Extension talk:ManageWiki

Required Extensions

I believe that this extension requires Extension:CreateWiki to be installed, but that is not mentioned. Vizlox (talk) 21:02, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

It is, at Extension:ManageWiki#Installation. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 21:30, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Oh! I had mistaken the following line as referring to the same thing when it says "the files". I'll edit that to be more clear. Vizlox (talk) 22:45, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Is CreateWiki really mandatory?

I don't see how a management extension would need an extension for wiki farms specifically. Are there any alternative for that extension then since I could not find a pleasing answer under "see also". At most I could find the permission manager useful there, but that's it really. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 17:03, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Can someone please tell me the default settings for the following namespaces?

Over the last couple of years, I have modified certain namespaces that don't appear on the Special:ManageWiki/namespaces page by default, so that I could get them to appear on the list. The problem is that when I edit these namespaces by means of adding the namespace number at the end of Special:ManageWiki/namespaces/, instead of the namespace's default settings appearing, the vanilla settings for creating new namespaces appear.

Here is a list of all the following namespaces that I've edited to get them to appear:

• UserWiki (I had to make this namespace appear so that I could disallow editing in that namespace in favour of the User namespace)
• Video (I had to make this namespace appear so that I could make the namespace more consistent with the File namespace)
• GeoJson
• TimedText
• Gadget (I had to make this namespace appear so that I could restrict editing in that namespace to the (gadgets-edit) permission)
• Gadget_definition (I had to make this namespace appear so that I could restrict editing in that namespace to the (gadgets-definition-edit) permission)
• Newsletter

In addition to the above, I also intend to unhide these namespaces using the same URL method:

• User profile
• Poll
• Blog
• Translations

How can I confirm what the default settings are for all the default namespaces as well as the default settings for all the namespaces that are added by extensions? I know that it is possible to break certain namespaces by editing them. Which is why I want to be sure what the default settings for each namespace is before I can decide whether to try unhiding them or not.

And for the namespaces that I've already unhidden, I want to be able to undo any changes that I accidentally made when unhiding them. For the Gadget_definition namespace, I accidentally changed the default content model to Wikitext. Thankfully I have subsequently corrected that erroneous change. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 04:25, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Permissions

Why no option to revoke permissions $wgrevokepermissions in special managewiki permissions ~2025-17753-4 (talk) 23:08, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

What is the required PHP version?

In the extension.json the required version is 8.2+, and thus running `update.php` generates error.

    "requires": {
        "MediaWiki": ">= 1.44.0",
        "platform": {
            "php": ">= 8.2"
        }
    }

but here it is documented as 7.2. ZMY (A-T C-G) 03:30, 24 November 2025 (UTC)