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==Users and rights==
 
==Users and rights==
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===How to create new users as sys-op===
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[[Special:CreateAccount]]
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===List of users and rights===
 
===List of users and rights===
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Highspeed Wiki has six user groups:
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The [[Special:ListGroupRights]] special page lists the user groups that exist on a wiki, and lists the rights that are assigned to those groups. Bureaucrats can give additional rights to trusted users.
  
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*(all) – applies to every visitor to your site, including those who do not log in
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'''NOTE! Only Users with a confirmed email address are allowed to edit Highspeed Wiki pages.'''
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*Users – applies to all logged-in users
 
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*Autoconfirmed users – applies to all logged-in users who meet certain thresholds
 
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*Bots – can be assigned to bots, in order to allow users to hide bot edits from recent changes or watchlists
 
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*Administrators – can be assigned to trusted users, giving them permission to perform key administrative tasks such as deletion, user blocking, page protection, and editing the interface
 
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*Bureaucrats – can be assigned to trusted users, giving them permission to assign/revoke user groups
 
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The first three groups are "implicit" groups, which are assigned to users automatically as required. Only the last three groups can be manually assigned or revoked.
 
  
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The [[Special:ListGroupRights]] special page lists the user groups that exist on a wiki, and lists the rights that are assigned to those groups
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===Making trusted person Administrator or Bureaucrat===
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Go to page [[Special:UserRights]]. Write a trusted user's username and give additional user rights.
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You can find all registered users and their user rights listed here: [[Special:ListUsers]]
  
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'''NOTE! Only Users with a confirmed email address are allowed to edit Highspeed Wiki pages.'''
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You need to have Bureaucrat rights to give additional rights to other wiki users.
  
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===Making trusted person Bureaucrat or Administrator===
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==Highspeed Wiki Log==
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Go to [[Special:UserRights]]. Write a trusted person's username and give additional user rights.
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This wiki creates an automatic log of all public actions. You can see created pages, uploaded file, added user rights and other on this page: [[Special:Log]].
  
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You need to have Bureaucrat or Administrator rights to give additional rights to users.
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Every page has its own change history. Just click the 'View history' tab on [[Instructions_for_using_Highspeed_Wiki#Top-right_corner|the top-right corner]]. Administrators can easily revert changes made to the page from there.
  
 
== Useful manuals and handbooks ==
 
== Useful manuals and handbooks ==
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Great handbook on how to handle Admin situations:
 
Great handbook on how to handle Admin situations:
 
*[https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Administrator%27s_Handbook MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook]
 
*[https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Administrator%27s_Handbook MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook]
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MediaWiki's help page about sysops and permissions:
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*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Sysops_and_permissions MediaWiki Help: Sysops and Permissions]
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== Main Admin Contact Information ==
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Contact main admin by email: highspeed.education[[File:At_sign.png|{{{1|16px}}}|@|link=]]cern.ch

Latest revision as of 01:27, 26 August 2019

Highspeed Education > Manuals and instructions for Admins

Special pages

Most of the needed tools and pages for Admins are listed in Special:SpecialPages

Users and rights

How to create new users as sys-op

Special:CreateAccount

List of users and rights

The Special:ListGroupRights special page lists the user groups that exist on a wiki, and lists the rights that are assigned to those groups. Bureaucrats can give additional rights to trusted users.

NOTE! Only Users with a confirmed email address are allowed to edit Highspeed Wiki pages.

Making trusted person Administrator or Bureaucrat

Go to page Special:UserRights. Write a trusted user's username and give additional user rights. You can find all registered users and their user rights listed here: Special:ListUsers

You need to have Bureaucrat rights to give additional rights to other wiki users.

Highspeed Wiki Log

This wiki creates an automatic log of all public actions. You can see created pages, uploaded file, added user rights and other on this page: Special:Log.

Every page has its own change history. Just click the 'View history' tab on the top-right corner. Administrators can easily revert changes made to the page from there.

Useful manuals and handbooks

Overall manual for Administrator tools:

Great handbook on how to handle Admin situations:

MediaWiki's help page about sysops and permissions:

Main Admin Contact Information

Contact main admin by email: highspeed.education@cern.ch

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