danny.leinad wrote:

In WMF projects removing rights is restricted to stewards and developers. IMO This request cannot be processed.

(In reply to comment #1)

In WMF projects removing rights is restricted to stewards and developers. IMO
This request cannot be processed.

Its restricted to stewards for obscure historical reasons. Several projects already do this.

For Rob:
This would change
'+simplewiki' => array(

'bureaucrat' => array( 'bot', 'rollbacker', 'flood', ),
'sysop' => array( 'rollbacker', 'ipblock-exempt' ),

),

to

'+simplewiki' => array(

'bureaucrat' => array( 'bot', 'rollbacker', 'flood', 'sysop', 'bureaucrat' ),
'sysop' => array( 'rollbacker', 'ipblock-exempt' ),

),

in the wgRemoveGroups array

bugs wrote:

*** Bug 20410 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

bugs wrote:

Summary: "Give bureaucrats the ability to remove sysop and bureaucrat rights at simplewiki" => "Give bureaucrats the ability to remove sysop rights at simplewiki"

URL: http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Simple_talk&oldid=1705420#Additions_of_user_rights_.28-sysop.29

(Based off community consensus found in the link.)

(In reply to comment #2)

For Rob:
This would change
'+simplewiki' => array(

'bureaucrat' => array( 'bot', 'rollbacker', 'flood', ),
'sysop' => array( 'rollbacker', 'ipblock-exempt' ),

),

to

'+simplewiki' => array(

'bureaucrat' => array( 'bot', 'rollbacker', 'flood', 'sysop'

),

'sysop' => array( 'rollbacker', 'ipblock-exempt' ),

),

in the wgRemoveGroups array

Updated. ^

Per the above request, the change is now live to allow 'crats to remove sysop rights from accounts on simplewiki. This is removal only, not add. This is now live on the project.

Juliancolton2 wrote:

"This is removal only, not add." - Bureaucrats should still be able to add +sysop, if that's what you mean?

(In reply to comment #6)

"This is removal only, not add." - Bureaucrats should still be able to add
+sysop, if that's what you mean?

Not sure what he meant there. Anyways, http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights :

Bureaucrats:

1. Add groups: Administrators, Bureaucrats, Bots and Rollbackers
2. Remove groups: Bots, Flooders, Rollbackers and Administrators

So seems to all set.