https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights
Some pretty weird (non-default) user groups and user rights here. Example:
Use the VIPS scaling test interface Special:VipsTest (vipsscaler-test)
For all users? Weird. Account creators user group? Really? Weird.
URL: https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59702
I think we should remove most (all?) non-default user groups and user rights from this wiki.
(In reply to comment #1)
I think we should remove most (all?) non-default user groups and user rights
from this wiki.
Yep, adjusting summary.
Currently there is nothing in group ovverrides for loginwiki hence only the default user groups/rights are there. What is the benefit in removing all these groups?
Currently there is nothing in group ovverrides for loginwiki hence only the default user groups/rights are there. What is the benefit in removing all these groups?
Loginwiki isn't a standard wiki, so we can't assume defaults make sense there. A whitelist allows not to worry about defaults.
Most groups there are unneeded, but I think it's also unnecessary to remove them.
The checkuser group is atm used by stewards.
Why are we worrying about this? :) AFAICS, there is no harm in keeping the defaults there. If we remove all unneeded user rights now, then we'd have to worry about updating loginwiki configuration whenever we update the defaults. So while trying to not worry about the defaults by overriding the defaults, we'd have to worry about it every time we update the default configuration.
Declined -- I see no gain in doing this. Let's focus on T61702: Examine which extensions are installed on login.wikimedia.org (loginwiki) and vote.wikimedia.org (votewiki) instead