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1. Hebrew and 2. Adding Uses to My Wiki
Hi all,

First apology: I'm a Wiki novice and my English is not perfect. Sorry :)

1. Hebrew: The editor adds the lang=he and dir=rtl attributes correctly, but the paragraph align is still to the left. Please see the following captures https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zwxVjNnnntBd1cHOZJTFxlX6J73f8V7U

2. I want the Wiki to be private, but to be able to invite people to register and take part in the Wiki (this is a site for Education students in my University, and I assume it will be easier with the Uni if I do it this way and not allow public access due to copyright considerations). How do I do this?

Avinatbezeq (talk) 15:48, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * For 2., you can restrict access in two ways.
 * If you know everyone's email, you can just create an account, and let MediaWiki generate password and email to them. And after you create an account, you can access Special:UserRights  and grant   to the accounts you need.
 * If you do not know everyone's email (or if you can't for some reason), you can let them create an account on this wiki, then visit your wiki, and tell you the account name, so you can add them on the same interface I gave you above.
 * &mdash; revi  15:58, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks Revi for your answers!
 * For 2.1 - "Create an account" - In Miraheze? In Edustudent (my Wiki, Edustudent.miraheze.org)? In Wikipedia? - Sorry, thoroughly disoriented just now - newbie :(. Can you provide a link/page name?
 * For 1 - I've provided a link to the images. I had to struggle with the visual editor to add the link. It did not allow me (unspecified error). I finally had to resort to the "non-visual" one, which then made me prove I'm not a robot before it allowed me to add the exteranl link...
 * — Avinatbezeq (talk) 16:38, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * That should be on your wiki. Put  on your wiki search bar and enter. Click "", enter username/email address. They will automatically receive "your account on (your wiki) is created! Your password is: BLAH. Your password is only good for X days." Then you can visit   on your wiki, enter their username, click "members", enter the reason, and save. &mdash;  revi  16:47, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * 10X — Avinatbezeq (talk) 17:22, 12 May 2018 (UTC) Hello,
 * I am completing this question, as my demand is really close to Avinatbezeq's one. I have a private wiki, I want to add users. The solution 2 would be good to me, but :
 * If someone goes on "Special:CreateAccount" on my wiki (rseifv.miraheze.org), he can't acces to the page (permission refused).
 * A colleague (Marion Bouvier) created an account on meta.miraheze.org, but I can't find her on my "Special:UserRights" page. In meta, I can.
 * I tried to create her an account on my wiki (solution 2), but when I put her name, I am told that the user already exists.
 * What's wrong with this way of doing things ?  David LAFOND (talk) 10:29, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, I have never tried it, but now something I could do is create the account in Miraheze in any other public wiki (for example, Meta), after that, going to the private wiki, to the main page, is so that your account exists locally in the private wiki (because although the accounts exist globally, they do not appear in the list of local users of the wiki until the user in question does not enter the local wiki), so you should it is possible to add the user to some group of permissions, be it member, administrator, etc... GOTILON - Talk  - Contributions  12:56, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Avinatbezeq, Sorry for the late response:
 * You have to create an account for them, because "Special:CreateAccount" is not a whitelisted page for unauthorized person.
 * If they created an account on meta.miraheze.org, then they MUST visit your wiki at least once, so their account appears on the user list.
 * Tell your colleague to visit your wiki and log in from there (if they aren't), and you'll be able to use "Special:UserRights" and assign "member". &mdash; revi  18:47, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Is it possible to make wiki creation automatic?
There's a lot of latency for wiki creation now that could be a big turn-off for prospective users. The ability to sign up, create a new wiki and test it out would be a big factor for getting new users. Prospective users aren't likely to submit a request unless they've already made the choice to use Miraheze. If you're worried about spam you could have limit on wiki creation for new accounts or another strategy. XOF (talk) 04:50, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * There are several evident reasons why wiki requests are not automatic. The first is to avoid people who don't actually want a wiki from spamming wiki requests, creating dozens of wikis they don't actually want, and wasting server resources. The second would be to guarantee that to ensure that peoples' wikis do not contain material that goes against Miraheze's Terms and Conditions. CoolieCoolster (talk) 06:42, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't think the idea in itself is bad, but it can currently not be done. The only way I see this being possible is if we have an AbuseFilter capable of fighting spam and inappropriate wikis. After that wiki creators would just check after the wiki is created to make sure that it complies, and mark it as "checked". Currently our CreateWiki abusefilter is public, and in my opinion a public filter is no good for this, so that would have to be changed. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 10:01, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Alternately, as a thought, what about simply making unchecked wikis private? Although, it would be a good idea to make the blacklist private should it become all that important. -- Void  Whispers 16:47, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * At first, the creation of wikis automatically sounds good, but I agree with Coolie, the manual creation avoids many problems, in addition, we must consider that Miraheze is still a small wikis farm, where the supervision of creation of wikis must be more meticulous, although the creation of wikis is not ruled out automatically GOTILON - Talk  - Contributions  13:55, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Other then the possibility of wikis being spammed, I don't see what problems are being prevented by not having wiki creation be automatic. It doesn't stop users from adding prohibited content because they can still do that after their wikis are approved.  Unless the wiki name or short description says something blatantly prohibited an approval process isn't going to solve that.  Even in those cases users who are going to make prohibited wikis can always bait and switch the description from what the wiki will actually be for.  In the case of wiki creation spam, an empty wiki shouldn't take up that much space and wiki approval still doesn't do anything to mitigate this because users who want to waste space can spam their own wikis after creation, which would be harder to detect because the spam would only be on their wiki instead of Meta like if they were spamming wiki creation.  I suspect it would take a very long time before spam created wikis would take up any meaningful amount of space.  This problem is incredibly easy to fix because all we have to do is set a limit on wiki creation.  It could even be something generous like 10 per day because legitimate users probably won't need that many at once and it gives a chance to easily delete them.  We could also implement a feature for nuking wikis created by a user in a given timeframe.
 * I don't see why Miraheze being a small wiki farm requires supervision of wiki creation to be meticulous. The opposite is true.  A large wiki farm with many people will see more abuse and so supervision there must be more meticulous.  If anything, Miraheze being a small farm makes it disastrous for growth for us not to have automatic wiki creation.  The majority of users who come here are going to want to create a wiki and test things out to see if Miraheze is suitable for their project idea.  They might try several wiki farms at once.  If they have to wait around they might go with another farm or abandon their idea altogether.  I can't possibly imagine what good it does us to require users to wait for wiki creation and it only harms us.  XOF (talk) 03:55, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * You're right in a lot of what you say, on the other hand, you have to consider that the more careful you have with the creation of wikis, the better for Miraheze, consider that Miraheze is new, in addition to not having a profit, every space badly spent, it's Miraheze's poorly spent money, see Finance and you'll see what resources Miraheze has and what it spends for hosting and backups GOTILON - Talk  - Contributions  13:11, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * As I've said above; I've been thinking about automation of wiki creation since the beginning, only the constraints are that unless we have a working system to prevent abuse and to check that wikis are compliant to the Content Policy, it can't work, in my opinion. Again, it would be nice if we could implement this system, and also have an automated wiki creation system. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 08:23, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Adding extensions via Special:ManageWiki
Yesterday on https://caeda.miraheze.org/, I checked the box for the Metrolook skin, however the wiki's skin hasn't changed yet. CoolieCoolster (talk) 17:53, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * You can open a task in Phabricator to find out more about the change that has not been made <span style="color: #F8EFFB; font-family: Harrington; text-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #00A6AE,1px 1px 0px #00A6AE,2px 2px 0px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE;">GOTILON - <span style="color: #F8EFFB; font-family: Harrington; text-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #00A6AE,1px 1px 0px #00A6AE,2px 2px 0px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE;">Talk  - <span style="color: #F8EFFB; font-family: Harrington; text-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #00A6AE,1px 1px 0px #00A6AE,2px 2px 0px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE;">Contributions  18:16, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * If you've just enabled a skin, it has to be turned on in preferences. IIRC setting the default skin still has to be done through phab. -- Void  Whispers 19:10, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Removal of remnants on articles
Hello. Over the course of bringing in some templates I needed for my wiki, I accidentally allowed the table tools to be corrupted or something of that sort, leading to the appearance of the

fragments that spill over from an infobox and into the article itself. I haven't been successful in tracking down the location of the template causing this to happen, though it has only appeared when using the Template:Infobox officeholder. My wiki is https://omniversalis.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page. Any support would be appreciated. Thank you. Vivaporius (talk) 16:13, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Did you use Special:Import? should be able to help you. Reception123  (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 19:52, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I used the Special:Import function to bring in the templates, but the error only appeared after I imported Template:SfnRef. I imported hundreds of templates from Wikipedia without the error appearing, but it just came up out of nowhere that one day. I removed Template:SfnRef and several templates prior to it without any success. A colleague of mine was able to get around the error himself, but I still can't find out where the error is coming from. I'll certain reach out to Void for his assistance in resolving the matter. Thank you. Vivaporius (talk) 20:51, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Malware
For several months I have been trying to advertise my wiki, Podpedia, on Google. Whenever I have tried, they have told me that Podpedia has malware on it. A couple of weeks ago I sent an email to Google asking them about this, and now I have gotten an email back from Google that confirms that Google's malware scanner detected malware on Podpedia:



So either Google is wrong, or on some part of Podpedia there is malware. Does anyone have any idea why Google says there is malware on my wiki?

CoolieCoolster (talk) 17:19, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for letting us know about the Malware notification, though that is very odd. However, please see User talk:CoolieCoolster, as advertising is prohibited on Miraheze. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 17:22, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I am not trying to add any ads to Podpedia. I want to advertise my wiki on Google, not the other way around. CoolieCoolster (talk) 17:24, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
 * There could be a technical problem behind this where software on the site is triggering detection by Google. Google is also a shitty company and they could be accusing your site of having malware because they don't like the software it's using or they don't like something about your wiki or Miraheze.  XOF (talk) 02:52, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Can you ask the Google representative to provide which URL is causing problem? &mdash; revi</tt>  15:05, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The ad that I created for my wiki has the link podpedia.org. CoolieCoolster (talk) 15:25, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Is there any way to get more details regarding this? I really see no way in which the site could have malware. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 19:33, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll ask what type of malware their scanner detected and if I get a response I will let you know. CoolieCoolster (talk) 02:35, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Ask them for full URL. They should have "what" exact page is causing problem or it's just typical-Google-BS as always. &mdash; revi</tt>  07:55, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * They claim that "the entire domain" is affected by malware and to "run a sweep of the website" to fix it. CoolieCoolster (talk) 21:14, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Sequence to having my own domain, hopefully for free.
Bear with my technical ignorance here. What I would like if possible is a unique wiki address. So for example:- wiki.campaign-labour.org. I had persuaded myself that I could ask miraheze for this and you would give me a IP address. I would then give the name to say somebody like Cloudfare or FreeDNS etc and the IP address. Then I would set up on the free DNS to match Miraheze re-direct requirements and all would be hunky dory.

I suspect I am being somewhat naive. But I didn't particularly want to go to a web provider at this stage (godaddy for example) and register for a service from them.

So am I being completely naive on how this all hangs together? Do I need to register a name with a separate provider? Could you provide me with a numpties guide to what I am looking to achieve?

Many thanks
 * Welcome aboard! What you are asking for is called Custom domains.  See also our FAQ document.   14:41 30-May-2018
 * We can't register a domain for someone else, sorry. &mdash; revi</tt>  15:13, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

I am quite ignorant on this to say the least. So if I look at your instructions my first step is to set up a DNS server. So I go to cloudfare and the first thing it says is "you haven't created a website" - then it asks for a name. So what name do I put in there? I don't have a website. Do I enter you web addess and then create a subdomain and then give you the subdomain details? I can't imagine that could be correct, as then I've added miraheze to cloudfare. If it is the case that I'll need to go to a website provider, then I can do that. Just I didn't want all there bells and whistles as your page has all I need in terms of software, servers etc.
 * What exactly is your domain provider? If we know what it is, maybe we can help you more easily <span style="color: #F8EFFB; font-family: Harrington; text-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #00A6AE,1px 1px 0px #00A6AE,2px 2px 0px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE;">GOTILON - <span style="color: #F8EFFB; font-family: Harrington; text-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #00A6AE,1px 1px 0px #00A6AE,2px 2px 0px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE;">Talk  - <span style="color: #F8EFFB; font-family: Harrington; text-shadow: 0px 0px 0px #00A6AE,1px 1px 0px #00A6AE,2px 2px 0px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE,0 0 7px #00A6AE;">Contributions  19:13, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

I think I've got where I am going wrong now. I'll take the necessary steps and raise the form when everything is set up correctly. Many thanks for your help.

How to mass-delete imported pages?
I foolishly imported a bunch of templates from another wiki thinking I might need them, but I really don't, and afterward I decided I'd rather build my own templates from scratch. But the Mass Delete tool will only delete pages I created on my wiki, not pages I imported. Is there anything I can do besides going through and deleting each imported page one by one? Zaluzianskya (talk) 18:38, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * If you have a list of pages, it's actually pretty easy to mass delete them, either by requesting the sysadmins to do it for you, or by using a userscript. -- Void  Whispers 19:24, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I certainly have no clue how to use a userscript (I thought I might try Pywikibot, but it seems that it doesn't work with Miraheze?), so should I just email the staff a list of the pages I need removed? Zaluzianskya (talk) 19:35, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * In that case, yeah, it would be best to send in a request, however I believe phabricator would be the better place to lodge such a request. -- Void  Whispers 20:02, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Renaming a Wiki
Hi, basically I would like to rename https://gamdug.miraheze.org/ to something else. However, having checked https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Tech:Rename_a_wiki, I have no idea how. Would it be simpler just to let Gamdug expire and make a new one (it only has 6 pages, it would be easy to move over) or is there an easy way of renaming? I don't want to waste bandwidth or anything. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks.

AllenY (talk) 11:34, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Go to Special:ManageWiki on that wiki, and if you are a bureaucrat, you should be able to rename the wiki. CoolieCoolster (talk) 12:00, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I think that won't work? &mdash; revi</tt>  12:02, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Request it using this form and system administrators will handle it. &mdash; revi</tt>  12:02, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! AllenY (talk) 12:14, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Error: "No active login attempt is in progress for your session." (can't log in to Phabricator, either)
Hi. When I try logging in to miraheze, I get this error "No active login attempt is in progress for your session." and I can't log in (actually, sometimes I can, but soon I find myself logged out). I know I should contact someone on Phabricator, but now I can't even log in to Phabricator, either, because I use my meta account to log in, and I need someone's help. (I have my own wiki on miraheze, and can't log in to that wiki with the same error written in Japanese)

I found out that this is a known error in wikimedia, and there seems to be some sort of mod to fix it. Would anyone make a task on Phabricator for me instead?--183.74.195.138 12:58, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

P.S. I might be able to avoid this problem by logging in to another wiki (according to the page I gave above), but it seems that this issue is common among other miraheze wiki users (such as this ), and I think we need to fix it.--183.74.195.138 12:58, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * We already have the fix to that specific bug you reported, in fact, we've had it for nearly a year. The issue we have is tracked at this task which has not really made any progress for nearly two years (since it was made). Out of curiosity, are you logging in on mobile? -- Void  Whispers 16:30, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * This time I was able to log in successfully. I guess it occurs from time to time.
 * I use mobile tethering (so my IP looks like that of mobile), but the device I actually use is a laptop PC.--開拓者 (talk) 09:21, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, please could you try relogging in (either by resetting your password which should i think clear your session (not a 100% sure though). Also clear your cookies too. See https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T3194 Paladox (talk) 15:18, 4 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi, we have fixed this problem now, please try relogging in. Paladox (talk) 23:35, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Succeeded. Thank you for your help.--開拓者 (talk) 09:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

No access to Special:ManageWiki
Hi all. I've received a notification of closure for domusaurea.miraheze.org, and I'd like to reopen it for editing. I can't access Special:ManageWiki, though. Could anybody please help me? Thanks, Domusaurea (talk) 18:46, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Are you getting any specific errors, and are you sure you are logged in? -- Void  Whispers 18:51, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

What happened to my pages? Kpiq
Folks

Earlier in the day I was able to make some relevant edits. All of a sudden, after noon I can't access the pages I created at kpiq.miraheze.org. Can somebody help?

Regards

Pedro Serrano


 * Moved from AN as the is the appropriate place to ask. Could you please describe your issue more detailed? Are you getting an error when trying to access your pages/your wiki? Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 18:29, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * HTTP error 500, I'm assuming it has to do with the TemplateStyles thing. -- Void  Whispers 19:07, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

The problem is, all my pages dissappeared and now my login is gone. I can't even login. The error is:

Central user log in

No active login attempt is in progress for your session.

Return to the previous page.

Can anybody restore my login and my pages?

Regards

Pedro Serrano

username: Kpiq


 * Hello, please try relogging in, we have just fixed the login issue. Paladox (talk) 22:50, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

How much controversial/disturbing must content be in order to be removed from sysadmins, exactly?
I don't know if this is the right place for a question that I already asked a few times without a clear answer, but my community needs to know before moving here. The content policy says we can't post things that are illegal in California or Netherland. Well, my community has no idea what that really means nor we can hire a lawyer, and since our wiki is about satire most of our content will be offensive for someone. We need at least an approximate answer before moving 14K+ articles, so I'll make some examples.

Would the following content be removed no matter what?
 * 1) An article about a famous singer who doesn't like being mocked and whose lawyer just sent a menacing mail telling us to remove the page.
 * 2) A news article about a famous bike racer dead in a tragic accident, causing many fans to be outraged.
 * 3) An article about a dark homicide case involving minors.
 * 4) An article depicting a sport based on hunting africans.
 * 5) A pic with a famous person being photoshopped so it looks like he/she is performing sex or doing something disgusting.
 * 6) A gif showing an actual BDSM sexual act.
 * 7) A fake gif showing someone cutting his own fingers.

We use things like that for satire and we do our best not to get too gross, but sometimes satire needs to be nasty in order to work. So, does anyone have any experience of sys admins removing content like that? We really need a precise answer (a few of the aforementioned contents were actually removed from our current host) because browsing who knows how many pages of two foreign countries' regulations is not really an option for mere hobbysts as we are.--Wedhro (talk) 12:59, 6 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello this seems fine, as long as it is not illegal in california and the netherlands. See reply at https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_Use#About_disturbing_content (bottom) please. Paladox (talk) 21:10, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

I cannot log in
To whom it may concern,

I'm am trying very hard to understand this, but I cannot log in to All the Tropes. The only link to the subject claims it has something to do with cookies, but I have now deleted them four times. Not that I even know what that means. The instructions given make no sense to me whatsoever, and I cannot post in any of the forums without logging in. My user name is HeneryVII. Can you please forward this to someone who can help? Can anyone just restore or rollback

my login status?

Sincerely, Brian Corvello
 * What's the exact error you are getting? Is it "No active login attempt is in progress for your session.", or can you login but not stay logged in? -- Void  Whispers 20:06, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello, please try logging back in, we have invalidated all user sessions to see if that fixes it. Paladox (talk) 21:00, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Still won't work. The message I get is:
 * "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Go back to the previous page, reload that page and then try again."
 * So can you please restore or rollback my logged in status on All The Tropes? I really don't know what to do.
 * Hi, please try clearing your cookies. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 00:34, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Sir, as I keep trying to explain, I've done that already, many times. I'm sort of a n00b here. Someone's telling me to purge the cache, but I have no idea what he means.
 * Sir, as I keep trying to explain, I've done that already, many times. I'm sort of a n00b here. Someone's telling me to purge the cache, but I have no idea what he means.

Creation of new groups
I file this request here since the intention is for it to only apply to meta. I believe that the community needs a some change, namely the introduction of a Global Renamer and Flood flag. These groups are based on the principle of least privilege (if you are busy mass deleting stuff you should only need the rights you need) and the global rename one allows experienced users to contribute extra to the community. While the flow of requests is little this will encourage more community participation and a better, more stable community. Vote for change and lets all enter this new era together --Sau226 (talk) 05:54, 9 June 2018 (UTC)