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Allow Meta Checkusers/Bureaucrats to grant & revoke IPBlockExempt status
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Author: herbythyme

Description:
This is simply a request for creating IPBlockExempt status on Meta and allowing project CheckUsers the ability to grant & revoke that status.

As with the request for Commons (still sadly unfulfilled) this will allow far better control of vandal IP ranges which have valid users on. There are a number of active cross wiki vandals currently whose IP ranges are known but where rangeblocks cannot be placed without collateral damage.

As this is already available on en wp it would be good if this could be dealt with as soon as possible.

Thanks


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Babel&oldid=1072187#New_.22right.22_required_-_IPblock_exempt

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Reference
bz14733

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:09 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz14733.
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mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

Commons' request is bug 14507

bugs wrote:

(added 'crats too per later clarification)

lilewyn wrote:

on-Wiki consensus favors the creation of this group:


Group rights assignment for bureaucrats:
Was:
$wgAddGroups['bureaucrat'] = array( 'bot', 'sysop', 'bureaucrat');
$wgRemoveGroups['bureaucrat'] = array( 'bot', 'sysop', 'bureaucrat');

Requested:
$wgAddGroups['bureaucrat'] = array( 'ipblock-exempt', 'bot', 'sysop', 'bureaucrat');
$wgRemoveGroups['bureaucrat'] = array( 'ipblock-exempt', 'bot', 'sysop', 'bureaucrat');


Group rights assignment for checkusers:
Was: (none)

Requested:
$wgAddGroups['checkuser'] = array( 'ipblock-exempt' );
$wgRemoveGroups['checkuser'] = array( 'ipblock-exempt' );


New group request:
$wgGroupPermissions['ipblock-exempt']['ipblock-exempt'] = true;

Thank you.

It is misconfigured. From Special:ListGroupRights

Bureaucrats

  1. Can add groups: Bots, Sysops and Bureaucrats
  2. Can remove groups: Bots, Sysops, Bureaucrats and IP block exemptions

CheckUsers

  1. Can remove group: IP block exemptions

jeluf wrote:

there were two lines for wgAddGroups, the later was overwritting the new settings.

Fixed.