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There are a number of settings and tweaks that can save you greif while maintaining your wiki.
 
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...
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Revision as of 01:31, 13 July 2020

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...

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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.

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