7 Components: the Function Pages - Developers

Two pages provide information on the users of the wiki. The page
User list displays a list of all registered users and their permissions.
Users who have only registered with an IP address and may have established
a user page are not included in this list. On the page Admins
list, all users with administrator rights are listed (for more on
user rights, see Chapter 7.3).
Time after time, there will be users who do not observe the stipulated
rules. To stop such users, administrators can block their IP addresses
and thus prevent them from editing pages for a period of
time. During that period, the individual's IP address is listed in the
List of blocked IP addresses and usernames, along with the name of
the administrator who blocked that address and the reason. If you are
logged in as an administrator, you can also lift a block early. This
page, of course, is also interesting if you yourself are among the
blocked users. Firstly, you will discover why you have been blocked
and secondly, you can contact the corresponding administrator to
clear up any misunderstandings.
7.5
Maintenance
A number of pages aids in administering and maintaining the wiki
and its community. First and foremost is the Maintenance page. Using
it, errors in the structure and content of a wiki can be detected.
When you access the page, you will find an overview of its possible
functions. Unfortunately, the first function is the “Disambiguations
pages,” which is not fully functional in our version of MediaWiki.
However, it serves to list all pages employed to separate terms that
are the written the same way but mean different things.
The second function, “Double redirects,” searches for all redirects
that in turn lead to another redirect. This is unnecessary, since the
original redirect can lead right to the target page. One example: Page
A links to Page B, which leads to Page C. In practice, automatic redirects
only work once. That means that a reader accessing A ends
up at B and cannot be redirected automatically. Thus, it is a good
idea to eliminate the intermediate step from A to B and redirect from
A to C. In the listing of double redirects, you will see the original
Page A, Page B to which it links, and in brackets, Page C, so you
will know the target. Behind A is a link to the corresponding edit
mode, so you can make the correction immediately.
The link “Broken redirects” brings you to redirects that link to
non-existent pages. Since these redirects do not work (see Fig. 7.4),
they should be removed or a target generated.
User list,
Admins list
List of blocked
IP addresses
Maintenance
page
Double redirects
Broken redirects
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