Restrict local uploads at Meta-Wiki
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	MarcoAurelio
	Jun 27 2013, 1:56 PM

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As per community discussion linked in the URL field above I request that the following configuration changes be made:

Please remove the ability perform file uploads to the Autoconfirmed and Confirmed user groups at meta.wikimedia.org. That is, please remove the following userrights from those user groups

'upload'
'reupload'
'reupload-own' (this one is on the "User" usergroup)

Please create a new uploader user group with the following rights:

'upload'
'reupload'
'reupload-own'

Administrators and uploaders should be able to continue to upload files, while regular users not. This is to block the increasing ammount of junk and copyright violations present in Meta (and reduce the existing ones), while allowing certain members of chapters and users with legitimate interests to continue uploading there things which would not belong to Commons' scope. An EDP is in development.

Thanks for your help.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Babel&oldid=5609186#Restrict_or_abolish_local_file_uploading_to_Meta-Wiki

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Reference: bz50287

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 2:10 AM

• bzimport added projects: Wikimedia-Site-requests, Shell.

• bzimport set Reference to bz50287.

MarcoAurelio created this task.Jun 27 2013, 1:56 PM

Should any local groups be able to add/remove users to/from the uploader user group?

Why is this bug marked shellpolicy if there is already community consensus?

(In reply to comment #1)

Should any local groups be able to add/remove users to/from the uploader user
group?

Sorry, I forgot to mention it. Bureaucrats should be. We rely on bureaucrats to assign and remove nearly all userrights at Meta, so for consistency make it assignable and removable for bureaucrats.