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Welp, not sure where to put this
So I'm throwin it here. For user rights pages (Bureaucrats, Wiki creator, rtc) we need to choose plural or singular (preferably plural imo) and stick with it. We shouldn't use singular on one page and plural on another. Also, I can see the need for Admins redirecting since its an abreviation but is there a need to have one tense of wikicreator redirect to the other?
 * I know. I just went on ListUserRights and that's why the pages got created like that.--Reception123 (talk) 01:36, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

Dormancy policy
See Stewards'_noticeboard for a discussion on the dormancy policy proposals. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 19:25, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Proposal of a global "helper" user group
We should have a global "helper" user group for volunteers that aren't sysadmins (such as Me and ImBoPhl), that includes read permissions and whatever else is deemed useful for us. MacFan4000 (talk) 00:09, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay I agree I ready MT7 (talk) 01:40, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest cranking out a list of permissions that you think this group should need, because right now, it's a lot too vague. To be honest, there is not a lot to stop you from requesting steward if you want to (except, where to put said request). It's worth a thought though. -- Void  Whispers 02:30, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I from WMF maybe I want to help out in here. But I think not.But if you appointed me I can maybe agree. MT7 (talk) 12:23, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Frustrated with Miraheze
I am totally frustrated with Miraheze. No offense to sysadmins and developers, I think you need to be a little more open. There are hundreds of wikis that have closed, mostly due to inactivity. However, I would be willing to bet that some of those communities have moved elsewhere for a larger setup, etc. My sister and I just wanted a place to host a MW wiki with lots of options as to how it looks and runs. Believe me, I've looked just about everywhere, and pretty much all of MediaWiki's free hosts are either dead, unable to be connected to, or are running an ancient version of MediaWiki and thus significantly lack features. I have a personal GitHub repository that contains what my sister and I would like to see out of a MediaWiki host.

I find myself running into the same roadblock that our cousin, MatthewPW, ran into. My sister never imagined needing these advanced features when she came to Miraheze. However, things changed, and she (as well as I) feel that control is important. I've seen so many wiki farms go dead because they were attacked by spam or other disruptive content, and our goal was to create a wiki that had everything possible to prevent that in our hands. Know that extensions like CU or some of the others aren't things that we would necessarily want to use, but feel that having access to them is important, just in case of something bad or otherwise unforeseen happening.

I understand and respect the need for user privacy, but there just aren't too many reasonable options out there. After some research, this is what it comes down to:


 * ShoutWiki charges you $5.50 just to get rid of page-cluttering ads.
 * Referata has a free plan, but it seriously lacks features and the requests page seems to have been ignored for some time.
 * MyWikis charges you $8/mo to do anything, and $35/mo to have a fully managed site
 * Several other hosts are located on Europe or elsewhere and don't have an English version
 * A large majority of farms have been dead for several years now
 * And the list goes on.

I hope you can see where I'm coming from any why I'm so frustrated. I did also try installing MediaWiki myself. I was doing well, extracting/decompressing data & copying files, until I hit a roadblock.... "Error: No independent database detected". Great! I don't have the foggiest of a clue how to set up an independent database. BTW I tried using Bitnami Cloud Hosting on their free plan, which is "fully managed", but yet that option has absolutely NO EXTENSIONS whatsoever included, with no obvious way to add/request them. Amanda (talk) 15:20, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Paid Hosting is uasally better then free hosting as we have said before. MacFan4000 (talk) 15:29, 13 December 2016 (UTC)