OT MediaWiki: How does one create a sysop account for mediawiki?

[Joseph Kubik]

Thought this went to the list:
When you enter the username from the "promotion" window, you must
capitolize the first letter of the username you are promoting.
-Joseph-
On 11/30/05, Sy Ali <sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 11/28/05, Joseph Kubik <josephkubik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > That should have worked, but instead I'm getting
> > User "usename" could not be made into a sysop. (Did you enter the name
> > correctly?)
> > And I can see this user on the list of specia:users
>
> That's really odd.  I recently went through this routine:
>
> * Install MediaWiki
> * Create a user
> * Log out
> * Log in as the administrator (which I set up during installation)
> * Go to the user rights page
> * Promote the user
>
> It's supposed to work as simply as that!  If there are issues with
> doing it like this, then there must be problems somewhere.  Of course,
> hacking around in the mysql database could also be an answer, but I
> don't know enough about the tabling guts to advise.
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