Last modified: 2008-05-11 14:37:02 UTC
To allow easy reverting vandalism, spam for SWMT etc, please create some way of giving users +rollback globally. I assume this would require the user to have a global account so you know it's the same person everywhere -- you'd set the right once (User:Mike@global gets +rollbacker) and the user would have that right everywhere -- when logging in on a wiki where the user didn't exist, the account would be created with +rollbacker.
Global groups are something I've been thinking of for a long time, and this sounds like an excellent use for it.
I've begun doing some work on it recently
Discussed assignment of this bug with VasilievVV, agreed that I'll work on it. I'm thinking of using this as a pilot for storing $wgGroupPermissions in the database. List of global groups, and eventually local groups will be listed in the database.
Created attachment 4835 [details] Proposed patch for adding global groups
Just attached draft patch. I've already had Nikerabbit and VasilievVV look over it, so it's reasonable (and seems to work somewhat :-)). Screenshot at [[mw:Image:Global Groups Management.png]].
Correct link to screenshot is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Image:Global_Group_Management.png.
Created attachment 4837 [details] Patch for SpecialGlobaUsers.php Adding patch which adds the same functions for Special:GlobalUsers: group membership rendering, filter by username and group
Created attachment 4838 [details] Patch for SpecialGlobaUsers.php Adding patch which adds the same functions for Special:GlobalUsers: group membership rendering, filter by username and group
Created attachment 4839 [details] File to populate table with existing stewards Here's script which populates global_user_groups with local stewards
Wow, thanks, VasilievVV! When I apply the patch, I will change the log page title for rights changes to Special:GlobalUsers/group rather than Special:ListUsers/group
Enabled on Wikimedia.
When will the rights be given to stewards? since they have been added in the Group section >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/steward
Werdna is bugging Brion to do that. If you like, you can open a new bug.
