[Mediawiki-l] users rights and importing users

[Platonides]

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André wrote:
> and switch about the same number of users from a group 
> to another group?

I guess you are changing all users from a group to another?
That would be easy to do with an sql query:
UPDATE user_groups SET ug_group='newgroup' WHERE ug_group='oldgroup';


Adding all users recently registered to a group should be easy, too
(although adding the option to Mass User Import seems the way to go).

INSERT INTO user_groups (ug_user, ug_group) SELECT user_id, 'newgroup'
from user WHERE user_registration >= '20101014030405';

Where 20101014030405 means: all users registered since 2010-10-14 03:04:05