Last modified: 2009-03-06 14:50:50 UTC
At the moment bureaucrats have these (extra) technical abilities: * promote other users to administrator or bureaucrat status; * grant and revoke an account's bot status; and * rename user accounts. Why don't bureaucrats have the ability to flag a user as an "Importer" (both transwiki import and upload import)? At the moment this task is performed by stewards.
This should be brought rather to Meta or Wikitech-l. I assume it's because file upload is potentially hazardous and in fact is not necessary for anything except when new wikis are created for transferring them from Incubator or Betawikiversity. I expect this to be either WONTFIXed or INVALIDated, so again suggesting to bring it to one or both places mentioned above.
Until people actually agree to do this, it's invalid.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 17071 ***