Wiki

Here you can find some useful information on using the wiki.

Contribute

Contributions are welcome, but only registered users can make changes.

If you are new to MediaWiki consult the User's Guide.

Registration

It is not possible to self-register.

To apply to be registered write at gretlwiki[at]deferoci[dot]mozmail[dot]com

The mail must contain:

• A valid username (start with capital letter and available) under which you want to be registered.
• Whether or not you want to be registered by the e-mail you write from.
• Some generic information of yours to make sure you are part of the gretl community.

Changing Password

To modify your password go to Preferences (upper right) -> User profile -> Password -> Change password

Enter the new password and then click "Change password" button.

If administrators have created your account manually remember to change it!

Admins Section

Add user

To add a user:

1. go to Special:CreateAccount
2. Enter the username the user has chosen.
   1. If you want create the account manually enter a sufficiently secure temporary password.
   2. Otherwise check the "Use a temporary random password and send it to the specified email address" checkbox and enter new user's email.
3. Click "Create Account" button.
4. After that a page with "Account created - The user account for ChosenUsername (talk) has been created." should be displayed.
5. Edit the new user's page with "NewUser" template:
   1. Click on ChosenUsername (should open https://gretlwiki.econ.univpm.it/index.php?title=User:ChosenUsername&action=edit&redlink=1)
   2. Add the following text to the new page {{NewUser|ChosenUsername}}
6. Save the page and send the credential to the new user if you create account manually.

Delete user

To delete a user:

1. First, look for contributions to be deleted.
2. Go to Special:UserMerge.
3. In "Old user (merge from)" insert the username you want to delete, in "New user (merge to)" insert DeleteUser username. DeleteUser is a special user created to this scope.
4. Check the "Delete old user" checkbox.
5. Click on Merge user.