Thread:Project:Support desk/Media wiki installation database/reply (5)

The difference between being a wiki administrator and a normal wiki user in fact only looks small: As an admin you have some additional buttons inside the MediaWiki website, which a normal user does not have. An admin e.g. can protect or delete pages or block users. That is basically the whole difference.

Anyway, the fact that you are a wiki admin does not change anything with the question, whether or not you can acess files inside the file system of the server. E.g. you will need FTP access to view the DefaultSettings.php file, which is located inside the folder includes/ where you installed your wiki.