Classic WoW Wiki:Development/Admin

See Administration for information about the current WoWWiki administrators.

This is a reference for administration support on the WoWWiki wiki site itself. See Development for the main development page.

Important information
General wiki administration critical development paths. See Development for a more general view.
 * Portal:Main and other key pages, are a protected pages and can only be edited by admins.
 * Portal:World of Warcraft, sub-portals, and high-volume pages are semi-protected pages, and can only be edited by established editors.
 * WoWWiki namespace is for content pages for wiki itself, which is re-purposed from the old portal page namespace.
 * *MediaWiki namespace holds client code, and it's pages are protected and can only be edited by admins.
 * Template namespace is for other 'non-content' infrastructure.
 * *Help namespace for augmenting wiki documentation for built in wiki facilities for users.
 * This frees the rest of the main namespace to be actual content for WoW, and show properly for search engines.


 * Major portals or WoWWiki entry points, are
 * Portal:Main - portal where initial redirect goes, or the 'Main Page'. See Portal Development.
 * ...and other portals found in menu on main portal, like: Portal:World of Warcraft - portal about the original wow
 * Major client code pages are
 * MediaWiki:Common.js - site wide JavaScript
 * MediaWiki:Wikia.js - site wide JavaScript, intended to be a part of the default Wikia theme
 * MediaWiki:Wikia.css - site wide CSS, intended to be a part of the default Wikia theme. and the only way to change or add CSS
 * Help areas
 * Help:Welcome tool - welcome messages for new anonymous and registered users on their user talk pages.
 * ...which references MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user - the 'regular user' talk page welcome message
 * ...and references MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anon‎‎ - the 'anonymous user' talk page welcome message