Setting up a new wiki user
Users who are set up as (to be confirmed) Bureaucrats in user rights management can add new users.
- Currently, Admin account, Trish Ostryzniuk and Tina Tenbergen can add new users.
- when adding a new user, A & B below must be completed.
- for a list of current Wiki user see: User List
A. Adding a new user
- click this link to open the "Create Account" page
- alternatively, access via Toolbox, Special Pages, Log in / create account, "Create an account" link
- enter:
- the new username (use lowercase - because the login is case sensitive we have had problems with people getting cases just right)
- enter password
- the email address - make sure this is correct, the wiki will use it to send the user a password
- leave the password fields blank (wiki will deal with this)
- click by email
B. Setting Rights for a new user
In order to be able to write to the wiki, a user has to be set up as "approved" in user rights management. To do this:
- click on Special pages, user rights management (close to the bottom), or click here
- enter the new user's name exactly as just set up
- click edit user groups
- select approved under "available groups" (click on one, then the ctrl-button, and then click the other option if necessary)
- click "save user groups"
- items don't visibly move to member of box until after you press SAVE and go back into EDIT, then you will see that the choices made have been saved.
Deleting a user
Because the account is used to track changes in the history of any article edited by a user, a user can not be deleted. However, a user's rights can be suspended. To suspend rights for a user,
- click on Special pages, user rights management (close to the bottom), or click here
- enter the user name exactly as it was set up
- click edit user groups
- select any entries on "left" side under the "Member of" column (click on all items listed by holding the ctrl-button to select each one. )
- click "save user groups"
This will have removed the user's rights. If you want to check that the user's rights have been deleted, go through the same steps as above; if there is nothing list under "Member of", which is the "left" side of column, the user has been disabled.
- see Registered user