after MW upgrade sysops unable to edit MW UI

the new version moved UI-editing rights out of sysop and its own group because large wikis may have too big of a non-techy admin community (thousands). It would be pointless for a small wiki like ours.

diff --git a/cookbooks/mediawiki/templates/default/LocalSettings.php.erb b/cookbooks/mediawiki/templates/default/LocalSettings.php.erb
index e6a0866d2f589bb44ae86eac549d98b07f8a1360..b4b0ab65328c177b6d0ae4bc58d89c4aa6ee91cd 100644 (file)
--- a/cookbooks/mediawiki/templates/default/LocalSettings.php.erb
+++ b/cookbooks/mediawiki/templates/default/LocalSettings.php.erb
@@ -209,6 +209,10 @@ $wgWhitelistRead = array ("Special:Userlogin");
 # Prevent new user registrations except by sysops
 $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
 
+# Since 1.32 MW introduced interface-admin group to separate all UI-related rights. This makes sense for bigger sites,
+# but for OSM it makes more sense to keep group structure simple.  Give all interface-admin rights to sysops.
+$wgGroupPermissions['sysop'] = array_merge($wgGroupPermissions['sysop'], $wgGroupPermissions['interface-admin']);
+
 # Restrict access to the upload directory
 $wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/img_auth.php";
 <% end -%>