Thread:Project:Support desk/Lost our programmer, locked out of restricted use area

I'm hoping somewhere here will help figure out how to access the locked-down nav bar portion of the homepage, as well as remove the annoying metadesc that became publicly visible at some point: www.financialintegrity.org

Backstory: In 2008 NRM hired an outside consultant to program a MediaWiki site, as a wiki for values-based personal finance, with just parts of the home page locked from public access. The non-profit is going defunct, though we still would like to keep public access to these resources, and have paid out the domain registration and hosting for the next 9 years. (The entire site was locked down from public access due to really bad spamming beyond our dwindling volunteer resource capacity to purge.)

NRM needs to remove donation button, as well as the metadesc and general cleanup/update on the home page, and that area was locked down by the original programmer. That consultant firm now has no WikiMedia programming expertise on staff, and attempts to find a MW programmer in the likely local places have gotten nowhere; NRM has not been able to figure out how to edit this part of homepage, despite many attempts.

Hopefully this will not be seen as an annoying post asking for inappropriate support, but time is running out on this org. If NRM can't figure it out, they'll have to just tear down the whole site, which was once voted one of the most useful personal finance sites on the web, and still has random volunteers who'd be willing to keep an eye on it.