{"id":17704,"date":"2024-05-23T06:49:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T06:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/how-to-assign-users-to-groups-in-mediawiki\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T05:57:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T05:57:08","slug":"how-to-assign-users-to-groups-in-mediawiki","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/docs\/hosting-faqs\/how-to-assign-users-to-groups-in-mediawiki\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Assign Users to Groups in MediaWiki?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are a few easy actions you may take to provide some of your registered users more access in MediaWiki:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To start with,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Login to the&nbsp;<strong>MediaWiki<\/strong>&nbsp;as admin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the left-hand side, click on&nbsp;<strong>Special pages.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you have not created any user then you need to create a new user. To create a new user go to&nbsp;<strong>Login OR create account<\/strong>&nbsp;section and click on&nbsp;<strong>Create account<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the username field enter the username as per your choice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enter the&nbsp;<strong>password<\/strong>&nbsp;in the Password field and re-enter the same password in the&nbsp;<strong>Confirm password<\/strong>&nbsp;section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now in the&nbsp;<strong>Email address<\/strong>&nbsp;text box enter the email address where you wish to receive the confirmation link and login details OR leave it blank as it is optional.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the&nbsp;<strong>Real name<\/strong>&nbsp;section if you wish to then enter the name as per your choice otherwise leave it blank as it is optional.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also, in this text box mention the reason for creating another account OR leave it blank and click on&nbsp;<strong>Create account&nbsp;<\/strong>button.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the left-hand side, click on&nbsp;<strong>Special pages.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Navigate to the<strong>&nbsp;Users and rights&nbsp;<\/strong>section and click on<strong>&nbsp;User rights.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now in the&nbsp;<strong>Select a user&nbsp;<\/strong>section enter the&nbsp;<strong>username<\/strong>&nbsp;that you want to modify and click on&nbsp;<strong>Load user groups&nbsp;<\/strong>button.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the&nbsp;<strong>Edit user groups<\/strong>, you will find a&nbsp;<strong>checkbox<\/strong>&nbsp;in front of every user group.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the groups where you would like to add the user and in the&nbsp;<strong>Expires&nbsp;<\/strong>section, you can define the time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you want to mention any reason then you can mention it or else leave it blank.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on the&nbsp;<strong>Save user groups.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After this, the user will have permissions and access to the selected groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So in this way, you can assign users to groups in MediaWiki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/learn-to-work-with-feature-lists-in-whm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Learn to Work with Feature Lists in WHM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few easy actions you may take to provide some of your registered users more access in MediaWiki: To start with, So in this way, you can assign users to groups in MediaWiki. Learn to Work with Feature Lists in WHM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23377,"menu_order":949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-17704","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20689,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17704\/revisions\/20689"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=17704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}