Thanks Bartosz,
Any chance you could give a concrete example of how to write a single line in LocalSettings that promotes a user to the group say 'mygroup' without condition.. just a straight automatic promotion to all users? (I would wrap that line of code in a PHP if statement with the condition I want.
Sorry to have to ask for explicit help.. this is my first time encountering hooks in localsettings and I am not a programmer by trade.
Truest thanks -Rich
Looks like you can define custom conditions using the AutopromoteCondition hook:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/AutopromoteCondition
-- Bartosz Dziewoński