Thanks! Where can I find documentation on how to do this? Mike

On 6/8/05, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote: I see that 1.5 has made major changes to the database schema regarding articles, but has it changed in regards to the user table? Would the documentation in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Setting_user_rights_in_MediaWiki no longer be accurate?

Rick DeNatale wrote: Ok, I've made some more changes tonight to clean it up to where it should be in a reasonably working state. Hopefully coherent info follows: The old user_rights field (in 1.4, the ur_rights in the user_rights table) was a comma-delimited list of group names. For instance it might contain "sysop,bureaucrat" or "bot", or just "" for a regular account. In 1.5 these are now each in a row in the user_groups table, which is easier to track and manipulate programmatically. To manually mark an account as a sysop+bureaucrat, look up its user_id number and insert the group assignments like this: INSERT INTO user_groups VALUES (1,'sysop'),(1,'bureaucrat'); The actual permissions conferred to a user in a given group are defined in $wgGroupPermissions. DefaultSettings.php contains a default set (which may slightly change yet before final release), but you could customize these in LocalSettings.php. A sysop+bureaucrat user can use Special:Userrights to set the group assignments of other accounts; this replaces the old Special:Makesysop. Interactions with $wgWhitelistEdit and $wgWhitelistRead are probably not yet totally resolved. For a while in 1.5 alpha code there was use of a groups table with definitions, and the user_rights table was still sort of used, but it was all pretty broken. Those are now no longer used and won't be included in a fresh install. An upgrade from 1.4 or earlier will convert the user_rights info to the new user_groups table when you run the updater (update.php, or via the web installer). If you update an existing 1.5 alpha wiki to the latest code though it'll give up on the broken intermediate tables and just ask you to manually set up your sysops again. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Brion, Any guess as to when 1.5 will be a stable release? -ben On 6/8/05, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:

After applying rule rewrite to get cleaner-looking article URL's, my search no longer works. It appears that the search parameters aren't being passed in. If someone has any ideas on why this broke, I'd appreciate it. Here's my steps to reproduce: 1) I followed the instructions here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url#Using_a_re write_rule_in_a_.htaccess_file 2) My MW 1.4.3 runtime files are stored in a /w directory rather than /wiki, per the article's assumptions 3) The rewrites all worked fine 4) Article search no longer works. The "Search results" page says: For query "" Badly formed search query We could not process your query. This is probably because you have attempted to search for a word fewer than three letters long, which is not yet supported. It could also be that you have mistyped the expression, for example "fish and and scales". Please try another query. This only breaks when I try rule rewrite.

Worked, thanks