[Mediawiki-l] How to change defaults for preferences for allusers?

[Daniel Barrett]

And if you need to designate new, custom namespaces for searching, the
easiest way seems to be the script maintenance/userOptions.php.  For
example, to enable search on custom namespace 200 for all users:

  cd maintenance
  php userOptions.php searchNs200 --old "" --new 1

or if you are enabling rather than creating:

  php userOptions.php searchNs200 --old 0 --new 1

DanB

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2. Setting default preferences for all EXISTING users
This is done in the database in the user table...