The installer should create an account that is in both sysop and bureaucrat group. By default, this means it can delete/undelete pages, block/unblock users and perform other actions restricted to sysops and also manage user group membership (for example promote users to sysops and demote sysops).

If there is no such account (can be verified using Special:ListAdmins), you can use createAndPromote.php maintenance script, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CreateAndPromote.php. You can use it either for creating a new user and promote it to be a sysop/bureaucrat or for creating a new user without promoting or for promoting existing user or for changing user's password, so the name of the script is slightly confusing, but hope it will do.

Alternatively, you can delete pages using maintenance script deleteBatch.php, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteBatch.php. But I'd advise to get admin privileges somehow and use deleteBatch.php only if a page cannot be deleted using online interface for some reason.

Best, Martin

so 21. 7. 2018 v 15:05 odesílatel Sharon Kimble boudiccas@skimble.plus.com napsal:

I'm setting up 2 localhost-only wikis for development purposes and trying out new ideas. One called 'wiki-drugfacts' and the other called 'wiki-tgmeds'. They both share the same mariadb database although 'wiki-tgmeds' does have a prefix of 'tg-' first in the database.

whilst endeavouring to set up 'common.css' like I already have on my main 'DrugFacts' website, it is working on 'wiki-drugfacts' but not on 'wiki-tgmeds'. It seems very likely that I have set up 'http://localhost/wiki-tgmeds/index.php/Common.css' but now I can't delete it. So how can I securely delete it please?

I've looked at these pages [1], [2], and [3] and they all seem to imply that I need to be in the 'administrator' or 'sysop' user groups. so I've looked at all possible variations of user/root setup of wiki-tgmeds to see if I can change the user permission for myself, but without any success at all.

I'm now coming to the belief that it possibly relates to how I set up wiki-tgmeds. I set up wiki-drugfacts and got it working as I wanted, and then I created the wiki-tgmeds directory at /var/www/html/wiki-tgmeds and then proceeded to manually populate the directory with an install of the mediawiki files, from when I expanded and extracted 'mediawiki-1.31.0.tar.gz'. I found the site on localhost in my browser and then just proceeded to create a new 'LocalSettings.php'. And once the site was up and running I created one article but wasn't able to get the text to wrap around the TOC, which started me off on my quest to get 'Common.css' working properly.

So to recap, how can I delete the erroneous 'Commons.css' file on wiki-tgmeds' please

Thanks Sharon.

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deletion_and_undeletion [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Administrators#Deletion -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk DrugFacts = https://www.drugfacts.org.uk Debian 9.4, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 25.3.2, org 9.1.13 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l