Once Wikinews is closed custom user groups should be removed from core-Permissions.php after they are depopulated. This is also one step towards T139246: Migrate local group names to WikimediaMessages.
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Related Changes in Gerrit:
| Subject | Author | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remove custom user groups from Wikinews | Zabe | operations/mediawiki-config | master | +0 -39 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Zabe | T423578 Remove custom user groups from Wikinews (in core-Permissions.php) | |||
| Resolved | Ladsgroup | T421796 Close 31 editions of Wikinews on 2026-05-04 (make them read-only) |
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Change #1281491 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zabe; author: Zabe):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove custom user groups from Wikinews
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If a group is already removed from the wiki then it can not be emptied from wiki. We need to run emptyUserGroup.php to empty them. (All user groups, include built-in ones, should be emptied.)
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Change #1281491 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove custom user groups from Wikinews
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-05-11T15:50:51Z] <zabe@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1281491|Remove custom user groups from Wikinews (T423578)]]
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-05-11T15:52:34Z] <zabe@deploy1003> zabe: Backport for [[gerrit:1281491|Remove custom user groups from Wikinews (T423578)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-05-11T15:58:39Z] <zabe@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1281491|Remove custom user groups from Wikinews (T423578)]] (duration: 07m 48s)