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 below must be completed.
• for a list of current Wiki user see: User List

A. Adding a new user

1. click this link to open the "Create Account" page
   • alternatively, access via Toolbox, Special Pages, Log in / create account, "Create an account" link
2. enter:
   • the new username (use lowercase - because the login is case sensitive we have had problems with people getting cases just right)
3. 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)
4. click by email

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

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.

• see Registered user