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→Setting up users (3/11/2016)
$ php initSiteStats.php
But this runs into some errors ([https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts this page] suggests setting the MW_INSTALL_PATH environment variable, but I can't find a good way to do that). I looked into the error messages and found [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21257589/ubuntu-typing-php-in-terminal-shows-a-lot-of-errors this SO post] which seems to cover it. I don't know whether we need SNMP, so I decided to just install it to be safe: $ sudo apt-get install snmp And the error messages go away.
We also want to limit account creation to sysops only [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_account_creation as done here]. To do this, edit LocalSettings.php and add these lines:
