Mailing List Archive: Setting a Protected Page and Upload Not working

On Feb 15, 2004, at 8:08 AM, Senthil_OR@Dell.com wrote:

> Hi Mediawiki list,
> I would like to make the MainPage of wiki
> protected ( as in Wikipedia)
> I was search for pointers in documents, but unable to figureout yet.

I had this same problem when I first started out a few months ago. :-)
First off, you need to grant yourself sysop privileges. You need to do
that manually in MySQL (I've been using phpMyAdmin), with the following
string:

UPDATE user SET user_rights='sysop' WHERE user_name='My admin
account';

And you replace "My Admin Account" with your own user name. After
that, there should be a clear link on the quickbar that lets you
"protect this page".

Dan Carlson