FAQ

How do I request a wiki?
Go to Special:RequestWiki, and fill in the form.

Why don't I have administrator or bureaucrat rights on my wiki?
Oops! This should be done automatically. If you leave a message on the Stewards' noticeboard, we'll take care of it ASAP!

How can I request a feature or extension on my wiki?
Please go to feature requests, and put your request there. It will be done as soon as possible.

How do I work with MediaWiki (e.g. creating and editing pages)?
Please check out the MediaWiki help center for more information about working with MediaWiki!

I am not able to access my wiki!
Are you sure your wiki has been created (according to Special:Log/farmer)? If yes, then MediaWiki might have logged more information about the error. Please contact a sysadmin, so we can look at it.

How do I change my logo/favicon?
Please make a request at feature requests.

How can I get a custom domain for my wiki?
Please check Custom domains and then request at feature requests.

How do you finance your hosting?
Miraheze entirely depends on donations from others. We do not have ads, neither do we get financed by a company or the government, so we can't exist without our donators. Please see donate and finance for more information.

How can I donate to Miraheze?
Miraheze currently accepts all payment methods accepted by PayPal. You may click here or send a donation directly to donate@miraheze.org. For more information, please see donate or contact Vorticity.

Why don't you have ads?
Our amount of traffic is not too high, so we wouldn't get much money for ads (with donations we get more money than with ads). Also, most people dislike wiki farms with ads - and we want to build a place nobody dislikes.

How can I allow a user to read the content on my wiki?
Please go to Special:UserRights on your wiki, fill in the username and add them to the member group.

How can I remove the bureaucrat rights of a user?
Only stewards can remove the bureaucrat rights of a user. Please ask a Steward to remove the rights if you have a valid reason (e.g. clear abuse or a request of the wiki founder). If you need to be able to remove bureaucrats more often please request a change at Request features, describing what groups you'd like to be able to remove bureaucrats. If you have it changed so that bureaucrats (the highest default group) can remove other bureaucrats, other bureaucrats can remove you.

How can I grant oversight or checkuser rights to a user?
Because these rights allow access to extremely sensitive private information, access is restricted to stewards and other highly-trusted users. Besides, please read CheckUser and Oversight for more information about requesting a CheckUser of requesting suppression. If you think that you (or someone else) really needs CheckUser/Oversight rights, please ask the stewards for more information at Stewards' noticeboard.

Closed wikis
Effective 5 January 2016, the Dormancy Policy applies to all wikis.

To prevent any difference between FAQ answers and what the policy states, we encourage you to read our Dormancy Policy.

Where can I find your configuration?
We have a [//github.com/miraheze GitHub organization] where we store our configuration (like MediaWiki and puppet config).

I want to get involved in your work!
Sure, we love that! Please check out contributing for more information.

Why can't I access the site using HTTP?
As you might know, Wikipedia (and sister projects) are HTTPS-only too. This inspired us to make our sites HTTPS-only too (wikis with custom domains must have a valid SSL certificate too), because we want to ensure private information stays private. As such, all wikis are HTTPS-only.

We do not enable HTTP access on request. If you are not capable of browsing using HTTPS, then you can use a HTTP-to-HTTPS proxy.