You already have the 'Transwiki importers' (import from other wikis only) and 'Importers' (import from other wikis and from file upload) groups set up. What you need now is a set group to be able to add/remove people from them.
So, the ndswiki community needs to decide: - Transwiki importers or full importers? - Which group should be able to add/remove people to/from the importer group? (Maybe admins can add and bureaucrats remove?) Then someone will need to create a bug<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia>in the under Site Configuration for a configuration change. The usual process from there is someone writing the actual PHP file change, uploading it for review and eventually a WMF staff member with shell access approving and deploying it. Hope this helps, Krenair On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Marcus Buck <[email protected]> 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 > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
