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Account rename 2
Hi, I've been here for a while, and decided that it's kind of weird to be known by one name on IRC and GitHub and everywhere else, but not here on Miraheze. Can you global rename my account from User:Vorticity to User:Labster? Thanks. --Vorticity (talk) 20:52, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ :D Southparkfan (talk) 21:01, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

My account, QuestionableSanity, has been IP blocked on the All The Tropes wiki.
Can you please unblock my account? I know my password, but it doesn't let me log in. Who should I send my account password to for verification? -- 2601:246:4603:4379:34b6:699b:e06b:84e2
 * Your IP was blocked on All The Tropes because you were impersonating an All The Tropes administrator. As you can see here, I am not sure either if you are the real QuestionableSanity, but it's GethN7's call. Southparkfan (talk) 09:37, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I am an administrator on ATT. I have already contacted Geth on his blog (see the comments section of the top post of http://gethn7.blogspot.com/), and he claims that it wasn't him, and that I should contact you.
 * Hi, since your blocked only on AllTheTrope wiki, please liase with Geth to have the block undone. We have not acted on the matter, it is my understanding you don't have an account already too so there's nothing to recover and nothing to compare with so unfortunately we can't do anything here. More so as its local only, we prefer not to act on the matter. Thanks, John (talk) 18:19, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Please remove closure/ dormancy notice

 * Policy: https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Dormancy_Policy
 * Wiki: https://gen.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Rationale: Previously I was using GitHub - https://github.com/genesisdotre/wiki/wiki - now I switched to Miraheze... The wiki is a collection of thoughts, ideas and I put a lot of effort into collecting them over time. Recently I've been preoccupied with life, universe and everything. Would be nice to remove the notice - and I'll carry on contributing - thank you! 31.51.90.226 11:56, 20 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Editing the wiki is enough to 'restart the timer' for the Dormancy Policy. The notice is placed by a script, and will not be added again until that time limit is passed again. However, this script does not remove the site notice just because a wiki is active (or it could remove local staff's legitimate notices). Just remove the notice yourself while logged in to an administrator account and that's all you have to do. Edit the page to be blank or a single hyphen ("-"), but you shouldn't delete the page. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 13:13, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * You may simply delete your wiki's  and that should be sufficient for red card. &mdash;  revi  11:07, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Usually these discussions are archived en-masse at a later point. Just because something is done doesn't mean you should remove it from the page, especially not if you aren't adding it to an archive page. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 15:56, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Wiki requested but not put into queue
Hello,

I am trying to create a wiki for my project "DLA to stars". I've filled the request form twice but when I click on submit I don't get any message window saying "request submitted" or similar, and the request can't seem to get into the wiki requests queue. Is there an error or is it just me not doing it properly?

Thanks Iprafols (talk) 07:46, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Please use Special:RequestWiki and fill in all the information. Take a screenshot or copy/paste the message you get after clicking submit. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 07:53, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: I have tried it and the request form works for me, so it isn't an error from Miraheze. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 08:05, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Make sure you don't use a hyphen in your subdomain name otherwise it won't work. This is what happened to me when I first tried it and all I got was a blank page. I tried it again without the hyphen and it worked straight away and the tracking page appeared. Maybe there should be a note added to the request a wiki page stating not to use hyphens in the subdomain name.  Borderman   talk 09:33, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * We did not know about this error. We will try to fix it ASAP. As Boderman said, please request a wiki with no hyphens in it. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 09:50, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The issue has been fixed. Please note that wikis with hyphens cannot be created! Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 10:08, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I successfully managed to request de wiki after deleting the '-'s. Basically I changed the domain name from "DLA-to-stars" to "dlatostars". Thanks! Iprafols

Delete my wiki
Hi, guys. Unfortunately, I need to ask you to remove my wiki. We realize, that we can't get our goals without SMW extension. We want to thank you for all your help for our project and say goodbye.
 * Acknowledged. We're sorry we couldn't meet your needed for hosting. John (talk) 14:29, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Problem including math formula to wiki
Hello,

I have encountered some errors when trying to add a math formula to a wiki page. Whenever I try to parse a mathematical formula I get the error "Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex and dvipng (or dvips + gs + convert)):"

Reading through the archived questions ( Archive 2, question 43 ) I found that someone else already had the problem but it was fixed. Does this have to be fixed on a case-by-case wiki? If so, how can I implement the patch to my wiki page?

Thanks a lot, Iprafols (talk) 11:52, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, we fixed this (indeed), but this fix was removed. We've reapplied the fix now, so the problem should be fixed now. Southparkfan (talk) 13:00, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * It's fixed, thanks! Iprafols (talk) 14:16, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Wiki request in review
I've requested a wiki to be created. Special:RequestWikiQueue/1521. I'm hoping that it can be approved soon as I would like to get started populating it with school notes. Is there anything more I need to provide to get approved? CodeAndStuff (talk) 08:09, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm really sorry your request was missed. I created it now and you can access it here. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 08:16, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Error report: Recurring problem maintaining session data
Hello!

When editing at ~09:00 ET, I get repeated "loss of session data" errors, to the point where I had to log out and log back in. However, when I try to log in after logging out, I get the error message "Login error Poser and Daz Free Resources uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again." (the wiki name varies depending on which wiki I am trying to edit), and continue to get that error until I delete my Miraheze cookies. I have cookies enabled.

This is the second day in a row that this has happened at about this time.
 * The sysadmins are aware of this error. It was caused by Tech:Misc2 (Redis) being down. The sysadmins are fixing it now. Sorry for the inconvenience Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 13:50, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Our server provider seems to have some issues, Redis (software we use for the MediaWiki logins) is now on another server, until this problem is fixed. Southparkfan (talk) 13:53, 26 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. (And I see I forgot to sign the original error report - sorry about that.) --Robkelk (talk) 00:39, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Deletion Request
Please delete wiki hftqms. Unfortunately for IP reasons this needs to be hosted internally to our company now. No reflection on the service provided by you guys - this has been a great platform to test what we wanted to do and convince management that a wiki could work for us, massively reducing the amount of paper shuffling!

Shusheer (talk) 14:30, 27 July 2016 (UTC)


 * As deleting a wiki cannot be undone, and there are also multiple bureaucrats on your wiki: Can you please confirm here that you (on behalf of all local staff I guess) are requesting that the entire wiki be inaccessible and the contents of it destroyed forever, and that you understand this action cannot be undone? Would you like a backup of the wiki before it's deleted? -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 14:42, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Making wiki private
Hiya, thanks for creating my wiki so fast! However, I checked the box "private wiki" (or maybe I forgot, I dunno^^"). Could you please make my wiki, pokelore, private? Thank you! MisterFlix (talk) 17:03, 4 August 2016 (UTC) Pages are access-restricted, but annonymus users appear to still be able to create an account. MisterFlix (talk) 17:18, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello, unfortunately we can't prevent users from registering on your wiki, as we have a shared usersystem on Miraheze. Even though they are registered, they still can't view any content on your wiki, except your Main Page, login pages, etc. If you have any other questions feel free to ask. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 17:23, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Okay, gotcha. Thanks for the quick response! MisterFlix (talk) 17:25, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Please re-open mindladle.miraheze.org
Hi,

Could someone please re-open my wiki, mindladle.miraheze.org? I went travelling shortly after requesting the wiki to be opened and now that I'm back I'd like to get back to it.

Thanks in advance!
 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 05:37, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Please remove login tag and let me improve the wiki
Dears, Doman: https://sirikot.miraheze.org Please remove the login tag so i will make the wiki more better and do improvement, thanks
 * Hello, by the "login tag" I assume you mean the button that says "Login". Unfortunately, we cannot remove that as all Miraheze logins are on one database, so not letting users login/create accounts would be impossible. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 11:41, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: I have also noticed that there is an inactivity warning (Mediawiki:Sitenotice) did you mean that? Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 11:43, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Delete wiki
I do not think my wiki is going to work as I want it, I am rethinking my aims and methods. Could you please delete yggdrasil.miraheze.org, I will be back once I sort out how to do what I want. Thanks RhianG (talk) 09:06, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Please confirm that you want us delete your wiki as this action is irreversible and all your content will be gone once the wiki is deleted. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 11:40, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Yes I confirm this action, there is not much data there anyway and anything important is backed up.RhianG (talk) 07:52, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay. It should be deleted soon.

I just notice my wiki is still not deleted, could you please delete it soon.RhianG (talk) 12:51, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry about this. The wiki can no longer be accessed and it's database should be deleted shortly. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 03:49, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Poser and Daz Free Resources: Category updates not appearing in category lists
Changes to pages' categories and categories on new pages are not showing up in the Category lists on Poser and Daz Free Resources. (Example: https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Floral_Crown and https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:3DFineries, but all updates are not being made at least since yesterday.) Are category updates being cached and made in bulk? --Robkelk (talk) 14:14, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

I just noticed this is also (not) happening on All The Tropes as well. --Robkelk (talk) 16:27, 7 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi, this is a known issue and is being caused because our jobqueue had stopped running. We've restarted it and the issue should resolve itself shortly.
 * Cheers, -- Corey (talk) 16:56, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * This is a known issue being tracked here. Unfortunately it's still on-going. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 22:45, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

All The Tropes: Category updates not appearing in category lists
Categories have stopped updating on All The Tropes again today. Presumably the same cause?

Thank you! -- Looney Toons (talk) 00:27, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I have noticed this and created a task here. I will see if it is the jobqueue and if I can restart. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 04:34, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I've restarted the jobs and it seems to be working on wikis now. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 04:53, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Once again, thank you. -- Looney Toons (talk) 12:24, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Please note that the issue is not fixed yet, and we are still trying to figure it out. You can see the task for any updates on the issue. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 17:32, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I noticed the same problem three days ago on my own wiki after uploading some images with categories but the category was empty. The category has since been populated with the image pages but the article page has not yet appeared. It was the same yesterday using the ReplaceText extension, again with no effect - the replacement text hasn't appeared as yet. Jobs certainly seem to be a bit hit and miss and by the look of the task page it seems to be causing you guys some grief. Good luck with finding a solution. Borderman   talk 11:18, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't know if this is related, but I noticed tonight that "What Links Here" results aren't updating even after links or even entire pages are deleted. -- Looney Toons (talk) 02:13, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think this is related. We are trying everything we can to fix this issue, and we hope it is fixed ASAP. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 04:12, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * On my wiki at ZGradeTennis, I see that it's updated the What Links Here, although not immediately, and it's updated one of my Wanted Categories but not the other. I don't know if this helps you find the solution quicker? PlatinumYellow (talk) 23:35, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Username change
Hey can someone change my username to "TheInternetEmo"?

thanx--SimplukarroTehGreat (talk) 07:51, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * A steward should take care of this soon Reception123  (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 08:01, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Cannot log in
My wiky has been crated on July 28th. A few days later I tried to log in (in Miraheze, but could not. I thought that I didn't remember the right password, so I asked for a new one, giving my mail address. Nothing came, so I tried with another mail address, for I thought that maybe I had used that second one. Still nothing came.

What can I do?

The name I choose in my account is Piero.caracciolo

My wiki is berlin - the address being : https://berlin.miraheze.org/wiki/Pagina_principale
 * We will try to fix this soon, I will address the error to the other sysadmins. We are very sorry for the inconvenience. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 14:53, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello, I have tried this myself and the password reset email comes for me. Please try again (making sure that you put your username and email properly), and if it still doesn't work the only thing I can do is recommend that you make another account and ask for founder permissions here. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 14:58, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Request Founder Permissions
Following your peace of advice I created a new account and I request for it Founders Rights

Malombra (talk) 22:21, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Here is our last conversation:

Cancel former request
I finally could log in with my first logname (Piero.caracciolo) therefore I don't need any longer to have founder's rights under this logname (Malombra).

Thank you

Malombra (talk) 22:50, 10 August 2016 (UTC)


 * We've been having issues with our session-caching service lately, and that was probably the cause. Sorry for the inconvenience, and we're glad you can log in to your original account! -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 22:56, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Just reposting this since the other request was apparently ignored or something
Hi, i'd like to have my username changed to "TheInternetEmo". --SimplukarroTehGreat (talk) 17:33, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello. Your other request was not "completely ignored", most people here are on holidays now, we are experiencing bigger problems and no one had time to get to your request yet. Please be more patient, and someone should take care of this request soon. Reception123  (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 04:14, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh ok--SimplukarroTehGreat (talk) 05:02, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, sorry about just now replying, as I had initially commented on this just not here. I planned on doing the rename, but, after certain experiences, have been hesitant to start a global rename while jobs have been acting up, since.. it can make things complicated. I've mainly been focusing on keeping our session cache alive (so users don't randomly get logged out) and getting the jobrunner working (status: not working). I believe John said he'd handle this when he gets back today. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:11, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅. John (talk) 21:10, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Possible DB error on All The Tropes?
We have three pages on our New Pages Feed (https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed) that we cannot mark as reviewed. When we try, we get an error message in the following form:

An error occurred while marking the page as reviewed: [17d418565804d01bd8c883a6] Exception Caught: Cannot notify anonymous user: 73.33.196.34

The three pages so affected are:


 * No Matter What Happens, I Still Won't Become An Anime Character
 * No Matter What Happens, I Still Won't Become An Anime Character/Characters
 * Historical In-Joke/Laconic

all in the Main namespace.

In all three cases the user who created the page is not anonymous but a registered user, although one is blocked. The more technically inclined of ATT's admins believe it to be a database issue. Could someone please investigate it? Thank you. -- Looney Toons (talk) 02:11, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note that I've given myself local sysop to experiment. Not sure what rights are required, but the reviewer interface would not load for me as a normal user. I'll remove it when I'm done. Looking at the databases page and revision tables, it seems normal, I'm going to look at the exception logs. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 02:30, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note that this is probably 1) an echo issue 2) something related to our central auth (and possibly the very recent upgrade of the extension). I noticed when I tried to review the page I got the same error, but a different IP. Upon checking, the IP in the error message is my public IP, so I'm assuming the above is Looney's. Not sure what this is caused by... -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 02:47, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * As it so happens, it does turn out to be my (current) public IP. Thank you for looking into this. -- Looney Toons (talk) 12:13, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Please also note that for further techincal matters you can report them via Phabricator so we can track them better. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 16:38, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Noted! -- Looney Toons (talk) 23:21, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

No bureaucrat assignment?
I would like to grant only a few people to edit our wiki. But I seem not to be allowed to do this... Furthermore I would like to make parts of the wiki only visible to 'members'. Is this also possible? And how can we do this? RGDS, Arie (talk) 18:58, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * You could use AccessControl but it's not guaranteed that it will keep it completely private, you can request this on Phabricator. For bureaucrat you do have the rights, you can see here. 03:34, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Delete a page
Could you please delete this page? https://ageofimperialism.miraheze.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_officeholder I can't even reach the page to delete it normally and I just want to start it fresh.
 * I see there is an error when trying to access this page. I will look into this. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 04:56, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Deleted. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 05:01, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Why does this happen?
 * I am not sure. If the issue continue please tell me. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 13:35, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

MultimediaViewer extension not rendering images
I was wondering if anyone could shed some light as to why the MultimediaViewer extension is not rendering any images on thelonsdalebattalion.co.uk. Clicking on an image opens the viewer, then the image sometimes appears for about 1 second then I get this message:
 * Sorry the file cannot be displayed. There seems to be a technical issue. You can retry or report the issue if it persists. Error: could not load image from https://static.miraheze.org/thelonsdalebattalionwiki/1/13/Colonel_The_Right_Hon._Earl_of_Lonsdale.jpg/800px-Colonel_The_Right_Hon._Earl_of_Lonsdale.jpg

It looks like it is trying to find a preview size of 800px (and 1280px for another image) that doesn't exist. Small images less than 800px also don't render. Retrying doesn't work and I have tried Safari (my main browser), Chrome and Firefox to no avail. I also tried the Vector skin as it is not my default skin and that didn't work either. Enabling it in preferences doesn't stay ticked. Maybe this has happened before. Any suggestions please? Thanks. Borderman  talk 13:27, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * That is not normal. This will be investigated. Next time please report on phabricator where it is now being tracked. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 13:39, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * This was my fault as I forgot to set something in the settings. Should be fixed now. Still happening Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 13:54, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I will use phabricator next time. Something seems to be working. I have noticed some images now render but oddly there are still a lot that don't. Most, if not all, of the smaller images I uploaded today of 100kb or less don't render and I thought using parentheses might have been the cause as all of those images use them in their titles. But this is not the case. There doesn't seem to be any rule as to which ones render and which ones don't. Borderman   talk 17:06, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Update: It seems to work fine on mobile devices (iPad and iPhone) but as of now about one third of the images don't render on the desktop. Borderman   talk 15:06, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Update: All images are now rendering correctly. John said the issue was probably cache related. It took about 36 hours in total for all uploaded images to appear in the viewer. Borderman   talk 23:07, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Categories not updating again?
On Zgradetennis, the categories don't seem to be updating again, I was wondering if this is an ongoing issue related the one above, or if it's a new issue and when if it's likely to be resolved soon? PlatinumYellow (talk) 22:37, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Likewise on poserdazfreebies. Has jobqueue stopped again? (The phabricator ticket from the last time this happened is marked as Resolved.) --Robkelk (talk) 00:10, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Probably an issue with jobrunner. I've restarted it and the total number has of jobs has gone down, so if the issue hasn't resolved for you it should shortly. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 01:51, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

I am unable to remove the notice of Wiki "fablac".
Hi, I received a notice which tells me that our wiki is dormant (https://fablac.miraheze.org/wiki/Accueil). I made some changes but the record is still present. I am unable to remove it. Thank you for your help.
 * I don't get why you can't edit it, but I have removed it. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 15:48, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Change my default name
Can you change my default name from Gordonuk to Admin on ayrshire.miraheze.org

thanks.


 * Unfortunately, usernames on Miraheze are all linked (you are Gordonuk on all Miraheze wikis). If you change your name, you change your name on all wikis. "Admin" is not an acceptable name, but you may change to another name, if you want. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 13:54, 31 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Not to mention, the username "Admin" is already used for a global account. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 22:02, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Losing session data and keep being logged out
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone else was experiencing some strange behaviour on their wikis. I have been editing on and off most of the afternoon/evening but in the last couple of hours I have noticed I keep losing my sessions. It has been hit and miss, sometimes it is fine and other times I have to keep logging back in again, sometimes three or four times. It will show 'guest' but at the same time show my 'preferences', 'watchlist', 'contributions' and 'logout'. Some of the message I have seen whilst apparently logged in have been:


 * You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reasons:
 * The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Administrators.
 * The Lonsdale Battalion has restricted the ability to create new pages. You can go back and edit an existing page, or log in or create an account.

And...


 * Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data.
 * You might have been logged out. Please verify that you're still logged in and try again. If it still does not work, try logging out and logging back in, and check that your browser allows cookies from this site.

It's probably just a glitch, but certainly a mildly annoying one as it is taking twice as long to save pages. But I'll check again tomorrow sometime and if it keeps happening I'll include a Phabricator ticket. Borderman  talk 21:21, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

readable --> unreadable main page
Greetings. A newly created private wiki's Main Page is readable to the world. I'd appreciate it if you could please make it unreadable to all except users logged-in to the specific wiki. That wiki is: 5a.miraheze.org Thank you!