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Add abusefilter-revert to English Wikibooks administrators, and allow them to grant and remove the accountcreator and confirmed user groups
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Per consensus at the reading room (which was running for almost 2 weeks), there seems to be no objection on implementing the following requests:

  • Allow administrators to grant and remove the accountcreator and confirmed user groups; typically, bureaucrats can do these, but the English Wikibooks does not have any local bureaucrats at this time.
  • Add the abusefilter-revert user right to the administrator toolset, which allows the reversion of all actions made by an abuse filter, as noted per JJPMaster's comment.

Event Timeline

Superpes15 changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Dec 5 2025, 2:56 PM
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Superpes15 moved this task from Backlog to Working on on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.

Change #1215625 had a related patch set uploaded (by Superpes15; author: Superpes15):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [enwikibooks] Allow sysops to revert abusefilter and grant/revoke confirmed and accountcreator flags

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1215625

Change #1215625 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [enwikibooks] Allow sysops to revert abusefilter and grant/revoke some flags

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1215625

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-09T21:18:45Z] <catrope@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1215262|[ukwiki] Limit thanks for newbies to 3 per hour (T411588)]], [[gerrit:1215625|[enwikibooks] Allow sysops to revert abusefilter and grant/revoke some flags (T411828)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-09T21:21:03Z] <catrope@deploy2002> superpes, catrope: Backport for [[gerrit:1215262|[ukwiki] Limit thanks for newbies to 3 per hour (T411588)]], [[gerrit:1215625|[enwikibooks] Allow sysops to revert abusefilter and grant/revoke some flags (T411828)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-09T21:26:41Z] <catrope@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1215262|[ukwiki] Limit thanks for newbies to 3 per hour (T411588)]], [[gerrit:1215625|[enwikibooks] Allow sysops to revert abusefilter and grant/revoke some flags (T411828)]] (duration: 07m 56s)

Superpes15 moved this task from Working on to Backlog on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.

Done (thanks Catrope since I wasn't able to connect to IRC at the time of the deploy)!