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Further thoughts

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Further thoughts

Tinker at 06:43, 13 July 2020

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Tinker at 06:37, 13 July 2020

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Tinker at 06:31, 13 July 2020

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Tinker: Created page with "There are a number of settings and tweaks that can save you greif while maintaining your wiki. Item #1 is to try hard not to be bored during the install... File:Dontbebore..."

2020-07-13T06:30:00Z

Created page with "There are a number of settings and tweaks that can save you greif while maintaining your wiki. Item #1 is to try hard not to be bored during the install... File:Dontbebore..."

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There are a number of settings and tweaks that can save you greif while maintaining your wiki.

Item #1 is to try hard not to be bored during the install...

[[File:Dontbebored.png|frameless|600x600px]]

'''Item #2''' is to disallow edits by anyone who is not logged in with a valid account. This is done by chosing "'''Authorised editors only'''" as the '''User rights profile.'''

[[File:UserRights.png|frameless|518x518px]]

'''Item #3''' is actual account creation control. A good starting point to manage account creation (albeit manually...) is to add <code>$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;</code> to your '''LocalSettings.php''' (which is hiding out in <code>/etc/var/html/wiki</code> on a stock-standard install)

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−	~~Thes~~ 3 items listed here are a good starting point tho.	+	The 3 items listed here are a good starting point tho.
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 Using this method, it takes an Administrator to actually create a new account.
-=== Further thoughts ===
+===Further thoughts===
-There are a large number of further items in the documentation, including plugins & add-ons to enhance security.
+There are a large number of further items in the [[mediawikiwiki:Manual:MediaWiki_Security_Guide|documentation]], including plugins & add-ons to enhance security.
 Thes 3 items listed here are a good starting point tho.

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 There are a number of settings and tweaks that can save you grief while maintaining your wiki.
-=== '''Item #1''' try hard not to be bored during the install... ===
+==='''Item #1''' try hard not to be bored during the install...===
 [[File:Dontbebored.png|frameless|600x600px]]
-=== '''Item #2''' disallow edits ===
+==='''Item #2''' disallow edits===
 by anyone who is not logged in with a valid account.  This is done by choosing "'''Authorised editors only'''" as the '''User rights profile.'''
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 The default, '''Open wiki''', is pretty much asking for spam & chaos...
-=== '''Item #3''' account creation control. ===
+==='''Item #3''' account creation control.===
 A good starting point to manage account creation (albeit manually...) is to add <code>$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;</code> to your '''LocalSettings.php''' (which is hiding out in <code>/etc/var/html/wiki</code> on a stock-standard install)
 Using this method, it takes an Administrator to actually create a new account.

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 There are a number of settings and tweaks that can save you greif while maintaining your wiki.
-Item #1 is to try hard not to be bored during the install...
+'''Item #1''' is to try hard not to be bored during the install...
 [[File:Dontbebored.png|frameless|600x600px]]