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.
• see Special:Listusers

A. Adding a new user

1. in the TOOLBOX menu towards the bottom left side of this screen, click on the Special pages link or click here .
2. from the list of items on special pages, click on the login/create account link or click here
3. on this page, click on the create an account or (click here)
4. • enter the new username (use lowercase - because the login is case sensitive we have had problems with people getting cases just right)
   • don't enter the password or retype password
   • Enter the real name and email address
5. click by email

This will send an email to the user that tells them how to login.

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 "Sysop" in user rights management. To do this:

1. click on Special pages, user rights management (close to the bottom), or click here
2. enter the new user's name exactly as just set up
3. click edit user groups
4. select approved under "available groups" (click on one, then the ctrl-button, and then click the other option if necessary)
5. 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,

1. click on Special pages, user rights management (close to the bottom), or click here
2. enter the user name exactly as it was set up
3. click edit user groups
4. 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. )
5. 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.