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Question
hi excuse me but in my wikitrash I can not see anything and I am told that in order to see my wikis or even the contributions I have to be part of my group. can anyone help me out of this situation ?? when I go to wikitrash the only thing I see is "NOT SUFFICIENT PERMITS" A1cb3 (talk) 22:15, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi! So, a quick look at CentralAuth reveals that the issue is exactly that, you don't have the necessary user rights to access the wiki because it is a private wiki. The people that can help you are the Stewards, this is the Meta admin noticeboard, they can't help you. I'll move your thread over to the Stewards noticeboard.
 * I also noticed that you're not the original founder of that wiki, checked using the farmer log. If local admins decided to remove you, it is very unlikely Stewards will intervene. OrangeStar (talk) 22:23, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thread moved from the meta administration noticeboard . OrangeStar (talk) 22:24, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Dormancy Policy exemption for
After an anonymous user made a report about Decyclopedia on this noticeboard in October, I announced that Decyclopedia was moving to an independent domain. That issue has since been resolved, but I still went ahead with the move, completing it by importing the images to the new domain last night. I would like a Dormancy Policy exemption for the Decyclopedia on Miraheze, since that wiki has now been archived and is no longer meant to be edited. Tali64³ (talk) 21:05, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * If the wiki moved, why does it need an exemption? Wouldn't a deletion be better? Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:38, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * If the wiki were to be deleted, visitors would be confused on why the wiki suddenly disappeared. Google's search results still show the Miraheze version, so it would be necessary to keep it up until the new domain appears in search results and all the relevant links are updated. Tali64³ (talk) 14:24, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Exemption Request
Can you please add an exemption to our The Lion King wiki? It's private and meant to be viewed by us and our other irl friends only. Admittedly we don't have much on it yet, but we will be adding more content to it soon.

https://thelionking.miraheze.org/wiki/ Keznen (talk) 17:17, 3 November 2022 (UTC)


 * ❌ I myself revoked your Dormancy Policy exemption as you had not used the wiki in years per Special:Log. Before today, you had 1 page with 2 sentences on the wiki. As such, I will not be inclined to grant it until much later once you have a good number of substantive pages. 1 page after 4 years of a wiki being open does not justify an exemption. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:18, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
 * If we add more full pages next week, would we still have to wait until "much later"?
 * Also, what would "a good number of substantive pages" be? We can go ahead and copy off one of the public TLK wikis and edit out the stuff that doesn't adhere to our canon if need be.
 * But we can't add something like 50 pages with full paragraphs when our TLK universe doesn't have that amount of content yet. It simply isn't possible. Most characters are minor and wouldn't have that much to be said about them.
 * Please clarify so we can decide whether to keep our The Lion King wiki here or try to find somewhere else to host it (ShoutWiki if that gets fixed, not sure where we'll move it otherwise since Wikia/FANDUMB is unusable). Keznen (talk) 22:07, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, you would have to wait. You've held an empty wiki for 4 entire years without any need to have activity on it, a privilege none of our 5,000 other wikis and 10,000 wikis ever created on Miraheze had, have, or will ever have, and would've probably not returned to it any time soon had your exemption not been revoked and an email sent to you about your wiki being closed. Please read Dormancy Policy for information on how we determine requests. We will be inclined to grant a request once your wiki has a good number of pages and once time has passed. Your pages don't have to be huge paragraphs but the wiki has to be of substantive value and not just the one singular stub page your wiki had for over 4 years. For example, if your wiki discusses more topics in depth and more aspects of your universe then that'd count as substantive and I'd be inclined to regrant the exemption. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 01:46, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Well we will not wait another 4 years or even 1 year. We couldn't if we wanted to. We don't have that time even with schoolwork and writer's block aside.
 * If we have to wait a long time even after adding more content, we might as well not add anything at all. Why go through the effort for basically nothing? If the wiki is still in danger of being nuked we might as well not risk losing anything substantial. Especially infoboxes, which we don't have for our TLK Wiki yet and don't have any backups of. Maybe we'll add a little occasionally but we won't go adding tons of stuff if there's a looming threat of it being deleted.
 * Also, again, we mostly just have character pages in mind right now. We have a couple things of our own lore written down, but most stuff about the first movie (the only fully canon movie in our TLK universe; the sequel movie and show aren't for the most part) would have to pulled from elsewhere. We can only post what we have already and what we can find elsewhere that's usable. (Writer's block is a pain.)
 * We'll touch up the pages with some much-needed pictures and some basic info, and then just keep bumping it every few days until ShoutWiki finally fixes their broken creation wizard so we can move it there and delete the one here. Keznen (talk) 02:59, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm very glad to hear that 4 more years or even 1 more will not pass. As a reminder, you can backup your own wiki at Special:DataDump and Miraheze wikis are only deleted after 6-12 months of inactivity. If you add character pages then that'd be wonderful and would certainly help build your case towards an exemption. Hope to see your exemption application in a few weeks. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 03:59, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, phew! We'll continue adding more character pages, then. The templates should be working now so hopefully we'll have at least half of the character pages up in the following weeks.
 * Sorry for jumping the gun on you like that. It's been stressful for us all lately. Keznen (talk) 04:50, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Adding steward on my wiki for my account
I want to add steward on my account for my wiki easwiki.miraheze.org Please and thank you. Lolkikmoddi (talk) 14:50, 4 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Please read User_groups. This group is only self-granted to Stewards on extremely rare occasions and you are not a Steward. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:13, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ohhh ok sorry Lolkikmoddi (talk) 16:05, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Please revoke dormancy exemption for modular.miraheze.org
modular.miraheze.org is not in use, it can be deleted. Rob Kam (talk) 18:50, 10 November 2022 (UTC)


 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 19:30, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

i'd like to be globally locked
my time in miraheze has finally come to an end. with qualitipedia gone and nothing else to do here, i want my account to be globally locked for good, with no chance of appealing the lock

RokettoPanchi (talk) 09:28, 12 November 2022 (UTC)


 * ✅. Please note that should you decide to come back you should email stewards[at]miraheze[dot]org and not create a new account. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 11:05, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Dormancy policy exception for hepro.miraheze.org
Please make a dormancy policy exception for the hepro.miraheze.org Wiki. This Wiki contains mostly unchanging information that does not need frequent updates. Thanks in advance!

Vesala (talk) 12:49, 14 November 2022 (UTC) Vesala (talk) 12:49, 14 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi there, would you be able to provide a bit more explanation as to why you feel a Dormancy Policy exemption is necessary? I get that you feel the wiki has mostly unchanging information, but perhaps an example would be good? Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contribs • global • rights) 03:07, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Could you remove the link posted on MarioMario456's userpage?
https://login.miraheze.org/wiki/User:MarioMario456

It contains a link to a website that contains harassment pages filled with doxxed info and some of them harass the deceased, the contents on the site contain CP, Child Abuse, and other illegal content. I believe this needs to be done, for the safety of the users. Nidoking (talk) 14:27, 15 November 2022 (UTC)


 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 06:37, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Login Wiki
Okay, technically this doesn't need steward attention, but more like Login Wiki admin attention. The issue is that I want my userpage to be deleted. Thank you. CRAB-2 (talk) 17:25, 26 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Done. -- Void  Whispers 21:09, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

I forget my password!!!
I'm Korbsov, but I forget my password so that I create this account AtheistWH. I didn't enter my email when I used the account Korbsov so that now I have trouble...... AtheistWH (talk) 13:13, 27 November 2022 (UTC)


 * See reset lost credentials. As you don't have an email associated, SRE is unable to verify if you really are Korbsov, so we can't reset that account. Sorry. OrangeStar (talk) 13:40, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Allistayrian
Hello, I would like to request a reversible vanish from Miraheze. I created an account just to contribute to Qualitipedia, which eventually has shut down and I have no intention of ever coming back to Miraheze. I recently visited Miraheze once in August-September 2022 and earlier on March of the same year. There's really little chance I'll ever come back here again. Allistayrian (talk) 22:14, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

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Removal
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Hispano76@metawiki
Hello, I request the removal of my Wiki Creator permission. I reserve my right not to clarify the reasons for the termination. --Hispano76 (talk) 02:07, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅, thank you for your service! Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:30, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

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Enable Cargo
Hi, I would like to request the Cargo extension for my wiki. The pages depends mostly on structured data for various information on works we want to document, such as author, genre, format, related titles, etc., and there will be a lot of entries. (Our excel sheet has already exceeded 500 rows, and we've barely scratched the surface.) In the future. Cargo will help with storing the data in a better, more accessible format. Thanks in advance. Rocielshinonome (talk) 06:22, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Averagesocdemenjoyer15@metawiki

 * This has been ✅ by Agent Isai. --DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:45, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks like we may have yet another evasion/re-request, please see the fourth user I just added. --NotAracham (talk • contribs • global) 00:39, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Melba_Fiona

 * Sockpuppet of and used for lock evasion. AlPaD (talk) 19:32, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Users is now ✅ --The user who loves human heads on alien/animal bodies in cartoons for no reason (talk to me uwu!) 15:43, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Users is now ✅ --The user who loves human heads on alien/animal bodies in cartoons for no reason (talk to me uwu!) 15:43, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Multilock

 * Sockpuppet used for lock evasion. --富士見野男 (talk) 08:51, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I've merged all your reports on a single thread for easier management. Can you elaborate on how these are sockpuppets used for lock evasion? OrangeStar (talk) 18:19, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * irrelevant page Move repeat in chakuriki.miraheze.org --富士見野男 (talk) 11:01, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, marking as not done. OrangeStar (talk) 11:13, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Four Leaf Fics

 * The wiki in question was deleted by a Steward for violations of the Content Policy, specifically the provision prohibiting sexual content related to minors. Tali64³ (talk) 19:42, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, appears there were sweeping content policy changes in October 2022 (and specifically the addition of written fictional content to this policy) that meant this wiki can no longer be hosted here. Can you close this request? Startle Stars (talk) 22:15, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Marking as not done, wiki was deleted for policy violations. OrangeStar (talk) 12:50, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

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Ucronias Wiki

 * --Hispano76 (talk) 21:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, this is now done. -- Void  Whispers 22:12, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi User:Void, on this topic. The Wiki was affected by error db141 ., and had to be recreated. Could you redo the extension on my wiki please. --Hispano76 (talk) 00:41, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Real Life Villains Wiki Potential Content Policy Violations?
At least 95% of the pages on there, do not have a source for reference. Considering that this wiki also features Internet users, I believe the wikis need to be warned for not having references to what they did wrong (EX: News report, or Wikipedia info) and they should delete pages that do not have sources. Nidoking (talk) 19:47, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Moved to wiki reports. --Blad  (talk • contribs • global) 20:37, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree with Nidoking, there are some pages throwing the kind of accusations you don't want to throw without solid references. Some sanction is in order. OrangeStar (talk) 21:27, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Can you provide some examples? Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:22, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * There are various pages on there that don't have any references at all, like this page for example https://reallifevillains.miraheze.org/wiki/Jake_Martin and https://reallifevillains.miraheze.org/wiki/Heather_Martin Nidoking (talk) 11:56, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Any update? Nidoking (talk) 14:41, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * All the wiki really. When it covers relatively unknown living people being accused of stuff like child abuse, murder, and all that, it shouldn't assume that these are common knowledge, they should include solid references for such claims. OrangeStar (talk) 19:48, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I believe at this juncture it would be ideal to raise the idea locally and see how receptive local managers are to cleaning up sources. Seeing how willing they are on this in public could give Stewards some ground to raise this topic as a priority if their intervention is required. --Raidarr (talk) 15:42, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Alright, I'll give that a try. OrangeStar (talk) 19:33, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Listen, what the wikis say will be heard of, and people will use that as their source much more than anything else.
 * If you're gonna go out of your way to get a wiki meant to educate people about real life villains and why people should not be them, then that means you are enabling bad people. RoboticBloxxer (talk) 17:34, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The concern raised here is that the wiki is mostly unsourced. Given that it has many articles dealing with people, this could be a potential violation of CP 3 (and anyway, ignoring whatever the policy may say, it's best to include sources for the claims in any article whenever it's dealing with real life stuff, be it living people or other things). It's not our intention to enable bad people. OrangeStar (talk) 17:58, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Complicated issues with Polcompball Wiki
Was browsing the wiki during my unallocated free time, and I noticed that the local admins are planning to ban those 14 and under, which prolly violates the CoC. I attempted to raise the issues with the local admins as instructed by the CoC, but creation of pages in the user talk namespace was restricted. As such, I am posting about it here. Firestar464 (talk) 10:11, 7 December 2022 (UTC)


 * 13 and under is against the Terms of Service. 14 is not required under the terms of service but the code of conduct makes no mention of this. Mostly it is a privacy issue and an irrelevant and redundant rule: they have no right or means to verify this and T&S only cares one year below. So it's a bit of a dumb rule for this reason.
 * Community discussion there takes place on their discord server, which should be found on their front page. --Raidarr (talk) 14:21, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The Code of Conduct governs how users should behave. Wikis are free to restrict those under a certain age above 13. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 14:45, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

= Discussion closure =

Kindly close RfC about CP amendments
This has been kind of left alone for a few days now. Can someone kindly close the RfC? Thank you! Firestar464 (talk) 09:11, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

= Miscellaneous =

My wiki lost its immunity to the Dormancy Policy
Hi there, I'm the creator of the Crazybloxian Empire info wiki, which was one of my oldest worldbuilding projects. I had informed the people here many years ago that it was meant to be read and would not be updated for months, which gave it immunity to the Dormancy Policy. I recently found out when checking my mail that the immunity was revoked when I got an email saying the wiki had been closed. May I know exactly why it was revoked?

I don't use this website much, but I do wish for my wiki to remain up for archival purposes.

And yes, I did download a full data dump of the site. •• Fair0002 • Bureaucrat and Administrator of Crazybloxian Empire Wiki 07:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I revoked it as it was chronically inactive, empty, and unread. Please add a few more pages or show some signs of activity and we will consider regranting, thanks. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 06:37, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * What exactly counts as "activity"? If I never add any new content but show up every few days to fix spelling and grammar does that count as enough activity for Dormancy Policy immunity? •• Fair0002 • Bureaucrat and Administrator of Crazybloxian Empire Wiki 10:39, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I guess so The user who loves human heads on alien/animal bodies in cartoons for no reason (talk to me uwu!) 16:37, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Averagesocdemenjoyer15@metawiki

 * This has been ✅ by Agent Isai. --DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:45, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks like we may have yet another evasion/re-request, please see the fourth user I just added. --NotAracham (talk • contribs • global) 00:39, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

The Real Red Man
Please delete meThe Real Red Man (talk) 05:57, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi there . Do you mean delete as in a global lock, or in accordance with the GDPR? Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contributions • global • rights) 06:00, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * global lock please!
 * ty The Real Red Man (talk) 06:01, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Pinging to assist. Would you be able to provide some reasoning for why you'd like this lock? Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contributions • global • rights) 06:15, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:20, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Melba_Fiona

 * Sockpuppet of and used for lock evasion. AlPaD (talk) 19:32, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Users is now ✅ --The user who loves human heads on alien/animal bodies in cartoons for no reason (talk to me uwu!) 15:43, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Users is now ✅ --The user who loves human heads on alien/animal bodies in cartoons for no reason (talk to me uwu!) 15:43, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Multilock

 * Sockpuppet used for lock evasion. --富士見野男 (talk) 08:51, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I've merged all your reports on a single thread for easier management. Can you elaborate on how these are sockpuppets used for lock evasion? OrangeStar (talk) 18:19, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * irrelevant page Move repeat in chakuriki.miraheze.org --富士見野男 (talk) 11:01, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, marking as not done. OrangeStar (talk) 11:13, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Four Leaf Fics

 * The wiki in question was deleted by a Steward for violations of the Content Policy, specifically the provision prohibiting sexual content related to minors. Tali64³ (talk) 19:42, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, appears there were sweeping content policy changes in October 2022 (and specifically the addition of written fictional content to this policy) that meant this wiki can no longer be hosted here. Can you close this request? Startle Stars (talk) 22:15, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Marking as not done, wiki was deleted for policy violations. OrangeStar (talk) 12:50, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

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Ucronias Wiki

 * --Hispano76 (talk) 21:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, this is now done. -- Void  Whispers 22:12, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi User:Void, on this topic. The Wiki was affected by error db141 ., and had to be recreated. Could you redo the extension on my wiki please. --Hispano76 (talk) 00:41, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

TimeWisely

 * note: the wiki is wiki.timewisely.net. OrangeStar (talk) 14:44, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:19, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Complicated issues with Polcompball Wiki
Was browsing the wiki during my unallocated free time, and I noticed that the local admins are planning to ban those 14 and under, which prolly violates the CoC. I attempted to raise the issues with the local admins as instructed by the CoC, but creation of pages in the user talk namespace was restricted. As such, I am posting about it here. Firestar464 (talk) 10:11, 7 December 2022 (UTC)


 * 13 and under is against the Terms of Service. 14 is not required under the terms of service but the code of conduct makes no mention of this. Mostly it is a privacy issue and an irrelevant and redundant rule: they have no right or means to verify this and T&S only cares one year below. So it's a bit of a dumb rule for this reason.
 * Community discussion there takes place on their discord server, which should be found on their front page. --Raidarr (talk) 14:21, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The Code of Conduct governs how users should behave. Wikis are free to restrict those under a certain age above 13. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 14:45, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

= Discussion closure =

Kindly close RfC about CP amendments
This has been kind of left alone for a few days now. Can someone kindly close the RfC? Thank you! Firestar464 (talk) 09:11, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

= Miscellaneous =

Wiki Backup Restoration Request
Hello, I am the creator for the wiki with the subdomain acheronrho.miraheze.org, it also redirects using the custom URL beaconspace.unrestrictedlorefare.com. It has been affected by the db141 outage and since recreated, but I have been unable to find an XML backup to use the Special Import Request form. I would like please for the Acheron Rho Wiki to be restored to the Miraheze October 2021 backups. If this is in the wrong place I apologise. Thank you for your hard work. Turbo566 (talk) 17:52, 10 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, that wiki seems to have been a private wiki (Special:RequestWikiQueue/13465, Special:Redirect/logid/338229). For privacy reasons, private wikis are opted-out of archive.org backups. Only public wikis have archive.org backups. It appears there may be private XML dumps in the servers (Backups), nevermind what I wrote. OrangeStar (talk) 18:41, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi there. Is this your wiki? Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:17, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * It is, Thank you very much for your assistance Turbo566 (talk) 04:07, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Backup Restoration Request
Hi, I am the owner for the wiki wiki.insideearth.info (insideearth.miraheze.org). This wiki has been affected by the db141 outage and since recreated, but I have been unable to find an XML backup to use the Special Import Request form. I would like please for the insideearth Wiki to be restored to the Miraheze August 2022 backups. Thank You AlphaOmega (talk) 00:01, 11 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi there. Is this your wiki? Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:16, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi!, oh yes it looks like it is. AlphaOmega (talk) 12:13, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * When going to "Special:RequestImportDump" it says "Disabled - Import dump requests are disabled on this wiki. Please request an import dump from the central wiki." AlphaOmega (talk) 15:25, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * This is the central wiki. Click on Special:RequestImportDump and fill the form. If you need help let us know. OrangeStar (talk) 15:29, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * logged a request here: ⚓ T10123 Wiki Restore (miraheze.org) AlphaOmega (talk) 18:52, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

My wiki lost its immunity to the Dormancy Policy
Hi there, I'm the creator of the Crazybloxian Empire info wiki, which was one of my oldest worldbuilding projects. I had informed the people here many years ago that it was meant to be read and would not be updated for months, which gave it immunity to the Dormancy Policy. I recently found out when checking my mail that the immunity was revoked when I got an email saying the wiki had been closed. May I know exactly why it was revoked?

I don't use this website much, but I do wish for my wiki to remain up for archival purposes.

And yes, I did download a full data dump of the site. •• Fair0002 • Bureaucrat and Administrator of Crazybloxian Empire Wiki 07:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I revoked it as it was chronically inactive, empty, and unread. Please add a few more pages or show some signs of activity and we will consider regranting, thanks. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 06:37, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * What exactly counts as "activity"? If I never add any new content but show up every few days to fix spelling and grammar does that count as enough activity for Dormancy Policy immunity? •• Fair0002 • Bureaucrat and Administrator of Crazybloxian Empire Wiki 10:39, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I guess so The user who loves human heads on alien/animal bodies in cartoons for no reason (talk to me uwu!) 16:37, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't get too hung up on the activity portion (iif you show up every few days you wouldn't need a DP exemption in the first place). The main issue is there being content of substance, and preferably some sign of life over the years. The more apparently complete the material the less that activity qualifier is relevant. I would assume the fact it was 'empty', the fact no readership appeared on the Analytics stats, and then showed no signs of growth over the years was why the exception was removed. --Raidarr (talk) 13:02, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikis that are part of the outage
Are they lost forever, or can they be recovered somehow.

Few of the wikis I used called Trashy Vyond Videos wiki, and the Qualitipedia wiki were both targets of this and I cannot use them.

Is there a way I can use them again? Nidoking (talk) 14:49, 5 December 2022 (UTC)


 * The original requestor or a verifiable bureaucrat can put in a request with this process. Otherwise you must wait. --Raidarr (talk) 14:30, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I do believe most of the requesters who originally requested those wikis might be inactive or quit Miraheze altogether. So it's likely possible they can't. Nidoking (talk) 16:29, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Probably not, especially for reception wikis. --Raidarr (talk) 18:02, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * For the record, the data on db141 was recoverable and the wikis on that database will be restored soon. Tali64³ (talk) 04:24, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Affected by Database outage
Hi there,

The wiki I contribute to (darkisle.miraheze.org) was affected by the outage and I'm unable to recovery any of it through my own means outside of the landing page. I was curious if there were any internal backups of the wiki available to be reinstated on the wiki.

Thanks.

Wros (talk) 17:04, 12 December 2022 (UTC)


 * The data on db141 was recovered, so you have nothing to worry about. Tali64³ (talk) 15:50, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Will wikis be marked as "inactive" after they reopen?
It's been almost 1 month since the database outage, and my wiki is still down. I last edited it on November 15th, and I'm just wondering if it takes over 60 days for the outage to be fixed will the wiki be marked as inactive? I'm also going to make frequent backups from this point onwards, just in case this happens again. Sheep42 (talk) 23:43, 15 December 2022 (UTC)


 * The inactivity script has been disabled for wikis on the affected cluster. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 23:57, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Restore ManageWiki permissions in zhpartyball
Hey there,I am the founder of zhpartyball wiki. When I was editing in zhpartyball at 23:32 (UTC) on December 15, 2022, I accidentally deleted the Special: ManageWiki/permissions/bureaucat group. Does anyone here know how I can recover it? If an administrator can help me restore it? I would appreciate it if there were any. Thanks very much. Here is the link to delete the log: Here is the ManageWiki link of this wiki: Great Polska space agency (talk) 01:37, 16 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the delay, this has now been done. -- Void  Whispers 03:07, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Miraheze Legacy Backups request
After searching, the Chinese Polandball Wiki has no backup on archive.org, so request to import Miraheze Legacy Backups. -- 铁桶 (Talk) 15:18, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Wiki might be effected by the outage.
Hello! I’m the requester for and I currently can’t tell if the wiki was effected by the outage since it wasn’t on the list of public wikis on db141, but when anyone clicks the link, it gives us an error code stating "Wiki temporarily unavailable, A database issue has occured and this wiki is unavailable. We have been able to restore the data from the original db141 disks and will use that to restore this wiki. We will then merge all new edits back into your wiki." So I’m guessing it was and it wasn’t closed? Apologies if this is a waste of time, I’m currently new to all of this. Shsldetective (talk) 18:31, 20 December 2022 (UTC) Shsldetective (talk) 18:31, 20 December 2022 (UTC)


 * If the wiki was private, that might explain why it wasn't part of the list. The error message is the same as for other wikis on db141, so the wiki was likely part of that database. Tali64³ (talk) 04:19, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, the wiki was original considered to be private before changing to be public later. But thank you, anyways. Shsldetective (talk) 12:06, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

FoHS archive
I think our mio’s wiki (FOHSArchive) got the database issue. I think I need to fix something. It needs the old November 16 backup. PrincessTricktyy197 (talk) 21:26, 20 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Is our wiki back up yet? PrincessTricktyy197 (talk) 01:17, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Geokita5678@metawiki

 * There is no conclusive technical evidence to link the two accounts. There is some weak evidence technically and not enough evidence behaviorally (just one wiki request) to justify a lock. Therefore at this time I don't think a lock is justifiable based on a single edit and no conclusive technical evidence. If they continue with other edits please let me know. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 12:19, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

= Requests for (un)(b)locks = {{Hidden|Instructions/Read before making a request| Please use this section to request global locks (including self-locks), blocks, or their rescindment. If reporting vandalism-only accounts, make sure they fit the global standard definition for vandalism only accounts: there must be no or almost no constructive editing behaviour and, additionally, this behaviour should be occurring on multiple wikis.

If requesting a global lock, place the following at the very bottom of this section. Replace every section as needed:

Username

 * Include your reason here ~
 * Include your reason here ~

If you're including multiple accounts in your report, format it as follows

Username

 * Include your reason here ~

}}

CyanKnight201

 * Hello, this user (all these accounts are his, he is a sockpuppet) is having fun vandalizing the Hermione Granger page and replacing the files with images of toilets, here are some proofs and I took screens : https://fiction.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Hermione_Granger&action=history I am requesting an IP block. Thanks in advance. Darkrai18 (talk) 22:17, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Darkrai18 (talk) 21:36, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Darkrai18 (talk) 08:55, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm neither a Steward nor a Global Sysop, so I can't lock accounts, nor CheckUser them, which is what I think you're requesting, rather than a lock. OrangeStar (talk) 12:21, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know, you seem to know how to handle it and nobody answers me, so I don't have many solutions. Darkrai18 (talk) 12:49, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
 * There could a be a lot of reasons, not the least is that CheckUser investigations can be very tedious and Stewards here have a lot of roles, so they may just not have gotten around to CheckUser-ing these accounts (keep in mind, before even starting the investigation they'll first run through all of these accounts' contribs for proof that a CheckUser is even warranted). They'll eventually do it, until that moment just block the sockpuppets as they appear. I also recommend that you add some more details to this report, for example direct links to the diffs were these suspected sockpuppets were vandalizing. For example:
 * Here's QTiang559 vandalizing the Hermione Granger article, with exactly the same text as blocked user CyanKnight201: mh:fiction:Special:Diff/97448/prev OrangeStar (talk) 13:13, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I've done this before, as the vandalism is localized almost only on one page, just check the history to see it. Darkrai18 (talk) 13:51, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but it's better to point to specific diffs, as it speeds up the process of determining if a CheckUser is needed. OrangeStar (talk) 14:02, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I deeply apologise for the delay. I have globally locked these users and globally blocked their IPs. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:13, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * And I apologize for being a little impatient and pushy. Thank you for fixing my problem. Darkrai18 (talk) 22:10, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

UnLeashedWolfie~

 * Back in early 2021, I had requested this account to be locked as I no longer had a use for it. I now have a reason to use this account, and would like it to be unlocked. RemovedEDMWiki (talk) 01:34, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * There is no way to confirm that you are indeed the same person. Could you send us an email from the one you used to set up that account (if you did)? Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 12:20, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I have now sent one from the email I remember using for this account. This email is the same email linked to the Phabricator account for this MediaWiki user. RemovedEDMWiki (talk) 04:15, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I have now sent one from the email I remember using for this account. This email is the same email linked to the Phabricator account for this MediaWiki user. RemovedEDMWiki (talk) 04:15, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Tri Nebula Alliance

 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 12:27, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Enable Cargo for Metaworld Chronicles

 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 12:27, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

EmulationWiki

 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 12:27, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

YuriWiki

 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 12:27, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Scratches Portal

 * Hi Funa, you should propose this at Phabricator, as this section is only to request changes that require the (managewiki-restricted) permission. Changes to the Content Security Policy go through a review at Phabricator, see T9252 for an example. OrangeStar (talk) 17:23, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok,Thank You. Funa-enpitu（talk/Posting Record） 22:05, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
 * T10161 Funa-enpitu（talk/Posting Record） 02:01, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Yaakiyu.jp@pythonjawiki
I'm the owner of this wiki but I don't have any permissions on it. Maybe that's because of wiki recreation for db141 issue. So I request myself to add Bureaucrat permission.Yaakiyu.jp (talk) 12:50, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the issue. I have ✅ you to administrator and bureaucrat. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 16:15, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

WkbsCMH@wkbscmhwiki
I initially posted this concern as a task to phabricator.miraheze.org/T10214, but they closed it with "You should request this to Miraheze Stewards instead, at Meta's Stewards' noticeboard." My initial description was "wkbscmh.miraheze.org was just restored after the db141 ordeal, but I have no user rights and so cannot work properly with my newly restored wiki. Please see what you can do, or tell me what I can do. Thanks." So, here I am, asking you what's next. Thanks again. WkbsCMH (talk) 16:57, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:29, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

KumihoWolffey@flipaclipguidewiki
My wiki, FlipaClip Guide Wiki was recreated due to the db141 issue, however I do not have my bureaucrat and administrator rights and I cannot access to my wiki since it is private. I would like to have my bureaucrat and administrator rights please. Thank you. Switzerland (talk༆) 23:19, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:29, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Farmer Cars@spartaremixwikiwiki
The requester lost their rights after the wiki was created. They requested them back here. --Blad  (talk • contribs • global) 22:18, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:29, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

PandaWarlord@vyrtarwiki
I created a private wiki on the 12th of December. After the restoration of the wiki on 12/30/22 I am no longer able to edit or view the wiki. The wiki in question is vyrtar.miraheze.org and I am the sole contributor. PandaWarlord (talk) 02:58, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 04:41, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Jeffers@catflappowiki
Hi there - my recently-created wiki (11 Dec) titled catflappowiki was recently recovered, like many others. But sadly I appear to have lost permissions.

I get "Permission error. You do not have permission to read this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Members, Administrators." As it was a private wiki I created, that was so new (still setting up before bringing other members on board) I should be the sole member and the Administrator :)

Other people have apparently had similar issues, and one thread on Phabricator said to 'Please make a request on the Stewards noticeboard on Meta asking that your rights be restored.' (Agent_Isai)

If I may, I also have a related question, just seeking confirmation that the recovery of catflappowiki itself was step one (as it has no pages recovered yet) and that backups would be sorted out in some way as a step two, to bring back the small number of pages that were there. I got this impression from Void (who very kindly helped me) saying "There is currently a script running that will recreate all other missing wikis at a blank slate, and we will later move to import the backups we have." ... just making sure I interpreted that correctly - or am I off the mark and this is a different thing altogether?

Summary: seeking permissions / rights to be restored on catflappowiki (https://catflappo.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page) and asking about recovery of pages.

Many thanks Jeffers (talk) 05:50, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 16:18, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you @Agent Isai much appreciated. Champion. Jeffers (talk) 05:56, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

パンダ会長@inakawiki
I'm the founder, but I'm not granted any rights（日本語訳:創設者なのに権限が付与されてません） --パンダ会長 (talk) 08:49, 31 December 2022 (UTC)


 * What permission would you like to be granted?Please show it.Thank you. by Buel ·Talk·e-mail 09:12, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 16:18, 31 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you（日本語訳:ありがとうございます）--パンダ会長 (talk) 16:52, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

APH6000@californiawiki
I haven't been granted any permissions even though I founded the wiki APH6000 (talk) 00:34, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
 * ❌ as this wiki was deleted for wildly deviating off it's scope. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 06:43, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Transcodex@transcodexwiki
I had just started on my wiki when the db141 breakdown happened. Now I see the site is back up, but I have no permissions. Can you restore? I was the only user of said wiki, and its administrator/bureaucrat. Transcodex (talk) 15:39, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 02:58, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

AkiGoto@tabemonowiki
--虎之介 (talk) 01:32, 27 November 2022 (UTC)


 * I have no relation to きじゅはレスバ大将. I am absolutely innocent. I now have only one account registered. Please investigate. AkiGoto (talk) 06:44, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * 虎之介, perhaps you should explain the meanings of the name "きじゅはレスバ大将". The name is too difficult for the people other than native Japanese. AkiGoto (talk) 06:47, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * agree because I have doubts about AKIGoto(日本語訳AKIGotoさんに疑いがあるため賛成します)--パンダ会長 (talk) 12:35, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * パンダ会長, votes of majority is not relevant to this kind of issues. But what reasons for your doubt about me? AkiGoto (talk) 19:43, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * This user(AkiGoto) seems like Vandal. by Buel ·Talk·e-mail 14:41, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Buel, if you want to demonize me, try spawning dedicated topics. This topic is whether me and きじゅはレスバ大将 are related or not. Not directly related to whether I am vandal or not. --AkiGoto (talk) 23:48, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Do you understand why 虎之介 mada a request for checkuser?You told us that you're not related to きじゅはレスバ大将.You don't have to oppose about this CU request if so. by Buel ·Talk·e-mail 07:21, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I do understand what have been said. I do not know what have not been said. --AkiGoto (talk) 00:05, 27 December 2022 (UTC)


 * (back)I assure English-speaking people that "きじゅはレスバ大将" is a derogatory name for a particular user. If you translate it into plain English,「 Kiju is a guy who always many replies(I don't like)」.
 * It may be translated to "Kiju is the disputer king". --AkiGoto (talk) 00:45, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

I doubt the relationship between the two accounts that were active late at night when most Japanese were not active. In this case, the parties' counterarguments are irrelevant.Please check user. If there is nothing to do with the two accounts, there is no problem at all.--虎之介 (talk) 05:30, 24 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Good. --AkiGoto (talk) 00:07, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Note: I have just created the second account User:AkiGotoBot now. The purpose of it is for automation by using API from scripts. --AkiGoto (talk) 04:32, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

きじゅはレスバ大将

 * Vandalism across the wikis. 1108-Kiju /Talk 17:21, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The name of this account very looks like Kiju's one.('きじゅ' means 'Kiju' in Japanese)Account was created only to hate to him. by Buel ·Talk·e-mail 17:26, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Already blocked on some wikis,but still not locked. by Buel ·Talk·e-mail 19:25, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * by Buel ·Talk·e-mail 04:26, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅, apologies for the delay. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 16:23, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅, apologies for the delay. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 16:23, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

とぅさーつじゃないから恥じゃないもん

 * Vandalism across the wikis. 1108-Kiju /Talk 10:13, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅, apologies for the delay. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 16:23, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

関越斗宇沙津街道

 * Vandalism across the wikis.
 * This account was created in June 2021, and after vandalizing the newusopediawiki, it stopped contributing, but has now returned and has been spamming multiple wikis. 1108-Kiju /Talk 10:13, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅, apologies for the delay. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 16:23, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Twisted Wonderland Wiki

 * This wiki was restored from db141 so closing as moot. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 05:23, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Lhmnwiki

 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 11:10, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Enable Cargo on The Secret of Cerulean Sand wiki

 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 10:03, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

MTG Card Wiki

 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 10:03, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

The Space Between Wiki

 * Hi there, please login or have the wiki's bureaucrat request this. Thanks! Agent Isai  Talk to me! 08:14, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello, apologies, hadn't realized I wasn't logged in. C: V2nguard (talk) 16:40, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Bureaucrats permission issue
Hello, when i started to tweak and edit my wiki, i removed the bureaucrats cuz i thought it was a decoration/example group rather than actually being a group that gave me almost every permission on my wiki which i deleted in my wiki and i can't modify proprely anymore.

Is it possible to revert this action or to restore to default settings in my wiki please?

My wiki Minecraft Inescapable Prison Community ( i barely started it and im new so...)

https://mipc.miraheze.org

Thanks - TheArchitect 23:45, 26 December 2022 (UTC)TheArchitectMC


 * I'm not sure why you thought bureaucrat was an example group. It is one of the default groups of MediaWiki, and it gives you access to ManageWiki. If you do decide to delete the bureaucrat group in the future, make sure you create another group with  rights and assign yourself to that group first. Tali64³ (talk) 23:50, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ by Agent Isai. --Blad  (talk • contribs • global) 14:57, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

A Little Help
So my Tamagotchi Fanon Wiki had everything deleted ever since it got dropped from the db141 outage despite not originally being on that disk so why is everything gone all of a sudden? I'm just wondering. Snorunt (talk) 21:35, 30 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Please see Tech:SRE_noticeboard for more details.--NotAracham (talk • contribs • global) 00:38, 1 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Okay. Thanks! Snorunt (talk) 06:37, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

VisualEditor Problems
Can I ask Stewards to help me adjust the VisualEditor's options?

In my Wiki VisualEditor extension, no matter how I set the Settings, there is always only an Edit Source button in the upper function bar. The Edit button that normally enters VisualEdit Mode does not appear. This is a terrible problem. Because of this problem, it is very inconvenient to edit (currently only appended after the address bar  to enter visual editor mode normally. This is a tricky process.)

Maybe there's something wrong with the extension Settings? I tried to re-add the extension and adjust the Settings in the parameter Settings, but the "visual Editor Mode" Edit Button did not appear properly.

If can, can Stewards help adjust it to display the Edit and Edit Source buttons properly?

Thank you very much! Sucrose Fans Rosalina129 14:16, 6 January 2023 (UTC)


 * 2023.1.7 19:14 (GMT+08:00) Update
 * The problem with Gadgets that could not display both "Edit" and "Edit Source" with the addition of the "Gadgets" extension was solved. So the request has been automatically rescinded. Anyway, thanks to Miraheze for the service! Sucrose Fans Rosalina129 11:16, 7 January 2023 (UTC)