQV), there is no reason for regular users to have; on the contrary, they even use it to vandalism. Therefore, the community has agreed to restrict it to sysops and bots.
Change #1118497 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dragoniez; author: Dragoniez):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] viwiki: Restrict the "changetags" permission to the sysop and bot groups
Change #1118497 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] viwiki: Restrict the "changetags" permission to the sysop and bot groups
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-12T14:18:44Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1118497|viwiki: Restrict the "changetags" permission to the sysop and bot groups (T385960)]], [[gerrit:1118541|beta: fix typo in GEApiQueryGrowthTasksLookaheadSize variable]]
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-12T14:21:44Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy2002> lucaswerkmeister-wmde, dragoniez, sgimeno: Backport for [[gerrit:1118497|viwiki: Restrict the "changetags" permission to the sysop and bot groups (T385960)]], [[gerrit:1118541|beta: fix typo in GEApiQueryGrowthTasksLookaheadSize variable]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-12T14:29:44Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1118497|viwiki: Restrict the "changetags" permission to the sysop and bot groups (T385960)]], [[gerrit:1118541|beta: fix typo in GEApiQueryGrowthTasksLookaheadSize variable]] (duration: 10m 59s)