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Why is FuturisticHub forbidden on Terrible TV Shows?

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 * Related to this close, Rotten Websites Wiki needs to clarify that fetish art is not prohibited by Miraheze guidelines. Any prohibition on fetish art is a local wiki policy or guideline. Dmehus (talk) 16:08, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

I remember when Terrible TV Shows wiki used to have page on FuturisticHub because of his fetish videos, and I decided to make fun of him, yet it's very biased and would cause drama. I apologize for causing drama to FuturisticHub just because of his fetish videos, especially the infamous NEEDED IN MINECRAFT video.

Anyway, you requested Terrible TV Shows to forbid anything about FuturisticHub. But why? Maxkatzur (talk) 11:48, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I think this is rather a question for Terrible TV Shows wiki. I for one am not aware of any request from Stewards that would 'forbid' content about FuturisticHub, assuming the "you" meant Stewards. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 16:03, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd check with . He was the last person if I remember to review that content. To be honest, it wouldn't have been a bad idea if he did. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  17:31, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not aware of a FuturisticHub page on . I'm aware of a similarly named former page on another wiki, though, which Stewards opted to remove as it contained information contrary to Content Policy (namely, unsourced, defamatory, wholly negative, and potentially libelous information). Can you give us a few more details on the page on this wiki? Dmehus (talk) 17:36, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Prior to its closure on FANDOM, there was a page on Terrible TV Shows wiki criticizing FuturisticHub, the Minecraft animator infamous for his fetish videos and the now-infamous NEEDED IN MINECRAFT video. Maxkatzur (talk) 05:33, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * @Dmehus First of, yes one of you did delete the TerribleTVShows wiki article giving the same reasons as you cited above for that "other" article on that "other" wiki you mention. You say that specific article was violating the coc based on "unsourced, defamatory, wholly negative, and potentially libelous information" and all the while it did not do any of that (Assuming that using archived links from archive.org and screenshots CLEARLY showing someone's bad behavior is not enough for your sourcing checks). Additionally, some Steward removed the article featured on TerribleTVShows for the exact same reason, in spite of the fact that everything noted on the article could be found on the con-artist FuturisticHub's Youtube channel, yes absolutely all of it. Moreover, that TerribleTVShows article only covered a part of FuturisticHub's crankery, that was fairly innocent. The only thing you could say about both articles being in violation of your coc, if you want to stretch the pedantry further out, is that both articles were being wholly negative (At the same time, what good could you write about douchebags? Hypothetically, if any article on Hitler was made on Miraheze, it would immediately violate your code of conduct because it is wholly negative, how's that fair).
 * That also dawned on me that you bunch removed 2 articles based on a pretending-victim which did not violate any of your coc (In fact, I am gonna add that they were allowed on each respective wiki for a duration of 1 year and a half ) and then did absolutely no mediation with anyone, instead you immediately pulled the plug out of nowhere. None of that is transparent either, gossiping about whether an article should get removed on Discord only let's people who DO HAVE DISCORD see what's being said there and either take that as a warning for what's to come or make their case against the decision. You strive so much to be like Wikipedia, start off by doing actual AfDs publicly on Miraheze instead of gossiping between yourselves on Discord, because that system is neither transparent nor fair for any of your users.
 * And with all honesty, why do you listen to that Sociopathic Mythomaniac? He figuratively tried to clean his ass off after harassing a dozen of people online, all of them came forward to state the very same thing: They were harassed by him, they were blackmailed by him, they received fraudulent lawsuits and had to file an anti-SLAPP back, etc. FuturisticHub already claims to be a woman called Holly, [only because of a dispute https://www.engadget.com/2016-04-04-youtube-channel-dispute-20m-award.html]. He lost his Youtube channel, but his wife re-integrated it by claiming that she owns it when she barely does anything on it. When you claim to be someone you are not, that already is a reason to take what you say with a grain of salt. I am gonna ask that right now and right there, why did you not verify the claims yourselves instead of screaming "ZOMG DEFAMATION!" and remove 2 articles that were fine before that guy decides to show up to smooth-talk you? And when I am saying "you", I am talking of all the Stewards running this site, not just you Dmehus. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 17:13, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Doug wasn't really around in 2019 when it happened, so I don't really see any reason to flock on a dead topic, even though some of your points you raised here do provide some good pointers. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 17:32, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I feel you, Douglace doesn't seem very professional, like he let's DarkMatterMan4500 harass me instead of banning him. He should step down because he is an incompetent Steward. Gay Socrates (talk) 21:16, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Excuse me? I wasn't harassing you in any way. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 21:54, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * And another thing, that message I left you on your talk page wasn't even harassment in any context. How was my reminder to you to refrain from casting aspersions even remotely close to being called harassment? If I was harassing you (which I wasn't by the way), then I wouldn't have sent you this message on your talk page and instead say very nasty things and say very awful things about you. For the record, I was only criticizing you and I expected you to be, well, open to taking it, not even harassing you in that sort of manner. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 22:58, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Harassment, noun : "The act of systematic and/or continued unwanted and annoying actions of one party or a group, including threats and demands. The purposes may vary, including racial prejudice, personal malice, an attempt to force someone to quit a job or grant sexual favors, apply illegal pressure to collect a bill, or merely gain sadistic pleasure from making someone fearful or anxious." - https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/harassment

You told that to me once here, that was far enough, but you decided to stalk me off-wiki because I was questioning your involvement on Miraheze. That IS harassment. Please, for all intent and purpose get the hell outta here once and for all and never talk to me again wacko. Gay Socrates (talk) 12:45, 9 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Except I wasn't stalking you in any way, and please cease from casting aspersions, as that's not going to help your case, and false accusations won't get you anywhere. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 12:48, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * It is not an aspersion, but a fact that you harassed me, it is the legal definition of harassment in fact. Mini-modding on behalf of the admins won't get you anywhere, in fact, they are too lazy to ban you for going on your way to interact with me repeatedly when that is neither wanted nor warranted. In other words: Fuck off. Gay Socrates (talk) 12:55, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This has gone on far enough, and I've had just about enough of your insults. I don't think you get the entire scope or purpose of this platform, and going as far as to not dropping the stick, casting aspersions, and refusing to get the point. We're done with this conversation. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 12:58, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Don't ever talk to me again. Gay Socrates (talk) 12:59, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Could someone close up this discussion? Periodically, it went off topic, and a user has only came here to spoil up trouble in this thread, and I don't wish for this thread to keep going like this. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 14:49, 10 June 2021 (UTC)


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Why are pages criticising fetish art not allowed? Example: Rotten Websites Wiki

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 * Maxkatzur is thanked for bringing this issue to the attention of Stewards, but fetish art is not, explicitly, prohibited by Content Policy. If  claims in their local wiki rules that it contravenes Miraheze guidelines, this needs to be corrected, so, by way of this close, I'm pinging DarkMatterMan4500, DeciduousWater534, or MarioMario456 to clarify the wiki's rules to specify that fetish art is prohibited by local policies, not Content Policy. Dmehus (talk) 16:04, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

So I came with forbidden page example on Rotten Websites Wiki 'fetish art'. The reason states that is against Miraheze's content policy. So, what does violate content policy and does it causes drama? Maxkatzur (talk) 05:29, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Maxkatzur Fetish art pages aren't prohibited by Miraheze's Content Policy. It's possible  has a local content policy that prohibits such pages, but if that's the case, some clarification is needed in terms of that wiki amending its rules to clarify that it isn't against Miraheze's Content Policy but rather the wiki's local content policy. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Dmehus (talk) 13:10, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * From RottenSitesWiki:
 * "Fetish art: Against Miraheze's guidelines ."
 * So you are telling me they are blatantly lying? They probably added that after one of you removed one of their articles without any preceeding warning.
 * And because your system is not transparent at all, it is impossible to know who exactly removed that article for which reason, since the wiki's logs are unrecoverable due to being hidden deep beneath a thousand more logs.
 * As I said previously, start doing AfDs because that lack of transparency is staggering. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 22:54, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I did see that on, and it did raise my eyebrow, as fetish art, broadly speaking, is not prohibited by Content Policy and certainly not by Terms of Use. I suspect it is a misunderstanding on the part of Rotten Websites Wiki's local administrators in terms of what our global policies do not allow. As to your suggestion of having "AfDs" for suppressions or other content removals, I'm afraid that's a very Wikipedia-specific function, and note that it would also be not be appropriate as requests for oversight are done through private channels. The same is actually true of the Wikimedia wikis&mdash;that is to say, requests to remove personally identifying information, potentially libelous information, or grossly offensive content are dealt with through by private channels, by e-mail to Stewards or by direct message on IRC to a Steward. Dmehus (talk) 23:48, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * You suspect? And what if you were wrong, what if one of the Steward did delete that article because it was covering fetish art. You will never know because you bunch can't program some sort of overseer logging system that would allow you to see what they do on other wikis. This would effectively help you catch rogue overseers who abuse their powers if hypothetically speaking they were on Miraheze.
 * "requests for oversight are done through private channels" Thank you for confirming that your wiki farm was neither transparent nor fair for your users. It should not be that way since there is no way for anyone to know whether they have articles that actually infringe your coc or not. This system can be abused by third parties who don't like being criticized.
 * "personally identifying information" Does a selfie the person took and published themselves on the internet count? What about public figures like Lady Gaga, Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger? What about photographs published onto and approved on Wikimedia Commons? Your coc is up to interpretation, that's all it is a heap of worthlessness.
 * "grossly offensive content" What if that was the reason why that specific article was removed? What if the fetish itself discussed was grossly offensive. However, since one of you removed it immediately, no one else can be the judge of it. It appears that you do not know yourself whether that coc applies to something to begin with, this is inconsistent. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 12:49, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I did see that on, and it did raise my eyebrow, as fetish art, broadly speaking, is not prohibited by Content Policy and certainly not by Terms of Use. I suspect it is a misunderstanding on the part of Rotten Websites Wiki's local administrators in terms of what our global policies do not allow. As to your suggestion of having "AfDs" for suppressions or other content removals, I'm afraid that's a very Wikipedia-specific function, and note that it would also be not be appropriate as requests for oversight are done through private channels. The same is actually true of the Wikimedia wikis&mdash;that is to say, requests to remove personally identifying information, potentially libelous information, or grossly offensive content are dealt with through by private channels, by e-mail to Stewards or by direct message on IRC to a Steward. Dmehus (talk) 23:48, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * You suspect? And what if you were wrong, what if one of the Steward did delete that article because it was covering fetish art. You will never know because you bunch can't program some sort of overseer logging system that would allow you to see what they do on other wikis. This would effectively help you catch rogue overseers who abuse their powers if hypothetically speaking they were on Miraheze.
 * "requests for oversight are done through private channels" Thank you for confirming that your wiki farm was neither transparent nor fair for your users. It should not be that way since there is no way for anyone to know whether they have articles that actually infringe your coc or not. This system can be abused by third parties who don't like being criticized.
 * "personally identifying information" Does a selfie the person took and published themselves on the internet count? What about public figures like Lady Gaga, Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger? What about photographs published onto and approved on Wikimedia Commons? Your coc is up to interpretation, that's all it is a heap of worthlessness.
 * "grossly offensive content" What if that was the reason why that specific article was removed? What if the fetish itself discussed was grossly offensive. However, since one of you removed it immediately, no one else can be the judge of it. It appears that you do not know yourself whether that coc applies to something to begin with, this is inconsistent. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 12:49, 1 June 2021 (UTC)


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Request to delete my wiki
I haven't maintained this in a long time and I don't think anybody would maintain it. Please delete jackmasseywelsh.miraheze.org - also, thanks for providing me with a place to store information about Jack Massey Welsh for the past few months! FunctionalMetatable (talk) 11:40, 23 May 2021 (UTC)


 * FunctionalMetatable Have you downloaded an XML dump of your wiki? Dmehus (talk) 11:52, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * FunctionalMetatable Did you see my follow up question? Thank you. Dmehus (talk) 23:19, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
 * oops, I didn't check this for few days. Nope, I haven't. should I download an XML dump? FunctionalMetatable (talk) 07:14, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd recommend it, personally, so you have a backup of your wiki. You just go into Special:DataDump and generate XML and image dumps. You don't need to worry about the ManageWiki settings dump. Dmehus (talk) 07:18, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I've generated a DataDump and saved it. FunctionalMetatable (talk) 09:36, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * FunctionalMetatable . Apologies for the slightly delayed response. As the only contributor to this wiki, this is ✅ per your request. Dmehus (talk) 05:30, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Global lock request ( 05/24 )
This account is spam only. And it is impersonation of Chakuwiki's admin シチクニ (His old name is Tc79929, みどり.).--Egg (talk) 16:40, 23 May 2021 (UTC) (Correction of the mistake of signing.--Egg (talk) 16:42, 23 May 2021 (UTC))
 * みどり, ‎Tc79729‎
 * Added--Egg (talk) 00:46, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Tc79729 has been ✅ by for crosswiki abuse, vandalism and disruption. But since you added another user to that report, he'll definitely look into that as well. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 17:10, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * And now all the sockpuppet accounts, along with any additional accounts from those Japanese LTAs have been ✅ by Dmehus. Thanks again for your report. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 01:28, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Can you shut down Controversial Wikis & Users Wiki?
If you want to know why I'm asking this. Yes, I know you guys are aware of this site but I want to tell you guys that this wiki is becoming the new Unfavorable Wikis and Users Wiki as there's a bunch of pages on that site that violates the CoC. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you might wanna look here, so that's why I felt like it should shut down since it's becoming the new Unfavorable Wikis and Users Wiki. I felt like you should take a lot at this site carefully and you'll see what I mean, thanks. DuchessTheSponge (talk) 14:50, 28 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I agree, the wiki is just beating a dead horse at this point. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 16:36, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Can you please re-enable these wikis?

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 * Dmehus has clearly indicated that the request will not be undertaken and there is no use in continuing this discussion any further and people repeating themselves. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 10:43, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

I want to make archives of every page on Atrocious YouTubers Wiki, Toxic Fandoms & Hatedoms Wiki, and a few other closed reception wikis. After my archives are done, I will leave those wikis in the dust forever. SPEEDYBEAVER (talk) 09:01, 30 May 2021 (UTC)


 * ❌ per my comments elsewhere, in multiple locations, to you, as these wikis were closed for systemic, unremediated Content Policy violations, firstly, and Code of Conduct violations on the part of wiki contributors, which local administrators did not resolve. There has been plenty of time for users to make archives of these wikis and, indeed, they were likely included in wiki XML dumps posted to The Internet Archive. Thank you. Dmehus (talk) 15:59, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * But they contain pages and log histories that have no archives of them. SPEEDYBEAVER (talk) 16:19, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, for one thing, an XML dump wouldn't include log histories. There's no need to maintain an archive of content which wholly or substantially contravened Content Policy or, in the case of log summaries (including block summaries), the Code of Conduct. Dmehus (talk) 16:23, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * But deleted pages (before backup) cannot be imported. I know that there are some pages deleted before backup (such as Nicobbq's page on AYTW). Plus, I have to read pages, but I can't because I'm not an admin on any of the said wikis. As for log summaries, I would like to archive for memories. SPEEDYBEAVER (talk) 17:22, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * What memories? These wikis were closed and made private before your account existed globally on Miraheze. Did you used to use prior account(s)? If so, which one(s)? Dmehus (talk) 04:18, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, I remember visiting AYTW before its closure. But I did not have any accounts at the time. Lastly, I didn't use any accounts before my current account. SPEEDYBEAVER (talk) 04:55, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Alright, that's fine. Thank you. In any case, this ❌, for the reason(s) articulated above, as the wikis will not be hosted on Miraheze. XML dumps are available on The Internet Archive from immediately before the wikis were closed and made private, should you wish to have a personal archive for historical posterity or self-host them (and assume all liability). Dmehus (talk) 05:03, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * But still, deleted pages do not have any backups of them and I need to save them to the Wayback Machine. SPEEDYBEAVER (talk) 11:18, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The decision to close those wikis by the stewards is final. They aren't going to reopen them for any reason, and to be fair, I don't blame them for not wanting to reopen them. Those wikis were laden with what were essentially hate pages that were filled with unsourced claims and nonconstructive and borderline, if not outright destructive criticism, and they were causing non-stop drama and other issues both on-site and off-site. The admins on those wikis had plenty of time to fix the issues and concerns the stewards had with the wikis, but they never got around to it and, thus, the wikis were closed for it. HibiscusCrown20 (talk) 16:23, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The exact reason is, is that some images may not have been backed up properly and I have to visit those wikis to re-upload broken files. SPEEDYBEAVER (talk) 18:23, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Hrm, well, that's a fairly common problem with all archived websites on the Internet Archive. In these cases, though, that's problematic from a couple perspectives, as either the images were non-free images uploaded without proper attribution and licensing information (in short, they were copyright violations) or they were screenshots of what users said on social media to mock, ridicule, humiliate, or otherwise disparage them (in short, they violated Content Policy and we should not aid in resurrecting them). So, no, ❌, sorry. Dmehus (talk) 19:33, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * But I don't know how to import backups. SPEEDYBEAVER (talk) 20:56, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * That takes very little time to look that up on Google.
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_external_content MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 22:59, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * But please by no means resurrect Atrocious Youtubers wiki, it was shit. Even by comparison, Encyclopedia Dramatica would be a better source of information than that non-contextualized, bullet list hell. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 23:03, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Still though, I need to archive them to provide evidence that they used to be there. SPEEDYBEAVER (talk) 07:03, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * No means no. The wikis are not going to be reopened by the stewards, not even for archiving. HibiscusCrown20 (talk) 14:13, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

, and drop the stick. Beating on an already resolved issue won't really get anywhere. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 14:17, 1 June 2021 (UTC)


 * But I still need read access to know dumpnames, which may require me to visit Recent Changes section. Plus, Wayback Machine can delete dumps that violate their policy. SPEEDYBEAVER (talk) 16:49, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Another reason why I want those wikis to be re-enabled is that I have to export pages as I cannot  them there as I don't have   rights to do so. SPEEDYBEAVER (talk) 08:49, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * We understand that you really want the wiki to be reopened but as you have been told before this will simply not happen. Many users have requested it and each time it has been declined, this time has been no different and Dmehus has made it clear that he will not be reopening it, adding 'extra reasons' doesn't change that. We have simply no interest in reopening these wikis and facilitating exporting pages from them. Backups of these wikis are available on the Internet Archive and you can get anything that you need from there. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 10:43, 4 June 2021 (UTC)


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Close wiki request
Hi. I want to close this wiki, the Roblox Rise of Nations wiki, as it is unofficial, is clearly a copycat of the real Roblox Rise of Nations wiki on FANDOM, and is currently run by RealKnockout, a former bureaucrat that is banned on our wiki for several reasons. Most of the pages are copied word for word (even some of the code is not working), and the Miraheze wiki was created on May 2021, but the FANDOM wiki was created around September 2019. Many of our staff, including the current bureaucrat of the fandom wiki, ZackRON00, gave me approval to write this message, and you can ask them for more questions. Thank you and have a nice day. TheRichSeries (talk) 17:54, 2 June 2021 (UTC)


 * First of all, the wiki has had the pages imported correctly from the Fandom version, correctly linking to the source wiki which, in turn, links to the source wiki's contributors. If I'm being honest, it sounds like you might be active on the Fandom wiki and disappointed the wiki has been forked on Miraheze. I would also remind you of Code of Conduct in your references to other users. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 18:08, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is correct. Although ZackRON00 created the wiki, RealKnockout now controls it and its content, and we want it taken down because Zack has abandoned this project, and it has ended up in the his hands, without our permission. We're now focusing on building the main wiki over on FANDOM. Thank you. TheRichSeries (talk) 18:40, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I find it strange how you're reporting that wiki, considering how a user was created for the purpose of attacking that individual. This makes me think that there's something sketchy going on here. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:54, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, Rabby here, I'm also an administrator at the FANDOM wiki. And well we have no affiliation with that account from last time we checked, it's probably one member of our community going to attack him, we don't really want to do that. We just want the wiki shut down. Rabby (talk) 18:58, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Alrighty I logged in. Rabby (talk) 19:02, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * As long as it's not on FANDOM, there's really nothing else that could or needs to be done here. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 19:22, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by nothing can be done? They are literally stealing the articles from the FANDOM wiki.
 * From what we've seen Realknockout just wants to steal the wiki and optimize it for Miraheze later. There is LITERALLY a user that has 1 edit saying, "Port from Fandom, will optimize for miraheze later", and on top of that they have a bunch of broken code in some user pages. You know why? Well, the source is just a port from fandom... Surely this breaks something here. Rabby (talk) 19:27, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * On top of this we already have a wiki backup on miraheze incase something goes wrong, we never gave permission for another backup. Shouldn't there be a rule against stealing wiki's from other wiki farms? Rabby (talk) 19:29, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * What Copyright is the wiki under? The vast majority is under CC BY-SA, and the wiki is under that license so it depends on what license the Fandom is under ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  Buk kit  (talk) ( C ) 21:58, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * The fandom wiki appears to also be CC-BY-SA. — Arcversin (talk) 22:08, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I understand your concerns, but they are not doing anything wrong. They are following the legal mumbo jumbo that the license has. No action would be taken unless they are not sourcing the wiki, which is a violation of the CC-BY-SA license. Buk kit  (talk) ( C ) 23:23, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * True, there is a staff (creator I think) of the wiki named RealKnockout. Buk kit  (talk) ( C ) 22:28, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thus making this request pretty much demoralizing what is fair use, and what's not. That's just my take on this section, considering this very fact that the wiki that and  are mentioning falls under that same license, meaning it's not violating anything of the sort. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 00:40, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @Bukkit I had a talk with Fandom staff and we did notice that the copy Miraheze wiki hasn't credited the original in any article from what I've noticed.
 * They replaced the Fandom's version of the wiki discord server with theirs, and so on and so on. Rabby (talk) 23:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * They basically have no attributions. Rabby (talk) 23:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

This definitely won't resolve anything considering that both the FANDOM and Miraheze versions appear to be running under the CC BY-SA copyright. This is going to be marked as by an administrator if the argument doesn't cease. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 22:18, 2 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Could somebody please just end this already? The direction this is heading is disaster, and I don't want this to perpetuate into some type of drama war. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 23:21, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Did you delete my replies? I talked with Fandom staff about this and we noticed that the other wiki [on miraheze] did not source anything. They replaced our discord server with theirs, so on and so on. They basically have no attributions.
 * If you guys can't delete it, that's fine. It's just a tad bit frustrating. Rabby (talk) 23:29, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes I did, and I think I made myself clear on the licenses, so I shouldn't really be repeating myself. What's the point of processing this, when I feel like you and TheRichSeries here in this section isn't assuming good-faith, and is biting the user in question? Wouldn't it be better off if you and Rabby just simply ignored RealKnockout and go on with your day? DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 23:42, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Rabby My apologies for DarkMatterMan4500's reverting your replies. I'm not sure why he reverted your replies, though as they were made logged out, he might've mistaken the replies as vandalism. Nevertheless, I've now suppressed those revisions. I've had a look at  and I do see that Reception123 imported the pages following a Phabricator ticket here. Now, I do note only the current revision was imported, so it's not clear to me whether this was (a) a full XML dump from Fandom's Special:Statistics page or (b) a partial XML dump based on pages RealKnockout exported. Ideally, the edit summary should also link to the source page in question, particularly in this case since we don't have full contributor history. However, if we had full contributor history, while an edit summary link would be also nice, technically speaking, we only need to have links to each page's contributors. So, after reaching out to Owen, in my community capacity, is to reach out to RealKnockout to effect remediation. Dmehus (talk) 23:47, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

CheckUser and global lock for InfiniTwiceGeneration
This was already reported on #miraheze-cvt, but I'll post this here anyway. This user is VERY suspicious, as he has sysop on  despite only having one edit, and he might be a sockpuppet of the globally locked user EijiZeBoi, according to this image. Please run CheckUser. — Mario Mario  456  13:23, 3 June 2021 (UTC)


 * While I do agree that it does look suspicious that a user would create an account just to regain their admin status on that wiki, considering EijiZeBoi's lock was made just a little over a month ago, I will say that a brand new user shouldn't really have the admin status right away. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:26, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * The screenshot is potentially a bit suspicious, but I've looked at the deleted page and it is Trevor807 asking the user if they are the other named user. The user neither confirmed or denied this to be the case; in fact, they didn't even respond. However, Trevor807 is a bureaucrat and/or sysop on that wiki, so it's not clear that this really amounts to anything. Dmehus (talk) 13:38, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for replying so quickly. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:39, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * The fact that the deletion reason is "to protect identity" makes it even more suspicious. — Mario Mario  456  14:17, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * While that is definitely true, we shouldn't forget about another case regarding 2 users spamming "Quarrow" in their vandalism on 2 wikis. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 14:19, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Your suspicions were confirmed as well as mine. The account in question has been locked for abusing multiple accounts. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 01:49, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. Dmehus (talk) 02:02, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks a bunch, . DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 02:30, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Batch of spambots from templatewiki

 * — Arcversin (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll make a point of focusing on this tomorrow. Thanks! Dmehus (talk) 01:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This also includes the list of spam-only accounts I've listed too. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * — Arcversin (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll make a point of focusing on this tomorrow. Thanks! Dmehus (talk) 01:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This also includes the list of spam-only accounts I've listed too. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * — Arcversin (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll make a point of focusing on this tomorrow. Thanks! Dmehus (talk) 01:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This also includes the list of spam-only accounts I've listed too. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * — Arcversin (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll make a point of focusing on this tomorrow. Thanks! Dmehus (talk) 01:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This also includes the list of spam-only accounts I've listed too. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * — Arcversin (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll make a point of focusing on this tomorrow. Thanks! Dmehus (talk) 01:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This also includes the list of spam-only accounts I've listed too. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * — Arcversin (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll make a point of focusing on this tomorrow. Thanks! Dmehus (talk) 01:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This also includes the list of spam-only accounts I've listed too. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * — Arcversin (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll make a point of focusing on this tomorrow. Thanks! Dmehus (talk) 01:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This also includes the list of spam-only accounts I've listed too. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * — Arcversin (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll make a point of focusing on this tomorrow. Thanks! Dmehus (talk) 01:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This also includes the list of spam-only accounts I've listed too. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * — Arcversin (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll make a point of focusing on this tomorrow. Thanks! Dmehus (talk) 01:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This also includes the list of spam-only accounts I've listed too. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll make a point of focusing on this tomorrow. Thanks! Dmehus (talk) 01:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This also includes the list of spam-only accounts I've listed too. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Delete my wiki please
I am done with this wiki of mine, so please delete it. Thank you.

https://anjuna.miraheze.org

Anjuna (talk) 03:40, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Anjuna ✅ per your request to delete your own personal private or public wiki. Dmehus (talk) 05:22, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Request Wiki Restoration
Hello,

I would like to request the restoration of a lately deleted wiki: roborne.miraheze.org

I have tried looking for requirements but I'm not sure what to do. I have downloaded the torrent backup but I doubt I needed to do that?

Best Regards Salepate (talk) 09:11, 4 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Salepate Unfortunately, it seems your wiki database has already been dropped, in this batch of dropped wikis. Please advise if you wish to proceed with your wiki restoration, so I can recreate your wiki, add an interwiki prefix for the import, and request your deleted wiki be imported in a Phabricator ticket. Dmehus (talk) 05:19, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Salepate Since you hadn't requested the wiki and filed a Phabricator task, I've gone ahead, presuming it was this wiki and ✅ your wiki in this log action. I've also created Phabricator ticket #T7439 to restore your presumed wiki's XML dump from Reception123's  on  . One question, though, I noted the wiki was originally requested by Woli. Was that a prior account of yours, or a different user entirely? Dmehus (talk) 06:23, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Delete liveactionchildrenfeet.miraheze.org
It is in violation of article 7 of the terms of service since it promotes the exploitation of children. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 12:34, 5 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your notification. So, the policy for which you're citing is, yes, a global policy, but it is also a legal user agreement Miraheze users agree to and enter into with the legal entity responsible for Miraheze&mdash;that is to say, Miraheze Limited. As such, any complaints about matters which are potential violations of the Terms of Use are handled by Trust and Safety, not Stewards, via e-mail to . Having examined this wiki, though, it is a handful of content pages, and a handful of screenshot images, from publicly-available sources, of the feet of child actors from television series episodes and, potentially, from television movies. So, not only do I see no Terms of Use violation, but I also don't see any Content Policy violation, either, the latter of which is in scope of Stewards. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 13:23, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Third inactivity exemption request
Today I am requesting inactivity exemption for my wikis, The Wow House Wiki and The Fowl House Wiki for the third time for the following reasons: I would like these wikis to be exempt from inactivity for these reasons. To be honest I have considered making a Request for Comment about abolishing the Dormancy policy altogether as I feel like it puts unnecessary stress on users to constantly be updating their wikis. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 16:25, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) I am the only contributor on these wikis for some reason.
 * 2) I have been pre-occupied with other things, like helping out with the rebrand.
 * 3) The wikis are pretty much complete and do not necessarily need to be actively edited.
 * 4) The scope of the wikis in general is causing me to have trouble looking for content. It talks about good and bad episodes and characters of The Loud House, and I have tried to find reviews online but haven't been able to find many, not only that but I have pretty much got all of the general episodes.


 * Blubabluba9990 Firstly, please note that this is actually only your second request. Your second request was archived by the bot prior to being relisted; thus, this is just a repost of your second request, which should be avoided. I've now ✅ your exemption request to Dormancy Policy. In terms of content, unfortunately, it's little changed from your first request. While you may have added additional pages, each page contains only a single sentence, some of which have a second sentence which propose to list the "bad qualities" of the episode. So, on that basis, I see insufficient content intended to be read by real people. In terms of need, while you may well be the only editor on this wiki, that alone is not the only criterion. Your wiki is also a public wiki; thus, it would be regularly backed up to the The Internet Archive as part of Reception123's regular wikibackups, which he generally does on a quarterly basis. Additionally, your wiki has yet to even go inactive, and you say yourself you're looking for contributors. Thus, should either of your wikis eventually be closed per Dormancy Policy, this would provide you up to six months to reactivate your wiki, or for someone to adopt your wiki at requests for adoption. An exemption would upend that process. So, I would rather see you focus on filling in the content on your wiki, rather than additing additional sub-stub pages, by writing well-sourced, at length encyclopedic content on each of your wiki's pages, then re-request an exemption. Thank you. Dmehus (talk) 19:22, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok. It is a good thing he does Internet Archive crawls of these wikis, since my biggest concern is them being lost forever. However, I want a wiki of my own, and I suggested Absurd Shows & Episodes Wiki, but it got declined, and I am currently discussing it with DarkMatterMan4500, who reviewed my request. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 21:03, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, thank you for understanding. A slight clarification, though, yes the Internet Archive crawls wikis, but Miraheze SRE also upload XML dumps of all public wikis (generally quarterly). In regards to your latter request, that is likely because your description was not clear enough on what the content of the wiki would be. Feel free to resubmit the request, by adding to, but not replacing, your existing description, and describing how it will be different than, say, . Dmehus (talk) 21:09, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I did and now the wiki has been created. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 19:28, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Blubabluba9990 Yeah, I saw that. That's good, and thank you for the update! Dmehus (talk) 00:17, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Additionally, I would also suggest regularly using Special:DataDump on each of your wikis to regularly export of your wikis, so you always have a backup of them and they can be restored should the need arise. Dmehus (talk) 19:24, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

How do I view a translated page?
Hi

I am very new and I am testing to make a wiki in 4 languages.

I have already activated some extensions for translation and I can successfully translate a page. But when I link the page in the sidebar and switch the language, I still only see the English version.

Here is my wiki:

https://linuc.miraheze.org

Here is the main page in English:

https://linuc.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Here is the main page in German, it exists:

https://linuc.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page/de

Here the page "What is LinuC" in English, linked in the sidebar under "Welcome":

https://linuc.miraheze.org/wiki/Whatislinuc

Here is the German version, it exists:

https://linuc.miraheze.org/wiki/Whatislinuc/de

But I ALWAYS only see the English versions, no matter which language I choose. The language of the sidebar and menu changes, but the page remains the same.

What am I doing wrong? Linuc (talk) 21:58, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

I still have the problem that the page doesn't change when I change the language. The language is changed in the sidebar, menu and footer, but the page remains. I then have to click the item in the sidebar again so that the page also changes language. Can I automate this, maybe with a code in the page text? I want to avoid the additional language switcher at the top of the page. Here are some links to drupal, where the translation of entities and fields is described relatively simply. With this method, NO additional pages are created, but only information units of the page are translated and stored in additional records. With the language setting, the page is then filled with the appropriately translated elements. All elements are treated the same, regardless of whether it is its title field, a page text field, a menu entry (sidebar entry), a botton or something else. This is much easier for the user to handle and results in less redundant data. Is this function available at miraheze? If so, how do I use it? I hope you have time to look into it soon. I want to work on my wiki as soon as possible. Otherwise I have to look for another solution or set up my own website with MediaWiki or WP on a hoster. That would be a shame, because we should try to use the same resources together, this prevents a flood of redundant installations of the same tools on different hosters. Setting up MediaWiki and then just doing a single wiki is absurd. The same for WP. All this tools can handle more then one Website/Wiki and even more then one user. drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/multilingual-chapter.html
 * Linuc Three questions: (1) Have you added   to the top of the source, non-translation page? This code provides the language chooser; (2) have you set an interface language preference in Special:Preferences or Special:GlobalPreferences? This determines which language subpage you'll hit; and (3) are you using   prefixes before your internal and interwiki wikilinks, where applicable? Also, this thread should be asked at community noticeboard, but I'll move this there once it concludes. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 22:02, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you! To (1): no. But I will test this now. (2) I will take a look. (3) The translation I do over the link "translate this page", after I have made the page translatable with . They automatically are named with /de, so for example Main_Page/de. Should it be better /de/Main_Page ? How would I do this, as they are getting the name automatically from the translation function? I will right you more, when I have tested it again. But maybe tomorrow or Monday. Linuc (talk) 23:23, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, I have a little success! After I inserted "languages ​​/" and translated the page again, limited to 4 languages, I can now see the 4 languages ​​to choose from directly above the text. English is always displayed first, then I can switch to German. The language does not change in the sidebar and menu, just the page text. And if I choose a language that has not yet been translated, the translation function opens, even if I am not logged in.
 * I didn't find any setting for interface language preference.
 * When I use Special:MyLanguage/, the page jumps back to the main page. Nothing happened.
 * In addition: If I change the language in the function in the sidebar, or at the top right above the page text, from English to German, the sidebar and the menu are changed to German. However, my extension does not change in the sidebar, so "Welcome" stays in English. Do I have to do a translation for the sidebar as well? Where? And why do the existing texts change to German, for example "Main Page" but not "Welcome"?
 * Seems a little difficult to find the way, but it will work out. 6 years ago I made a small website with drupal and had similar problems there. There were two translation methods there, an old one and a new one. The new one was called "Internationalization" and then it finally worked. The old one doesn't. Linuc (talk) 00:12, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't like the current solution with the additional language bar at the top of the page text. And I'm sure there is a better solution, because the language changeover in the sidebar works perfectly with Wikipedia. And Wikipedia is made with the same tool as miraheze : MediaWiki
 * The additional language bar is not very nice, it becomes a block with many languages and it has no influence on the sidebar, menu and footer. The visitor don't like to handle the language on two points!
 * Since it works on Wikipedia without this additional language bar, it must also be possible with miraheze.
 * Maybe it needs other modules for translation? In drupal I saw that there are two options.
 * 1. The translations are new pages.
 * 2. The translations are attributes of a page (node)
 * We need number 2. I think it is "internationalizasion" module. Is that possible? It would be great if I could set up my wiki at miraheze and not at fandom or another "toy store" :-) Linuc (talk) 15:24, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Dmehus
 * In the meantime I've managed to translate the items in the sidebar. With pages in MediaWiki namespace for each language, I can translate a title in the sidebar and display it in the visitor's language. The same works for the link text of an item. With Special:MyLanguage/ in front of the target of an item, I can reach the corresponding page in the main. I still have a problem with the title of the page, i.e. with the end of the url. In some pages it shows the ending /de (What_is_LinuC/de), in some not (Hardware). Maybe a question how I did the translation? Created the page directly and entered the translated text, or created the page using the translation interface? But actually I don't need this title, because I can put the title in the page text. How do I turn off the display of the url ending at the top of the page? Can I also use a node (node/3475) instead of a page name (What_is_LinuC)? For the visitor, the name (ending of the url) in the url is not important, just the domain. The method with MediaWiki namespace and translation pages produces a lot of work and a lot of pages! To have a page in 4 languages ​​and linked in the sidebar, I need 4 pages in MediaWiki namspace and 4 pages in main. So 8 pages for one page! In addition, the translation method divides the page text, which leads to many sub-pages. If I have 10 subdivisions on a page, then I have 1 translation page with 10 sub-pages, i.e. 11. With 4 languages ​​I have 44 translation pages, plus the 4 in MediaWiki namespace for the sidebar items, so toal 48! Horror!
 * In the meantime I've managed to translate the items in the sidebar. With pages in MediaWiki namespace for each language, I can translate a title in the sidebar and display it in the visitor's language. The same works for the link text of an item. With Special:MyLanguage/ in front of the target of an item, I can reach the corresponding page in the main. I still have a problem with the title of the page, i.e. with the end of the url. In some pages it shows the ending /de (What_is_LinuC/de), in some not (Hardware). Maybe a question how I did the translation? Created the page directly and entered the translated text, or created the page using the translation interface? But actually I don't need this title, because I can put the title in the page text. How do I turn off the display of the url ending at the top of the page? Can I also use a node (node/3475) instead of a page name (What_is_LinuC)? For the visitor, the name (ending of the url) in the url is not important, just the domain. The method with MediaWiki namespace and translation pages produces a lot of work and a lot of pages! To have a page in 4 languages ​​and linked in the sidebar, I need 4 pages in MediaWiki namspace and 4 pages in main. So 8 pages for one page! In addition, the translation method divides the page text, which leads to many sub-pages. If I have 10 subdivisions on a page, then I have 1 translation page with 10 sub-pages, i.e. 11. With 4 languages ​​I have 44 translation pages, plus the 4 in MediaWiki namespace for the sidebar items, so toal 48! Horror!
 * drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/language-config-translate.html
 * drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/planning-data-types.html Linuc (talk) 13:16, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Delete a Page on snapwikiwiki
Please delete this page on snapwikiwiki. It has more than 1000 revisions and therefore needs the  right. 04:19, 6 June 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅. It always says to please be patient while the big deletion is being processed, but I have to say, I'm quite impressed with how quickly the deletion was processed as it was only a few seconds. Dmehus (talk) 14:04, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. 14:57, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
 * No problem. :) Dmehus (talk) 15:10, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Closing a wiki
Could somebody please close itislamwiki?--Angelo Pisani (talk) 07:24, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Request
Would a steward mind deleting fanfictionstories.miraheze.org. I don't need it anymore.--Iron Sword 23 (talk) 14:38, 6 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Iron Sword 23 Your recent wiki request suggests otherwise, so I'm inclined to mark this as not done. What are you trying to do? Dmehus (talk) 14:43, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Start over with fanfiction stories. Iron Sword 23 (talk) 14:44, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I mean, that's fine, why can't you just delete your existing pages and reuse your existing wiki? If there's a lot of them (i.e., more than 50), you can compile a batch file of pages to delete (including namespaces) and file a Phabricator tasks for Site Reliability Engineering to run the  maintenance script. If you need any assistance with this, please reach out to Reception123 and I in our group DM on Discord. Dmehus (talk) 14:51, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay. I would still like fanfictionstories.miraheze.org deleted as I'm not proud of it. Iron Sword 23 (talk) 14:52, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Iron Sword 23 Okay, per the discussion with you and the report of TheBurningPrincess in on IRC, I'm going to delete this wiki per your request, since you've now owned up to copying and pasting written prose to which you were or were not legally entitled to copy and paste, crucially, without proper attribution. It's good that you wanted to self-correct your mistake, so that is to be commended, but I do advise you to be very careful in the future, making sure to link to the source page(s) in an edit summary using an interwiki wikilink and ensure the license under which said content is distributed permits you to redistribute lawfully (again, with or without attribution). Copyright violations or infractions range from a Terms of Use matter to a Content Policy issue, and, whether dealt with in a community capacity as Stewards or in a legal capacity as Trust and Safety, it's taken very seriously. Dmehus (talk) 22:40, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Visual Editor isn't working on my wiki?
Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask but I've only just made this wiki and I don't seem to have the Visual Editor extension, but everywhere I read about it, it says it should be automatically enabled. I go to my extensions and Visual Editor is greyed out. Is there something I should download first? This is the link to my wiki I made it temporarily public https://endlessnightswriting.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page Raichu&#39;s Endless Nights (talk) 18:10, 6 June 2021 (UTC)


 * You need to enable the TemplateData extension first, then enable VisualEditor. I have ✅ this for you this time, per your request, so you can visualize the workflow for next time (should there be a next time). I would also recommend enabling  in Special:ManageWiki/settings on your wiki for improved functionality with VisualEditor. Lastly, if you make a request for assistance from Stewards here or from Site Reliability Engineering on Phabricator, you don't need to make your wiki public as both those groups have global   access and can assist you in accommodating your request / finding a solution. Dmehus (talk) 18:20, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Deletion of Fort of Chains wiki
Hello. I would like to delete the wiki, "Fort of Chains", since I won't be needing it anymore. Thanks. TheDom102 (talk) 07:37, 7 June 2021 (UTC)


 * TheDom102 Since you've generated an XML dump and because you've contributed nearly all page content to this wiki, this has been ✅ per your request. Thank you. Dmehus (talk) 15:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Checkuser request for vandal-related account

 * User:반달 바이러스
 * User:오솔이

반달 바이러스 is a toxic user in osaindex, so he was globally locked. When I blocked 반달 바이러스 in my wiki, another user, 오솔이 said that he was also blocked by auto-ban (mh:osaindex:User talk:오솔이). 반달 바이러스 was the only one I've blocked recently, so I strongly suspect that 오솔이 is a sockpuppet of 반달 바이러스. I will appreciate if you can use CheckUser to 오솔이. --재미재미 (talk) 14:38, 7 June 2021 (UTC)


 * 재미재미 Thank you for your request and for your report. I've translated, using Google Translate, this diff, which machine translates from the Korean as, "I think Meta's response is late.. In this case, can't we just unblock the Vandal Virus user? I can't log in because it's already globally locked. (Wikipedia says locking it globally is enough)." The section header translates as, "please save me," and the locked vandalism only account, vandalism only account translates as "half moon virus," which seems to jive with the machine translation. While it's not great that the user apparently used their main account to appeal their local block of their vandalism only account, it is a good-faith appeal. Could you instead reply to their request on their user talk page, telling them to review user accounts policy, not engage in vandalism, use edit summaries, and the like, then if they wish for that account to be unlocked, to e-mail Stewards at ? Alternatively, they could also make their request here. However, based on the above, a CheckUser investigation is not required, as it's one edit that is a good-faith but procedurally out of place appeal, and also because they've apparently self-identified. Dmehus (talk) 14:52, 7 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't think he is innocent. In the upper paragraph, he says one of his family members did vandalism, and this is one of the common excuses for toxic users. Based on this, I think the appeal of the user should be rejected and the account should be locked. --재미재미 (talk) 22:56, 7 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm not making excuses, I'm telling the truth. That's unfair. Why do you want to block me? I'm sure I'm a different person and a floating IP.(Of course, the translation may be wrong because it is a Papago translation.)--오솔이 (talk) 06:50, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Suppai Strikes Back
He's still trying to take down : https://horriblemusicandsongs.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Suppai   — Mario  Mario  456  15:15, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I have blocked them for a month based on the continued pattern of behaviour following the previous 1 week block. John (talk) 15:29, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

I want this wiki to go live FOREVER even months without editing
Can an administrator please remove the dormancy policy from ~onibuswiki, because I made a lot of content and I don't want it to be deleted, besides I'm almost finishing it. YellowFrogger (talk) 22:49, 7 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Your wiki has been added to the exemptions. -- Void  Whispers 02:28, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * YellowFrogger I've merged your requests into one. Please note that I was in the process of assessing your request, with a view to granting your request, so there was no need to post a duplicate request. Nevertheless, this has been ✅ by Void. Dmehus (talk) 06:01, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

MediaWiki internal error
MediaWiki internal error occurs in two wikis, 자유반달위키, and 온니원위키. I'm a bureaucrat in both wikis. Hill (talk) 05:19, 8 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't see error. Can you tell me exactly what page it is on? --Anton (talk) 08:07, 8 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Oh, that error was solved around 4 o'clock in Korean time. 거미몬 (talk) 09:30, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * It's quite possible this is the internal error that was resolved/fixed by Universal Omega last night. Universal Omega, can you confirm? Dmehus (talk) 15:01, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

i edit on my wiki and i keep getting error
hi i try to edit on my wiki and I keep getting errors can you fix it https://clubpenguin.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page Andrew071117 (talk) 14:00, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Please specify what errors you're getting. — Arcversin (talk) 14:55, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * i was getting the mediawiki intenel error but it start working again Andrew071117 (talk) 14:58, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This is likely related to the error reported in the above thread, and likely the one resolved by Universal Omega. Dmehus (talk) 15:00, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

reporting Gay Socrates
i am reporting Gay Socrates because he spam my talk page 2 times--Andrew071117 (talk) 14:40, 9 June 2021 (UTC)


 * He's been annoying other users as well. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 14:44, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * he also put a bad word in his name Andrew071117 (talk) 14:52, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Gay is not a "Bad word". It is a sexuality. Buk kit  (talk) ( C ) 17:50, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * What do you find offensive about my username? I am gay, so therefore it is in the name and I love Socrates, so that is why I named my account here "Gay Socrates". Also, kudos to Bukkit for saying exactly what I had in mind. Gay Socrates (talk) 15:02, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Add sitenotice to
Attempt #3 of my election is now live. Add this to mh:horriblemusicandsongs:MediaWiki:Sitenotice on

There is currently a bureaucrat election taking place.

—Mario Mario 456 14:59, 9 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm going to mark this as ❌ for now, as I still have to close your first election request, then initiate a new process based on the results of the consensus formed from the local discussion. I aim to do this in the next couple of days. Please remember we're all volunteers here, and to have patience. Dmehus (talk) 15:47, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I already closed the election, unintentionally on the time you scheduled. —Mario Mario 456 16:01, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * It's the responsibility of local bureaucrats to close local elections. With no active bureaucrats on that wiki, it falls to a Steward. I'll review your close, but I doubt it reflects the prevailing arguments in the discussion, which need to be noted in the close and taken into consideration. Dmehus (talk) 16:06, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Global lock for SporeShroom2007
Violated the Code of Conduct on sephspacewiki. Here's the proof. The CoC-violating bit is this edit summary: Created page with "" —Mario Mario 456 04:47, 10 June 2021 (UTC)


 * ❌ for a couple reasons. For one thing, we would not lock an established user based on a single instance. We'd engage with the user and remind them to be civil. Dmehus (talk) 04:52, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Dormancy Policy exemption for lhmnwiki
Wiki's custom domain: https://wlhmn.tk

Reason: Wiki made to be read

The requester's prems: Bureaucrat (confirm)

Song Ngư MGR (talk) 11:24, 10 June 2021 (UTC)


 * . Dmehus (talk) 15:59, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * And also as the wiki was build to be a documentations wiki, don't expect much people to edit.
 * (forgot to note that on) Song Ngư MGR (talk) 01:48, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you have result on this yet? '-'
 * There was no more cases before me. Song Ngư MGR (talk) 02:15, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Song Ngư MGR Thank you for your request for an exemption to Dormancy Policy, which I've now assessed. Though I don't speak any Vietnamese and though some of the pages I examined are what I'd classify as stub-class articles, containing only an infobox and possibly a photo, it's clear both from the files in your wiki's  namespace and the more than 120 pages in your wiki's   namespace that there is sufficient content made to be read and viewed by real people. In terms of need, as one of only two contributing editors to this wiki, this is all met. Thus, I've ✅ this request indefinitely as a wiki made to be read and viewed by real people and which is edited by few people. Please note that this is not a permanent exemption; rather, it is indefinite and can be changed in the future should your wiki's activity or other circumstances change. Dmehus (talk) 18:33, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I will also add the above note as a reason, but I trust you will continue to fill in the remaining pages that contain only an infobox, right? Dmehus (talk) 18:34, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, I will, until I fill up every pages and the comic series come to "the end". Song Ngư MGR (talk) 00:15, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, sounds good. ! Dmehus (talk) 00:35, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

remove club penguin online off the crappy games wiki

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 * ❌. Dmehus (talk) 15:58, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

hi i would like to remove the club penguin online page off the crappy games wiki because it has a bad word called pedophile--Andrew071117 (talk) 13:49, 10 June 2021 (UTC)


 * It doesn't work like that, I'm afraid. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:50, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * but its a bad word and remove that page or else I will get banned from that wiki at school Andrew071117 (talk) 13:52, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * There's really no need to spam the Stewards' Noticeboard or the Community Noticeboard. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:53, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * but the word is a bad word so please remove it Andrew071117 (talk) 13:53, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * You can just distance yourself from the page and/or wiki. Buk kit  (talk) ( C ) 13:55, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry, DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:55, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * how about if i am not allowed to use anything not education during class including that page and this wiki Andrew071117 (talk) 13:57, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I thinks you should tell the administrators of that wiki as the best options; also I have found that the article you have talking about was marked as NSFW at the top of the page. Song Ngư MGR (talk) 13:57, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * but still i may accidently go on that page Andrew071117 (talk) 13:59, 10 June 2021 (UTC)


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Question

 * The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
 * This is out of scope of Stewards. If your Special:Statistics page is out of sync, file a Phabricator task. To purge the page, append  to the end of the URL in your web browser. Dmehus (talk) 15:56, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Can a steward help me figure this out? 0 Articles --Iron Sword 23 (talk) 15:35, 10 June 2021 (UTC)


 * While the Stewards are not idle, could you describe your problems? Song Ngư MGR (talk) 15:38, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * There are no numbered articles on ideasng.miraheze.org. Iron Sword 23 (talk) 15:40, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Looks like your wiki was just recently created, isn't it?
 * If it so, have you trying to  yet?
 * If that was yes and it still 0, I think it's time to make a task on Phabricator. Song Ngư MGR (talk) 15:47, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay. How do I ?actioɲ̟=purge? Iron Sword 23 (talk) 15:48, 10 June 2021 (UTC)


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What the hell is going on with this community?
I have been watching the events unfold these past few days and I have no word to describe other than it is petulant to a fault.

And I will say this: I thought better of you until that episode. You were the only person from Miraheze to actually deal with vandalism on Trollpedia and that is something I am very grateful for and to see you do what you're doing is revolting.

You should have warned Gay Socrates about their aspersion on Meta since this happened on Meta. I really do not understand why you went out of your way to remind him of that directly on his Minecraft wiki (if I recall correctly) when this did not happen there in the first place and had nothing to do with what happened on Meta. In other words, anything that happens on Meta must stay on Meta. If for whatever reason you were afraid that they did not receive the notifications, then I have to say that I am certain he does because any notif I got on Meta were when I was working on Trollpedia, otherwise, what gives? They never posted on Meta beforehand, so does it really matter if he violates a rule there once and then go on about their business? Moreover, it dawns on me that you started reverting his contributions here while repeatedly interacting with his talkpage when that did nothing, but worsen the situation.

Now,, I don't know why you had to blow this out of proportion when that was not needed. I received an annoying comment from Dmehus on my talkpage on Trollpedia, but that does not mean I should go into a frenzy and accuse him of harassing me, that's not appropriate. DMM4500 had likely no ill-intention toward you when he contacted you via your wiki.

Consider my advice: Grow a pair, because you will likely get more of these if you grow your wiki. As a suggestion, why not open your own Mediawiki instance on a shared hosting where you are free to set your own rules? That would probably be a better option than fighting with the community here.

I think the worst part about this whole ordeal is that none of the actors who participated in this 'drama' had any agency to try to do some mediation with anyone. As a matter of fact, someone banned Gay Socrates for one day for being disruptive, notwithstanding that would not help at all. In fact, they are back and even more disruptive than before, and this is not helped by DMM4500 not dropping the stick, instead resorting to edit-warring with the user.

Additionally, I wanna thank and  for not helping at all. You can keep edit-warring all day long on Gay Socrates' talkpage, but what good will it do? You are all wasting your time.

I am certainly gonna note this event on my review of Miraheze. Clearly, the juveniles here have run amok. I always thought this nonsense only affected the 'reception wikis', but this issue appears to be far more deeply embedded in Miraheze than I initially thought.

If you feel this topic might lead to a flamewar, you can pre-emptively lock it. I said my piece about this and all the parties involved have been informed as well. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 16:12, 10 June 2021 (UTC)


 * The reason why I didn't warn him on Meta was mainly because I'm not an admin of Meta, and the problems were already resolved by the time of this writing, so yeah, I guess you can say, it was quite an episode here. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 16:15, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * To be clear, as soon as I saw edit warring, I pinged a couple of sysops on IRC to help handle the situation. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 16:18, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Technically speaking,, you had every right to call us out, not to mention giving us great ideas that I might and/or could do in the future. (i.e. Opening a MediaWiki instance, probably referring to hosting our own MediaWiki-powered wikis and to make our own rules.) So yeah, I've been thinking about that yesterday when the update began, and we apologize on our behalf of what gave rise to the edit warring on Thursday. It wasn't just my fault, but 2 other people were to be blamed too. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:12, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Can you disable my account please?
I'm leaving Miraheze because of drama on the Reception Wikis and I was even banned from SephSpace for something I didn't even do, so I'm quitting this site. Can you please disable my account? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SuperStreetKombat (talk • contribs) 23:55, 10 June 2021
 * SuperStreetKombat I'll action this, regrettably, but if you do wish to rejoin Miraheze, it's recommended that you e-mail Stewards at  to request an unlock. If you opt to create a new account in the future, please remember to abide by user accounts policy, including any locally-imposed sanctions. That being said, if you do wish to report potential Code of Conduct violations for harassment, in confidence, you can also e-mail us at the prescribed e-mail address. Thank you. Dmehus (talk) 01:04, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry to see you go. Farewell. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 01:24, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Checkuser request for the following accounts:

 * Anti villain
 * Helicopter Showdown- Heaven Sent (Synchronice Remix)
 * Omar Bongos
 * Topo
 * 454y5

For Topo and 454y5, it shouldn't be that hard to find, since these diffs are just these 2 switching parts of the article (although weak at best), however, these following accounts have somehow been editing on some of the same pages, but I do hope that could provide some more information than what I've seen so far. There is at least one example of their edits being directed in one page like the one on Samuel Doe, shown here. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 17:21, 11 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Also, before I forget, there has been some instances where Anti villain and 454y5 have made edits a day apart from each other, as shown here on an article on Yahya Jammeh. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 17:27, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. Dmehus (talk) 17:46, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but what about 454y5? Was he related to the accounts you locked, or no? DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 17:47, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Never mind, you already ✅ via Discord, with my assumption being correct. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 10:41, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * And now I'm really suspicious of Gigdsclasp, who has reverted my edit to the revision made by a sockpuppet, gave me and Rangerkid51 a bad attitude on Rangerkid51's talk page, and at the same time, threatened to take away Rangerkid51's privileges, even though he doesn't have the admin rights, nor the right to threaten someone. And now he's resorting to vandalism on these articles in which the previous sockpuppets have visited. I think he should be looked at as well, considering he told me to get lost in an edit summary, and is still frequently vandalizing pages that the previous sockpuppets have recently edited on. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:11, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hope you're free to do, you know, this. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 22:26, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Global lock request for Geoshea
Recently, over both Miraheze and Discord, Geoshea, the creator of this wiki, has done some terrible things that I think warrant a global lock. He clearly violated the Code of Conduct:
 * He drew child porn on several websites, including Rule 34, and revealed it on several wikis which got him locally blocked there.
 * He slandered several Miraheze users on his Discord server and falsely accused them of doing things they didn't do.
 * He groomed Cuddly Rainbow Guardian/KBOS, the creator of the KBOS Funnies Wiki and one of my MH friends, when she was a minor, which led to KBOS reporting him to the police but then getting her Internet taken down after she reported him.
 * He victim-blamed, gaslit, and cyberbullied several Miraheze users off-site to get away with his crimes.

Geoshea is a dangerous person, who has harassed and slandered many Miraheze users on and off-site. Many people including me are afraid of him and what he can do, particularly because he has a large amount of enablers (mostly users on his wiki). Please do the right thing and lock him if you think you can. ChessPiece21 (talk) 16:09, 12 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Hey there, I know you're angry at me but I'll have you know I'm not a groomer, pedophile or cyberbully at all. I regret onjohing CP back in 2019 and I never groomed KBOS at all and she is a liar. Please forgive me, I really changed and stopped doing all this shit long ago. --Geoshea (talk) 23:29, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah right. Geoshea literally sent a picture of his semen to KBOS without asking at all. He also began drawing CP before he even met KBOS. Pedophilia is one of the worst crimes of all time. Pedophilia is unforgiveable. SporeShroom2007 (talk) 01:04, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi. Please note that Miraheze locks based on evidence of misconduct on-wiki and not because someone did something on other platforms (even if we did, the evidence you provided so far would not be enough). You may block Geoshea locally if you wish to do so. The allegations do however seem serious so I would think it would be appropriate to contact Discord Trust and Safety with your report as since it allegedly happened on their platform they would be best to deal with this. If you have any evidence of any global policy violations on Miraheze please let us know. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 05:58, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

error in wiki
Only on the wiki where I manage had a fatal error but it doesn't go back to normal anymore. YellowFrogger (talk) 00:18, 13 June 2021 (UTC)


 * YellowFrogger Please file a task on Phabricator. MediaWiki internal errors and similar technical errors are in scope of Site Reliability Engineering. You can link to this stewards' noticeboard request in your Phabricator ticket for context and reciprocally link to the Phabricator ticket by way of a reply to this thread. Thank you. Dmehus (talk) 00:46, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

MediaWiki internal error


MediaWiki internal error.

Original exception: [40436c0b89445b148f0bb7f1] 2021-06-13 00:13:47: Fatal exception of type "InvalidArgumentException"

Exception caught inside exception handler.

Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.

Best regards. Hugo Ar (talk) 00:36, 13 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Hugo Ar Please file a task on Phabricator. MediaWiki internal errors and similar technical errors are in scope of Site Reliability Engineering. You can link to this stewards' noticeboard request in your Phabricator ticket for context and reciprocally link to the Phabricator ticket by way of a reply to this thread. Thank you. Dmehus (talk) 00:45, 13 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Dmehus, thank you. The request is ready: T7453. Very kind to advise. Greetings. Hugo Ar (talk) 01:03, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hugo Ar That's ✅. very much. :) Dmehus (talk) 01:07, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * The error no longer appears. Everything seems to be working normally now. I already notified Phabricator. Thanks. Greetings. Hugo Ar (talk) 01:25, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Yeah, likely it was reported or caught by someone else and repaired. It's good to have a ticket for it, though. Dmehus (talk) 01:26, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Delete wikis
I'd like to delete my two wikis before -- enrs and prp (.miraheze.org) because I do not need them now. The two wikis have only my contributions and they are closed. Zes M Young (talk) 02:24, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Global lock for Garrett Crowe
This user, apart from being an SJW, seems to be a harassment-only account. See the comment log in all blocked wikis. —Mario Mario <span style="color:purple;background:-webkit-linear-gradient(0deg,#20d,#00f);-webkit-background-clip:text;-webkit-text-fill-color:transparent">456 03:33, 13 June 2021 (UTC)


 * For context if anyone is interested, that's why he got blocked: https://rottenwebsites.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa&diff=prev&oldid=44977. That is so petty as hell.
 * I hope he does not get locked over that. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 14:12, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Additionally, he got blocked across multiple wikis because they are all run by the same people. This is Reddit-tier nonsense and shows that this report should be taken with a grain of salt. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 14:15, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * ❌ as the evidence here is insufficient to warrant a global lock. I'm not even really seeing enough for a firm warning as to the Code of Conduct. As MarioSuperstar77 said, Stewards do take Reception wiki block reasons with a "grain of salt," and we both consider and measure the evidence against our global policies. I would additionally remind the complainant of the Code of Conduct, and that filing spurious and/or unsubstantiated reports, especially if done repeatedly, would consistute a breach of that policy. Dmehus (talk) 14:38, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I've changed those block settings as it didn't sit right with me, and I left the user's talk page open on one of them. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 14:46, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * DarkMatterMan4500 Thanks, but to be honest, looking at the reason for the block, I'm not convinced this was even a good local block. It seems like the user was blocked for undoing an administrator's category tagging. Personally, as a local community member, I'd suggest unblocking them on affected wikis, and guide them to the Qualitipedia wiki rules via one of their local user talk pages. Dmehus (talk) 14:49, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Alright, I switched it to a week only to allow the user to appeal directly on their talk page. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 14:54, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * . That's better. One week for such a minor single infraction, with an open user talk page, is much better. Dmehus (talk) 14:55, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * And as a bonus, I've unblocked him on the other wikis. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 14:59, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Wiki undeletion
Per request by SPEEDYBEAVER, please undelete reverserottenwebsiteswiki. — Arcversin (talk) 12:07, 13 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Arcversin Thank you for your request to undelete . That wiki was likely deleted in accordance with Dormancy Policy per lack of community interest and/or because it was a duplication of Fresh Websites Wiki. As Content Policy allows for only significant or substantial content forks of existing wikis in limited circumstances (and usually involving some sort of mediation), I'd rather see SPEEDYBEAVER hold a local discussion with the Fresh Websites Wiki community on  . Additionally, that community may well have had a discussion to wind down and merge   into , so if that is the case, another discussion is certainly not only desired but warranted. Dmehus (talk) 15:26, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Please see above. — Arcversin (talk) 15:31, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Massive flood of spambots have been wreaking havoc and they need to be dealt with as soon as possible:

 * Commentachkt591
 * Commentbidcw656
 * Commentcnpan657
 * Commentipnqf481
 * Commentdqhmy382
 * Commentempnr376
 * Commentfecmt823
 * Commentfdfjs398
 * Commentirhem795
 * Commentcbrfd264
 * KrystynaFain7
 * RobertaCusack
 * DeanneNoll
 * MarjorieTice
 * JoeyGeyer538
 * RossWoo114100
 * LesleySaxton99

There's been a number of cross-wiki spam-bots coming into some of our wikis and even on the, and I was hoping that either  or another fellow Steward could squash them and lock them. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 16:24, 13 June 2021 (UTC)


 * They will be. The abuse logs are doing their job, though. Dmehus (talk) 16:56, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, fair enough. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 17:57, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Exemption from the Dormancy Policy
https://energywithin.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

We would like to be exempted from the dormancy policy. We genuinely care for our wiki and have been very passionate about our roleplays for over 4 years at this point with content widening to almost 500 pages, but we are only two people actively editing a colossal wiki that is ever expanding and we really need our mental health breaks from time to time. We want to respectively request that you exempt us from the dormancy policy for our mental health, so we don't have to worry about the wiki we've spent so hard to build over all these years to be deleted. Thank you, and have a nice day.Zamasu (talk) 18:00, 13 June 2021 (UTC) Zamasu (talk) 18:00, 13 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Zamasu Thank you for your request for an exemption to Dormancy Policy, which I've now assessed. In terms of need, as one of only two contributing editors to this wiki, that is likely met on its own per your articulated reason; however, as it's a private wiki, it won't be backed up to The Internet Archive on a generally quarterly basis as part of Reception123's wiki public wiki wikibackups that he does. In terms of sufficient content intended to be read, while I've only examined a handful of your wiki's pages (due to the sheer breadth of the content available), this, too, is easily met as the pages examined are all either start- or C-class (or above). Thus, I've ✅ this on an indefinite basis as a wiki intended to be read by real people and which is minimally by edited by few editors. Please note that this exemption is not permanent, and is subject to revision should your wiki's activity or other circumstances change. Please also advise us of the same, too. Dmehus (talk) 18:11, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Exemption from Dormancy Policy request:
Could my Trashy Vyond Videos Wiki be exempted from dormancy/inactivity per the Dormancy Policy upon a reasonable request? I wouldn't want that wiki to go to waste, as it's the most active wiki I've ever self-requested and self-approved. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 23:41, 14 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your request for an exemption to Dormancy Policy, which I've now assessed. In terms of need, by your own admission, your wiki is the "most active wiki [you've] ever self-requested," so I don't find there is sufficient need on that basis. Additionally, as a public wiki, it is regularly backed up and posted to The Internet Archive, so that is an additional reason for lack of need. In terms of content, I don't find there is sufficient encyclopedic quality content intended to inform and be read by real people, so I'm going to mark this as ❌. Dmehus (talk) 00:14, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Alright, I might close this request up. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 00:24, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
 * No need to close it formally. It can just naturally move up the noticeboard until the bot archives it. Dmehus (talk) 00:26, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Right....
 * If it was actually dormant, then I could've requested it. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 00:27, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, that might show more of a need, perhaps, but there is also the question of sufficient quality content intended to inform and be read by real people. Commonly, for the Reception wikis such as this, most local administrators just regularly generate an XML dump and image backup using Special:DataDump on their wikis. Dmehus (talk) 00:30, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Request for re-adding of bureaucrat flag
I am not sure how it happened but I lost my bureaucrat flag on my wiki. Can someone re add it? Nightwolf1223 (talk) 00:31, 15 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Nightwolf1223 ✅. It looks like your abuse filter #1 needs some fine-tuning, so I have additionally ✅ the revocation actions from the filter to prevent this from happening again. Dmehus (talk) 00:44, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Request to delete 2 of my wikis.
I would like both elementalwiki and myceliumwiki to be deleted. For Elemental Wiki, there are not a lot of stuff to put in. For Mycelium, at first I planned to make Mycelium a place of stuff which only admins can edit but I didn't have my own website at the time, so I decided to use Miraheze and make the wiki read-only. But now that I have my own website, I will move the wiki into my website. Anpang (talk) 02:53, 15 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Anpang As the only contributor to each of these wikis, it's clear these are your personal wikis, so this is ✅ (#1 and #2). I also noticed you didn't generate a dump for, but I assumed you didn't need one as there weren't many pages for that one at all. Dmehus (talk) 03:06, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Anpang (talk) 03:08, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
 * No problem. :) Dmehus (talk) 03:09, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

User Reception Wikis were a bad idea, but what happened?
This is a group of wikis used to review users from the internet. The idea, was… meh. For now, the rest of those wikis is closed down and left to be forgotten. But, we need reasons what caused them to be closed. Oh, and don't forget the page examples, because we already know that they were biased, finger-pointing, seldom truth, drama-causing and had poor workplace for admins.

•Atrocious Deviants •Atrocious YouTubers •Awful Twitters •Horrible Vyonders •Unfavorable Wikis and Users

Non-user, but related •Garbage Memes •Toxic Fandoms and Hatedoms Maxkatzur (talk) 04:21, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
 * It's because that they were violating the Miraheze code of conduct. Basically, a quick history about it, it all started on May 29, 2020 after Crummy Scratchers Wiki's closure, a troll had the guts to revive it as a "hate wiki" named Bad Scratch Wiki, a wiki dedicated to "bad" scratchers when all it just did was slander popular scratchers (as well as Life_Tutor and RebeccaSpark). Around July 15, a RfC was created to ban these kinds of wikis. The final straw was when a severe flame war occurred involving two users: Cowsgumball31 and Inkster. Though the former was more infamous. Around September 20, of that year, Zippix decided that they had enough and decided to close them down. Though predictably, the user reception wikis thought Zippix was an SJW (Social Justice Warrior), a term corrupted by Twitter. Then most of them got globally banned across the network. Milcery229 (talk) 04:45, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
 * What violated the Code of Conduct? In order of wikis, please Maxkatzur (talk) 07:46, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
 * What am I seeing from here? Of course they were shut down, but it was mainly from systematic, problematic Code of Conduct and Content Policy violations that were left unresolved. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 11:06, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Here's the worst pages in order of now-closed wikis I remember (so far)
 * •Atrocious Deviants - AnthroArtCreations
 * •Atrocious YouTubers - Shädman, ZONE TOONS
 * deleted)
 * • Maxkatzur (talk) 16:46, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Hide my name please
Go to https://bn.gyaanipedia.com/wiki/বিশেষ:অবদান/আফতাবুজ্জামান you will see I have edits there but I never edited there. It's looks like they imported those from bnwiki. bn.gyaanipedia.com mostly a spamming site (as far as I seen), I don't want to associate my name in there. Please hide my name from imported edits. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 02:04, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a bit unconventional, but I suppose I could revision delete or oversight your username on your imported contributions, but I can't remove your account completely from that wiki. Will that work for you? Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 02:55, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @Dmehus: Yes, please do. It will be great. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 15:54, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Copyright violation
I found large number of copyright violation on https://bn.gyaanipedia.com/. They imported whole Banglapedia book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banglapedia don't confuse with Bengali Wikipedia) and licensed it under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)!! The book is not in PD yet (see copyright notice). Please delete.

https://bn.gyaanipedia.com/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B7:%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%97?type=import&user=Shaunak+Chakraborty&page=&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype= আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 02:18, 18 June 2021 (UTC)


 * আফতাবুজ্জামান Can you please link to me the specific page(s) on Bengali Gyannipedia that have copied the Banglapedia book without permission? I don't speak Bengali, unfortunately, so trying to look through the import logs to find specific pages would be very difficult. Dmehus (talk) 02:53, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * , I would say that it is too hard for the stewards to identify the copyrighted material especially when they don't know the language in which the copyrighted material is. It would be better to specify the pages which have been directly imported. I assume that the above link is the link to the import log as done by Shaunak Chakraborty? Mazzaz (talk) 05:46, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @Dmehus: Here is the list. Delete all of pages. In case if you have any doubt, please compare that page's text with https://bn.banglapedia.org/index.php/[that page title here]. Thanks. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 16:23, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. That's quite the list. It would be impracticable to review every page against the apparent original on Banglapedia. Noting that each page has been categorised as, I believe it's safe to assume they're all pages imported from the copyrighted Banglapedia. I've left this note for Shaunak Chakraborty to provide satisfactory, verifiable, and authoritative evidence that Banglapedia has authorized him to redistribute the content under a compatible CreativeCommons or CreativeCommons-equivalent license no later than 20 June 2021. As such, I'm placing this , at which point I will prepare a Phabricator task to remove the pages as it is just sheerly too much for a Steward to do manually. Dmehus (talk) 20:06, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Unfairly blocked from Qualitipedia
I am posting this here because MarioMario456 has not responded to the message I sent him on Horrible Music & Songs Wiki. So basically, on Best Shows & Episodes Wiki, I added Prehibernation Week to the list of good SpongeBob episodes. However, DuchessTheSponge reverted the edit and blocked me. And I am now blocked across all of Qualitipedia even though I did nothing wrong. This is, however, not the first time. Duchess has hated me since before we even met, and I have no idea why. He has blocked me in the past for wanting Prehibernation Week deleted from Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki because it has majority positive reception. That is not all: A while ago, me and Duchess had an agreement that Encyclopedia SpongeBobia's page on Fresh Websites Wiki would be renamed to Encyclopedia SpongeBobia (2007-2019, 2021-present), but when I was blocked he reverted it back to just Encyclopedia SpongeBobia. He has also gotten angry at me for reverting one of his edits and as said above for wanting Prehibernation Week to be deleted from Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki because it is a well-liked episode. Not only that, but the things I have been blocked for on all of the wikis are not even listed as rules on the main page of each wiki, so there is no rule saying I can't revert an admin's edit or can't ask for a page to be deleted due to it being well liked. And that most certainly does not justify a block from every single Qualitipedia wiki. Additionally, my block summary says I “caused drama” even though that never happened. As I said above, I told MarioMario456 about this on Horrible Music & Songs Wiki but he hasn't responded. So I need Stewards to jump in and resolve this, because it does not seem like I am able to communicate with the other admins, and DuchessTheSponge keeps on reverting my edits on his talk page. This has gotten completely out of my control and it needs to stop. Me and Duchess need to find a way to agree to disagree and co-exist even though he doesn't want to co-exist with me. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 21:16, 18 June 2021 (UTC)


 * This likely does need some Steward-assisted mediation, as there is clearly a three-way cross-wiki dispute between the three editors, and, in my view, DuchessTheSponge and MarioMario456 have an unfair advantage in blocking you on wikis to which you've never contributed or contributed minimally. My preference would be to see them revert your blocks, limiting the block(s) only on wiki(s) where you violated your unblock conditions specifically, and then see you not contribute to those wikis, focusing on your wikis. Dmehus (talk) 21:31, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that was what my main issue with those blocks handed against you was about, and didn't really agree 100% with those blocks handed to you. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 21:48, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Just checked one of the wikis you were blocked on and you didn't even edit there, so what's the point?--Iron Sword 23 (talk) 21:57, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Exactly! Blubabluba9990 (talk) 22:20, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * The thing is though I do want to contribute to those wikis. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 22:22, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * And it isn't really three way since MarioMario456 is taking Duchess's side Blubabluba9990 (talk) 22:24, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This is pretty much just between me and Duchess, as he is the one who originally blocked me before MarioMario456 blocked me again even though I was already blocked for some reason. The best solution would probably be to have DuchessTheSponge be demoted from bureaucrat and admin on the Qualitipedia wikis, that way he cannot abuse his power and target me. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 23:27, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Request for re-adding of bureaucrat role
Accidentally deleted the bureaucrat role while trying to clean up others for simplicity. Could I have it added back / to me? Thank you! Apinkoctopus (talk) 22:59, 18 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Apinkoctopus ✅. Additionally, I have also locally recreated your  user group in accordance with the default permission settings for the group. If changing around your user groups in the future, especially those with the   user right, ensure you have another group with that user right before deleting the unneeded group. It's also highly recommended that you not grant your top-level user group the ability to remove that group. Instead, Stewards are requested to remove the top-level user group via this noticeboard. This is to prevent inadvertent bureaucrat bit removals, but also to ensure removals are done in accordance with your wiki's community established rules. Dmehus (talk) 23:49, 18 June 2021 (UTC)