(re-sending, apparently mailman didn't like my previous emails)
Looks like it was this:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/213314
This appears to be an accident. During a migration of configuration code to
a new system, a 'basic' 'GrantPermissions' line was put into the new file
under 'GroupPermissions' instead.
On 29 July 2016 at 02:48, Brian M <xaosfluxwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Possibly related to
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/293806 ?
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 9:33 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Brian M wrote:
Some people asking around about a new group that
appears to have been
globally rolled out to WMF wiki's; default name "basic" with only
permission "torunblocked" - can anyone point me to this change?
Possibly related from early 2016: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/259062
.
Specifically:
<
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/259062/9/includes/DefaultSettings.php
.
Cross-referencing the on-wiki discussion:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=732017821#footer>.
Then new questions arise. What suddenly(?) changed to expose this user
group? And why isn't the "highvolume" user group similarly exposed?
MZMcBride
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