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Paula de Waal wrote:
> I have installed wikimedia at the universiti of Padova where we are
> starting a workshop about learning environments (The last stable
> version) but there are still some little problems and i would appreciate
> some help:
> 1- How can i setup a user with developer status? I did not find any clue
> about it.

If you can't do it from Special:Makesysop you can do it manually in the
database. See:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setting_user_rights_in_MediaWiki

'developer' isn't really used for much anymore though; I think just the
lock/unlock database specials (and that needs to be configured to work
right).

> 2- Is it the categories feature supposed to be working in that version?
> I can create categories by marking new pages but the pages are not
> listed in the categories page.

Categories are working only in 1.3 (currently in beta).

> 3- how can i allow subpages in hte articles?

Take this:

$wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array( -1 => 0, 0 => 0, 1 => 1,
2 => 1, 3 => 1, 4 => 0, 5 => 1, 6 => 0, 7 => 1, 8 => 0, 9 => 1, 10 =>
0, 11 => 1);

And change "0 => 0" to "0 => 1":
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array( -1 => 0, 0 => 1, 1 => 1,
2 => 1, 3 => 1, 4 => 0, 5 => 1, 6 => 0, 7 => 1, 8 => 0, 9 => 1, 10 =>
0, 11 => 1);

Not our most user-friendly setting, sorry. :)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)