Hi everybody:
I am building a community site using MediaWiki and have a couple of questions:
1) How do I protect, or preferably lock, the main page from user editing? I've looked through the user guide and have yet to find a how-to on that specifically.
2) How do I make the search tool in the left column function like the one in Wikipedia? I would like searchers to get an "Editing (search terms)" result instead of "No Page Found" as is happening now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Alison :-)
----- Original Message ----- From: mediawiki-l-request@Wikimedia.org To: alorraineguard-registrations@yahoo.com
Alison Lorraine wrote:
I am building a community site using MediaWiki and have a couple of questions:
- How do I protect, or preferably lock, the main page from user
editing? I've looked through the user guide and have yet to find a how-to on that specifically.
If you're logged in as a sysop account, click the 'protect' tab on the page.
When you installed the wiki, it will have created a sysop account for you. You can use that, or from that account you can mark other accounts as sysop accounts. (If necessary you can poke in the database to mark a user as sysop.) See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ#How_do_I_make_a_user_a_Sysop.3F
- How do I make the search tool in the left column function like the
one in Wikipedia? I would like searchers to get an "Editing (search terms)" result instead of "No Page Found" as is happening now.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ#How_do_I_show_a_link_to_create_...
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