Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:56:40 UTC
I installed Wikimedia 1.6.6 recently and tried to create a custom group according to this page : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights#Managing_group_rights Adding a statement such as to LocalSettings.php : $wgGroupPermissions['ninja']['bot'] = true; After replacing the file on my web site and going into Special:Userrights, the new group does not appear. Note : The only change I've carried out is to add the PHPBB User Database Plugin.
Adding custom groups via the usual manner works for me under both SVN trunk and 1.6 branch, so I'm closing this WORKSFORME. I suspect the plugin is interfering.
Ok, you're probably right. Thanks for taking the trouble and sorry for the bother. Anyway, what the plugin does is use the user's table, and more specifically a user group, in a phpBB database to control authorisation to the wiki.
Here is a link to that plugin : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PHPBB/Users_Integration