2009/2/19 Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com>: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/2/19 Aryeh Gregor: >>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> There may be an easy way, but I can see a rather complicated way: You >>>> create a dummy usergroup which you add people to when you want to >>>> remove their autopromoted rights and then include "NOT a member of the >>>> dummy group" as a condition for autopromotion. >>> Yeah, I thought of that too, but that's unnecessarily complicated UI. >>> Perhaps that logic could be hidden in the software, and >>> Special:UserRights could just display "remove this group" like usual. >> >> That should be possible. It's beyond me, though, I'm afraid. > > Wait!! Do you mean Autopromoted groups are recalculated on each request?
I seem to remember reading that somewhere. I could be wrong... > If the above works, that would be a way to fix the long-awaited bug 4995 > (block from uploading). > Remove upload from user group and autopromote giving upload right to any > user not on the upload-blocked group. > > > *Ok, not too elegant, but after two years and having used worse quirks, > a solution without needing painful schema changes (not even code!) would > be great. Yeah, that should do it. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
