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How much storage space does Miraheze have?
Well, My wiki, Crazybloxian Empire, could get large pretty soon. How much storage space does the wiki-hosting service have? as an addable group. If you give me a precise window of time I can temporarily open the wiki instead. --Wedhro (talk) 19:18, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Forget about that, I set up permissions again and now you're a member. Let me know when you're finished.--Wedhro (talk) 19:27, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ,, after discussing with staff, I have whitelisted Special:Interwiki on all wikis, so it should be possible now without extra permissions. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 19:29, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * How it's supposed to work? I see the table but it's not editable.--Wedhro (talk) 19:33, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I see it requires to set a new permission,, but I can't see it in Special:ManageWikiPermissions.--Wedhro (talk) 19:43, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I ment that Interwiki-admins don’t need full read access anymore to change Interwiki on private wikis. They have “Interwiki” globally. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 19:45, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Oops, I misunderstood.--Wedhro (talk) 19:46, 21 November 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅ &#32; Miraheze Logo.svg CnocBride | Talk | Contribs  20:18, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks but there's a few entries missing:
 * dlm - http://dlm.neciklopedija.org/
 * ko	- http://uncyclopedia.kr/
 * pl - http://nonsensopedia.org/
 * tlh - http://tlh.uncyc.org/
 * The following need to be deleted because it's our old wiki on Wikia and of course we don't need to link to that:
 * it - http://nonciclopedia.wikia.com/
 * Thanks again.--Wedhro (talk) 21:20, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
 * These two links: http://dlm.neciklopedija.org/ and http://tlh.uncyc.org/ are already on the list, when I checked just there. Must have missed the others! &#32; Miraheze Logo.svg CnocBride | Talk | Contribs  21:27, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
 * That's because they're in the "Local interwiki prefixes" table of Special:Interwiki instead of "Interlanguage prefixes" table, and as a matter of fact you can see how our main page shows two links at the bottom of the page instead of in the sidebar.--Wedhro (talk) 23:02, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Activity feed
On my old wiki I could use the tag to display a list of recent changes on the mainscreen. Is this extension not available or enabled on Miraheze?
 * It's ActivityFeedTag, a custom extension used by Wikia and not available in MediaWiki repositories AFAIK. --Wedhro (talk) 17:56, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * A similar extension could be developed, although, it would be necessary to see where the feed would be positioned, which can bring conflicts with the skins GOTILON - Talk  - Contributions  23:30, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

My CVT request
Hi. My request for CVT at Requests for global rights seems to have not been noticed by the community by the looks of it. I have had my request open since 21 October and today is 24 November so it is over a month since I requested it but I still see no votes. Only two comments were left there, one was from 5 November saying that the community might not have noticed it and another is from 6 November suggesting me to go to the community board if there are no answers so I decided to come here today after a very long period of over one month of waiting. Pkbwcgs (talk) 21:13, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Are site stats available for individual wikis?
Are site stats available for individual wikis? Thanks. - User:Cicero
 * Yes! Please visit Special:Analytics. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 10:12, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Fix interwiki tables on https://nonciclopedia.org
Interwiki links don't work, I get a "not found" error. Example: http://en.uncyclopedia.co/December_6 - Same with other languages.

Probably that's because the URL misses the "/wiki/" part, in fact if I change the above URL as http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/December_6 it works. NOTE: Stupidedia (interwiki bar) uses "/stupi/" instead of "/wiki/", and I hope it's the only exception.

Whether this is the correct solution or not, I ask you to fix the interwiki table so that links work, for all languages.

Also, there's a missing interwiki to add: is, for http://is.ikkepedia.org

Thanks.--Wedhro (talk) 20:15, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I've added the new link, as well as updated just about every link on the table. I didn't check to see if each works, so if anything is broken, let me know. -- Void  Whispers 21:45, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I checked a few links and they work, thanks a lot.--Wedhro (talk) 22:02, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Read this
Read this GOTILON - Talk  - Contributions  21:30, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Add a few interwiki prefixes to Nonciclopedia
The following prefixes should be added to the interwiki table of https://nonciclopedia.org/ Please don't forget to check them, last time the links missed the /wiki/ part and wouldn't work. Thanks.--Wedhro (talk) 23:26, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * dlm - http://dlm.neciklopedija.org/
 * hu - http://unciklopedia.org/
 * tlh - http://tlh.uncyc.org/
 * zombie - http://zombie.pedia.ws/
 * Looks like only hu was missing from the table. It's been added. -- Void  Whispers 01:59, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, if you check https://nonciclopedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Interwiki you'll see the other three are missing from the table. In fact, on the bottom of our main page, just above the category box, you can see how dlm, tlh and zombie show up as plain links instead of appearing on the language list in the sidebar.--Wedhro (talk) 10:30, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * They are located in the list of Local Interwiki Links, but these are not counted as Interlanguage links. Interwiki links turn up on the page as if they were local links, while the Interlanguage links turn up on the sidebar. I guess this needs to be configured then. -- Void  Whispers 15:35, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, now I see. So they just need to be moved to the interlanguage table.	--Wedhro (talk) 16:18, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * That's more of a technical request. Should be good soon. -- Void  Whispers 18:23, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Style classes in Common.css don't work
I'm replicating warning templates used on the italian Wikipedia, and to make sure they work the same I copypasted their Common.css stylesheet here: https://nonciclopedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css When using a class from there on a table or div block, though, I can't see any difference. For example, see the following class: table.avviso { margin: 5px 10%;                          /* Non si sovrappone ad altri elementi */ border-collapse: collapse; background: #fbfbfb; border: 1px solid #aaa; } Then in my sandbox I write the following:

Div I'd expect to get the boxes centered, gray borders etc., but nothing changes. Any idea why?--Wedhro (talk) 10:43, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I've got nothing for this issue. If I force load the css using js, it works. There's no reason that it shouldn't work normally, unless something is causing the Common.css page to never load. -- Void  Whispers 21:39, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
 * There's anything I might do to find out why it doesn't load? And/or should I open a task on Phabricator?	--Wedhro (talk) 21:45, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah, it seems that the page somehow had a broken content model. I fixed it, and now everything seems to be working. -- Void  Whispers 22:12, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
 * It works, thanks. Now I remember noticing a few days ago how the content model wasn't correct and I tried changing it (see the history) but the change didn't have effect. Any idea why?--Wedhro (talk) 22:21, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
 * That's unclear. I think the only fix was to change it to a different content model and then back again. -- Void  Whispers 22:42, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Users can't register because their accounts were already created during wiki import
After importing our wiki from Wikia to https://nonciclopedia.org, in Phabricator task T3756#72940, wrote:
 * “[...] i went ahead and created all the users accounts to prevent the problem in the future. (if any of your users turn up and find they cannot create there account) please ask them to create a phab task (and also comment on it that you confirm it is the user please))”

If I understand correctly, old users should create an account on Phabricator, then learn how to open a task, then I should comment there and finally... I don't know, really.

Isn't there a simpler way to let users get their accounts back? Maybe they could register a temporary account on our wiki and then the staff could merge it with the old one? Is there anything I can do as a admin/sysop? I'm asking because I don't expect them to register on Phabricator just to create a single task, probably we will lose users in the process.

At least, I'd like to know how what Paladox said would work exactly, at least I could tell the users.--Wedhro (talk) 17:35, 14 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi, yes, though old users can email staff@miraheze.org since phabricator requires a account on meta. Paladox (talk) 20:01, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Would you please elaborate: which steps should be followed by users wanting their account back, exactly? Maybe I could email the staff in order to guarantee it's actually them, but what about passwords, email addresses and other things that are supposed to be private?--Wedhro (talk) 20:49, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi, we're still waiting for an answer: how do users get back their old accounts? Also, IIRC it was once possible to merge users but I don't see Extension:UserMerge in the extension list and there's no special page dedicated to that option; was it removed? It would solve our problems because users could just create a new temporary account and then I could merge it with the old one.--Wedhro (talk) 10:55, 21 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi, as I said they can email staff@miraheze.org or they can create a new account and we can globally rename the account. We doint have UserMerge installed because that’s for local accounts, not global accounts. you can request a global rename at https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:GlobalRenameRequest Paladox (talk) 13:00, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I know but it's not clear how it works with emails: if someone emails you they want an account back, how do they prove it's actually them? I don't want to give this opportunity to malicious users (we get lot of vandalisms).--Wedhro (talk) 14:56, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

How to make a wiki only editable for approved users?
Hi,

very new to Miraheze and already seen so much stuff, but still somewhat unsure about things ...

To be clear: 1. I'd like it possible for anybody to see the wiki contents 2. but editing should bve restricted to approved by some admin person

Would you please point me to the correct info for this?

Thx /Arie ArievW (talk) 16:58, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * You can use Special:ManageWikiPermissions on your wiki, create a group called "editor" and then assign the edit permission to it. Then, you select the "*" group and revoke 'read' and same for "user". If you need help with this or prefer that I do it please let me know. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 06:57, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Any tips on search engine optimization?
Is there anything we can do to raise our site in Google results? We migrated from an older Mediawiki installation at a different URL, and if I search for a topic, the older page  is the first Google result, but   isn't on the first 5 results pages at all. Psephomancy (talk) 22:45, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Maybe making the old wiki a redirect to the new wiki will work. Though it could take some time.-- 01:31, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * As The Pioneer says, it does take some time, but you can try to make it quicker by doing what is described here. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 15:13, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * "User:Reception123, I added it to SearchConsole and it says the pages are excluded from Google: 'Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical Status: Excluded'. Not sure what that means, and it doesn't list what it thinks the canonical URL is. It says it will scan the site within a few days so I guess I will find out then. ~"

upload content of existing wiki
We have a wiki http://www.ist.tugraz.at/isac/ with about 60 pages and want to upload the content. Since we have many links from somewhere else to this wiki, we want the content in Miraheze as close as possible to the present wiki.

On Miraheze's pages we could not find an information, whether upload of whole wikis is supported by Miraheze. So we ask here (and hope that we only have to send a file of 380 kB starting with the line "" to the Stewards' noticeboard.
 * Yes, it is possible to import a wiki. Please upload the XML file on Phabricator or if the wiki is private, send it to staff[at]miraheze[dot]org Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 11:47, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Create Wiki going wrong?
I found out that the requesters of wikis from my environment has all changed to Hearth to Matilda for an unknown reason. I think something is going wrong with Special:RequestWiki or Special:CreateWiki. I'll leave a note here because I wonder if other wiki creators have the same issue.-- 12:48, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * The problem seems to be fixed.-- 13:36, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Wait, it still isn't in some older request. I guess I need to manually fix them for now.-- 13:50, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * What wikis are affected, and what's wrong with them? -- Void  Whispers 02:49, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * We've fixed it on the created wikis, I'm currently going through already done wiki requests to see what's wrong. -- Void  Whispers 03:22, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Should now be resolved, let us know immediately if something like this happens again. -- Void  Whispers 04:35, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * OK. Thanks for fixing everything.-- 11:57, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Please add six interwiki links to my wiki (mahuset.miraheze.org).
Hello,

My wiki (the Royal Wiki, mahuset.miraheze.org) covers a subject which would be easier for me to cover if the following six interwiki links were added: These wikis all cover material similar in nature to that of my wiki, and it'd be incredibly convenient not to have a seperate article on each different wiki. --Oxocero (talk) 21:16, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * konmalehth:, redirecting to konmalehth.miraheze.org
 * pavlov:, redirecting to pavlov.miraheze.org
 * hasanistan:, redirecting to hasanistan.miraheze.org
 * microwiki:, redirecting to micronations.wiki
 * mnf:, redirecting to micronations.wikia.com
 * mfe:, redirecting to mahuset.wikia.com
 * OK, now it's ✅-- 12:10, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Use of Global User Page
Hi, to all users who are currently using the Global User Page feature, please be advised that the wiki where the user page is based has been changed. The new wiki is loginwiki (login.miraheze.org). This means that if you were previously using a global user page, your user page should now be copied over to loginwiki. If you have any questions, let me know. -- Void  Whispers 04:41, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Template Navbox show/hide won't appear
I know this has been discussed before, but I cannot see to make Template:Navbox work on my wiki. I've copied so many Lua files, Common.js and Common.css, and reloaded the cache til I'm blue in the face. Would anyone being willing to take a look? Unlike previous users' problems, I can't seem to get it to get started at all: the show/hide box has never appeared for me. I am willing to scrap everything and reimport anything you say! --Aquatiki (talk) 03:01, 4 January 2019 (UTC)