@Tenbergen: Can you paste your user group config for your wiki here so that we can try to reproduce?

Are you talking about a section of the local settings?

• Original message --------From: kaldari <no-reply@phabricator.wikimedia.org> Date: 2018-08-21 13:52 (GMT-06:00) To: ttenbergen@gmail.com Subject: [Maniphest] [Commented On] T199744: Recent changes wrongly show as "b" for bot after update

kaldari added a comment.

@Tenbergen: Can you paste your user group config for your wiki here so that we can try to reproduce?
TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199744
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Yes, the settings related to $wgGroupPermissions in your LocalSettings.php, especially any related to the bot user right or user group. I don't imagine this is related to the bug, but it's good to eliminate that variable since you mentioned it.

We run rebuildall.php as a cron overnight

Out of curiosity, why do you do that? From my understanding, rebuildall.php is meant to be run rarely, to fix serious problems, not to be run daily. I haven't heard of anyone else doing this.

Sorry about the delay. below are the permissions from the localsettings.php. There are a lot of them, some are likely not necesary. We used to run this instance as a login-to-view/edit wiki, and then changed it to a public one some time ago, but I never reviewed which of these could just go. CCMDBlegit is the group you need to be part of to edit. It's a leftover from when we also needed to make holders of former accounts unable to view content.

1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. Group Permission Stuff - implements a way to remove users
3. from ability to view when they leave.

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createtalk'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editmyoptions'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editmyprivateinfo'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editmyusercss'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editmyuserjs'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editmywatchlist'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['writeapi'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['viewmyprivateinfo'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['viewmywatchlist'] = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['user']['read'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['upload'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['passwordreset'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createtalk'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['movefile'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['reupload'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['changetags'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['applychangetags'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['minoredit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move-categorypages'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move-subpages'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move-rootuserpages'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['reupload-shared'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['purge'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['sendemail'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['writeapi'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['editmyprivateinfo'] = true;

with above as false can't reset passwords or set up new user

$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['read'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['upload'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['suppressredirect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['createpage'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['movefile'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['move'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['reupload'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['minoredit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['editmyoptions'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['editmyprivateinfo'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['editmywatchlist'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['writeapi'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['viewmyprivateinfo'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['viewmywatchlist'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['sendemail'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['CCMDB_legit']['delete'] = true;

RE: Rebuildall.php, we use SMW with out mediawiki, and between SMW and MW we used to have some stuff not update automatically. The problems and tweaks to its solution have been around our instances for years, so I am afraid I can't remember why specifically we run rebuildall. The problems we were encountering were things like making sure that SMW driven content gets updated, wanted tables and wanted categories and stuff get update, and similar things. I have done a better job logging our changes in more recent years, but I think adding rebuildall pre-dates that.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tu9jxpne4mvgsl36
might have been it.