Admin tips

This is a list of all the "Admin Tips" found in this wiki. You don't have to edit this page!! Anywhere in this wiki, if you use the Template:Admin tip template, then your tip will magically appear here as well as in the original source. This list is generated by the DPL extension and uses the "phantom" template approach to formatting the results.

Help:Assigning permissions

	See Manual:User rights and Manual:User rights management for information on fine grained permissions tweaks, and how to define new groups, or adjust existing groups to give different rights. Note that this help page describes the default MediaWiki configuration, but every aspect of permissions is highly customisable with server config settings. You may wish to rewrite this help page to reflect your wiki configuration

Help:Formatting

If you trust your users you can allow full HTML by setting $wgRawHtml = true; in LocalSettings.php.

Help:Links

	Which protocols (like http:) are allowed for links is controlled by the $wgUrlProtocols setting.

	To remove the 'external link image' from next to each of the external links, add the following to the page located at `MediaWiki:Monobook.css` on your wiki. #bodyContent a.external, #bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] { background: none; padding-right: 0; }

Help:Extension:ParserFunctions

Configure the maximum number of allowed expensive parser functions using the $wgExpensiveParserFunctionLimit variable.

You can improve the reliability of HTML table code (and other raw HTML input) by using HTML tidy. See Installing Tidy and $wgUseTidy.

You can also use the Pipe Escape extension to improve the handling of pipe characters.

Help:Navigation

	You can customize the navigation links by editing MediaWiki:Sidebar. Some entries call for separate MediaWiki: pages, e.g. to change the automatic link to the Main Page you would change MediaWiki:Mainpage (target page) and MediaWiki:Mainpage-text (displayed text). You can find a list of such pages via Special:Allmessages. For more information see Manual:Interface/Sidebar.

	To enable file uploading someone with access to the MediaWiki installation files needs to edit the `LocalSettings.php` file and uncomment or add the option `$wgEnableUploads = true;`. Uploaded files will be stored in the images folder specified by the `$wgUploadPath` variable in the `LocalSettings.php`. This directory must be writable if file uploads is enabled. The upload location and image uploads settings are described in more detail on the MetaWiki LocalSettings.php page.

Help:Skins

To enable this feature, you have to set $wgAllowUserCss to your LocalSettings.php.
Help:Starting a new page

The "inputbox extension" allows you to provide an even easier way for your users to create new pages
Help:Subpages

Subpages can be activated within the 'main' namespace by adding to the $wgNamespacesWithSubpages array.
Help:Tracking changes

You may want to add important pages in your wiki to MediaWiki:Recentchangestext, the intro shown at Special:Recentchanges
Subpages Template:Admin tip.dpl.default

Tip for wiki admins: Semantic MediaWiki doesn't exactly allow you to query for the usage of templates. You'd have to setup the semantics in the template, and query properties. If you just have normal templates, use Dynamic Page Lists and you can control the selection, the output and so forth.