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Template:Location map~ doesn't work on my wiki
Hello everyone. On my wiki, https://mypersonal.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page, the template "Location map~" doesn't seem to work. I copied it from a fandom wiki and there it works perfectly, but on my wiki, it displays "<.div style="position: absolute; z-index: 2; top: Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".%; left: Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".%; height: 0; width: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">" and shows the red dot with the city name next to it. I tried to look for those brackets that it doesn't recognize but found nothing. Thank you in advance, hope you can help me! <3 Btw sorry yesterday I mistakenly wrote this on the archive. :P
 * I'm not familiar with Fandom/Wikia (I preferred the Wikia name, personally), but it's quite likely they use a modified markup to render their pages. Have you tried removing the preceding period for the "div" tag that precedes the "style" attribute? That's the only think stands out to me from your quoted text. I haven't yet looked at your wiki, though. As for accidentally posted to the archive, thanks for letting us know. has already removed it. In future if you make an error like that, you can go back as soon as realize and hit "undo" on your edit(s). If you're the most recent editor, you can still undo both edits without rollback rights. Dmehus (talk) 14:58, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Also, please remember to sign your posts with ~ as a bot automatically archives threads according to the date of last activity. Without a timestamp, it's not necessarily able to do its job (although in this case, it would've, since I replied). Still, signing identifies who is posting. I've added your signature for you with unsigned. Dmehus (talk) 15:01, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

No longer able to add people to groups
Hi! I'm an admin at companybumpers.miraheze.org and after my last visit to the permissions settings, I don't know how, but the admin and bureaucrat groups are no longer able to add people to any other groups. The Group Assignments tab seemed like the logical place to fix this, but nothing worked. Would you have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Hb1290 (talk) 10:07, 9 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I guess it's because of a server-side issue. Try deleting your cookies on all miraheze domains. --Jack980517 (talk) 20:14, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Fixed! IDK why, but when I tried fixing it the first time, the Group Assignments table had totally different groups in it for some reason. When I went back in today, the normal groups were showing. That outage the other day was just after the problem happened, so maybe that had something to do with it. Hb1290 (talk) 02:30, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Need help on category suppression
w:Wikipedia:Category Suppression says: "you need to surround the categorization code with, otherwise your template itself will be categorized."

However, I tried this on mh:silentblue:Template:maimai Difficulty, and the template itself is still added into the categories, and I don't want that. The categories are only meant to have the pages that the templates are transcluded on.

How can I achieve what I want? Thanks.

Jack980517 (talk) 18:23, 10 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Yes, I see it. My initial guess is that something in this rat's nest is mismatched (curly braces or tags).  If the   is not in order when encountered, then the   would be ignored as well.   03:26 11-Jun-2020


 * Oh, for Pete's sake! Your Usage (with  ) contains a use of itself as an example!  So the template is one of "the pages that the templates are transcluded on"!  Mystery solved   03:31 11-Jun-2020  I recommend that you write code that inhibits output of the categories if the target is in the Template: namespace.   03:34 11-Jun-2020


 * Thank you very much. I somehow overlooked that the noinclude portion contains a transclusion lol... --Jack980517 (talk) 06:30, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, . I was going to suggest that, but wasn't quite sure if it was that simple. Glad you got it resolved, . Dmehus (talk) 03:36, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Code of Conduct Commission reform RfC
As was the case with the CVT reform earlier, it is time to reform the CoCC which in its current form presents many flaws and challenges. Here is my current draft, feel free to make suggestions and edits before it's published as an RfC! Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 13:13, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

I have a question about the results of the Zppix poll held in Requests for global rights
Granted, it doesn't meet the appointment requirements stipulated in the Global Sysop policy, but it seems to meet the requirements of Proposal 4.1.I would like to hear your opinion on which standard should be adopted.If you write it in the wrong place, we would appreciate it if you could move it to the right place.Thanks.--松 (talk) 01:00, 12 June 2020 (UTC)fix.--松 (talk) 01:02, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The reasoning behind my approach is;


 * 4.1 states “During this 5 day period they will remain in the group.”
 * There was no time limit enacted on requesting confirmation.
 * A CVT member who never requests a confirmation, retains rights the community have voted to abolish.
 * Therefore, in closing the RfC I said; “Anyone who fails to create one by this deadline will be deemed 'resigned'.” As a CVT member who does not opt to move from an abolished group to an established group, is effectively not requesting access to the new group. As such, abolishment of a group effectively ceases to have the previous group membership.
 * A 7-day period was given from close of RfC for a user to trigger a confirmation before the CVT group was going to be technically abolished.
 * Both CVT and Global Sysop policies have the revocation clause of “rights revoked for any reason, they must make a successful request that satisfies the criteria above in order to regain the rights.”
 * As such, a user who has their rights removed for not initiating a confirmation request in the 7 day period, of which was not objected to by anyone - including the user who acknowledged they needed to start the request within 7 days of the RfC - has had their rights removed. To which policy mandates they go through a full request to regain the rights.
 * Had circumstances which prevented the request from being filed reasonably within 7 days had been notified to a Steward, discretion may have been applied, or alternatively another user could have asked for confirmation of the rights without any issue.
 * The above is full reasoning behind my handling of this situation as backed up by written policy and common sense applied otherwise. John (talk) 01:21, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I see.I still thought Zppix was at CVT, but it seemed to be my misunderstanding.Thank you for teaching me.--松 (talk) 04:17, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

internal error
An internal error has occurred. Can it be repaired?--雪津風明石 (talk) 04:24, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * In Warships Wiki.--雪津風明石 (talk) 04:25, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * (Add)If it cannot be repaired, is it possible to delete it and have it recreated?--雪津風明石 (talk) 05:23, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll ping here, in case they hadn't seen this discussion. Dmehus (talk) 03:32, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Void wouldn't be much help here, I've poked a sysadmin to look. Next time, please report on  ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  13:41, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello, this has been fixed. Paladox (talk) 13:49, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks—I wasn't certain if it was a wiki owner-caused issue or something to do with the server configuration, but in any case, yeah, that's something that should get a quicker response on Phab. Will do., thanks for the follow-up and/or fixing. Dmehus (talk) 14:56, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

No match was found
I have a problem with the search on my wiki. When user try to find something in the full version of the wiki in the quick tips box it writes that no match was found. When user press enter button, mediawiki redirects to an existing article or search page with results. Sometimes quick results work. Maybe something on wiki broke search? Problems with the fast preview too --Kwack (talk) 13:37, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

"Loss of session data" happened again
As before, clearing all miraheze cookies fixed it. Just posting here to notify people about it. --Jack980517 (talk) 11:52, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Need help on Navboxes
mh:silentblue:Template:Kotonoha Project

Why do the lists show as normal lists instead of horizontal ones like on Wikipedia? --Jack980517 (talk) 13:02, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Because they're formatted using asterisks that precede each item. I believe on English Wikipedia, it's customary to use a special character that resembles a small dot, aligned vertically in the middle of the text that precedes and follows it, to separate the list items. Have a look at w:Template:Canadian banks for the character I mean. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 13:12, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * If you look at the source code of the template that you linked to, you'll see that it uses the asterisk as well. All example code on w:Template:Navbox/doc uses the asterisk, and that was what I followed. There's some kind of transformation going on on Wikipedia that converts normal lists to the horizontal ones which is absent on my wiki. FWIW, the guide on copying Navbox to other wikis at w:Template Talk:Navbox isn't quite clear; it doesn't even specify which parts of Common.css to copy, for example, although I worked that out on my own. I did copy all 5 lua modules mentioned there. --Jack980517 (talk) 13:17, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Fair point. It seems like there's a dependent template, Hclass, that is also needed as it creates the horizontally styled lists. I would recommend exporting w:Template:Hclass, preferably all revisions so you are backward compatible on the CC licensing, and then use Special:Import to import it to your wiki. Let me know if that helps. Dmehus (talk) 13:32, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for looking into it. w:Template:Hclass doesn't exist though. --Jack980517 (talk) 13:40, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * It does. That's a typo in my wikilink above. It is Hlist. You can grab it at w:Template:Hlist. Hope that helps? ;-) Dmehus (talk) 13:47, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I imported w:Template:Hlist and w:Module:List, and it didn't help. Jack980517 (talk) 14:15, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Update: that was a capitalization problem because I turned off $wgCapitalLinks. But now Module:List complains that Module:TableTools is not found. The dependency tree just gets deeper and deeper... I guess I'll just not use this conversion at all. Jack980517 (talk) 14:21, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Go to the wiki page that has the template you want to import and click the edit button on that page. You probably won't be able to edit it, but you should see the modules and templates the template is using.--松 (talk) 16:35, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

My private wiki is throwing an error saying "Fatal exception of type MWException" on every page, and is unusable

 * The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

This discussion was moved to Stewards' noticeboard (permanent link). Dmehus (talk) 17:20, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

My wiki link is https://prodlegendsdiscussion.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

I was setting up some user groups, then, after pressing "submit", I begin getting this same error on every page. I can't do anything on the wiki now.

I really need help with this, thanks DaChickenKingboi (talk) 16:36, 14 June 2020 (UTC) . Dmehus (talk) 17:13, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * It looks like you've changed a setting that now requires reversion by a system administrator or steward. I'm moving this to SN. Please don't reply to this thread.
 * Moved to: Stewards' noticeboard


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section

Is my wiki broken?
So i made an wiki called Ideapedia. Source editor works, but VisualEditor doesn't. Also, the icon (not the favicon) doesn't appear. Please help! -AwesomePie16 08:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * When doing the logo/favicon, open up the target file in a new tab, the url should look something like https:// static.miraheze.org/somewiki/xx/x/name.file. So, for example, your favicon would be https://static.miraheze.org/ideapediawiki/8/8b/Favicon_%2813%29.ico instead of https://ideapedia.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Favicon_(13).ico. For VisualEditor, do be sure to go through all the namespaces in Special:ManageWiki/namespaces, and enable visual editor for that namespace. -- Void  Whispers 22:15, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Popups not working
Hello! I'm unsure if this is an error or something on my end, so I apologize if this is in the wrong place.

On the My Little Pony wiki, the popups function stopped working a few months back when the login server changed. I made a post about it on Phabricator, but it was closed within a day, saying that they should be working fine since some of the extensions got merged. I decided not to make a post about it since I assumed it was something on my end, but nothing I try seems to suggest that. I have both PopUps and TextExtracts enabled, and have checked Show Popups By Default in Special:ManageWiki/settings, but nothing works. I tried logging in and out but still nothng. Same error happens on Hilda wiki.

Any idea how to fix this? Or is it an error? --Amelia (talk) 17:33, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

I Can't Create Garbage Video Game Items Wiki For Some Reason
I am trying to create Garbage Video Game Items Wiki, where I will discuss the worst video game items. However, it won't let me do so because it keeps saying, "Your wiki request contains an invalid character." I typed everything correctly and double-checked for invalid characters, and it turns out there aren't any invalid characters. Can you please figure out the problem? HammerBro101 (talk) 01:43, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The description may have contained the improper characters specified in the blacklist. Please request again without these characters, or tell us the wiki you want to create and the reasons here. --そらたこ (talk) 06:09, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Where do I register my thanks to you? From Idea to live in 7 hours!
The subject says it all.
 * Your welcome :) ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  22:29, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Identity
I am more than confused regarding my identity when interacting with Miraheze or it's representatives and/or community.

Of course, I am a newbie here – my wiki went online only 2 days back. So, much experience to be gathered. This is not a criticism of the resources and free hosting that Miraheze has supplied. It is more in the way of asking a question.

It seems that Miraheze provides a plethora of means by which I can contact a human but they are not all immediately transparent as to how each should be/are used.

I will list them here, for the avoidance of doubt;

Contact us   • IRC: #miraheze (recommended) • Discord: https://discord.is/miraheze • Facebook: Miraheze • Twitter: @miraheze • On-wiki: Help center

For reasons specific to me, none of these are viable means of casual chat like, for example, "How do I get yellow text on a black background?". Sure, the answer is "Look at Mediawiki – they have loads of help". And they do, and that question would be answered. No problem.

It is not the answer that is my problem, it is the medium by which I am forced to ask any question. That is my problem. Maybe it is only MY problem.

We can discard Facebook and Twitter since I refuse to give those entities any semblance of control in my life. I have discarded IRC because I really do not want to learn another new thing (I'm already learning wikimedia and wikidata) and the On-wiki Help centre is not a chat channel.

That leaves Discord. I am very familiar with that and use it for two completely separate slices of my online life. So I went there. It turns out that it needs an email address. Does it? Does it really?

Yes. It does. Not only that – it needs a password to associate that email address to. Which password? A new one? Or one that I use with Discord? Which of my two identities on Discord does it want? Or does it want a third one? Or one that I will only use with Miraheze? Or one that I use with my Bank? No help nor hint is supplied.

Perhaps someone here can do better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brianwade75 (talk • contribs) 23:24, 16 June 2020‎ (UTC)
 * I was pretty sure that the discord server simply required having an email registered to your discord account. So long as you have verified that email address, you should be able to participate. If you're still having issues, I'm sure we can try and figure something out. -- Void  Whispers 00:19, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You can ask questions on this page (as you just asked your meta-question about asking questions). I've provided formatting help and debugging here, or others might beat me to it.   22:31 19-Jun-2020

Can I change the domain of the URL?
Can I change the domain of the URL? I want to change the domain before ".miraheze.org". What should I do?--雪津風明石 (talk) 06:38, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * This is possible by changing the connection to the DB. If you can, could you create a task on Phabricator. --そらたこ (talk) 07:03, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

I could not login at Phabricator with my account
I wanted to ask for Import of this Template:



But I was not able to login with my accout (I tried a few times)

thx for help. --Heinz (talk) 02:34, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi. What error message are you getting when you try to login? Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 06:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I got:Username or Password are incorrect.
 * It´s the Ping-Template I wanted to install on my Wiki. It does not work, sad. --Heinz (talk) 10:24, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I see you have managed to make a request, I've answered on Phabricator :) Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 11:13, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

AutoWikiBrowser is broken!
(I couldn't report this to Phabricator as the login feature on Meta does not work for me)

When logging into my account to any Miraheze wiki (e.g. scratchwiki) through AutoWikiBrowser, it doesn't work! AutoWikiBrowser does work on wikis not owned by Miraheze, so it's a Miraheze issue.

Here is the error message when logging in: API returned the following error: 'The "login" module requires a POST request.'

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors

**description**: **workaround**: -- **OS**: Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0 **version**: AutoWikiBrowser (6.1.0.1), WikiFunctions (6.1.0.1), revision 12353 (2019-09-17 21:16:42) **net**: 4.0.30319.42000 **duplicate**: **site**: http://scratch.miraheze.org Dibbydib (talk) 06:22, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I fixed it! You need to set the site to HTTPS instead of HTTP in preferences. Dibbydib (talk) 08:06, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Can't log in
For some reason I can't log in to the Military Wiki. The cause is probably that you changed the URL. I can log in to wikis other than this, but it is not retained even if I check "Keep my login status", and I am logged out when I press F5 to update. What should i do? --雪津風明石 (talk) 06:03, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * This phenomenon (cannot log in to MilitaryWiki) is occurring in other users. This makes all administrators unable to log in.--雪津風明石 (talk) 06:15, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The problem of being logged out without permission has been resolved.--雪津風明石 (talk) 06:17, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * When I try to log in, the following message is displayed.
 * There are currently no login attempts made for your session.
 * Original text in Japanese) あなたのセッションに関して現在ログインの試行は行われていません. 
 * This message is displayed in red.--雪津風明石 (talk) 06:20, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Try reporting to Phabricator.--松•Matsu (talk) 15:38, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Doesn't remember "dark mode"
The Timeless wiki appearance is quite appealing and similar to wordpress.

However, when I set "dark mode" and change page, the wiki is light again.

Setting "dark" in every page is troublesome as clicking links is ubiquitous.

I would like a way to solve this,

It would be good to either set dark mode by default in my wiki or in my user. If both are possible I would like to know it as well.

Cheers and thanks in advance. (Don't know how to sign here, no button)
 * It's not quite the same thing, but Timeless-DarkCSS might be similar to what you want. As for signing, just type  at the end of your message.


 * Thanks, I will try that. And if anyone else has more reccomendations for dark themes also would try those. Our wiki community is accustomed to fandom darkness -in all possible senses- (sadly my keyboard configuration doesn't use those "tilde" signs, spanish keyboards don't have them physically inscribed either. Oh well. copy and paste it is...) --NimoStar (talk) 05:49, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The bug with the dark mode extension is known. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  06:07, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * That's too bad. Anyways, I ended up doing my own version of a dark Timeless mode since the "dark" one was not too much to my liking (outdated code and giant serif fonts) It is here https://tuscriaturas.miraheze.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Timeless.css ; if anyone has any advide on how to share it in mediawiki platform, I will hear. --NimoStar (talk) 02:14, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Gallery template don't recognize any parameters
Hi, I'm working on a Infobox that have a gallery on it but for some reason when I try to use parameters inside the gallery tag it does not recoginize them as parameters. I already did that once on Fandom on now I'm trying to do the same here so I can autopopullate the gallery.

This behaviour seems intentional so I would like to know if there is anyway to get what I want.

Here is what I'm trying: And should be used like this:

Any hint??

--arracso (talk) 17/06/2020


 * doesn't work in tags like . I worked around it by declaring a variable with #vardefine, which is a parser function provided by the Variables extension. See mh:silentblue:Template:YouTube. Jack980517 (talk) 19:32, 19 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I already tryed using Variables on this example. As you can see it works for setting the text of the gallery but it does not work to set the image. Do you think this is a bug??? Also have any idea how to solve this. I'm open to anything. I know js but still figuring out how to use it on templates. Also I don't know not lua which I think I will be the best to solve this (create a gallery using lua). --arracso (talk) 19:53, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Tabber seems to work for this purpose. Thanks for your response. I still want to know someway to use the gallery since maybe Tabber won't always work.

Help making multi-language wiki?
So, in out project at tuscriaturas.miraheze.org we have an Spanish wiki. But we also want to have an English wiki with translations of the same subject, and possibly more (we had a barebone English wiki with interlink added at the dreadful Fandom). However, I do not know nor was able to figure out how interwiki links and extra language wikis are managed at Miraheze. Do we need to request for more separate wikis? (such as "yourcreatures.miraheze.org"), do we use the same domain and administration? Do site admins need to link our wikis manually, or can we do it ourselves? Is there any guide to this or manuals? I think the ones at mediawiki would only be good if we were miraheze sysops. Thanks in advance. --NimoStar (talk) 02:19, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * There's a couple of ways to handle this, first, we can create multiple wikis and add interwiki prefixes that will be treated as language links (will need to look up how that is configured, but if that's what you want, all you'll need to do is ask). Alternately, you could just enable the translate extension so that you can have multiple language versions of the same page on the same wiki. As an example, you can check out our main page. You should be able to do this yourself, unlike the multiple wikis option which will require a phabricator task. -- Void  Whispers 02:00, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Annual survey
Hi! The time has come for our annual survey, please participate: Special:MirahezeSurvey. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 16:09, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

The problem with blogs comments on PowerDagger15 Friends Wiki
It seems that the wiki which I'm the bureaucrat on, "PowerDagger15 Friends Wiki" https://powerdaggerfifteensfriends.miraheze.org/ has blog pages, but comments on blog pages are not working. When I made a comment, I press post, but it's not working. What can I do? CircleyDoesExtracter (talk) 10:46, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Delete archives of crummyscratchers, crappyscratchprojects, and reversecrummyscratchers
Hi. I'm CircleyDoesExtracter. I am telling archive.org to delete the archives of subdomains crummyscratchers.miraheze.org, reversecrummyscratchers.miraheze.org, and crappyscratchprojects.miraheze.org. They emailed me, and I am not the owner of 2 wikis, but I am the owner of reverse crummy scratchers wiki. Pacsonic9000 owns CSW and CPSW, and he requested me to delete these archives. CircleyDoesExtracter (talk) 22:16, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * This is censorship. Are you even allowed to do this on behalf of Miraheze Staff? It's their say on whether or not a wiki gets archived by Wayback, not yours. KamafaDelgato021469 (talk) 23:59, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The scratch team wants to take down the archives, but I do not own these wikis, so Pacsonic will do the work. CircleyDoesExtracter (talk) 01:00, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Please don't bandy about big words like "censorship." No government is involved.  I believe Wayback is a totally separate organization that makes copies of information it finds (freely) on the web.   01:39 6-Jun-2020
 * I tell Wayback Machine to delete the archives of subdomains crummyscratchers, crappyscratchprojects, and reversecrummyscratchers! Can I need the stewards to request deletion of archives? CircleyDoesExtracter (talk) 20:12, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Miraheze has no control over the Wayback Machine! Contact the Internet Archive (which owns the Machine) here: https://archive.org/about/contact.php -- 09:40, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * But it said that I'm not the owner of these archives, Miraheze is truly the owner of these archives. I told Rhinos to do. CircleyDoesExtracter (talk) 00:17, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

RfC draft open for comments
I am requesting comments from the community for my draft RfC User:Sario528/Draft:Global rollback. This RfC will be a follow-up to the CVT reform RfC, and covers the possible creation of a new global group. Sario528 (talk) 19:39, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Translation is not reflected
I have translated Administrators/ja but the translation is not reflected.Please give some advice.thanks.--松•Matsu (talk) 13:03, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hey This is due to my conversion to the tags. It's normal behaviour, on the main translation page it's okay. Regards --MrJaroslavik (talk) 13:34, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your reply.I was relieved to hear that it was normal.Is it okay to blank this page?--松•Matsu (talk) 13:59, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

More Stewards. Any candidates?
While I am not really around much here I took at short look at some of the noticeboards and requests and it looks like there are really not enough Stewards and even Global Sysops for this big project (also remembering the Reception wiki problems). I do not think I know enough or that I am active enough to be a candidate for any of those posts but I think someone should take a step forward and try to run! I will support any users with a history of experience and that show understanding of the Miraheze policies as I think a new person is really needed. Maybe we also need more users and volunteers that are active on Meta, but how do we do that? DeeM28 (talk) 17:25, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Also we have seen a lot of WP:SNOW candidates before and that is not what I am asking here! Only users with actual experience should step forward. DeeM28 (talk) 17:26, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, Miraheze need more active stewards for responding requests at SN, request for adoption, locks, etc...--MrJaroslavik (talk) 19:54, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Skin Customization
How do I customize a pre-existing skin like Vector?

CDN server error?
User:hibiki told me that they couldn't view any pictures on my wiki; all requests to the PNG files themselves return 500. I can view them perfectly fine however. I'm accessing using a HK IP address, and they tried UK and HK IP addresses. This is only happening to my wiki, not any other wikis. I'm suspecting a CDN error, but that couldn't explain why they still encountered the 500 error when using a HK IP address. Can someone take a look please? --Jack980517 (talk) 09:23, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
 * This is affecting all wikis and is tracked in T5812. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  09:25, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

How can I make a good looking main page for my site?
I seem to have problems designing a somewhat decent looking main page, my wiki is the Canimals wiki which I own and edit on.Μπέλα2006 (talk) 18:14, 28 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I don't understand this!
 * If you need ideas for how to make a main page look good, look at other people's wikis. You can steal and reuse their code, providing you indicate in the documentation that it was theirs.
 * If you had something in mind and don't know how to write Wikicode to make it appear, we can help you.
 * If there is something specific making your main page look bad, we can get to the bottom of that too.


 * A main page should welcome the reader and explain what the reader can find, and do, on your wiki. A good way to start is to just write text.  Section headings, boldface, and italics (if not over-used) can make it more appealing to the eye.  Then add photos and colors.   18:45 28-Jun-2020


 * Also: When asking for help, include a link to the wiki you're talking about, so we can click on it and see the problem.  I don't see a "Canimals" wiki at all.   18:48 28-Jun-2020


 * @Spike I do know how to add Images but I do not know how to code on the site. Also the Link for the Canimals wiki is https://canimalswiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page .Μπέλα2006 (talk) 18:51, 28 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Then I still don't understand what you are asking. Your Main Page looks respectable; the "ugliest" thing about it is hitting new users with 21 rules and other things not to do!  The best general rule is to look at a lot of other wikis and then "edit" or "view source" to see how they coded it.   19:20 28-Jun-2020


 * The rules part was imported from another wiki. Also, Could you fix the problems by wiki has?Μπέλα2006 (talk) 19:23, 28 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I don't see any problems, and you still aren't saying what they are. Thank you for making me an Admin, but now I think you are just advertising for visitors!  Besides, I've never watched Canimals!  (And you have rules against death threats and porno links!)   19:29 28-Jun-2020
 * It’s fine by me for somebody to have not watched it, I am not advertising it, just saying.Μπέλα2006 (talk) 19:31, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

All images below original resolution are very blurry
Hi. On the company bumpers wiki for some reason any image shown below its original resolution, e.g. when it's been added to a page, comes out really blurry. It's not just my connection, I've tried different devices on different networks to the same result. Any ideas what's causing this? I haven't been touching the settings other than to play with some extensions which shouldn't cause anything like this. Hb1290 (talk) 03:42, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Infobox template error
I am trying import the television episode infobox from Wikipedia to my canimals wiki, but trying to do that even after css was imported, it still gives me a error, could you please explain this?Μπέλα2006 (talk) 17:52, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Many Wikipedia Infobox templates are dependent on other templates and you must have them all for it to work. On CSS, you can't simply import it but must install it in a controlling page such as  .  There is slightly more at FAQ.  There may be a better answer from someone who knows the details of this template.   18:24 29-Jun-2020
 * I have css on but still can’t get the infobox to work correctly, could you help me do it?Μπέλα2006 (talk) 18:27, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You cannot import a Infobox television episode whose first line is !  This doesn't define itself, it calls itself, which is exactly what you are being told in the error message,  .  You have imported a template that calls another template, which you probably didn't import.  See the first sentence of my first reply.   02:00 30-Jun-2020
 * If you want to bring in complex templates from Wikipedia like infoboxes and navboxes, you should export the page from Wikipedia using Special:Export on their site, making sure to have "include templates" ticked, then upload the resulting XML file on Special:Import on your own site. This will bring across your template plus any modules and other templates it might be reliant on. Hb1290 (talk) 01:15, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Important information regarding any wiki requests regarding Scratch
Per this RFC for the next 45 days any requests relating to scratch will not be approved. This starts as of July 3, 2020 at 20:24 UTC. Zppix (Meta &#124; CVT Member &#124; talk to me) 20:24, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Why is new group in "Groups you cannot change" list?
I just created a new group (Editors2) to test. My current editors group members lost their ability to edit. I created a task on Maniphest (T5197). Meanwhile, I'm trying to set up a new group to see if it works better. But the group ended up in the column Groups you cannot change.

Database error Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError"
Hello,

I get the below Error when I try to confirm a new user

Unable to create account requests after review using "Extension:ConfirmAccount"

A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.

[XlqhX1j8TVgeQ-VWcDebrQAAAI8] 2020-02-29 17:37:35: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError"

What do we do? -MeMeGuY

Can someone please give me a very basic and easy to follow guide to creating infoboxes and infobox templates to use on my wiki? Thank you
I mean the subject says it all- I've been trying for hours to figure out how to get an infobox to appear. I would like to create a template for an infobox for cities- so that when I use it for multiple pages, each one about a city, there will be an infobox with facts such as when it was founded, where it is located, who rules it, etc. Everything I have found is written by experts for other advanced users, and extreme absolute beginners like me can't understand a single word. Would somebody know what to do- how to get this result?

From what I've tried, I've received a template loop error, and now all it comes up with is "Template:Infobox" in red, not even "Template:Infobox city" like what I had written. I have a page called Templaet:Infobox city which has some code that looks (for example) like:

and on the page where I want the infobox to appear, I have something (once again, just an example) like:

The examples are just super basic and not actually what I use, but they're to the extent. If someone could please help me understand why the infobox is not appearing, instead saying there's a loop or plain red text, that would be much appreciated.

Side note, if I manage to understand how to get this up and running, having an image in the infobox would be much appreciated. I'm not sure if I'll be able to figure it out on my own, so if you want to explain how that works as well I won't be complaining :)

Thank you very much


 * Welcome to Miraheze! Basically, typing   into a page simply copies ("transcludes") the text of the specified template and inserts it at that point.  You've figured out how to pass parameters.  There is no secret to getting images to appear; the code of the template, after being transcluded with the parameters substituted, simply has to make sense at its new home.  If you are seeing "Template:Infobox" in red, it means that Template:Infobox doesn't exist on your wiki.  Naturally, as your examples suggest that you named it "Infobox city".  This part of the problem I suspect is the result of a simple typo.


 * MediaWiki's help page is here. Wikipedia and other wikis already have "Infobox city", as well as a generic template to build infoboxes for specific uses such as cities.  Our FAQ may help you import their templates.


 * Two general tips: Find a wiki that's already doing what you want to do, and steal the code.  Also, type what you want into the page without using a template, then transfer more and more of it into the template.  But first, solve the naming problem!   11:21, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm unfortunately back again with more infobox problems :/
Thank you for your message before, but I unfortunately couldn't figure out the problem. I read the wiki, FAQ and revised my Template pages, to no avail.

Firstly, I checked the page I want to infobox to appear on and it said that it was getting templates from both Template:Infobox and Template:Infobox city, even though I only had written in. The Template:Infobox page wasn't needed (or at least I hope not) so whatever I had been messing about in there, I deleted the page, clearing it. I left just Template:Infobox city, but the page where I wanted my infobox continued to say it was pulling templates from the two pages.

It seems like there are two types of templates- the template you have on the "Template:Infobox whatever" page that tells the wiki what parameter goes where, and how to build the infobox, and the template you put on the page where you want the infobox to go. I believe that my problems are with the first kind of template. SO I went to the FAQ to see if there was something about how to use these first kind of infoboxes.

Reading the FAQ I saw you had to import and export templates to get infoboxes to work. In that case, since I don't want a premade infobox template but a custom template to create a custom infobox, I went to Wikipedia and found Template:Infobox, the page I believed had the template to create templates- in specific, the first kind of templates I was talking about, the ones that go on the "Template:Infobox whatever" page. And now I found myself with even MORE problems as I couldn't get the Special:Import page to work.

I had copied the link of the Template:Infobox page from Wikipedia, and using Wikipedia's Special:Export page, I exported it as a XML file. From here, I went to my own wiki's Special:Import page, and placed the file in. Once I got it to work by some miracle, and it said it had imported some pages such as modules and stuff, things I didn't really want. But there it was- the Template page. I went there and... nothing at all. It was blank- even in the script editor. I had gone back to the page where the infobox should be to find nothing at all.

I went back to Wikipedia's Template:Infobox page to try and copy some of the syntax (I think that's what it's called?) of what looked like the template into my own Template:Infobox page. And yet, it read it as the second kind of template I was talking about, the template that draws upon the first. It called upon itself and created a template loop.

I'm going to read about Import and Export, and I would like to read about the first kind of template, but I haven't found any information that I can understand yet. It's like reading a dictionary, but all the definitions are made up of words you don't know the definitions of.

I'm also going to search other people's wiki's on Miraheze to try and find instances of infoboxes and see if I can figure out what they've done.

If you see anything I'm doing wrong, or anything I should be doing, please tell me- it'll be extremely appreciated. Thank you!


 * First of all, rules:
 * Post to talk pages by appending to the relevant section, or creating a new section.
 * Do not erase your previous posts to a talk page.
 * Especially do not erase my response. When you call up an edit box and type in new comments, that's what you're doing.
 * Sign and timestamp your post by typing  at the end of your final line.


 * I think the reason it tells you you are calling both Infobox city and Infobox is that the former calls the latter, because the former is built in terms of the latter. Most Infoboxes, if you try to view them as a page rather than transclude them, will show you instructions on their proper usage.  Typically this includes how to code images:  It may be that you have to type the complete   or even   syntax, or it may be that you just type the name of the image file.  This depends on how much of your parameter the template transcludes and how much the template adds on its own.


 * FAQ won't give you information anywhere this detailed on a specific template. Moreover, what we wrote at FAQ only described the case where you want to import complete templates from a wiki such as Wikipedia.  I use templates and would not want to deal with these complications.  Again I suggest that you get a page to appear the way you want it to, and only then think about using templates to automate the process to simplify creation of additional articles.   00:34, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Using chosen value from a field as a category for second field
Hey all, been running myself in circles trying to sort this one out, so hopefully someone has an idea or two I haven't thought of. I'm primarily using PageForms and trying to make a second field use the value of the first field as it's category, which I think needs to just be carried over as a string, though my knowledge sort of fizzles out beyond whats readily found on the internet and I might just be speaking gibberish. Anyway, this is a nonfunctional quasi-code snippet that I think represents what I'd -like- to do, but it seems not nearly as simple:

'System' field|System|mandatory|values from category=Systems|existing values only

'Planet' field|Planet|mandatory|values from category=value_chosen_in_System_field|existing values only

I can reference these fields on the following page of course, but not right on the form page itself. And I know the show on select option exists, but that requires adding all trees into the form manually, whereas I'd prefer it be dynamic as new data will be regularly added to all of the categories. I feel like I am overlooking something obvious, as I certainly can't be the first person to want to do this, and I appreciate any guidance!

Where add template?
I feel so clueless.

I just want to compile research, articles & photos to provide for leaders & others to reference as they're figuring out methods to deal with Coronavirus. Was hoping to do in basic format like this:

Main Title

Section Title Citation Summary of research  (& maybe photo in there somewhere)  ~Just text. No additional title needed Explanation of significance -Some little way to signify transition to new topic, by indent, italic or ??

with ability to add more sections.

Where do I make a template like this & will it automatically be inserted whenever I make a new page? I'm sorry to ask so many questions--I'm trying to learn but also get doing research faster. If you can help me figure out, thanks a TRILLION!!


 * I'm catching on some about formatting, but don't know where to make a template file that will appear on all pages.
 * I saw a reference to "local settings" (I think for css) but I am not able to find. Please help?

Update: I better not keep try to use another format to try to keep records in right now. This has turned out to be too high of a learning curve for me, lol!


 * You might look at my recommendations to someone else in Sec. 5 above.


 * The coding that might help you is a Wikitable:


 * Get the code to work first. Then transfer it to a template to mass-produce it!   22:34, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Lost ability to post comments and create pages on Terrible TV Shows Wiki
I was a autoconfirmed user on the wiki but for some reason, I lost the rights. I talked to an admin and he made me as a confirmed user but the problem still hasn't been resolved. How can I become a autoconfirmed user again? I have no issues on Crappy Games Wiki or Awful Movies Wiki where I am a autoconfirmed user. On Rotten Websites Wiki, I'm not an autoconfirmed user but I can still make edits and post comments.

'''Can someone solve my problem? Why are you answering the questions posted after me without answering mine?'''

Only the Edit Source option is available when trying to update my sandbox plus previous issue still not solved.
I want to update my sandbox on Awful Movies Wiki but it's only letting me edit the source only and not edit the page itself. That's very inconvenient for me because it's much faster to edit as the page should be displayed unless I'm uploading videos.

And I still haven't gotten a reply with the previous issue that I posted last week that I'm having on Terrible TV Shows Wiki. Can someone please let me know what's going on and why Miraheze is becoming worse to use with each passing day?

This is getting ridiculous. Once again, the users who posted after me are getting help from the staff but I get ignored. Can you at least post something so I know what the reason is?

I’m doing something!
I’m moving the CLG dream logos thing from Wikifoundry to Miraheze!

Requests for Comment/Prohibit hate-based wikis
This is now an RfC at the address shown above. The discussion that was here is moved to the RfC. 13:22, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Request for Comment/Require that RfCs undergo a public comment period
An emerging RfC would require future RfCs to have two phases, a public comment period lasting at least 1 week and then a formal vote, during which new ballot proposals would not be in order. It seeks to allow public participation but have the RfC be well-defined before voting begins so as to avoid redrafting on-the-fly.

The RfC will follow the rules it proposes for future RfCs and will therefore remain in my userspace (at the address shown above) for at least 1 week. Your comments are welcome there. 15:05, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

As I got feedback only by invitation before the start of the 1-week comment period, and none at all since, I will not submit this as an RfC at this time. 23:41 23-Jun-2020  Two of my contributors suggest I was wrong to read too much into the lack of feedback during the week, so I have indeed moved the RfC to mainspace, at the address shown above. 13:18, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

can't go on kbos funnies and multiple other wikis
should i clear my cache?

Questions about Autoarchive specifications
When I refer to Autoarchive, it says "Bot only archives texts below h2 level section".How does the archive bot work if we use strikethrough in section?--松•Matsu (talk) 15:46, 29 June 2020 (UTC)


 * As Autoarchive recommends that authors use a date from 2099, within, to ensure that a section will not be archived, my guess is that the 'bot ignores MediaWiki markup.  It would see your timestamp and ignore the struck-through context.  This is what you want, as your recent comment should inhibit archiving even if you then saw fit to strike it through.  (I welcome correction from the owner of the 'bot.)   16:58, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply.When you check the example you taught me, it seems that the bot looks at the source and makes a correct judgment even if the section displayed on the display is broken.(∵Bot ignores markup.)When I check this difference , Void seems to have corrected it just in case.(Thank you for the fix.)--松•Matsu (talk) 04:26, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

There seems to be a dummy signature template that prevents sending to the past log.Could you consider introducing it?--松•Matsu (talk) 04:26, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I will try to reissue the proposal after testing on the testwiki, so I will withdraw once.--松•Matsu (talk) 13:35, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I created a trial version on the test wiki..Please see Template:Do not archive until.--松•Matsu (talk) 08:02, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Hosting Custom Font
I have created a custom font face that I want to use (as a web font) for my RPG gaming wiki. Is there a way to upload the .woff (and/or the other format font files) and then utilize it as part fo the custom css for my wiki?

As this is a font face I have created form scratch, licensing of it is not an issue as I am the rights holder for the font.

What are the steps I need to take to actually get my custom font uploaded and/or installed and then referencing it within css as a web font for use across the entire wiki? — Mitchell Gore (talk) 06:58, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, you would need to upload the file via Special:Upload and then use @import css in MediaWiki:Common.css. If you need any help with this please let me know. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 17:03, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Use template arguments in
When making mh:silentblue:Template:YouTube, I used the variable extension to use the second argument as the video ID. However, the same doesn't work with tags. (See mh:silentblue:Template:nicovideo) Of course directly using doesn't work either. Is there a way to achieve what I want? (Note that, due to the current Content Security Policy configurations, nicovideo embeds would not load. The only way to see if it worked correctly is to see the HTML source code in Inspect Elements. I've already reported the CSP problem as a comment under T5535, but this is a separate problem.) Jack980517 (talk) 16:59, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Solved: More information Pinging who had a similar problem with the gallery extension. Jack980517 (talk) 19:48, 8 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I ended up using Tabber instead of Gallery. Arracso (talk) 20:20, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Skin is currently stuck and unchangeable.
I can't change the skin on my own wiki or even my personal preference for this one. It is always stuck looking like this: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/616667977852518400/729803875510386800/unknown.png.

I've tried going through Special:Preferences and over to appearance to change my skin, but it is STILL stuck. I've removed all customization from .css.

I am incredibly frustrated and very close to just deleting my account all together. All I wanted was to use this program to create a fake wikipedia page for a school project but nothing is working. ARavenInATree (talk) 21:02, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Have you checked if you are in mobile view? That is the default mobile skin. Hb1290 (talk) 02:59, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * How do I check if I'm on mobile view? ARavenInATree (talk) 22:04, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Scroll all the way to the bottom and look for the desktop/mobile view button. If the button reads "Desktop", you're in mobile view. Hb1290 (talk) 09:44, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Why am I not an autocomfrimed user yet?
I make a lot of edits on other wiki and why am I still not autocomfrimed Andrewbdfe (talk) 05:52, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Editing a lot on a wiki doesn't automatically make you confirmed PowerDagger15 (talk) 16:11, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I didn't know that okay Andrewbdfe (talk) 21:47, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * To add to 's response, autoconfirmed user group is what's known as an implicit user group that is automatically granted to all registered user accounts upon reaching certain criteria. On Meta, and on most wikis, typically, one needs to make ten (10) edits and have had their account for more than four (4) days. See Special:ManageWiki/permissions/autoconfirmed for more detail. Dmehus (talk) 14:17, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Running a News Site
Heya! Does anyone have a wikinews or blog-like site setup on miraheze? I'm fairly new to mediawiki and DynamicPageList3 is giving me trouble. So if anyone has a tutorial or some examples I could look at that would be super helpful!

CarolynKS (talk) 18:00, 9 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I use DPL on the Front Page at The Mirror; you can look at that. One thing I have come to know is that there are many, many different implementations of DPL.  On Wikia Uncyclopedia, we used DPL to sort authors in the Hall of Shame by number of featured articles.  But now at , we have a DPL with no numerical sort capability at all.   22:11, 9 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks! This is exactly what I needed.
 * CarolynKS (talk) 23:01, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Category Issue
When I load up a category, it will say nonsense followed by Fatal exception of type "MWException". Why on Earth would it do something like that, but what makes it worse is it they were working fine yesterday and then all of a sudden, this happens, why does it do that?Μπέλα2006 (talk) 15:30, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Update: Category’s are working again.Μπέλα2006 (talk) 15:50, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Miraheze's servers are unreliable and have a tendency to have momentary outages. It could be one of them. ~ El Komodos Drago (talk to me) 15:23, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what caused that error that Μπέλα2006 reported, but I'm going to ping RhinosF1 to this thread as he be able to offer some insight. Separately, this is unrelated to the above fatal exception error, but just thought I'd note this category-related bug which I've recently reported and which is tracked on Phabricator at T5905 (in case anyone has also noticed and wondered about that bug). Dmehus (talk) 15:35, 13 July 2020 (UTC)