Thread:ThePK/@comment--20160502215441

Hey Tucker!

I'm going around Wikia right now trying to look into the small number of custom groups in place across our network. Wikia has been looking into our custom user group sustainability long-term. As Wikia becomes more of a SAAS (Software as a Service)-based architecture versus staying purely within the monolith of MediaWiki, user permissions services become more complex to build and maintain. Custom user groups, because they vary so much, add extreme levels of difficulty to creating a strong user permission service. As such, we've stopped offering new custom groups except in extreme circumstances and begun to explore the possibility of cutting as many custom groups as possible

This community has two custom user groups - Image Control (7 users) and Blogpolice (1 user). I'd like to propose migrating these to the built-in local groups we created. "Content Moderator" should accomplish most everything Image Control does and "Discussions Moderator" should likewise easily cover Blogpolice. Is this something we can accomplish?

Note: I've also posted on Peacexfreedom's wall this same question. Figuring asking both the active bureaucrats at the same time would be better :). Let me know in some way what you two are thinking and any questions I can answer. 