[Mediawiki-l] new user to mediawiki has question

Jim Hu jimhu at tamu.edu
Tue Aug 21 07:58:21 UTC 2007


If you have a public URL, it's useful to provide it, so we can look  
at Special:Version

Jim Hu

On Aug 20, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Eric Schayer wrote:

> I have a few questions.  If you know the answer, it's
> much appreciated.
>
>
> 1) How do I unlock the discussion page so that anyone
> can post to it, without them being able to edit the
> main page?
>
> 2) The <ref> and <references/> tags do not work
> according to instructions in my experience.  They just
> display literally in the page without being
> interpreted by Mediawiki.  Am I missing something?
>
> 3) How do I find out which version of MediaWiki I'm
> running?

Special:Version

>
> 4) How do I assign a superuser so that no one else can
> edit pages?

This is kind of missing the point of using a wiki.

>
> Thank you very much for your kind attention to this.
>
> Eric and Ed
>
>
>
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