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