Community noticeboard

Question from Rosie
Hi I am Rosie (David Rose) and live in northern NSW, AUstralia.

I am the owner of moma.miraheze.org/wiki/ and I would really love a Mentor to help me set up the new MOMA wiki for a non-commercial community arts project called the Museum of Moving Art.

I understand that PHP basically runs the show - generating the HTML pages to serve to the browser and that it gets data from a ?MySQL database to compile the pages. I was doing HTML when CSS were the new thing but haven't really touched website creation for well over a decade.

I am a good learner and intelligent, but I do have concentration issues (ChemoBrain) and need to take complex new ideas slowly and methodically. My learning would really benefit from a Mentor: someone who is skilled at the structural side of Wikis, who understands how all the elements work together. If I could ask questions about where things are, for example, or am I on the right track, I think I would learn really well.

It seems to me that everything is in pages and templates are pages that work in pages, and that the hierarchical file structure that I learnt when I was making HTML sites back in the day has been replaced by a database of page elements. Museumofmovingart (talk) 07:38, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Your wiki is private, so nobody can read in your wiki, is this intenional? --LilyLilyu - smile.svg talk and I will listen · Lilypond Wiki 02:53, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Lily
 * I have been doing a bit everyday and managed to make it public! No it wasn't intentional.
 * Thanks for your interest. I am going to look at Lilypond Wiki.
 * Cheers
 * Rosie
 * Museumofmovingart (talk) 10:25, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * My Lilypond Wiki is German spoken so it maybe this is not much help for you. In this wiki I am publishing English content but this has not gone very far. Feel free to copy any templates or modules you like from any of my wikis, greetings, --LilyLilyu - smile.svg talk and I will listen · Lilypond Wiki 14:41, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Adding extended user for the protection banner
I have added and deployed successfully the protection banner for my wiki. But there's an new problem. In the function's source codes, there's an protection type called "Extended Protection" that does like the "30/500" type in Vietnamese Wikipedia that I would reduce it to "15/200" for my wiki. How could I add that "15/200" permission as default on my Wiki and how to setup that protection type on the lock options drop-down list? If there's a way to do that, does I need creating a task on Phabricator? Song Ngư MGR (talk) 02:04, 22 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Typically, this is done with adding a new protection level, but I'm not sure what you mean by "15/200"? Do you mean just increasing your  implicit user group edits from 10 edits to 200 edits and account age from 4 days to 15 days? Or, do you want a separate implicit user group and protection level? If the latter, please go into your wiki and create a group named , then reply here when it's been done, and I'll do the PR on GitHub for you. Normally needs a Phabricator task, yes, but this will be fine. Dmehus (talk) 02:09, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd prefer for the second one, and I have done that for you. Is there any optional premissions need to be assigned for that group? Song Ngư MGR (talk) 02:18, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * And for easier access, my wiki database name was lhmnwiki. Song Ngư MGR (talk) 02:44, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Song Ngư MGR Apologies for the delay in replying. This request has now been ✅ as a team effort by Reception123 and myself. See further instructions at #T7346 on Phabricator. Dmehus (talk) 17:30, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Requests
What would be a good wiki for me to create in the future?--Iron Sword 23 (talk) 16:14, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I would personally recommend you not request any wikis for the time being, as you have two or three wikis you've just started and should keep you plenty busy. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 16:21, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * That's why I said in the future. Iron Sword 23 (talk) 16:24, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but there's really no need to ask about this on community noticeboard now. It's potentially relevant as an off-topic discussion on Discord, but if wanting to discuss it on-wiki, I'd probably wait at least a couple months before getting ideas for a new wiki. Dmehus (talk) 17:11, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Alright. Iron Sword 23 (talk) 17:12, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :) Dmehus (talk) 17:16, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * If you were in my position, how would you invite contributors to wikis? Iron Sword 23 (talk) 17:20, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

A Glitch
There is an odd glitch in global lock logs that causes the link to the global account to become a redlink, rather than linking to the CentralAuth page: https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=globalauth&user=&page=&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpfilters%5B%5D=newusers I know that this isn't a glitch with CentralAuth in general because on the Wikimedia lock logs the username links to the CentralAuth page, so this is a Miraheze-specific glitch. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 21:57, 22 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Since this glitch was Miraheze-specific, creating a task on Phabricator would be a good idea to tell about this glitch. Song Ngư MGR (talk) 02:53, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * But idk how to use Phabricator. And it isn't a "was" because it is still happening. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 15:38, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi. This isn't really a glitch, and my understanding is that this currently works on the Wikimedia wikis as a result of a gadget mentioned in the upstream task. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 12:20, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok. Could the gadget be added to Miraheze, or is that not a possibility. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 19:13, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I think the gadget should be added. InspecterAbdel (NLW) 19:26, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Me too. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 20:33, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Question
How do I autocollapse navboxes on https://dcmarvelcomics.miraheze.org --Iron Sword 23 (talk) 22:20, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * You can set the  parameter to the infobox to   as specified in w:Template:Navbox. — Arcversin (talk) 01:19, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Done. Iron Sword 23 (talk) 01:25, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

ON FANDOM
I wanted to know that as on miraheze, using the shortcut, we are able to link to fandom. However, what shortcut could we use to link to miraheze from fandom. I tried using miraheze:, to no avail. Al-khataei (talk) 02:47, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Wikia doesn't appear to have an interwiki prefix for Miraheze. Theoretically you could ask them to add one, though the best solution would probably be to create a template that produces a link. — Arcversin (talk) 02:54, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Interwiki Table Changes
Hey there, could you please change the local interwiki table for the wiki at limaru.miraheze.org so that the prefix "c" is set to "yes" for both "Forward" and "Transclude"? Thanks so much in advance! Jt15s (talk) 11:22, 24 May 2021 (UTC) Jt15s (talk) 11:22, 24 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Jt15s Thank you for your request for this local override to the  global interwiki prefix. In this case, since Miraheze Commons and Wikipedia are both set globally to have both the "forward" and "transclude" flags enabled and since this is not the first request for this global override (i.e., there have been quite a few), I've actually ✅ this reasonable request globally. Please let us know if you require any further local interwiki table additions or changes. Thank you Dmehus (talk) 13:55, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Unable to change background color of rectangle
Tried changing the background color of the rectangle on samskritavyakaranam.miraheze.org as advised on Phabricator task T7351 using the CSS code provided, but it didn't work. Could someone please take a look and help us out? --Haritosh (talk) 15:58, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Contador de páginas del espacio principal (artículos) / Main space page counter (articles)
Hola. He notado en varios wikis que la cantidad de páginas del espacio principal que aparece en Especial:Estadísticas no coincide con la cantidad de páginas del espacio principal de cada wiki. En todos estos casos el número que aparece en la página de estadísticas es menor.

¿Alguien más ha visto esto?

A continuación dejo algunos ejemplos e invito a otros usuarios a comprobar esto mismo en sus wikis.

Translated by Google Translator

Hello. I have noticed on various wikis that the number of main space pages displayed in Special: Statistics does not match the number of main space pages for each wiki. In all these cases the number that appears on the statistics page is less.

Has anyone else seen this?

Here are some examples and invite other users to check this on their wikis.

Saludos cordiales. Best regards. Hugo Ar (talk) 18:30, 25 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Hugo Ar This does happen from time to time, and I'm not sure what causes it, but system administrators have a maintenance script (, if I remember correctly) that they can run to update these statistics. Would you mind creating a Phabricator task, linking to the  for this community noticeboard thread, so they can run the script and also explain what causes it? Dmehus (talk) 20:49, 25 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much Dmehus. I already reported on Phabricator. Ticket T7367. Greetings. Hugo Ar (talk) 21:15, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
 * No problem, Hugo Ar. for reporting it and for filing the task on Phabricator. It should be run in the next day or two, and hopefully we'll learn what causes it. Dmehus (talk) 22:56, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Freenode status update
Tonight (04:00, 26 May 2021 (UTC)), Freenode staff took over #miraheze and related channels, removing our access from those channels. We no longer have a presence on Freenode, and have been effectively forced off the platform. If you still use Freenode, I strongly recommend you stop and migrate from that platform immediately. The "staff" have proven themselves completely untrustworthy and willing to perform serious abuses in order to maintain their image. I've dropped what channels I still had access to and further dropped my own accounts. I will only use Libera.Chat moving forward, and (again) strongly encourage you all to do the same. -- Void  Whispers 04:00, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * On a side note, if you were looking to get a wikimedia cloak you need to get on the list before you drop your account. You’ll need to go through the process which requires your freenode account. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 11:37, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * MacFan4000 While I get the idea behind reserving Wikimedia and Wikipedia cloaks for existing Freenode users, longer term that's a bad practice as many users will not have had a Freenode account. Two questions: does this apply only to users who previously had a Wikimedia or Wikipedia cloak for that username on Freenode? (I would hope so.) Also, do you know if they plan to drop that reservation list after a reasonable period of time, as a best practice? (I'm thinking a 3-6 month reservation timeframe would be reasonable, then anyone who hasn't re-requested their reserved cloak would no longer have their cloak reserved for them.) Dmehus (talk) 16:08, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The actions that have occurred on Freenode last night violate the basic principles of free and open source as well as the way which peer-directed projects run. I'm glad to see that already IRCCloud, Gentoo, Atheme and I'm sure many more projects have condemned the actions that occurred. While I'm not good at writing myself, I'd stand with any member of our community that wanted to start an open letter in simmilar fashion to the above ones I've mentioned. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  15:06, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Likewise, I am at least somewhat better at writing and willing to stand with Miraheze in terms of declaring our support for Libera, as well as aiding in the drafting of said letter. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 15:09, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * What's freenode? InspecterAbdel (NLW) 15:10, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Where Miraheze had its IRC presence for most of the last 5 years. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  15:13, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok, but why are we forced off of it? InspecterAbdel (NLW) 15:15, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * We chose to move as we taken over in a hostile manner by new management who then took control of our channels last night in an attempt to stop people leaving. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  15:32, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * How do you remove the info you gave Freenode when you registered your nick? 18:37, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * R4356th, I believe. Dmehus (talk) 18:39, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you. 11:31, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * No problem. Dmehus (talk) 16:04, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Setting up SEO (for Google)
Welp... This time I need help with some "SEO" things, since my wiki were transferred from the FANDOM version. Normally, people using Google to search for my wiki. So, how can I setting up Google SEO for my wiki? (note:, if you answer my question this time, don't delay my request too long.) Song Ngư MGR (talk) 15:49, 26 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Song Ngư MGR Thanks for the note and for the request. This can actually be done by you in ManageWiki, as the best way is to enable the WikiSEO extension, then add the parser function to pages on your wiki which are indexed by Google. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 16:03, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you just put in the text? Or a subpage or something? InspecterAbdel (NLW) 16:57, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * idk man Song Ngư MGR (talk) 17:23, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Wait, hold up. Isn't "#seo" were the correct one? Song Ngư MGR (talk) 17:25, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, yes, my bad. Sorry. Dmehus (talk) 18:40, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Song Ngư MGR and InspecterAbdel Yes, you would just add the parser function to the text of the page. Note that you can also create a WikiSEO template, of varying complexity, and transclude that template on every content page. Dmehus (talk) 18:44, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Template:Cite is broken when put in a ref tag on micronationswiki
Help, I don't know what's wrong. InspecterAbdel (NLW) 16:50, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Could you please give us a link to where the citation isn't working? --Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 13:12, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * https://micronations.miraheze.org/wiki/Template:Cite InspecterAbdel (NLW) 15:34, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Tokusatsu wiki
It's weird. How come no one has contributed to https://tokusatsu.miraheze.org --Iron Sword 23 (talk) 23:54, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I wouldn't call that 'weird'. Unfortunately, not all wikis will get contributors just out of no where, as there are thousands of Miraheze wikis out there. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 13:12, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I rarely get any contributions, but I just keep going, because I know along the road at least one person will contribute. Buk kit  (talk) ( C ) 15:35, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Protect wiki
Hi. I have a question. Is it possible to have a public wiki where only chosen users can make changes? How can I change the configuration to do this ? Thanks. Solidairesgm (talk) 12:47, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi. Yes that is definitely possible! All you need to do is to go to Special:ManageWiki/permissions and remove the 'edit' permission from * (which means anonymous users) and from user. Then you can create a custom group and assign that group the 'edit' permission, and then use Special:UserRights to assign users to your new custom group. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 13:11, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Solidairesgm In addition to the option Reception123 said, you might also consider enabling the Moderation extension, which essentially means that a local administrator or moderator must approve any proposed edits by non-automoderated users. You would then just assign the  user right to users who want to be able to edit without moderation. The advantage of this approach is that it still allows all users to propose edits, but doesn't effectively deny non-permissioned users from at least proposing edits, and it also is quite effective at thwarting spam only accounts in their tracks. Dmehus (talk) 15:36, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Add an typing tool for Vietnamese (cross-wiki)
I actively using Linux to do contribution things to my wiki and some time, few less Vietnamese wikis. But since that, I cannot easily just setting up Pham Kim Long's Unikey for my machine because I'm using it as a LiveCD. So I have thinking about this: When I choosing Vietnamese as my main language, It doesn't have any kinds of keyboard supported for Vietnamese. On my main wiki, I have setting up a gadget called AVIM - formed as H.I.M - written in JavaScript by Hiếu Trần Đặng and released under an MIT-style license (see Vietnamese Wikipedia's help page for more details). Is there anyway to set it up as an default keyboard for Vietnamese? (note: This gadget has been security checking before deployment, since it were the default keyboard be used in Vietnamese Wikipedia - an Wikimedia's project.) Song Ngư MGR (talk) 14:24, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I found this task on Wikimedia's Phabricator that until now did not get resolved at any ways, so IMMA GONNA HEAD OUT. Song Ngư MGR (talk) 10:04, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Ecological Farm Business Data Harvesting Doodad Advice Request
I work for an organisation called the Landworkers' Alliance and am building a wiki to enable the UK ecological farming community to share business data. I would like to set up something than enabled farmers to submit their farm business data. Yield in kg/unit cost, where cost could be m2, hours labour, input costs, soil carbon, units of nature, etc. As well as maintaining a database of everyones contributed data, i would like a front end that generates range and average figures. I'm looking for something with fairly basic spreadsheet functionality.

These kind of benchmarks are going to be really useful for the growth of the sustainable farming industry. Could anyone advise me on how i could set something like this up? Check out this page of the wiki I am working on to get an idea about what I need. Thanks.x

https://landwikialliance.miraheze.org/wiki/Vegetables Jono.hughes (talk) 16:59, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Page Count Glitch
On both Dreadful Literature Wiki and Magnificent Literature Wiki, the page count is inaccurate: Can you fix this, as it seems to be correct on other wikis. This is because both wikis need at least 40 pages before the main page can be redesigned, but if the page count is inaccurate people will think that there are less pages than there actually are. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 15:22, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * On Magnificent Literature Wiki, mh:wonderfulbooks:Special:Statistics says there are only 16 content pages but if you look at mh:wonderfulbooks:Special:AllPages I counted and there are over 34, not counting redirects and the Main Page.
 * On Dreadful Literature Wiki, mh:dreadfulbooks:Special:Statistics says that there are only 21 content pages but if you look at mh:dreadfulbooks:Special:AllPages I counted and there are 78 pages not including sandboxes, the main page, and redirects.


 * Hi, The 'article' count by default on Special:Statistics has other requirements. See this help page for information. You can use Special:ManageWiki/settings on your wiki to change it although it may take a while for the update to be reflected unless you ask a Sysadmin to force an update. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  17:46, 29 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Hola Blubabluba9990 y RhinosF1. Hace unos días planteé esto mismo. Inicié una solicitud en Phabricator: https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T7367. Pero, al parecer, por ahora la respuesta es: Ejecuté el guión en todos los wikis. Si todavía no funciona, desafortunadamente, no hay nada más que se pueda hacer según la cita de John anterior. Saludos cordiales. Hugo Ar (talk) 07:35, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Translated by Google Translator
 * Hello Blubabluba9990 and RhinosF1. A few days ago I raised this myself. I started an application on Phabricator: https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T7367. But, apparently, for now the answer is: I've ran the script on all the wikis. If it still doesn't work unfortunately there's not really anything more that can be done per the quote from John above. Best regards. Hugo Ar (talk) 07:35, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 15:08, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I read the help page. So Special:AllPages does give an accurate count, but apparently according to the help page a page must have a link and a comma to be counted as a legitimate page. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 18:09, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Change background color

 * The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
 * Discussion moved to Discord, which really is the best venue for these sort of support questions that involve a lot of back-and-forth. Dmehus (talk) 18:57, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

hello. how to change color of background from white to something dark? in preferences->appearance it's blue but even after saving, main page is still bright white and blinding NoelSims (talk) 17:54, 29 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Look for appearance under preferences.--Iron Sword 23 (talk) 17:57, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I already said and I quote: " in preferences->appearance it's blue but even after saving, main page is still bright white and blinding" NoelSims (talk) 18:07, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Show me a picture. Iron Sword 23 (talk) 18:14, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm trying to send links to images, but captcha doesn't load, do you have discord or are you on IRC so I could send them to you there? NoelSims (talk) 18:23, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah I have discord. Let me move over. Iron Sword 23 (talk) 18:25, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm Wojtek#4519 on discord NoelSims (talk) 18:27, 29 May 2021 (UTC)


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

About my wiki's VS...
I want to make my VisualEditor could change between modes without reloading page and sometime losing all my edit progress. I have enabled all the editors that I could inside ManageWiki's settings. Is there any way? Work as same as when you are editing an Wikipedia's page. Song Ngư MGR (talk) 12:31, 30 May 2021 (UTC)


 * There doesn't seem to be a way. — Mario Mario  456  01:50, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

How do I change permissions to only let myself and any staff I have with me edit a Wikia I currently have?
I apologise if I did this wrongly, I am not very good at this Miraheze stuff yet, and I may have worded this wrong so I am so sorry on this one.

I am currently unsure how to word this but recently I've noticed there's a chance that others could edit the wiki, but while I wanted to let everyone see it for itself, I just wanted to be the only editor on it to avoid any vandalism or just flat-out trolling from other users (just in case).

I'm sorry if this confuses the staff, this is the only way I feel my mind can word this. I hope you're okay with context on this, that's all I know for now.

// TheLCMCShowOfficial (talk) 11:38, 1 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't think that's a good idea. Also I don't think it's possible to do something like that. Iron Sword 23 (talk) 13:52, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * While I would discourage you from doing so, as wikis are based around collaboration (and you can always block the vandals), you could do so by removing the edit permission from the * and user groups at lcmcproincwikia:Special:ManageWiki/permissions, and then adding edit to the sysop group (which will allow you and any other admins you add to edit). You can also create another group with only the edit permission, which you can set to be assignable by sysops, that would allow you to grant edit access without admin access. — Arcversin (talk) 14:25, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * TheLCMCShowOfficial In addition to what Arcversin has said, if a member of your community proposed, via a talk page, to have a discussion to add back the  permission to one of the default user groups, they could certainly request that, as your wiki belongs to your wiki's community, not any one bureaucrat. Dmehus (talk) 14:50, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * While I thank you three for helping me a lot with this, I will say that I’ve had idiots in the past that have vandalised my work on other sites, and I’d rather not have that happen here either. That being said, I do have a staff crew on an alternate website where we talk, and they seem to be okay with it. I am only doing it to make sure social anxiety and worry of future problems don’t screw me up. I also want to apologize here for the fact I edited this on an iPhone as I speak (1:48am AEST or something?)
 * If the group thinks its okay to add some people to help out with the Miraheze thing, maybe in the future, but they are okay with this happening. Thanks for letting me know ^^” TheLCMCShowOfficial (talk) 15:48, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I doubt vandals would try to propose such a discussion anyway and, if they did, I'm sure your active community of editors would oppose such a proposal or otherwise close it expeditiously. No problem. Dmehus (talk) 15:52, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

I would like a back-up, then a deletion
I would like to give you some more room. Miraheze has been good for me, but I have lost interest in my project. Please give me a back-up & send it to mainawill@undefinedgmail.com, & then delete it. Thank you. Anjuna (talk) 13:17, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Anjuna Normally requests for wiki deletion are requested at stewards' noticeboard, but this is fine in this case as you've asked a question. With regarding to generating a backup XML dump of your wiki, you can do this in Special:DataDump on your wiki. Please link to your wiki when this has been done. Thank you. Dmehus (talk) 13:28, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Anjuna (talk) 00:58, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * No problem. :) Dmehus (talk) 02:31, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I generated a dump. How do I download it?
 * https://anjuna.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:DataDump Anjuna (talk) 09:16, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * You should be able to go back into Special:DataDump and download the dump(s) you generated after a couple minutes. Make sure you generated both an XML dump of your wiki and a backup dump of your images. Dmehus (talk) 13:06, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

How do I translate my wiki into different languages?
How do I translate my wiki into different languages?

I want my wiki to be in different languages, the most important language for me is Japanese. MauroPerin15 (talk) 14:05, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * MauroPerin15 You might consider enabling the the Translate extension in Special:ManageWiki/extensions on your wiki, as that is what this wiki uses. Alternatively, you could look at what Revi does with his wiki, which is basically manually created translation subpages, as one other alternative. The alternative to both of these messages is to create internationalised wikis of your source wiki, but that is also a lot of work. Dmehus (talk) 14:18, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

How do I block extensions
How do I block extensions to specific usergroups so they cant access it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hoxen (talk • contribs) 21:04, 2 June 2021‎
 * You would typically do this by removing user rights related to that extension from group, but it depends on the extension. What are you trying to do? — Arcversin (talk) 01:37, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

I can't use VisualEditor without changing URL!
Is there any misconfiguation or something that did not allow me to use VisualEditor without changing my URL from  to  ?

I have turned on,  , and also turn off any other code editor on.

edit: That's not a problem with  users. Song Ngư MGR (talk) 03:35, 3 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I did not get answer soon for every questions I ask, even in Phabricator or Discord, why   Song Ngư MGR (talk) 08:14, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you have "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" enabled and, conversely, have you disabled (unchecked) "Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta" in Special:Preferences or Special:GlobalPreferences? Dmehus (talk) 13:07, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * ? No, WYSIWYG is alway the justice.
 * And about the second one? no... and never! I did not allow myself to turn on that thing. Song Ngư MGR (talk) 14:02, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Do I need to report this to Phab? Song Ngư MGR (talk) 02:31, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a technical problem for my newcomers, have some respect man Song Ngư MGR (talk) 02:01, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what the issue is. Can you explain this in a bit more detail, perhaps by including the specific error or posting a screenshot? As far as I know, there are absolutely no known bugs with VisualEditor. Note that VisualEditor won't work for anonymous users, as far as I am aware. I mean, it might be possible, but I recall reading it's not recommended for anonymous users. Dmehus (talk) 02:05, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Please do remember that we're all volunteers here, so replies can take several days. Dmehus (talk) 02:06, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * PiscesMGR-diss-001.png Ok, I got the reference image. Song Ngư MGR (talk) 03:35, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Song Ngư MGR Thanks, that's helpful. I had a look at your wiki, and I was able to use VisualEditor on your wiki, so I'm not quite sure what's wrong. In fact, the VisualEditor loaded automatically for me as soon as I clicked the "edit" or "edit source" tab. What do you have set in the "Editing" tab of your Special:Preferences? Dmehus (talk) 05:09, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Let's see, I'm usually using my global settings and I actually don't see any settings that alter the VisualEditor option.
 * PiscesMGR-diss-002.png Song Ngư MGR (talk) 05:44, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Song Ngư MGR . That's extremely helpful, and I see the issue immediately. Under the Editor options, you have made the "use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor instead of a different wikitext editor" as a global preference; however, you've not enabled it. It's a bit confusing with Special:GlobalPreferences in that the first, left most checkbox just makes the preference global. It is the second, right most checkbox that enables/disables that global preference. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 05:59, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I could use VS now, but I still need to change URL to have WYSIWYG since it still only shown an "Edit" button and it blocked the direct edit option. Song Ngư MGR (talk) 06:12, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

ManageWiki help
Is it possible to revert or undo a manage wiki change? Ugochimobi (talk) 16:41, 3 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't think so. Iron Sword 23 (talk) 16:43, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, though you'd need to look at the logs to see what you need to reverse, as there isn't a rollback button for managewiki changes. — Arcversin (talk) 16:43, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * How do I do that? Ugochimobi (talk) 16:45, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Go to Special:Log/managewiki on the wiki where you wish to revert a change. — Arcversin (talk) 16:56, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay..... Ugochimobi (talk) 17:04, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * there's never a button to revert or undo Ugochimobi (talk) 17:07, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * You can't revert it with a button, you need to see what you changed and then use the normal managewiki interface to revert those changes. — Arcversin (talk) 17:24, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Nothing is working Ugochimobi (talk) 18:00, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * What are you trying to revert, specifically? — Arcversin (talk) 18:12, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I actually made some configuration on my Namespace on FAMEData I need to revert it cuz it's causing a Bad title result when you try to create a new item. Ugochimobi (talk) 18:16, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * The log doesn't mention what changes you made to the Main namespace, but re-creating the Item namespace would likely fix it. — Arcversin (talk) 18:26, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * that's exactly what i've just done.. Just hope it's gonna help Ugochimobi (talk) 18:27, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * How do I do that? Ugochimobi (talk) 17:02, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Need to ask something
I created a Ideas NG today and it's showing 0 articles. Anyone have advice?--Iron Sword 23 (talk) 21:21, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Linter doesn't work
Hello! The extension "Linter" doesn't update and doesn't find Lint errors. For exemple on nonciclopedia, here there are listed ONLY 10 errors, but with my bot I've found 2,000+ errors.--Angelo Pisani (talk) 11:06, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

$wgAllowExternalImages not working?
Hello. I've enabled $wgAllowExternalImages, and I'm pretty sure I'm using correct syntax, but it seems that the external image is not getting embedded for some reason. You can see it here. Am I missing something obvious?

Also, on somewhat related note, is it possible to use $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom instead of $wgAllowExternalImages since a whitelist seems like a more sensible way to manage it? I don't see it in the settings.

Thank you. 21x (talk) 12:04, 5 June 2021 (UTC)