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Some wikis do not have addgroup/removegroup permission settings
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differenthistorywiki is the second case of a wiki not having any assigned ability to add or remove groups that I have seen tonight. The first being terribletvshowswiki. I think the issue might be more prevalent, and should be dealt with as soon as possible. It may be helpful to let users know that they can deal with it themselves, but I think it would be better to handle it by ourselves.

I wonder if the issue could be caused by the wikis having special user group configuration due to extensions, but that doesn't make sense.

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Void triaged this task as High priority.Sep 12 2018, 04:32
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John edited projects, added MediaWiki; removed ManageWiki.Sep 12 2018, 08:05

It’ll be a database issue not ManageWiki.

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John added a comment.Sep 12 2018, 08:10

Impact can be viewed by

SELECT perm_dbname FROM mw_permissions WHERE perm_group = ‘sysop’ AND perm_addgroups = ‘[]’;

John added a comment.EditedSep 12 2018, 08:15

A newly created wiki doesn’t have the issue. So it seems like the wikis created in the past 2-3 days only have the issue.

So this will be a quick fix by someone with access of just populating the add/removes from the default entries

John closed this task as Resolved.Sep 12 2018, 19:17
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MariaDB [metawiki]> SELECT perm_dbname FROM mw_permissions WHERE perm_group = 'bureaucrat' AND perm_addgroups = '[]';
Empty set (0.06 sec)

Means the case you're describing is no longer the case. Unsure if resolved but all bureaucrats have addgroup values not null