Manual:$wgAutopromote

Access: $wgAutopromote
Conditions of automatic promotion of user to specific groups
Introduced in version:	1.12.0 (r28797)
Removed in version:	still in use
Allowed values:	array
Default value:	$wgAutopromote = array( 'autoconfirmed' => array( '&', array( APCOND_EDITCOUNT, &$wgAutoConfirmCount ), array( APCOND_AGE, &$wgAutoConfirmAge ), ), 'emailconfirmed' => APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED, ); 1.14+ $wgAutopromote = array( 'autoconfirmed' => array( '&', array( APCOND_EDITCOUNT, &$wgAutoConfirmCount ), array( APCOND_AGE, &$wgAutoConfirmAge ), ), );

Other settings: Alphabetical | By Function

Details

This array contains criteria of automatic promotion. The syntax is:

$wgAutopromote = array(
    'groupname' => cond,
    'group2' => cond,
);

cond here may be:

• A single condition
• A set of conditions

The latter has following syntax:

array( 'operand', cond1, cond2, ... );

There are 4 operands available:

• & (AND) — promote if user matches all conditions
• | (OR) — promote if user matches any condition
• ^ (XOR) — promote if user matches only one of two conditions
• ! (NOT) — promote if user matches no conditions.

Condition can be written in two forms:

APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED   # condition with no arguments
array( APCOND_EDITCOUNT, 100 )   # condition with arguments

Possible conditions (extensions may add more through the AutopromoteCondition hook):

• APCOND_EDITCOUNT: minimum number of edits necessary
• APCOND_AGE: minimum number of seconds since registration
• APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED: email address has been confirmed
• APCOND_INGROUPS: list of groups the user must be in
• APCOND_ISIP: user has a specific IP address
• APCOND_IPINRANGE: user is in a specific IP range
• APCOND_AGE_FROM_EDIT: minimum number of seconds since first edit
• APCOND_BLOCKED: account is blocked (added in v1.16: r52083)

Caveats

Autopromotion doesn't actually add users to a group; MediaWiki will check whether a user meets the conditions for autopromotion whenever it checks the user's rights or effective groups. This means that a user will only appear to be in a group on Special:ListUsers if they were added to it through Special:UserRights. It also means you can't directly remove a user from an autopromotion group through Special:UserRights: a workaround is available.