On 5/26/06, Ken McDonald ken@pixologic.com wrote:
As a brand-new MW admin, my understanding is that the MediaWiki: namespace has various protected special pages that might make my admin task easier. But a search on "MediaWiki:" didn't turn up any titles, nor can I find any other entry points to such pages. (I am operating with full "sysop" access.) Am I misunderstanding something? Is most of the administration currently done via mysql and editing .php files?
Check out Special:Specialpages -- at the bottom are admin-only actions. It's a bit annoying to use, being alphabetical and presented as a list (no icons and colours, no groupings, etc) but it's got a lot of the good stuff.
Also, the maintenance directory has some helpful php scripts for more difficult actions.
You shouldn't need to do any database or php wizardry for normal tasks though.