Thread:Project:Support desk/New groups not recognized/reply (6)

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To get the group links to show up, you have to tell MediaWiki what pages to link to. I poked around a little today in the source code and discovered that if you modify the page MediaWiki:Grouppage-(groupname) on your wiki, that MediaWiki will link to that page in the userrights display. Look at MediaWiki:Grouppage-sysop and MediaWiki:Grouppage-bureaucrat on your wiki for the built-in values of Administrators and Bureaucrats links. The link text -- "Administrators", "Bureaucrats" -- is controlled by the value in MediaWiki:Group-(groupname). This is all documented in Manual:User rights -- where it looks like you could have "Engineering" group members described as "engineer" by setting MediaWiki:Group-Engineering-member to "engineer" on your wiki.