From 0670b67527502a46e551c48bf1b1911aa2a0668e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tigerfell <43786020+Tigerfell@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:30:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] establish confirmed user's group in public wikis

---
 .../mediawiki/templates/default/LocalSettings.php.erb      | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cookbooks/mediawiki/templates/default/LocalSettings.php.erb b/cookbooks/mediawiki/templates/default/LocalSettings.php.erb
index d425bb7fa..466959c67 100644
--- a/cookbooks/mediawiki/templates/default/LocalSettings.php.erb
+++ b/cookbooks/mediawiki/templates/default/LocalSettings.php.erb
@@ -230,6 +230,13 @@ $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
 $wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/img_auth.php";
 <% end -%>
 
+<% if not(@mediawiki[:private_accounts]) and not(@mediawiki[:private_site]) -%>
+# user group "confirmed" with identical rights as "autoconfirmed", but assigned manually by sysops
+$wgGroupPermissions['confirmed'] = $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed'];
+$wgAddGroups['sysop'][] = 'confirmed';
+$wgRemoveGroups['sysop'][] = 'confirmed';
+<% end -%>
+
 # Allow Subpages on Main Namespace
 $wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_MAIN] = true;
 
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