**Setup**
- MediaWiki 1.27.1 (a52d35d)06:46, 23 August 2016
- PHP 5.6.24-0+deb8u1 (apache2handler)
- MariaDB 10.0.26-MariaDB-1~jessie
**Issue**
After updating a wiki form MW 1.27.0 to MW 1.27.1 it becomes inaccessible. I believe this may very well be caused by the fix for T129738.
//Error message//
> Permission error
>
> You do not have permission to read this page, for the following reason:
>
> You must confirm your email address before editing pages. Please set and validate your email address through your user preferences.
>
**LocalSettings.php**
```
$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;
$wgBlockDisablesLogin = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
```
After setting `$wgEmailConfirmToEdit` to "false" the wiki is back in business again. Since I do not want to loose this setting ...