Thread:Balm0th/@comment-5142283-20160802033203/@comment-17710859-20160802235451

Balm0th wrote: For example when it says

Run the installation script from the …/extensions/ExtensionInstaller/ directory I cannot do that because I don't have access to any directories. Wikia basically gives a space to do your stuff but that is pretty much it. No mucking with directories and installing stuff. Unless I am missing something really obvious.

That's right. This is something that I didn't get at first (I was all like "wtf I'm missing something, I'm the founder I should have full access to the wiki but where the puck I install mediawiki extensions?", but after studying website languages and creation I got it.

To make a comparison with a hypothetical, normal website you could create: here on wikia it's as if you could only edit html pages, css and javascript files, but not having any kind of access to any other file, directory or part of the website