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drones4all.miraheze.org

 * This wiki will now start to be edited, please do not deactivate or delete it. Thanks! Patribus (talk) 19:28, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Patribus provisory (talk) 14:31, 26 November 2016 (UTC) : Could I call your attention to my request here Requests for adoption#Drones4Nature https:.2F.2Fdrones4all.miraheze.org Thank you!

Change username
Could you please change my user name from User:Rob c to User:BuilderOne please. Thanks.
 * done! -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 13:13, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Request for interwiki linking
I don't know if this is the right place for this, but I would like to have an interwiki link between adia.project and Adia Pedia. My preferred prefixes would be "ar" for adia.project and "ap" for Adia Pedia. Thanks! Rajavlitra (talk) 01:27, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
 * have you tried editing Special:Interwiki on your wiki? Local administrators should be able to do it. All wikis use Meta Wiki's interwiki list, but your shortcuts probably shouldn't exist on all wikis. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 13:11, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
 * You apparently can't do that, my bad. I've added the prefixes to the global table. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 14:28, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Request for newtrend.miraheze.org
I don't know if this is the right place for this, but I would like to turn my Newtrend Wiki from private to public. Can someone help me with that?
 * I've made the wiki public for you. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 15:58, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Login/Access/Weird Issue in All The Tropes
On the past couple of weeks, I have been unable to see All The Tropes while logged in and in desktop mode. I can log in, access to the site and make editions to the wiki, as long as I do on Mobile mode. It's the only wiki in Miraheze where I have that problem. I've tested in several several browsers and the ones who doesn't give me a white screen give me a screen claiming error 500 when I log in in desktop mode. I'm not sure if it is a bug or something wrong on my configurations. What can be done here? Lequinni (talk) 15:23, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ATT appears to be working for now. There appear to have been sporadic issues with the job queue over there, and it put a lot of load on one of our servers for an extended period of time. During this time the 5xx errors started showing up but should have completely recovered by now. Please let me know if you see the error again, and if possible an exact timestamp of when it happened (include your timezone). It makes finding server logs easier. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 15:55, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I have just logged again from Vivaldi, and I have the same error. It was around 10:40 UTC -4. Lequinni (talk) 14:47, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Issue
I have had no recent downtime. However, I have an issue:

Global Notice: Miraheze would like to appologize to anyone who noticed recent downtime. There were technical difficulties renewing a SSL certificate for one of our wikis and one of our two servers temporarily became inaccessible. All issues should be resolved now, please email staff or leave a message here if you are still experiencing issues.
 * You mean you have distrubed with global notice? We have recently down with server. And you have problem with your wiki, you can explain at here. Maybe global notice can show two weeks. :)TriX (talk) 13:21, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Wanted Categories
I'm not sure if it's an issue, I've tried to correct and see what pages are in one of my categories called Page Count by creating the category again, but as there doesn't seem to be any categories attached to it, I'm not sure what the issue is exactly, any help would be appreciated. PlatinumYellow (talk) 11:54, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
 * to the best of my knowledge deleting and recreating the category page won't do anything. If you're talking about the pages in that category not showing up, that's probably the job queue. Purge the individual pages, give it time, and let us know if you still have an issue. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 13:56, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I have no idea which pages they are, because when I click on the category nothing shows up, I do apologise as I did make an error in my original comment I meant to say that there are no pages attached to it. PlatinumYellow (talk) 21:40, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Delete ETPO
Hi,

You can delete ETPO.miraheze.org if you want. Not in use anymore.

Thanks FelixINX (talk) 17:58, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Please confirm this deletion as this action is irreversible and all the content on your wiki will no longer be accessible. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 14:16, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I confirm. FelixINX (talk) 15:44, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 14:11, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

No admin in own wiki
Hi

I am very new to miraheze. I created an user account, z3001x, and requested for a wiki which was created by TriX, quickly 4 days ago. Thanks a bunch for the approval of my request and creating the wiki! The wiki-URL is https://lucilekbt.miraheze.org/wiki/

Sadly, when I try to go to this URL while I am logged in, I get an error saying that I am not authorized because I am not a member of the Administrators group of this wiki.

So I can't edit my own wiki. :-(

Could you please grant me admin rights for this wiki or tell me what else I have to do to be able to add content to the wiki.

Also I want to grant someone else rights to edit the wiki.

Thx a lot Chris (z3001x)
 * , please see. TriX (talk) 00:20, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
 * There is a wiki admin, according to Special:Listusers (Z3001x (Diskussion | Beiträge | Sperren)‏‎ (Bürokrat, Administrator) (Erstellt am 7. Oktober 2016 um 04:07 Uhr) ). Please try logging in again, and if it still doesn't work tell us. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 14:06, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Someone please check the wiki request queue
It has like 9 requested wikis that havent been created yet--TheInternetEmo (talk) 12:20, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Please be patient Wiki Creators are not active 24 hours a day. MacFan4000 (talk) 12:28, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I know, but its been like one day since the last wikis were created--TheInternetEmo (talk) 13:04, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the inconvenience, but unfortunately we don't have enough volunteers to complete all the requests, please be patient. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 13:25, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * For the record this backlog used to go longer than a week sometimes with like 25 or more wikis in the queue. I for one am happy that our volunteers have been doing an extremely good job keeping the backlog down and handling these requests quickly. Honestly the feature request backlog has been way worse than wiki creation backlog atm, so.. not too worried about the wiki time o; hopefully it stays (on average) as good as it has been lately. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 23:06, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Deletion
Hi, can you please delete Simpukarropedia? I have moved to a different wiki, and this wiki no longer needs to exist. I backed up some pages on the new wiki, so i guess you dont need to ask me to confirm this. thanx--TheInternetEmo (talk) 08:23, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay I will close, so can delete after 60 days. TriX (talk) 11:42, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 15:42, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Logo problem
I submitted a request to change the logo of https://nemesis.miraheze.org to https://nemesis.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Wiki.png. The request was apparently done, but it still displays the default miraheze logo. Is that a glitch or something?--TheInternetEmo (talk) 12:11, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello. A pull request was made by a volunteer, but wasn't actually merged by a System administrator. I have now merged it and the new logo should now be appearing. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 15:30, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * oh lol--TheInternetEmo (talk) 15:54, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Lock Account
Please lock account User:Contoh Pengguna or example user TriX (talk) 15:39, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Lock account User:T-REX IT Wrong ceate. Cytos (talk) 14:22, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * We generally don't "lock" accounts for such things. Accounts are "locked" or "globally banned" for cross-wiki vandalism only. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 20:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Can I do a pdf book with more pages ?
In Wikipedia I can do a book with all the pages that I want. And here ? User:Paolo C
 * That requires Extension:Collect, which needs to be reviewed if you would like it on your wiki. Also, in the feature requests like this should go on Phabricator. Thanks. MacFan4000 (talk) 21:44, 20 October 2016 (UTC)


 * How can I install Extension:Collect in the server? User: Paolo C
 * You can request at Request features. Unfortunately Collection has been declined, but PdfEmbed and PdfHandler can be enabled if you would like. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 20:20, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Deletion
I got a notice of inactivity on hyler.miraheze.org. You can go ahead and delete the page, actually, as well as deactivate / delete my account. I have started pursuing much more time-consuming things in my life and will not have the time to tend to it properly.

Thank you for all you have done, and continue to do.

- g
 * ✅ MacFan4000 (talk) 15:04, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 18:53, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Job Queue
I'm sorry to keep bothering you with this again, but as I use it to find errors and keep track of parts of my wiki, I was wondering if this has stopped working on ZGradeTennis could someone please fix this? It would be very much appreciated :) PlatinumYellow (talk) 11:11, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ MacFan4000 (talk) 17:02, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

mathpuzzles.miraheze.org and matheraetsel.miraheze.org
Is there any way to improve the rendering of formulas? I would be willing to donate for a server upgrade / renting more cpu time.

I have tried to add a collection of math formulas to those wikis but ended up assembing them with plain HTML where possible. That approach quickly hits its limits. I have finally found the "bug" reports about these problems with comments that it can take a few hours for a formula to render. Not a good situation if you try to write down a math proof riddled with formulas.

Thanks, Zyphrus (talk) 21:22, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Change my username
It should be Solid Virus, with the right capitalization, not as it is. Solid VIrus (talk) 17:19, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 14:03, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * :) Solid Virus (talk) 00:17, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Deletion
Please delete my wiki. We are looking at our options! Thank you!
 * User has emailed me saying that they have changed their mind, therefore there will be no need for deletion. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 19:45, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

change permission
please set permission on traunstoaner.miraheze.org to
 * anyone can read
 * only authorized user can edit
 * only admin can create user

thanks --Rimbao (talk) 19:46, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Theese requests go here. MacFan4000 (talk) 21:46, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Remove redundant user names
Could you please remove the following users, as they are redundant: they had made their own registration but the naming is not consistent. So I made new users for all of them. D BELDERBOS (Geregistreerd op 23 aug 2016 om 20:45) (geblokkeerd) H VERHAGEN  (Geregistreerd op 23 aug 2016 om 20:44) (geblokkeerd) Martin1948  (Geregistreerd op 25 sep 2016 om 11:29) (geblokkeerd) PLuksemburg (Geregistreerd op 1 nov 2016 om 10:17)  (geblokkeerd) RGDS, Arie Arie (talk) 21:00, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Is it possible to follow this up, please? Arie (talk) 15:54, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Accounts can't be deleted so there is unfortunately nothing to do here. John (talk) 16:13, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Change sidebar menu
Hi, I would like to change the sidebar menu, adding a few links to chapters in my wiki. I'm sorry, but editing MediaWiki:Sidebar does not help me out. Nothing changes when I alter something there... Arie (talk) 18:57, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
 * That would be because you did not add anything to it to begin with. MacFan4000 (talk) 19:02, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, I just found it out, I swapped the link and the target text... Stupid! Thanks. Arie (talk) 15:55, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Exception encountered, of type "Exception"
Please help me urgently. I have made several accounts for my team. Now many have problems logging in after asking for a temporary password and changing that. They see this: Exception encountered, of type "Exception". What to do next? What is happening here? Arie (talk) 15:53, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Can you list any particular users that has issues? Any exception codes? John (talk) 16:19, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Luksemburg (Overleg | bijdragen | blokkeren)‏‎ (beheerder) (Geregistreerd op 26 okt 2016 om 21:10)

Vannorde (Overleg | bijdragen | blokkeren)‏‎ (beheerder) (Geregistreerd op 26 okt 2016 om 21:15)

Rijsdam (Overleg | bijdragen | blokkeren)‏‎ (beheerder) (Geregistreerd op 26 okt 2016 om 21:11)

Marchal (Overleg | bijdragen | blokkeren)‏‎ (beheerder) (Geregistreerd op 26 okt 2016 om 21:11)

Hondema (Overleg | bijdragen | blokkeren)‏‎ (beheerder) (Geregistreerd op 26 okt 2016 om 21:08)

Maybe more...

The address bar of the latter (he sent me a printscreen) says: https://login.miraheze.org/wiki/SpecialCentralLogin/start?tokenda3ceeceed66c258c11a695cb999874

Not any exception code, just what the title says! Arie (talk) 10:24, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Not sure what the issue is, but please ask them if they have cookies enabled or not and ask them to try logging into another wiki, such as Login wiki or this wiki -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 14:19, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * It looks like about half of the users encounters this problem, I cannot replicate it myself. But it looks like their accounts are corrupt: One is logged in but is not allowed to create his own page User talk:Marchal.

Another one states that he could not login to the two test sites, though he can login in my wiki. Unfortunately the exception turns up. But in some cases the backspace key brings them to the wiki...

None has cookies blocked!

Is there a way to see whether there are problems with the aforementioned users?

I am giving a workshop to 20 users coming saturday and would like NOT to spend time on this issue ;( Arie (talk) 20:08, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, have you encountered this issue Saturday? Thanks, Southparkfan (talk) 18:54, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Deletion
Please delete all of my wikis and my user account - I have found a better spot to create my websites. Thank you for your time. &mdash; MuskiAnimal  talk  02:55, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
 * We are sorry to see you go. We do not delete user accounts but all three of your wikis have been deleted. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 19:59, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Checkuser for DeltaQuad on wikicanadawiki
User: DeltaQuad ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log ) Group: CheckUser Reason: Requesting this permission locally for wikicanada.miraheze.org

Additional comments: On WikiCanada, I have a way to technically "ban" user accounts from reading pages, except for a couple of system special pages and the Main page. However, because of CentralAuth, it has been brought to my attention that banned users could create an account on another wiki (even here), and then log in with it on my wiki. To prevent this, I am told that I would need to block the user's IP address. While autoblocks work for 24 hours, the autoblock log entry doesn't tell me the actual IP. Therefore, I am requesting CheckUser locally on my wiki so that I can effectively prevent banned users from evading. Please note that I don't intend to ban anyone in the near future, but I need the ability to do so if and when the time arises. Thank you for your consideration. ---DQ 03:01, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Other users feel free to support/oppose/abstain from this RfP but please state your reasoning below.
 * Comments/Questions


 * I personally don't think the rights are (currently) needed. To the best of my knowledge, autoblocks aren't for 24 hours, they duplicate the time of the original block (that caused the autoblock). I may be mistaken in this regard, and either way I don't think you have a demonstratable need for now. Autoblocks should do the job either way. If you have reason to believe that someone is evading blocks, please make a request for Stewards to perform a checkuser, in which case the person performing the check will tell you whether or not accounts are likely linked, without revealing the user's IP. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 03:14, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Ban evasion is different than block evasion. The latter case I can tolerate. I don't like it, and the evading user will be blocked, but I can tolerate it. A user would only be banned from reading pages after they have been blocked multiple times and have refused to get the point. By the time a user is banned, any form of evasion needs to be stopped before it can be started. When banning a user, I would also block them indefinitely, but autoblocks can't last indefinitely. So when the autoblock expires, what happens? How else do I prevent the creation of a global account elsewhere and then use of it on my wiki? As noted above, these protocols will likely see very little use, but I would like them available should I ever need them. ---DQ 03:21, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * As noted on my Phabricator bio and my user page on my wiki, I am also Microsoft Outlook staff. As part of this position, I have access to a similar tool to CheckUser (not exactly the same, but similar). Therefore, I have experience with this type of stuff, and would not be tempted to misuse it. ---DQ 03:31, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose I think that for now there are enough stewards to take care of this, and as you have now seen, they take care of the request in reasonable time. If there are a lots of ban evasions, then this tool could be justifiable and I would agree to it being given but currently I don't see the necessity for it on the concerned wiki. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 14:21, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Enough stewards? According to the most recent list, there's only three. 3 stewards for over 1500 wikis definitely is skimpy. Note that I am not requesting full Steward privileges - I'm just making a disputed statement to your claim above. ---DQ 15:02, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * There may have been 1500 wikis created but almost a majority have been closed. Last I checked there were only 850 open wikis. Also, that doesn't really matter either. What I consider important is the ratio between the number of stewards and the rate of requests that require stewards. There hasn't been a recent request to perform a checkuser. (The only request I can remember was not actioned). The recent request for oversight was handled very quickly. As such, if you reasonably requested us to perform a check it would probably be acted on quickly. Also, I don't know if "autoblocks can't be indefinite" is: true or not, but I know old indef blocks can still issue autoblocks, and that users can be repeatedly autoblocked. PS not saying you were but please try not to sound sarcastic in edit messages. You act like what Reception said is completely unreasonable. --NDKilla
 * I agree with NDKilla, there are enough stewards (and thus people with access to CheckUser). We may have ~850 open wikis, but that doesn't mean all 850 wikis are very active. The only overloaded team is the sysadmin team, steward help is rarely backlogged fortunately. There is one block action on your wiki, and you haven't revoked read access from that user (do you want to revoke read access in such cases? Or are there other reasons?), so there doesn't seem to be a need for getting the tools either.
 * Looking at the publicly available wiki configuration, your wiki is configured to revoke read access from anonymous users, and grant it to all logged-in users (unless they are in the banned group). If you have content you want to keep private (and I assume that is the case), I strongly recommend you to switch to a private wiki; a whitelist system (manually giving read access) instead of a blacklist system (allow everyone unless banned). It is not hard to create a new user account to evade your blacklist system, and fighting against that is (in my opinion) useless. Southparkfan (talk) 19:39, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * BTW, @Southparkfan please do not be performing "non-controversial staff actions" on my wiki. I don't delete test pages anyway unless they are vandalism. How did you even manage to delete the page without sysop? ---DQ 21:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * And note that I do not have private content - the "banned" group is merely a technical action I can take to stop long-term abusers before they start. ---DQ 21:57, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * He is a global sysadmin and steward so he can do that on any wiki. MacFan4000 (talk) 21:59, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

I would like a .tk instead of .miraheze.org
Dear Steward

This is Sjimenezch, from wikipuc.miraheze.org

Currently wikipuk.tk redirects to wikipuc.miraheze.org.

I would like to get a Custom Domain from dot.tk for Wikipuc using LetsEncrypt, more precisely, to have wikipuk.tk instead of wikipuc.miraheze.org

I know there is at least one wiki with a .tk, https://evelopedia.tk/wiki/About_EVE_Online

If there is anything I have to do, please tell me, because as some people I didn't understand the instructions on this article

Thank you

WikiCanada
Hello. For those who were not on IRC last night, I am the sister of DeltaQuad, who is the founder of WikiCanada. Late last night, DQ was in a car accident and was taken to the hospital. She did survive, but is in critical condition. She has granted me the right to "take over" her wiki, at least for the time being. However, I don't have technical ability to do so, and I think only a Steward can grant me such ability. My sister has also requested that all of her open Phabricator tasks remain open, and any of them that are in progress should be completed. Thank you. Amanda (talk) 13:59, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

global login rename
I chose Paolo C as username without underscore but phabricator do not accept it so I put Paolo_C as username for the login in phabricator. Now I have Paolo C in meta and Paolo_C in phabricator but I cannot login in my const wiki and in phabricator. Can I have a global username PaoloCallox ? News : I have had access in const without to make login and if I want change my password it do not give me the temporary code by email. Paolo C

Wanted Categories
I thought it would eventually go, but for some reason I still have a category for Page Count], which has 3 pages attached to it, but it doesn't as no pages whatsoever show up in it. What's going on here? PlatinumYellow (talk) 22:47, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what the issue is. I have tried running a maintenance script but that still hasn't fixed anything. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 13:19, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Change username
Hi, Could you please change my user name to "Truxte"?

Thanks
 * Please wait... We can change your username. MT7 (talk) 14:19, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ John (talk) 15:09, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Abandoning Css and Js schoolboard
I have decided to abandon Css and Js schoolboard due to lack of interest in activity. Could you please close it? Lemondoge T C GC 03:01, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I've closed it. If you need anything else, let us know. -- Void  Whispers 16:08, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Infobox error
I am having trouble opening the following page on my lionhearttales wiki: Template:Infobox officeholder. The associated subpages are both working fine, but the page itself will not open. If I manually type the URL to edit the page into the browser it does open the browser window but doesn't seem to be saving. When I use the template on another page, it seems to work but adds a extra

tag pair for no apparent reason. In Firefox, the page simply stops loading and the screen remains blank white, but when I tried to open the page in Chrome it said their was an HTTP 500 error. I noticed that another person had an issue on their wiki with a page of the same name and am wondering if the issue is related.

Refsmithy93 (talk) 06:31, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I can confirm I am getting the error too. It could have possibly be something on the page. I have now deleted it. Please try creating a new one, and tell us if the issue still is persistent. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 13:15, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

I just tried to create the page again with exactly the same code as is on the page on wikipedia.org and have encountered the same problem again. The code works fine in wikipedia, but doesn't seem to be working on miraheze. I might have to forget about that page for a while and see if I can find another way to do what I want. Refsmithy93 (talk) 00:02, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Please delete my Wiki
Hello,

please delete my Wiki. I don't need it anymore.

Thanks. Bye
 * I'm assuming you are referring to https://mjahn.miraheze.org . Please confirm that you would like to delete the wiki mentioned for me to be able to delete it. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 13:13, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiCanada dead
The lifespan of WikiCanada has officially ended. In response, please:


 * Do NOT close or delete the wiki until I request such actions


 * DO hide from public/delete all Phabricator tasks related to WikiCanada, and also delete this Phabricator account.

Amanda (talk) 19:19, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Acknowledged the first point. For the second point tickets and accounts can't be deleted (well can but not without messing everything up and creating a lot of dead-ends). John (talk) 21:47, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay, but can't you change the visibility of all WikiCanada tasks so that only I can seem them? I can take this action myself on calendar events and projects, but cannot on standard tasks. Amanda (talk) 22:21, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * We can but our work ethic is everything in the open where practicable. We restrict the ability to edit view policies on tasks to members in "Security" only in order to keep this ethic enforceable. John (talk) 22:23, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * - It may not be your preferred method, but you can "HIDE" your articles by deleting all the articles in the wiki. Then other members except sysops of your wiki cannot view them. You can read them by typing page title and even restore them by using undelete action. --Utolee90 (talk) 06:53, 29 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Please delete WikiCanada from the database entirely at this time (and yes, I am offically back and am excited to work on my new wiki) --- DeltaQuad  (talk contribs email), 15:42, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Request global lock/ban username "missile" on meta
Recently the user named "대공미사일" attacked my wiki(jayuwiki.miraheze.org/) Although there are only three "contribs" in my wiki, there may be several logs in AbuseFilterLog (link) I suspect this user abusing in other wikis(Refer to - here or Here(In addition the (suspected) user abused the wiki with using more than 10 accounts) or Here) with various accounts.

Therefore, I ask you for these:


 * 1) Please block all the accounts containing the keyword "미사일" in whole meta site and add the keyword "미?일", "밋?일", "뮈?일", "미?이루", "밋?이루", "ㅁㅣㅅ" in the account blacklist. (? Means an arbitrary character, either Korean or the other)
 * 2) Please check the ip of such abused accounts and block these "IP"s. If it turns out that these IP are for Open proxy, VPS or mobile network, please block whole ips in the same CIDR.


 * There is nothing we can do about the two last wikis you mentioned (osawiki and modoo.ml) as there are not part of Miraheze. As for the IPs a CheckUser will be performed by a steward if they think it is necessary and they will take the necessary actions. As for blacklisting names I am not sure how or if this works, but you could try something with Special:AbuseFilter. Reception123 (talk) ( contribs  ) 10:59, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Name change
Can you change my username to WEMO666?--TheInternetEmo (talk) 10:56, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. John (talk) 11:45, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

GIPB-Exemptions
I want to request about gibe for myaccount. MT7 (talk) 05:56, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

H1 vs. MT7
I know this is going to sound weird coming from me, but I would like to request that user accounts H1 and MT7 be compared via CheckUser. I have reason to believe that they are the same user, as the extremely poor spelling and grammar patters appear to be identical or close to identical in 95% of their contributions. Amanda (talk) 02:29, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The accounts aren't really being used abusivly or to deceive and with nothing exceptional to prove - there's very little to be gained from a CU or confirmation of account ownership. So John (talk) 02:34, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Privacy Policy
I know CU and OS tools are currently declined to local wiki founders, but I just wanted to bring up something that has been mentioned before.

In Phabricator T1002, wrote in reply to my cousin (MatthewPW): "If and when we get a privacy policy that affects all wikis, you might be able to get CU or OS to use the tools yourself, but you will never be allowed to grant the rights to other users (unless you become a Steward, and anything else that implies)."

Does this have any ghost of a chance of happening? I understand if it doesn't, but I just wanted to check. Amanda (talk) 02:58, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes. They're community tools for bettering the community and would be assigned with strong community consensus. While that's yet to be made formal, at least 20 votes at 80% support ratio would be the minimum. John (talk) 11:03, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Are you referring to the global community or the local community that would be affected? Amanda (talk) 13:02, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Well the local community as they are local rights. The global view only matters for global rights. Though views from globally active users may be considered if voiced locally. Rights probably won't be assigned until a global policy is established which would be the global community view. John (talk) 13:20, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Can no more edit my page
Hello,

I wanted to edit my wiki page but can no more edit it. I do not see Edit tab at all. Kindly check my permissions.

wiki link: https://sanskritapradeepa.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page user name: srsmutth

Regards, Aniruddha
 * Your permissions are unchanged "Srsmutth (talk | contribs | block)‏‎ (bureaucrat, administrator) (Created on 12 June 2016 at 19:53)" and I see the edit tab. If you still can't see it please create a task here and include a screenshot if possible. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 13:32, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Useable images
In the new year, I'm going to be looking at adding more images to my wiki as images of players would obviously be helpful, and maps as an example, but I'm unsure exactly what I can use and how I can use it when looking at certain copyright terms, any assistance would be greatly appreciated. PlatinumYellow (talk) 14:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Unless you requested a change specific to your wiki, Miraheze wikis (except the ones here) are licensed under CC BY SA 3.0. For the actual uploading you can either use Special:Upload or you can request MsUpload if you need to upload multiple images. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 14:19, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiCreator
So that I've returned to the realm, can I get the WikiCreator hat back? &mdash; <tt>revi</tt>  21:10, 31 December 2016 (UTC)