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Delete my wiki
Hello! I wish for my wiki to be deleted

https://yourosongcontest.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
 * Sorry for the late response, but now it's filed as a phab ticket here.-- 07:36, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

I would like to recover the wiki "https://fablac.miraheze.org/wiki/Accueil"
Good morning,

I am contacting you because I will wish to recover the wiki of our school. It's called "fablac". We are very disappointed not to find him again.

Thanks in advance. Have a beautiful day, Sophie
 * Hello and welcome! I am not a Steward, but I think your request would carry more weight if you were a registered user.  Please pick a username!   22:23 20-Mar-2019

How do i add a Infobox? i Know Barely anything about Coding on Wikis sadly.
Hi, i'm New here as i Moved from Wikia's Mass-Ad Festival to here which seems cleaner. Only Issue i have right now is Adding Infoboxes to my Wiki.
 * Hello and welcome! Please read FAQ.  (Better yet, read the entire page!)  Take care when importing code, because sometimes a template relies on other templates and you need to import them all.  You're right that it's "cleaner" to edit here than at Wikia, where they are always breaking stuff.  Templates are somewhat like subroutines in a programming language, and unfortunately, it will require learning about them, because even if you get them to work, you'll find you want to tweak them.   13:48 23-Mar-2019

How do I get to the Special:ManageWiki to uncheck the "closed" box to reopen it
My wiki was closed for dormancy - and I would like to re-open it, but I don't know how to get to the Special:ManageWiki page to uncheck the "closed" box. DebyJolley
 * Surfing to the page  (making an appropriate substitution for  ) should get you there, though I do not know if other problems will prevent you from completing the operation.   03:45 2-May-2019

Thank you, Spike!!

How do I make a default page when new pages are created?
There may be multiple users that can edit my wiki. I would like to have Category:All on the bottom of every new created page without multiple users having to remember to do that manually. Is there a way I can make a wiki template which will be copied into a new page whenever a new page is created? Thank you! Bulrush (talk) 14:24, 13 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Here is one solution: You can create a page that users call to create a new page; it can use DPL, and the  tag that creates the edit window can use the   parameter to specify what is initially in that edit window, from a different file.  These contents could include Category:All.  This solution does not prevent the creator of the page from removing the category.  Another solution is to write a 'bot that periodically cycles through every page not in the category and adds it; I don't know how to do this.   21:18 13-May-2019

Ok, maybe I'm not asking the right question. When I backup my wiki I want to backup all pages, and I was going to use the Category:All to add all pages to the export list. Is there another way to export all pages to back them up to a local file on my PC? Bulrush (talk) 12:16, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Bulrush You can do this via Special:DataDump or with Special:AllPages and Special:Export. Isn't that what you're looking for? Hispano76 (talk) 14:08, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * It depends on size of your wiki (whether to use Special:DataDump or to use Special:Export), but perhaps Special:AllPages can provide a list as well.-- 14:17, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

I don't have permissions to view or do Special:DataDumps and I assume I cannot give myself that permission. Usually I backup my wiki using Special:Export but I have to type in a category to get and export pages in that category, when really I want to backup all pages in that wiki. I've tried a category of '+' and '*' and neither work to give me all pages. If I forget to add a Category of 'All' to a page then that page doesn't get backed up. Any ideas how I can back up all pages of a wiki using Special:Export? Bulrush (talk) 10:08, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
 * You can give yourself the permission from Special:ManageWikiPermissions on your wiki (which should be: view-dump, generate-dump, and possibly delete-dump).-- 12:03, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

How do I set the max image size that can be uploaded?
The default settings seems to be 250mb, that seems a bit excessive. I poked around in all the settings screens and can't seem to find the setting. If the max size just for my wiki newearth.miraheze.org is 5mb that's fine. Bulrush (talk) 12:27, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * As it's a technical issue, perhaps you should ask it on Phabricator instead.-- 06:47, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Merge users on nonciclopedia.org (16)
Hi, user Special:CentralAuth/Debunker needs to be merged into Special:CentralAuth/Debuncher. Also, Special:CentralAuth/Anse1997 is still unable to log in after his temporary account Special:CentralAuth/Anse1997 temp was merged.--Wedhro (talk) 08:29, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. Anse1997 will need to be redone from the top, unless there is another way to confirm their identity to reset their password. -- Void  Whispers 20:23, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * He confirmed his identity by writing on my Fandom message wall with his old account: https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:1652665 - Anyway, what do you mean by "to be redone from the top", should he create a new temporary account?--Wedhro (talk) 09:27, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is unfortunately what has to be done. -- Void  Whispers 15:18, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Please delete all cgs prefaced files on scruffy wiki.
I've tried with "Mass delete" aka Special:Nuke on scruffywiki but it just deletes the same 31 files over and over, even though they're already deleted. See also T4390. Please would a steward delete all files with names beginning with "cgs" on scruffywiki? -- Rob Kam (talk) 19:24, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Doing now. -- Void  Whispers 20:28, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. -- Rob Kam (talk) 21:49, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry for checking back in so late, but can you confirm that they have all been deleted? -- Void  Whispers 15:17, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Change my username
I'd like to request a username change. Is there any catches I should know before I request my username to be changed?
 * Please use Special:GlobalRenameRequest. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 05:50, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

All Wikis usergroup seemed to be back as default setting
There's seemed to be all Wikis usergroup has back to default setting, this could be possible cause by an bugs. Can you have a look at public test wiki? Which the Consuls usergroup had been disappear, and now the Bureaucrats tester were have the technical ability to modify the Manage wiki settings. Just in case occurrence any kind of security issues. SA 13 Bro</b> (talk) 15:32, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, we are sorry that you lost your groups last night. There was a incident last night which resulted in all groups being overwritten. So we had to restore all wiki's to the default groups in order to restore services to wikis. Paladox (talk) 15:47, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your notice, it seemed the Consuls usergroup on public test wiki has been fixed now. <b style="color:red">S</b><b style="color:orange">A</b><b style="color:gold"> 1</b><b style="color:green">3</b><b style="color:blue"> B</b><b style="color:indigo">r</b><b style="color:violet">o</b> (talk) 19:20, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
 * All the permissions should be fixed by now, according to T4405. If there are still remaining problems, however, please let us know.-- 02:17, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure, thanks for your request the task help at phabricator. :) I occasionally were on here to monitor the circumstances and do some Chinese language translation on the documentation pages, although I had my busy works in real life time. <b style="color:red">S</b><b style="color:orange">A</b><b style="color:gold"> 1</b><b style="color:green">3</b><b style="color:blue"> B</b><b style="color:indigo">r</b><b style="color:violet">o</b> (talk) 17:26, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * P.S. According to T4413, the restoration was made based on backup created on May 5th. Permission changes since then might not be restored and should be turned back manually. Please see Special:log/managewiki on your wiki to check if your wiki is affected. This will apply globally.-- 15:26, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * There's seemed to be no issues to restore the May 5th permission settings for public test wiki, so it should be definitely okay for PTW. <b style="color:red">S</b><b style="color:orange">A</b><b style="color:gold"> 1</b><b style="color:green">3</b><b style="color:blue"> B</b><b style="color:indigo">r</b><b style="color:violet">o</b> (talk) 16:21, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

Enable TwoColConflict on Miraheze Meta
Please enable TwoColConflict extension on Miraheze Meta so that users can resolve edit conflicts more easily. - PlavorSeol (T | C) 15:01, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Please ask our wiki managers. Fungster ''My talk 06:59, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
 * As no one seems to be opposing, now it's ✅ :)-- 06:44, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

administrator and bureaucrant, beidipedia.miraheze.org
Hi I was an Admin in beidipedia. Wiki. Com, but I stopped editing, with a bunch of active users after changes that was imposed on us by wiki. I accidentally found out that you guys brought the old style back. We are OK now but eventually there will be more traffic and vandalism. So, if it is OK with you guys I'd like to take the responsibilities of be bureac/Admin. In beidipedia.miraheze.or Photo1 (talk) 16:19, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Please make this request locally, and if it is successful a Steward will grant the rights. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 08:32, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I have talked to the community before to recommend to have a local admin/crat, because there seems to be no active admin/crat (because of Dysk's absence) while the wiki itself has been active (and as far as I know, no global volunteers understand Arabic so far).-- 10:02, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * As I said on your talk page on beidipedia before, we would like to have a link to the community decision provided to us (though considering the fact that beidipedia is one of the uncycs that were kicked out from wikia/fandom, being an admin and/or a crat before your migration seems to be a valid reason to have your permissions back).-- 10:02, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Is there any way to verify that? -- Void  Whispers 00:09, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I should've said "if it's true," to be clear. As the former-fandom wiki is now deleted, there's actually no way to confirm it (which is why we still need a clear community decision page).-- 00:30, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Please give me sysop rights
Hello. A steward must give me the right to be an administrator. Please??? Mohamed Saed (talk) 21:02, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
 * If you are talking about Meta, rights are given based on requests for permissions. However, requesting rights right after creating an account is a sign of hat collecting, and therefore they will not be given. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 08:29, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Asking for sysop decreases the chance of having it.--MCpillager (talk) 14:47, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

Merge users on nonciclopedia.org (17)
User Anse1997 has created one more temporary account in order to get his original account back (first time it didn't work), so I'm asking to merge Special:CentralAuth/Anse1997 tries again in Special:CentralAuth/Anse1997. He confirmed his identity on my message wall on Fandom, here.--Wedhro (talk) 22:37, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Void  Whispers 23:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Finally!!! Thank you so much, Void! --Anse1997 (talk) 16:16, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Getting rid of bureaucrat rights.
Hello, a user on crappygames.miraheze.org wants to get rid of his bureaucrat rights but no one can remove them including himself. Worth noting that the rights had been given with an infinite duration so he cannot wait for them to expire. Is there a way to remove them, if it is even possile? Thank you in advance. Grand Albert (talk) 06:07, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * It is only possible for the rights to be removed by a Steward. . Reception123  (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 06:15, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * You may change the configurations so that a bureaucrat can remove bureaucrat permissions from Special:ManageWikiPermissions -> "Group Assignments". Just check "Can remove from others" and/or "Can remove from self" for "Bureaucrats". If you do not want to change the settings, however, you may ask a steward to remove their permission.-- 06:28, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ This time, I have done removing by myself. However, if your community wishes to allow bureaucrats to remove their permission locally, you can still fix it in the way I wrote above.-- 06:36, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * All right, thanks. Grand Albert (talk) 17:13, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Dormancy Policy exemption for https://zscriptlibraries.miraheze.org
I made this wiki for documentation on user-made ZScript libraries for the GZDoom source port for the game Doom, and as such, it's meant mainly to be read, not edited frequently. It'd be great if it could be given some form of exemption from the Dormancy Policy. Phantombeta (talk) 17:48, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * There is currently not a lot of content on the Miraheze wiki. Will there be more content added in the future that would justify this exemption? Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 18:14, 30 May 2019 (UTC)