User talk:Reception123

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Importing the Harry Potter Wiki
Hello, I am a disgruntled user from the Harrypotter.fandom.com site. I am requesting if you, as system admin, could import the entire site fromt here to here. All pages and images there. In addition, I'm talking to the Reddit mods if they can support it as well. Thank you.

Losira (talk) 18:00, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , thank you for your question, and thank you for creating an account. Please keep in mind we are all volunteers, and that posting in multiple locations does not expedite your request. Instead, please file a Phabricator task, after clicking "MediaWiki login" and linking your account to your wiki account. Assign it to the MediaWiki project, then you can move it on the workboard to "Maintenance script run," and it'll be completed, usually, within 24-36 hours. Hope this helps. Dmehus (talk) 18:13, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * hi, I have created this but I dunno how to assign to Maintenance script run. Losira (talk) 21:17, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. In the "Add action" box, you just need to select "Change project tags," typing "MediaWiki," and then select "Move on workboard" and select "Maintenance script run." I have done this for you this time, though, so not a problem. What the system administrators will need is for you to export an XML dump from Fandom. To do this, you need to be a  on the wiki, which I assume you are, then go to Special:Statistics, and "request dump." This will generate an XML file for you to upload to the Phabricator ticket. You then need to manually download every image on your wiki, zip them up, and upload the zip file to the Phabricator ticket. Once that's in place, a system administrator will process it for you. Dmehus (talk) 00:13, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Changing a custom domain
Dear Admin

We are planning to change the domain of Gyaanipedia from gyaanipedia.co.in to gyaanipedia.com so is it possible to request this change and if it is then is there anyway to redirect pages from previous domain to this, I mean gyaanipedia.co.in/wiki/xyz should redirect to gyaanipedia.com/wiki/xyz kindly help me in this matter Shaunak Chakraborty (talk) 05:18, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll be honest, this does sound like a great deal of work with very little benefit, given the number of wikis involved. While I can see you updating the "gyannipedia.co.in" subdomains to "gyannipedia.com," and this can certainly be done in a Phabricator task, adding a whole bunch of redirects for "gyannipedia.wiki," "gyannipedia.xyz," and "gyannipedia.co.in," each requiring its own certificate, is an extraordinarily amount of unnecessary work. To be honest, what you should do is host your DNS for the latter three domains with a free DNS provider that provides 301 web redirects/web forwarding addresses. That way, all the configuration can be done on your end, not Miraheze's. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 05:28, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for your help I just want to know that what are the DNS records or settings to redirect all the 108k pages of gyaanipedia.co.in to gyaanipedia.com if you know it, kindly help me. Shaunak Chakraborty (talk) 05:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, that is a consideration when changing your domain name. Changing gyannipedia.co.in to gyannipedia.com should either redirect all your pages on the old domain to their location on the new domain in either or one of the methods or, at the very least, redirect all pages on the old domain to the main page/homepage on the new domain in either or one of the methods. Please bear in mind this is a consideration you'll have to bear in mind, though, and you should fully consider all ramifications, as we are all volunteers and not equipped for months of back-and-forth trying to correct search engine search results from a switched domain. Dmehus (talk) 06:29, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Can't Get SSL License With CSR
Dear Admin，

I wanted to combine my domain name with my wiki, but my domain server needn't me to apply a SSL license with CSR (because they had simplify it). Do I have to apply for an SSL certificate through CSR?

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fdawn (talk • contribs) 15:17, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi. I'm not exactly sure if I understand what you mean but there are two options: 1) You would like to use your SSL provider and that means that we need to give you a CSR that you then have to give your provider 2) you use our own certificate provider (Lets Encrypt) in which case there is no CSR involved and you just point the domain to us. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 17:35, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Changing custom domain
Hi Reception123, could it be possible to change domain of PetraWiki, which is currently www.petrawiki.org, to en.petrawiki.org?

I would like to make this wiki multilingual by creating separate MediaWiki instance for each language so I would like URL of each instance to be subdomain of petrawiki.org (en.petrawiki.org for English PetraWiki, hr.petrawiki.org for Croatian, etc). Is this possible?

My domain registrar name servers are currently pointing to "ns1.miraheze.org" and "ns2.miraheze.org". Do I need to change this? --Luka Ibrišimović (talk) 17:43, 9 January 2021 (UTC)


 * To answer your questions in reverse order, since Miraheze is hosting your DNS, the zone file change will need to be done by them, though you could also probably do it with a pull request in the applicable Miraheze repository, too. In terms of the custom domain change, ordinarily this would be requested on Phabricator; however, since it's just a change of an existing custom domain, I'm sure can process the request here, linking to the diff in the log summary. Did you want   to be set up as a redirect as well? And, if so, which wiki should it redirect to? Dmehus (talk) 17:46, 9 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Well, since you ask,  can be set up to redirect to  . As for the first part of your answer, does this mean I don't need to change anything with my domain registrar? --Luka Ibrišimović (talk) 18:12, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yep, that's correct, unless you're using backup nameservers at your domain registrar, of course. But, yeah, that is an advantage to fully outsourcing your DNS to Miraheze. Reception123 can make the changes to your domain's zone file, hosted with Miraheze, then process the request for a custom domain as requested above. Once your wikis are set up, please ping me on my user talk page if you require interwiki and interlanguage prefixes to be set up on each of your wikis' interwiki tables. Dmehus (talk) 18:22, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd still recommend filing a task because then it makes it easier for other sysadmins to work out which wiki the custom domain was set for and on who's request in the event that it broke for whatever reason. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  18:45, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, that does seem like a bit of unnecessary bureaucracy. If it's broken, then a task can be created at that time. Dmehus (talk) 18:48, 9 January 2021 (UTC)