Manual:emptyUserGroup.php

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.32

MediaWiki file: emptyUserGroup.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.43.1 • 1.42.6 • 1.39.12
Classes:	EmptyUserGroup

Details

emptyUserGroup.php file is a maintenance script that removes all users from a given group. User rights groups are defined through $wgGroupPermissions . This script is useful when you are removing the user rights group.

Options/Arguments

Option	Description	Required?
<groupname>	Group name to be removed	Required

Usage

php maintenance/run.php emptyUserGroup <groupname>

In MediaWiki version 1.39.12 and earlier, you must invoke maintenance scripts using php maintenance/scriptName.php instead of php maintenance/run.php scriptName.

Terminal

$ php maintenance/run.php emptyUserGroup sysop

Removing users from sysop...
  ...done! Removed 1 users in total.

If name of the group contains whitespace, it should be enclosed in double quotes (").

See also

• Manual:User rights
• createAndPromote.php
• migrateUserGroup.php