User talk:Reception123/Archive 3

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Importing the Harry Potter Wiki
Hello, I am a disgruntled user from the Harrypotter.fandom.com site. I am requesting if you, as system admin, could import the entire site fromt here to here. All pages and images there. In addition, I'm talking to the Reddit mods if they can support it as well. Thank you.

Losira (talk) 18:00, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , thank you for your question, and thank you for creating an account. Please keep in mind we are all volunteers, and that posting in multiple locations does not expedite your request. Instead, please file a Phabricator task, after clicking "MediaWiki login" and linking your account to your wiki account. Assign it to the MediaWiki project, then you can move it on the workboard to "Maintenance script run," and it'll be completed, usually, within 24-36 hours. Hope this helps. Dmehus (talk) 18:13, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * hi, I have created this but I dunno how to assign to Maintenance script run. Losira (talk) 21:17, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. In the "Add action" box, you just need to select "Change project tags," typing "MediaWiki," and then select "Move on workboard" and select "Maintenance script run." I have done this for you this time, though, so not a problem. What the system administrators will need is for you to export an XML dump from Fandom. To do this, you need to be a  on the wiki, which I assume you are, then go to Special:Statistics, and "request dump." This will generate an XML file for you to upload to the Phabricator ticket. You then need to manually download every image on your wiki, zip them up, and upload the zip file to the Phabricator ticket. Once that's in place, a system administrator will process it for you. Dmehus (talk) 00:13, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Changing a custom domain
Dear Admin

We are planning to change the domain of Gyaanipedia from gyaanipedia.co.in to gyaanipedia.com so is it possible to request this change and if it is then is there anyway to redirect pages from previous domain to this, I mean gyaanipedia.co.in/wiki/xyz should redirect to gyaanipedia.com/wiki/xyz kindly help me in this matter Shaunak Chakraborty (talk) 05:18, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll be honest, this does sound like a great deal of work with very little benefit, given the number of wikis involved. While I can see you updating the "gyannipedia.co.in" subdomains to "gyannipedia.com," and this can certainly be done in a Phabricator task, adding a whole bunch of redirects for "gyannipedia.wiki," "gyannipedia.xyz," and "gyannipedia.co.in," each requiring its own certificate, is an extraordinarily amount of unnecessary work. To be honest, what you should do is host your DNS for the latter three domains with a free DNS provider that provides 301 web redirects/web forwarding addresses. That way, all the configuration can be done on your end, not Miraheze's. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 05:28, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for your help I just want to know that what are the DNS records or settings to redirect all the 108k pages of gyaanipedia.co.in to gyaanipedia.com if you know it, kindly help me. Shaunak Chakraborty (talk) 05:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, that is a consideration when changing your domain name. Changing gyannipedia.co.in to gyannipedia.com should either redirect all your pages on the old domain to their location on the new domain in either or one of the methods or, at the very least, redirect all pages on the old domain to the main page/homepage on the new domain in either or one of the methods. Please bear in mind this is a consideration you'll have to bear in mind, though, and you should fully consider all ramifications, as we are all volunteers and not equipped for months of back-and-forth trying to correct search engine search results from a switched domain. Dmehus (talk) 06:29, 12 December 2020 (UTC)