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Requests for comment/2018 Allow meta admins access to global abuse filter

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The following request for comments is closed. General consensus here is to allow meta sysops to have edit access to global abusefilters. While ‘global business to steward and local business to local admin’ argument is valid, in reality, Spam blacklist, Title blacklist, and Email blacklist, which also affects all Wikimedia wikis, are all editable by Meta sysops. If you want this (filter) to be stewards-only, there should be modification to the rest of stuff as well. — regards, Revi 14:23, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Tracked in phab:T192722. — xaosflux Talk 16:01, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
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This request is to allow meta:administrators access to the (abusefilter-modify-global) permission. This access is currently restricted to stewards.

This will allow meta administrators to move/add/change/delete edit global edit filters hosted on meta that are applied (section: wmgUseGlobalAbuseFilters) primarily to small and medium WMF projects, and those larger wikis that have requested inclusion.

This access is similar to other global access meta administrators have to the global title blacklist, and global spam blacklists applied to all projects.

The existing meta:limited administrator process may be used for volunteers that only will assist in this area.

See also pre-rfc discussion: Babel discussion.
Note: This is a local change, but with global impact.

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