Help:Admin Dashboard

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The Admin Dashboard is the central location for the tools used to maintain a wiki. Important special pages are listed here for easy access, and a selection of tasks are provided to help grow new communities. Wikis on the Unified Community Platform can also enable or disable Wiki Features through the Admin Dashboard.

Only Administrators, Discussions Moderators, and certain global user groups can access a wiki's Admin Dashboard.

Accessing the dashboard

The icon in red is a header shortcut that takes users with access to the Admin Dashboard.

There are three ways to access the Admin Dashboard:

Clicking on the "Admin" link in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen
Clicking the Admin Dashboard header shortcut at the top-right of the wiki
Visiting Special:AdminDashboard manually

List of tools

General

The General tab provides quick links to the tools used most often. This tab is further split into three sections:

Wiki

Theme Designer — customize your wiki colors, background, and more
Recent Changes — displays all of the changes made on your wiki in a single timeline
Reported (UCP) — view and moderate reported content from Comments, Message Wall, and Discussions
Top Navigation — customize the navigation menu at the top of your wiki
Wiki Features (legacy) — enable additional features on your wiki
CSS — customize your wiki with local CSS by editing MediaWiki:Wikia.css
Analytics — see how fans are interacting with your wiki

Community

User List (legacy) — a full list of users who have participated on your wiki
User Rights — add and remove group rights and permissions for users on your wiki
Community Corner (legacy) — edit the Community Corner section of your wiki
Help — find help at Help:Contents
Announcements — create an announcement for your community

Content

All Categories — view all of the categories on your wiki
Add a Page — add a new page to your wiki
Add a Photo — upload a new image to your wiki
Add a Video — add a new video to your wiki
Add a Blog Post — add a new blog post to your wiki
Multiple Photo Upload (legacy) — upload multiple images to your wiki

Advanced

The Advanced tab lists most of the special pages that aren't listed on the General tab. These special pages, along with the special pages linked on the General tab, can also be found at Special:SpecialPages.

Right sidebar

Progress

On newly-created wikis, the Admin Dashboard allows administrators to track the wiki's initial growth. The Progress module presents a series of tasks to complete, including benchmarks to reach. As tasks are completed, new tasks will be presented. If you're an admin of a new wiki and you aren't quite sure what you should be doing to grow your wiki, the Progress module can help!

None of the tasks are mandatory. They are simply guides on how to improve and grow a new wiki. Each task has a link to the relevant page where it can be completed, as well as a link to skip the task entirely. Skipped and upcoming tasks can be reviewed by clicking the progress percentage or the "See full list" link next to the percentage.

The Progress module will not appear on wikis that have completed all of the tasks. It will also not appear on wikis created before the Progress module was added.

Quick Stats

Wikis on the legacy platform will have a table on the Admin Dashboard presenting statistics on the last week's page views, edits, and new images on the wiki. The table also has a link to the wiki's insights.

Wikis on the Unified Community Platform do not see the Quick Stats section. Instead, the Analytics link under the General tab provides more detailed wiki statistics over the last 30 days.

Wiki Features

The wiki in this image has enabled the Europa Infobox Theme, Message Wall, and Article Comments.

Wikis on the Unified Community Platform can activate or deactivate certain Wiki Features through a module on the Admin Dashboard. All of these are optional and can be enabled or disabled at any time.

Europa Infobox Theme — infoboxes will follow the wiki's colors set in Theme Designer
Require all contributors to log in — logged-out users cannot edit wiki pages or interact with social features
Message Wall — replaces User talk pages with Message Walls
Article Comments — allows readers to post comments at the bottom of wiki articles
Blogs — allows users to create blog posts

Further help and feedback

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