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Bug 16509 - Allow automatic removal of temporary userrights
Allow automatic removal of temporary userrights
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10493
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
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1.14.x
All All
: Normal enhancement with 2 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2008-11-30 20:48 UTC by Matt W.
Modified: 2008-11-30 23:33 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Matt W. 2008-11-30 20:48:50 UTC
I have noticed that a lot of wikis (including some WMF wikis) assign temporary rights. Meaning that somone with the capability to do so assigns a user flags with the intent of removing them after a set period of time. However, some smaller wikis forget to remove the flags or nobody happens to be available to remove the flags, therefore ruining the concept of "temporary rights". What I propose is that a function be added to the MediaWiki core to allow Bureaucrats (or whoever assigns flags on the wiki) to set a specific time which when reached will trigger the automatic removal of rights. I also think a setting should be added (such as $wgTemporaryUserrights or similar) to allow wikis to opt in or opt out of this feature.

Matt W.
Comment 1 Radon210 2008-11-30 20:54:33 UTC
This would probably be a bad idea as it would make the UserRights interface look like the protection interface except with a lot more boxes.  Additionally, it would need to be set to make sure that the user can both add and remove the flag.  Recommend WONTFIX
Comment 2 Filip Maljkovic [Dungodung] 2008-11-30 23:33:50 UTC
Duping to bug 10493

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10493 ***

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