Admin tips

• Help:Assigning permissions

  See Manual:User rights and Manual:User rights management for information on fine grained permissions tweaks, and how to define new groups, or adjust existing groups to give different rights. Note that this help page describes the default MediaWiki configuration, but every aspect of permissions is highly customisable with server config settings. You may wish to rewrite this help page to reflect your wiki configuration

• Help:Formatting

  If you trust your users you can allow full HTML by setting $wgRawHtml = true; in LocalSettings.php.

• Help:Links

  Which protocols (like http:) are allowed for links is controlled by the $wgUrlProtocols setting.

  To remove the 'external link image' from next to each of the external links, add the following to the page located at MediaWiki:Monobook.css on your wiki. #bodyContent a.external, #bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] { background: none; padding-right: 0; }

• Help:Extension:ParserFunctions

  Configure the maximum number of allowed expensive parser functions using the $wgExpensiveParserFunctionLimit variable.

  You can improve the reliability of HTML table code (and other raw HTML input) by using HTML tidy. See Installing Tidy and $wgUseTidy.

  You can also use the Pipe Escape extension to improve the handling of pipe characters.

• Help:Navigation

  You can customize the navigation links by editing MediaWiki:Sidebar. Some entries call for separate MediaWiki: pages, e.g. to change the automatic link to the Main Page you would change MediaWiki:Mainpage (target page) and MediaWiki:Mainpage-text (displayed text). You can find a list of such pages via Special:Allmessages. For more information see Manual:Interface/Sidebar.

  To enable file uploading someone with access to the MediaWiki installation files needs to edit the LocalSettings.php file and uncomment or add the option $wgEnableUploads = true;. Uploaded files will be stored in the images folder specified by the $wgUploadPath variable in the LocalSettings.php. This directory must be writable if file uploads is enabled. The upload location and image uploads settings are described in more detail on the MetaWiki LocalSettings.php page.

• Help:Skins

  To enable this feature, you have to set $wgAllowUserCss to your LocalSettings.php.

• Help:Starting a new page

  The "inputbox extension" allows you to provide an even easier way for your users to create new pages

• Help:Subpages

  Subpages can be activated within the 'main' namespace by adding to the $wgNamespacesWithSubpages array.

• Help:Tracking changes

  You may want to add important pages in your wiki to MediaWiki:Recentchangestext, the intro shown at Special:Recentchanges

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