Thread:Project:Support desk/Becoming administrator/reply (3)

How did this situation happen? Some mistake in the setup of the wiki, or is it an abandoned wiki that theoretically has admins, but practically they didn't visit the sites for ages? Do you have access to the server/database? If so, one way to make yourself an admin would be to edit the file LocalSettings.php. You could (warning: just for the five minutes or so this action would take) grant everyone the right to promote somebody as an admin by altering the LocalSettings.php, then go to the wiki, make yourself an admin, and go back to the LocalSettings.php and undo your changes.