How do I create a group in MediaWiki?

Go to Special Pages > User rights management and enter the username of the person to be added (Note: if you’re not sure you can also go to Special Pages > User List to see a listing of everyone’s that has logged into the site.) From the Available Groups column select the group the user should be added to.

How do I manage MediaWiki?

Editing my user information

  1. Log into MediaWiki.
  2. Click special pages to the left of.
  3. Click User list.
  4. Select the user from the list to edit.
  5. Click the Edit tab.
  6. Now the Edit User box will load where the user data can be changed or edited.

Can you make a private MediaWiki?

If you must use MediaWiki, there are three basic possibilities: Set your wiki up private and whitelist specific pages that will be public with $wgWhitelistRead in the LocalSetting. php file.

How do I create a MediaWiki account?

Log in your MediaWiki and click Special Pages at the bottom left of the screen. Then click Log in / create an account and create a new MediaWiki account.

How do I change my group rights on fandom?

A list of user rights by groups can be seen at Special:ListGroupRights. To add or remove users from these groups, admins or bureaucrats can go to Special:UserRights. Some groups can only be added or removed by bureaucrats or Fandom Staff.

How do I make MediaWiki read only?

Since MediaWiki 1.5 you can add $wgReadOnly to your “LocalSettings. php” file and set this to a string describing the reason for read-only mode. (Usual wiki markup is allowed in this string.) This will prevent any editing on the wiki.

How secure is MediaWiki?

Extensions made by prominent members of the MediaWiki development community are usually quite safe. Similarly any extension used on a wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation has probably been looked at carefully, and is probably safe (There are of course no guarantees).

How do you become an admin in Fandom?

If you’re interested in becoming an admin on a wiki, there’s two steps.

  1. First, you’d appeal to the community. Users with the “bureaucrat” right can turn other people into admins (and bureaucrats).
  2. Second, if there are no active bureaucrats on the wiki, you can file an adoption request.

Who can edit Fandom?

Anyone who visits Fandom can view and read pages. Unregistered (anonymous) users also usually have the ability to edit and add pages to the wiki, though some communities require logging into a Fandom account first.

What is MediaWiki namespace?

The “MediaWiki” namespace is used to hold system messages and other important content. For instance, the page MediaWiki:Edit (or MediaWiki:Vector-view-edit in the default “Vector” skin) contains the text that fills the “Edit” tab at the top of every page.