I would try adding user_groups to the shared tables, and set specific
groups for each language/project that needs local powers, and give that
global group the equivalent of the current groups

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Adam Hubble <[email protected]> wrote:

> John,
>
> I've gone through the $wgSharedDB information. The database is set to be
> shared, as well as the user and user_properties tables. However,
> user_groups is not shared, and adding the appropriate records to the
> language specific user_groups table does not seem to be enough. I appear in
> the Special:UserRightsList page for the appropriate group (however, the
> listing of my name does not include the bureaucrat and sysop like it does
> for other people, or for myself in the English wiki) so I feel I have
> missed something in the process.
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:44 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > If all your user accounts are stored in a global table see
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSharedDB
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Adam Hubble <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > > I've recently been given control of a wiki which I believe is set up
> as a
> > > wiki family for different languages. The default wiki can be found at
> > > http://wiki.magicjudges.org/en/w (and other languages are
> > > http://wiki.magicjudges.org/XX/w, with XX being various language
> codes).
> > >
> > > I am both bureaucrat and sysop on the English wiki (and see the
> > appropriate
> > > entries in en_user_groups table). We have a shared database, but from
> > what
> > > I can tell not shared tables for most things, as there are tables with
> > > every language prefix. The language specific user tables only have the
> > > SysOp user in. The language specific user_groups table has the groups
> for
> > > the SysOp, WikiOp, and two previous wiki admins.
> > >
> > > What I am trying to work out is how to make group permissions apply to
> > all
> > > the wikis in the family. I have manually added rows to a language
> > specific
> > > user_groups table (in this case, cs_user_groups), but when I access the
> > > http://wiki.magicjudges.org/cs/w/Special:UserRights, I am being told I
> > > don't have permissions (like it's just seeing me as a normal user).
> > >
> > > What am I missing beyond adding these group permissions in the
> user_group
> > > table for each language?
> > > I am running MediaWiki 1.24.1, PHP 5.6.14 (php-fpm), and MariaDB
> 5.5.41.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any help or guidance that can be provided.
> > > -Adam
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