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Remove sfsblock-bypass from ipblock-exempt group
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The StopForumSpam extension was undeployed in T422185. However the sfsblock-bypass user right is still in the ipblock-exempt groups on all Wikimedia wikis, so it should be removed.

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codenamenoreste triaged this task as High priority.
codenamenoreste moved this task from Backlog to Working on on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.
codenamenoreste changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Mon, Jun 1, 1:21 PM

Change #1295918 had a related patch set uploaded (by Codename Noreste; author: Codename Noreste):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove sfsblock-bypass from the IP block exemption user group on all wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1295918

Change #1295918 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove sfsblock-bypass from the IP block exemption user group on all wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1295918

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-01T13:58:53Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1295918|Remove sfsblock-bypass from the IP block exemption user group on all wikis (T427745)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-01T14:03:39Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> lucaswerkmeister-wmde, codenamenoreste: Backport for [[gerrit:1295918|Remove sfsblock-bypass from the IP block exemption user group on all wikis (T427745)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-01T14:09:59Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1295918|Remove sfsblock-bypass from the IP block exemption user group on all wikis (T427745)]] (duration: 11m 06s)

The non-existent right was removed. Done.