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Create "abusefilter" user group for Vietnamese Wikipedia (vi.wikipedia.org)
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Description

Per community consensus, the Vietnamese Wikipedia community request the following changes to the viwiki config:

  • Create abusefilter user group, with the following rights
    • changetags
    • managechangetags
    • oathauth-enable
    • abusefilter-modify
    • abusefilter-access-protected-vars
  • abusefilter DO NOT HAVE abusefilter-modify-restricted (this will prevent abusefilter editors who are not sysops from performing sensitive actions via abusefilter).
  • sysop will be able to assign abusefilter right to regular users, and will have this right by default.

Event Timeline

Change #1169603 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tryvix1509; author: Tryvix1509):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Create "abusefilter" editor user group for Vietnamese Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1169603

This patch is scheduled to be deployed during the backport window on Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 13:00 UTC.

HideonRosie changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jul 16 2025, 1:13 PM

After discussion and consultation with the local sysop, it was concluded that this is a plot hole in the process – the granted right conflicts with the current WMF criteria for assigning it. Therefore, abusefilter will no longer include the abusefilter-access-protected-vars permission.

Those two aren't totally incompatible, though. See e.g. T380332 (enwiki), T381722 (frwiki), and T397788 (zhwiki).

Those two aren't totally incompatible, though. See e.g. T380332 (enwiki), T381722 (frwiki), and T397788 (zhwiki).

We don’t intend to use user_unnamed_ip in the filters. @Plantaest may be able to provide a more detailed explanation as a local sysop.

This patch is re-scheduled to be deployed during the backport window on Wednesday, July 17, 2025 at 07:00 UTC.

Change #1169603 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Create "abusefilter" editor user group for Vietnamese Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1169603

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-17T13:26:34Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1169603|Create "abusefilter" editor user group for Vietnamese Wikipedia (T399535)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-17T13:28:44Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> lucaswerkmeister-wmde, tryvix1509: Backport for [[gerrit:1169603|Create "abusefilter" editor user group for Vietnamese Wikipedia (T399535)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-07-17T13:39:47Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1169603|Create "abusefilter" editor user group for Vietnamese Wikipedia (T399535)]] (duration: 13m 12s)

This patch is now merged and deployed to the production.