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sumit kumar
sumit kumar

Reputation: 652

Adding custom permissions to MediaWiki user via user group

I am using mediawiki 1.21.2, I have to create a custom group with limited permissions . in my LocalSettings.php i have done like this 

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ]['move']           = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ]['read']           = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ]['edit']           = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ]['createpage']     = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ]['createtalk']      = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ]['upload']          = true;

but how to add a user to this group 'sysop', i am unable to see this group in special page 'User rights management' even after login with 'bureaucrat' user.

can anybody help me..?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1332

Answers (2)

Ilmari Karonen
Ilmari Karonen

Reputation: 50368

Note that the user group sysop is not a custom group — it's the standard user group for MediaWiki admins, and it is listed as "administrator" in Special:UserRights (assuming that your wiki is in English, and that you haven't customized the label by editing the page MediaWiki:group-sysop-member).

I believe the disparity between the internal and the user-visible name of the group is due to historical reasons: users in the group were originally called sysops, before it was later decided that the term "administrator" would be more easily understood and would better reflect their actual role on a typical wiki.

Anyway, if you want to create a new, custom user group, you need to choose an internal ID for it which is not one of the standard ones (*, user, autoconfirmed, bot, sysop or bureaucrat). Technically, the user-visible name of the group can be anything, even the same as the name of some other group. To change the user-visible name of the group, you need to edit three MediaWiki pages on your wiki, named as follows (where "ID" stands for the internal ID of your group):

  • MediaWiki:group-ID — the name of the group as a whole, e.g. "Administrators",
  • MediaWiki:group-ID-member — a name describing a single member of the group, e.g. "administrator", and
  • MediaWiki:grouppage-ID — the name of a page on your wiki describing the group's role, e.g. "Project:Administrators".

Upvotes: 0

Dereckson
Dereckson

Reputation: 1421

The configuration is indeed on wiki.

  1. You go to the user on the wiki. For example https://wiki.domain.tld/wiki/User:SomeUser
  2. There is a User rights management in the left link menu
  3. This links drive you to the https://wiki.domain.tld/wiki/Special:UserRights/SomeUser special page, where you can add him to a group.

Who can add or remove people to which groups can also be customized by the wgAddGroups and wgRemoveGroups settings.

Relevant links

Upvotes: 3

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