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Voter eligibility: implicit groups (such as autoconfirmed) do not appear in the list of user groups
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Create a poll
  • Go to Special:SecurePoll, click on voter eligibility
  • In "Include users in these groups, regardless of edits or other groups", type "Autoconfirmed"

What happens?:

  • Nothing. This isn't recognized as a valid user group. No chip appears.

What should have happened instead?:

  • Able to add the user group as normal. Chip appears.

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Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

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Change #1162634 had a related patch set uploaded (by Novem Linguae; author: Novem Linguae):

[mediawiki/extensions/SecurePoll@master] allow implicit user groups in "allow-usergroups"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1162634

Can we leave out * and user? There's no group-* message so it makes the dropdown look broken. While we're at it, we can also exclude user as being a user is anyway necessary to vote.

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Change #1162634 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/SecurePoll@master] allow implicit user groups in "allow-usergroups"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1162634

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