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How do you set an administrator in a fresh installed Wikibase container?

Andrawaag

To run some of the special pages, admin have to be set. However, no admin is set in a new dockerized Wikibase instance. How do I set admins in Wikibase?

addshore

You can run the createAndPromote maintenance script.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CreateAndPromote.php

Although the Wikibase docker image creates an admin user at install time using some of the ENV vars that you pass into it.