It is fairly easy to create a new user group with just that one right.

On Sunday, October 7, 2012, Marcus Buck wrote:

> Hello,
> On Wikipedia the right to import articles via Special:Import is bound to
> the user group 'administrator' by default.
>
> On nds.wp we discussed that it would be useful for us if we could give
> import rights to some trusted users without giving them admin rights. It
> would be unnecessary overhead if these users have to contact an admin every
> time they want to translate an article from another wiki.
>
> Could you give me some technical advice how we could do this and how much
> effort it is? What would be the easiest way to achieve this and what
> exactly would I have to request on Bugzilla to get the functionality?
>
> There seems to be the user group ''importer' but apparently it has
> additional rights to the import rights of an admin and cannot be used to
> achieve what we want, am I right? So I guess we need to create a new
> separate user group?
>
> Thank You
> User:Slomox
> Marcus Buck
>
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