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How much storage space does Miraheze have?
Well, My wiki, Crazybloxian Empire, could get large pretty soon. How much storage space does the wiki-hosting service have?

Code of Conduct/Commission/Election/2018
Hello everyone, the time for 2017-2018 CoCC is almost over, and we now need to elect new 5 members. We decided to put all of 5 seats to community selection. But rules in 2017 and this year are bit different since the situation is different.

We need clarification for two things:


 * 1) Timeframe of the election
 * 2) Who is eligible to vote?

Please comment your opinions on respective subsections. &mdash; revi  12:19, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Timeframe

 * Last year, we had around 8-9 days for the nomination, 5 days for voting. # I'd propose we start accepting nominee ASAP (tomorrow? the day after tomorrow? Preferably before November starts), and then give 10 days for nominations and Q&A, then 5 days for voting. &mdash; revi  12:19, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I think the organisation of last year's election was good, and propose to keep it. I am not opposed to starting the election procedure tomorrow. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 16:20, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree with MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 16:48, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The election procedure at the start of last years election was vague but we cleared it up eventually. The system is fine in my opinion. &#32; Miraheze Logo.svg CnocBride | Talk | Contribs  12:17, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * It may be a good idea to create a global notice and get this started either today or tomorrow. -- Void  Whispers 14:18, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I have made a draft banner. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 14:47, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I also agree with Reception123. —AlvaroMolina (✉ - ✔ ) 18:47, 31 October 2018 (UTC)


 * I'll start nominating period. &mdash; revi  05:34, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Eligibility

 * Last year, we determined the election by the closing time of RFC, but that was 2017 and is not reasonable for our community member who joined during 2018 and wish to have a voice. I propose that we cut off the eligibility date by the day when we start accepting nominees. &mdash; revi  12:19, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * No objections here. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 16:20, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * No objections from me MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 16:48, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure! &#32; Miraheze Logo.svg CnocBride | Talk | Contribs  12:17, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem! —AlvaroMolina (<b style="color: #137500;">✉</b> - ✔ ) 18:48, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Tie
Code of Conduct/Commission/Election/2018/Vote looks like we're going to end as a tie for 4 candidates when we have 3 seats left (after Void with 7 S, me with 6 S). Following last year's procedure, we are supposed to close after 7 days of voting, so we have less than 24 hours from now on. Should we do a runoff? I was thinking... if we decide to do a quick runoff, we should not allow people from casting more than 1 or 2 votes, to force them to think serious.

&mdash; revi</tt>  09:12, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I was also thinking about this issue, I support a runoff, and yes, I think it should be limited to 1 or 2 votes maximum, though I'm not sure if it should be 1 vote or if we could allow 2 votes. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 10:33, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree with the above. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 12:48, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree in a runoff in case there is a tie between the four remaining candidates. —<b style="color: #1406D0;">AlvaroMolina</b> (<b style="color: #137500;">✉</b> - ✔ ) 14:28, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I would also propose, for future elections, that voters be prevented from voting for every candidate. Three ways come to mind:
 * Voters can support all but one of the candidates they are able to vote for.
 * Voters can only support half (rounded up if need be) of all candidates.
 * Voters can only support one candidate.
 * I'm leaning to either one or two. Three doesn't seem entirely fair, and could lead to ties with low voter turnouts. Whichever one we pick should also be applied to the number of opposes that a voter is allowed to place. These restrictions are put forward for the simple reason that voting the same way towards everyone doesn't actually help the community decide. -- Void  Whispers 18:56, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree with options 2 or 3 (but particularly 3), since the current modality makes it very easy to generate ties because the hypothetical situation is that all candidates vote for their other colleagues and in the end The expected consensus is not achieved. I would also agree that it can be more widely disseminated through Miraheze (not only with the CentralNotice or the Community Noticeboard, but through more means (such as the "Sites Updates" bulletin, or IRC)), thereby promoting the promotion of that more users of the global community of Miraheze participate, since until now the participation has not been as high as expected. Regards. —<b style="color: #1406D0;">AlvaroMolina</b> (<b style="color: #137500;">✉</b> - ✔ ) 19:10, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I was thinking something like "you have 1 "first choice" and 1 "second choice" regardless of number of candidates, and when counting ballot, give 1 point for first choice and give 0.5 points for second choice. Candidate with highest number is then elected. Maybe not for main election, but for runoff this sounds not that bad. &mdash; revi</tt>  10:27, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Documentation
Hey. :)

I'm trying to improve Miraheze's documentation and would be great to "ear" your thoughts on how can I accomplish that the best way possible. Right now I'm working on ManageWiki and would like some feedback.

What I'm sure:


 * Is better to provide a simple explanation of each Miraheze/Mediawiki feature instead of linking to MediaWiki's docs
 * Provide KIS guides (TL;DR section) for the users who just want quick and simple steps on how to do something
 * Our target audience: unfamiliar (noobs) with MediaWiki

What I'm not so sure:


 * GIF's/Videos exemplifying how to do things
 * How to keep track of what's need to be done
 * How to engage other people to improve the documentation

Puffy (talk) 22:25, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi. It's great that you want to help us with documentation, an area which I believe is very important but also outdated and not very well maintained. For your first point, I think when there is MediaWiki.org documentation we should be linking to that, as people update that, and it's usually pretty informative. A TL;DR section could be interesting, if it works. I'm not sure about videos, but if there's something very confusing, it could be an interesting idea. Keeping track, yes, that is an issue. We could just have a page for that I guess. As for engagement, we need to find people interesting in that, but also with knowledge about Miraheze/MediaWiki. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 20:29, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Does Miraheze block embedding Facebook?
I tried to use the widget Facebook Page Plugin which did not work. I assumed an issue with the widget. So I went to facebook and pulled the embed code directly from there. I added the embed code into the widget. It doesn't display facebook. I tried on Firefox / Edge / Chrome. All with no success. Then I got to wondering whether Miraheze blocks facebook plugins as fb carries advertising? Twitter embedding scripts work - the distinction being that they don't carry advertising. If it is the case it is blocked from being embedded, I'll stop messing with code and wondering why it isn't working.
 * Last I checked, we didn't have Facebook on our content security policy (CSP). The CSP basically prevents any remote content from being fetched and used. I'm not actually sure if we adjusted it yet. -- Void  Whispers 15:24, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I tried it using the code that comes from facebook itself. This uses Iframe. Interesting on Chrome I do get an error message "Requests to the server have been blocked by an extension." It isn't one of my browser extensions blocking it as far as I'm aware. Michaeldakin (talk) 21:28, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Can I see Readers access statistics?
Can I see count of users accessed my wiki? Can I have listing of pages ordered by read count? Can I show this info to users (in foot of page i.e.)?
 * Yes! You can visit Special:Analytics on your wiki. I don't believe you can show it in the footer of a page yet, but that would be an interesting function that we could implement. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 05:56, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Merging wikis
Good morning, afternoon, or evening. Is it possible to merge two wikis together at Miraheze? If you, thanks. That is because I would like to request that one of the two wikis I created, the Martha Speaks Wiki, be merged into the other wiki I created, The Science Archives. I am requesting this move because having two wikis to manage is a lot of work that I personally can't handle.

I would like to request that:
 * the domain marthaspeaks.miraheze.org and all of its subdomains redirecting to thesciencearchives.miraheze.org. Please do this, if it is possible.
 * the articles themselves will be exported and imported to TSA via XML.

Thank you very much! Joey717 (talk) 01:06, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is possible. If you would like us to make an XML dump and import your wiki please request on Phabricator. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 06:21, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I can create the XML pump myself. The only thing I am requesting is redirecting the marthaspeaks.miraheze domain to thesciencearchives.miraheze domain. Thanks! Joey717 (talk) 07:09, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Would you like the redirect to start as of now? Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 08:06, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Maybe in 10 days. Joey717 (talk) 18:42, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, please let me know when you need it and I will take care of it. Also, we can always do the XML dump transfer for you as well, there is really no problem for us. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#FF0000">'C' ) 18:51, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * The pages have already been imported. There are signs on both wikis's front pages warning of the merge. The only thing remaining is the redirect. The redirect will occur on November 28, 2018, if it goes as planned. Joey717 (talk) 04:17, 19 November 2018 (UTC)