Earlier: Is there a way to change the
current, contemporaneous default
for ALL subsequent visitors, including
registered and unregistered visitors?
Response: ... we have manually set
user preferences for both new and existing
users using a SQL REPLACE() statement
combined with LocalSettings defaults. This
in effect brings every user to the same
settings... use an UPDATE... REPLACE SQL
query to bring all existing users to the
same settings.
Peter Blaise responds: I'm always happy to learn more about the inner
workings of the support programs for MediaWiki software. What would
such a query look like, how about an example? How about putting it
somewhere at
http://www.MediaWiki.org/ and linking to it? Thanks!