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Add user group arbcom to ukwiki
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Ukwiki community has decided to create the user group arbcom. The user group will includes following rights:

  • oathauth-enable
  • ipinfo-view-full
  • checkuser-temporary-account
  • deletedhistory
  • deletedtext
  • abusefilter-log-detail
  • abusefilter-log-private
  • abusefilter-view-private
  • browsearchive

Bureaucrats should be able to grant and remove this user group.

Community discussion: https://w.wiki/ESxu

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Anoop changed the subtype of this task from "Feature Request" to "Task".Jun 11 2025, 10:40 PM
EggRoll97 triaged this task as Low priority.
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The only problem I see here is the checkuser-temporary-account right being assigned to this group. Per https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_configuration_changes that right is exclusively assigned as a stand-alone. Ukwiki admins are of course welcome to assign it to new arbitrators (through the "Temporary account IP viewers" group), though, which would do essentially the same thing, but including it in a group that can be manually assigned without a check for the legal requirements would be a prohibited change. I can, however, proceed with the user group with all other rights requested to be assigned, as nothing appears to prevent any of the remaining rights from being assigned to ArbCom members.

Change #1155945 had a related patch set uploaded (by EggRoll97; author: EggRoll97):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add arbcom group to ukwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1155945

Change #1155945 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add arbcom group to ukwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1155945

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-06-16T20:43:35Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1155945|Add arbcom group to ukwiki (T396668)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-06-16T20:45:30Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> arlolra, eggroll97: Backport for [[gerrit:1155945|Add arbcom group to ukwiki (T396668)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-06-16T20:54:12Z] <arlolra@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1155945|Add arbcom group to ukwiki (T396668)]] (duration: 10m 36s)

Removed ipinfo-view-full as well, as not permissible by IP address access policy (requires administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser/oversight, or global group access), implemented without ip viewing-related rights.