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Hello,
I am the admin of this wiki https://intgovforumdeutschland.miraheze.org/wiki/Hauptseite About an hour ago I lost my status as administrator and part of the content of the site has been blocked. Can you please help? I assume that this happened by changes made by one of the currently 4 users.
What type of information do you need to verify my identity?
Many thanks in advance,
Lorena

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Internet_Governance_Forum_Germany created this task.Apr 5 2019, 12:02
Herald added a subscriber: Reception123. · View Herald TranscriptApr 5 2019, 12:02
Paladox subscribed.Apr 5 2019, 13:50

Hi, thanks for notifying us. We are looking into this.

Internet_Governance_Forum_Germany added a comment.Apr 5 2019, 13:54

Hi,
by now all pages of the wiki are restricted and I cannot see what is happening. I am assuming that this is a malicious attack and request to block all users.
Please, help us. We are in the middle of a collaborative event process and now the outside world cannot reach and check.
Many thanks in advance!

Paladox added a subscriber: Void.Apr 5 2019, 14:08

@Internet_Governance_Forum_Germany could you try again please, i think i fixed your perms.

John changed the visibility from "Custom Policy" to "Public (No Login Required)".Apr 5 2019, 16:27
John changed the edit policy from "Custom Policy" to "All Users".
John edited projects, added MediaWiki; removed acl*security.
Herald added subscribers: CnocBride, NDKilla. · View Herald TranscriptApr 5 2019, 16:27
Internet_Governance_Forum_Germany added a comment.Apr 5 2019, 19:03

Hey Paladox,
many many thanks! Is it possible to restrict editing rights to administrators and confirmed users? What happened? And is there something we can do to avoid this in the future?
Again, heartfelt thanks.

Reception123 added a comment.Apr 7 2019, 09:41

@Internet_Governance_Forum_Germany You can restrict editing to admins and confirmed by removing the edit permission from everyone else on Special:ManageWikiPermissions

Reception123 closed this task as Resolved.Apr 9 2019, 05:38
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