==Methods== ===Use Special:UserLogin=== If you know the username for an account, you can use the “Email new password” feature on the [[Special:UserLogin]] page. To use the feature, visit the Special:UserLogin page for the relevant wiki, fill in the Username field of the form and press the ‘Email new password’ button. A temporary password, along with
The following information will fix the NAMESPACE errors when upgrading to a newer version of MediaWiki Backup your wiki file first. Access your webserver and go to the MediaWiki/includes directory. For example: cd /usr/local/www/apache22/data/wiki/includes Edit Namespace.php nano Namespace.php Go to line 44 or whichever line your error referenced, change the following from: class Namespace {
In order to reset the password for MediaWiki’s admin, there are a couple of options: 1. The first and easiest one is to use the option ‘E-mail new password’ next to MediaWiki’s login. In this case the password will be sent to the email address assigned to the administrative user for the MediaWiki