Requests for comment/Modifying GS Permissions
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I am thinking that GS should have permissions like a steward, except from editing all user rights and merging accounts, as well as renaming accounts. So my proposed new list of permissions is as follows: Block:
- Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
- Block other users from editing (block)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
- Unblock Self (In the case of self inflicted blocks and sysops misuse, although this can be added:
Unless it is a significant sysop misuse, GS are not allowed to unblock oneself.)
Delete:
- Delete pages (delete)
- Mass delete pages (nuke)
- Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
- Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
- Undelete a page (undelete)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
- View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
- Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
- Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)
Protect/Edit:
- Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
- Edit sitewide CSS (editsitecss)
- Edit sitewide JavaScript (editsitejs)
- Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)- Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
Edit the user interface (editinterface)
Reason: GS should be able to make oneself into IA of that wiki during ones duties. Abuse (Edit) Filter:
- Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
- View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
Rollback:
- Auto-review on rollback (autoreviewrestore)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
Move:
- Move pages (move)
- Move files (movefile)
- Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
- Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
Upload:
- Upload files (upload)
- Overwrite existing files (reupload)
- Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
Miscellaneous:
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- Import pages from other wikis (import)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
- Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
- Override the title or username blacklist (tboverride)
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
- Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
- View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
- View the spam blacklist log (spamblacklistlog)
CentralAuth:
- centralauth-lock In this way, locking of extremely disruptive editors can be addressed by a GS, since sometimes no stewards are there. This also enables GS to close RfCs about global bans with consensus.
Can add to and remove: All rights that admins can add and remove, and admins(+ only) Global group editing:
- Global IPBE
- Global 2FA Tester
- Interface admin