[Mediawiki-l] How to take control of a wiki?

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/4/30 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> Someone here just got handed sysadmin on his office MediaWiki. He
>  doesn't have the WikiSysop password - what's the easy way to reset
>  this?

I think there's a maintenance script for resetting passwords
("resetPassword.php" probably - they're pretty unimaginatively
named!). There should be instructions in comments at the top of the
file - it will need to be run from a shell prompt.