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Users who are set up as (to be confirmed) ''Bureaucrats'' in user rights management can add new users.  
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.  
*See [https://ccmdb.kuality.ca/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=sysop current list]
*when adding a new user, '''A & B below''' must be completed.
* for a list of current Wiki user see:  [[Special:Listusers | User List]]
*see [[Special:Listusers]]


==A. Adding a new user ==
== Adding a new user ==
# in the TOOLBOX menu towards the bottom ''left'' side of this screen, click on the '''Special pages''' link ''or'' [[Special:Specialpages | click here]] .
# check if user already exists: [[Special:Listusers | User List]]; if so you are done
#from the ''list of items'' on special pages, click on the '''login/create account''' link ''or'' [[Special:Userlogin | click here]]
# open the [[Special:CreateAccount]] page (or go to [[:Special:SpecialPages|special pages]] and click the "Create account" link)
#on this page, click on the '''create an account''' ''or'' ([https://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/ccmdb/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup click here])  
# enter the new username, same as network login (''use lowercase'' - because the login is case sensitive we have had problems with people getting cases just right)
#
# leave the password fields blank and click checkbox for "Use a temporary random password and send it to the specified email address"
#* enter the new username (use lowercase - because the login is case sensitive we have had problems with people getting cases just right)
# enter the email address - make sure this is correct, the wiki will use it to send the user a password
#* '''don't enter''' the '''password''' or '''retype password'''
# enter the full real name in "Real name (optional)"
#* Enter the '''real name''' and '''email address'''
# click "Create account" button
# click '''by email'''
# explain to new user that they now have a wiki account and direct them to [[:Category:Wiki use]]
This will send an email to the user that tells them how to login.
# create a page for the user, usually copy content of most similar user to the page and edit
#* for data collectors or db staff add a <nowiki>#redirect:[[p:Tina Tenbergen]]</nowiki> to their http://ccmdb.kuality.ca/index.php?title=User:ttenbergen (replace Tina's name and ID with new user's)
#* for non-staff, put a brief description of their role with the DB
# copy the user name and open in a new tab [[Special:Userrights]] and paste the name there; click "Load user groups" button
# check the checkbox for '''CCMDB_legit''' and click the "save user groups" button


==B. Setting Rights for a new user ==
'''For database staff his has to be done for both wikis.'''
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:


# click on '''Special pages''', '''user rights management''' (close to the bottom), or click [[Special:Userrights | here]]
=== For administrator users only ===
# enter the new user's name exactly as just set up
'''Only if the new user needs to be able to create accounts on the wiki''' the user has to be set up as "'''administrator'''" in user rights management. To do this:
 
# click [[Special:Userrights | here]]
#* alternatively Toolbox, Special pages, User and rights section, user rights management
# enter the new user's name exactly as just set up (copy and paste works best...)
# click '''edit user groups'''
# click '''edit user groups'''
# select '''approved''' under "available groups" (click on one, then the ctrl-button, and then click the other option if necessary)
# check the box for '''administrator'''
# enter a '''reason why that user needs to be an admin'''
# click "save user groups"
# click "save user groups"
*items dont'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 ==
== 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'''.
see [[Disabling a wiki account]]
To suspend rights for a user,
# click on '''Special pages''', '''user rights management''' (close to the bottom), or click [[Special:Userrights | 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 also ==
*see [[Registered user]]


[[category: Wiki Usage]]
[[category: Wiki use]]
[[Category: New Hire]]

Latest revision as of 12:53, 2024 April 24

Users who are set up as (to be confirmed) Bureaucrats in user rights management can add new users.

Adding a new user

  1. check if user already exists: User List; if so you are done
  2. open the Special:CreateAccount page (or go to special pages and click the "Create account" link)
  3. enter the new username, same as network login (use lowercase - because the login is case sensitive we have had problems with people getting cases just right)
  4. leave the password fields blank and click checkbox for "Use a temporary random password and send it to the specified email address"
  5. enter the email address - make sure this is correct, the wiki will use it to send the user a password
  6. enter the full real name in "Real name (optional)"
  7. click "Create account" button
  8. explain to new user that they now have a wiki account and direct them to Category:Wiki use
  9. create a page for the user, usually copy content of most similar user to the page and edit
  10. copy the user name and open in a new tab Special:Userrights and paste the name there; click "Load user groups" button
  11. check the checkbox for CCMDB_legit and click the "save user groups" button

For database staff his has to be done for both wikis.

For administrator users only

Only if the new user needs to be able to create accounts on the wiki the user has to be set up as "administrator" in user rights management. To do this:

  1. click here
    • alternatively Toolbox, Special pages, User and rights section, user rights management
  2. enter the new user's name exactly as just set up (copy and paste works best...)
  3. click edit user groups
  4. check the box for administrator
  5. enter a reason why that user needs to be an admin
  6. click "save user groups"

Deleting a user

see Disabling a wiki account

See also

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