Currently the easiest and most common ways of finding who belongs to a global group appear to be broken. I'm not sure if this is 1 issue or multiple so going to walk through a couple different ways to replicate using the 'staff' global group as an example.
A: Try to see list of global users with the staff right by going to Special:GlobalUsers/Staff (such as https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/Staff ).
Expected: List of users who have the global 'staff' flag. (similar to if you go to Special:ListUsers/sysop you get a list of local sysops)
Received: List of users who have the global 'staff' flag and are alphabetically after an invisible User:Staff (The group drop down box is selected as Staff and the 'Display users starting at:' is prefilled with 'Staff'
B: Try to see list of global users with the staff right by:
- Going to Special:GlobalUsers
- Selecting 'Staff' from the drop down box for the 'Group' drop down box
- Press 'go'
(similar to if you go to Special:ListUsers and select 'sysop' from the group drop down and press go you get a list of local sysops).
Expected: List of users who have the global 'staff' flag. (similar to if you go to Special:ListUsers/sysop you get a list of local sysops)
Received: Empty list with url https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=Staff&limit=50 (The group drop down box is reset to the default '(all)' setting and nothing is in the 'Display users starting at:' box.
C: Try to see list of global users with the staff right by viewing the staff global group at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/Staff and clicking 'List of users with Staff rights'.
Expected: List of users who have the global 'staff' flag. (similar to if you go to Special:ListUsers/sysop you get a list of local sysops)
Recieved: See letter A above (redirected to Special:GlobalUsers/Staff )
So far the only work around I've found is to use Special:GlobalUsers?group=Staff for a certain group. (there is no direct link to that that I know of.
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Severity: major