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Creation of a translator user group on tawikipedia
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In accordance with the consensus of the Tamil Wikipedia community, I would like to propose the creation of a new user group named "Translator". This group would have only the basic rights necessary to use the Content Translation tool. A separate group is required to manage and streamline access to this tool effectively.

It is also recommended that administrators be granted the authority to assign or revoke this permission as needed.

Note:Even though administrators are also required to request this right, all users are eligible to obtain permission to use this tool.

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@SridharG So do you want that only user with translator flag (even if sysops) can use the ContentTranslation tools?

Yes, the community believe it would be best if access to the Content Translation tools is limited to users with the translator flag, regardless of whether they are sysops

Change #1134394 had a related patch set uploaded (by Superpes15; author: Superpes15):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [tawiki] Enable translator usergroup and only allows translator to use ContentTranslation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1134394

Change #1134394 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [tawiki] Enable translator usergroup and only allows translator to use ContentTranslation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1134394

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-04-07T09:39:08Z] <daniel@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1031963|[pswiki] Change the logo and wordmark/tagline (T360851)]], [[gerrit:1134394|[tawiki] Enable translator usergroup and only allows translator to use ContentTranslation (T391171)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-04-07T09:44:24Z] <daniel@deploy1003> superpes, daniel: Backport for [[gerrit:1031963|[pswiki] Change the logo and wordmark/tagline (T360851)]], [[gerrit:1134394|[tawiki] Enable translator usergroup and only allows translator to use ContentTranslation (T391171)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-04-07T09:57:40Z] <daniel@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1031963|[pswiki] Change the logo and wordmark/tagline (T360851)]], [[gerrit:1134394|[tawiki] Enable translator usergroup and only allows translator to use ContentTranslation (T391171)]] (duration: 18m 31s)

Done!

@Bugreporter Yep, you're right, thanks for pointing it out! I already made a patch as part of the other task :)