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Bug 33789 - Enable botadmin usergroup on ml.wikipedia

Summary:	Enable botadmin usergroup on ml.wikipedia

Status: RESOLVED FIXED Product: Wikimedia Classification: Unclassified Component: Site requests (Other open bugs) Version: unspecified Hardware: All All Importance: Unprioritized enhancement with 1 vote (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this! URL: Whiteboard: Keywords: shell Depends on: Blocks: 56295   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2012-01-18 18:15 UTC by vssun Modified: 2014-03-11 19:03 UTC (History) CC List: 1 user (show) me.praveen See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description vssun 2012-01-18 18:15:38 UTC Please see the discussion at ml.wikipedia (link given below) on giving temporary adminship for bots to do some repeated admin task for a limited duration. http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%9E%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D_%28%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%82%29#.E0.B4.AC.E0.B5.8B.E0.B4.9F.E0.B5.8D.E0.B4.9F.E0.B4.BF.E0.B4.A8.E0.B5.8D_.E0.B4.A4.E0.B4.BE.E0.B5.BD.E0.B4.95.E0.B5.8D.E0.B4.95.E0.B4.BE.E0.B4.B2.E0.B4.BF.E0.B4.95_.E0.B4.B8.E0.B4.BF.E0.B4.B8.E0.B5.8B.E0.B4.AA.E0.B5.8D.E0.B4.AA.E0.B5.8D Please enable the group in such a way that, bureaucrats can grant and remove this access. Comment 1 vssun 2012-01-19 16:15:01 UTC Also please add option to remove this access by the user (bot) itself, after use. Comment 2 Sam Reed (reedy) 2012-01-19 20:39:28 UTC What rights do you want botadmins to have? Same as admins? Comment 3 vssun 2012-01-20 01:54:20 UTC Exactly Comment 4 Sam Reed (reedy) 2012-01-20 22:01:18 UTC Done