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Where are the servers of miraheze located?
Well, the title question says it all. Patribus (talk) 22:33, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, the majority of our servers are located in the Netherlands near Rotterdam but we host three servers in America for various reasons. The core backbone of the service (MediaWiki, databases, mail, monitoring and other dependencies) are wholly located in the Netherlands. We have caching and DNS services distributed equally in the Netherlands and Atlanta, US to ensure we can serve content quickly to people not in Europe, Africa or Eastern Asia but also to provide redundancy and failsafes for critical infrastructure. We also have off-site backups with a separate host in Chicago, US to ensure even in the worst case scenario, we can quickly bring services back online with little or no data loss. I hope this is what you were looking for! John (talk) 11:25, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Account - lost password, no email, how do I fix it?
I created User:Whitehaze as my original account but forgot the password, and have no e-mail attached, is there a way to change the password at all, as I'm locked out of the wiki I created as User:Whitehaze. --Whitehaze-0 (talk) 15:00, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Accounts are technically linked through CU-based evidenced so. John (talk) 18:49, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. Whitehaze-0, can you attach (and verify!) an email address to your account, so we can send you a temporary password? Also, please associate an email address with your old account after this has been done. Southparkfan (talk) 19:10, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Just sent the confirmation email now, and attached an email. --Whitehaze-0 (talk) 22:06, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Email address verified. --Whitehaze-0 (talk) 22:08, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Seeking the truth.... to help my country
Can you look at the example of my wiki goal here?

https://ayudasocial.miraheze.org/wiki/Discusi%C3%B3n:P%C3%A1gina_principal

Do you think this is possible on a wiki?

I have no doubt about loading data, but I have no idea if then we can access data intelligently organized by city, neighborhood and type of support provided, etc.

Probably the kind of topic is more appropriate for a relational database, but I have no idea where to host it free and reliably.

I would appreciate some advice.

Thank you very much.

Jorge Fernandez

Argentina

--JORGEFE (talk) 05:09, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Spambot
User:3333333333eeeee3 see CA :) TriX (talk) 10:11, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * It's old and even then I dont see anything. John (talk) 13:55, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * oh. How to know the spambot? TriX (talk) 23:11, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Usually spambots actually, y'know, spam. That user has 0 edits, 0 deleted edits, and hasn't ever tripped the meta abuse filter. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 11:24, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh TriX (talk) 11:38, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Request for wiki deletion
Dear Meta's staff,

I'm sorry that I've to request for my wiki deletion, 'jubeat Wiki @ TH' on mwiki.jubeatwikith.ga, as my need doesn't fit your security standards so it would be the best for others and their resources, as this wiki serves anyone who wants to have their own wiki, if I abandon my wiki. I want to say thank you to everyone who works on this wiki for us. I'll be back here for sure if I have to create a useful wiki in the future. If there is anything I need to do, please tell me and I'll handle it as soon as possible.

Jiravatt.r (talk) 18:48, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

P.S.1 I don't know if it's the right place to make a request here so please tell me where should it be if it shouldn't be here.

P.S.2 If there's any mistakes in my writing, I apologize for that as my skill on English writing is not quite good :-(
 * Hi, this is fine. As the wiki is a custom domain, I'll remove the configuration now and ear-mark the database itself to be deleted shortly. Thanks for using us and it'll be great to see you in future! John (talk) 22:02, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Extension:Comments does not work
Deleted, I want to continue tracking on T289 in Phabricator. --Utolee90 (talk) 08:11, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
 * PS this was resolved. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 17:14, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Request for interwiki - Link to branch wiki site of Miraheze.
I ask Stewards to add an interwiki lable that users can jump to other branch wiki sites in Miraheze because I use several sub-sites. It might be useful to other users. --Utolee90 (talk) 13:09, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Please request specific prefixes for specific wikis and we'll see. Conflicts will be ignored. It's unreasonable to make a link for every wiki so.. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 17:14, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I intended I want to make interwiki of form "https://$1.miraheze.org/", using prefix as "Site:(wikiname)". Is this any way to link other wikis under Miraheze using short words rather than writing "full url" address? --Utolee90 (talk) 11:30, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah, I thought you meant prefixes for every site (and pages) a site: prefix may work :p -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:48, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Can you update my wiki logo (sqlserver.miraheze.org)?
Can a steward update my wiki logo on https://sqlserver.miraheze.org to the file logo.jpg ?

Thanks!

Rsterbal (talk) 16:41, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Change made. John (talk) 16:50, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

set as favicon for sqlserver.miraheze.org
Can you set this ico file:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8680905/s-red-on-gray.ico

as the favicon for https://sqlserver.miraheze.org ?

Thanks!

Rsterbal (talk) 01:27, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * User:Rsterbal you can see your request at phab T309 TriX (talk) 04:30, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

I'm not sure if revi understands the request. I have my logo set up already. I'm trying to see if I can get the favicon changed from the standard one to an R with a gray background.

I don't have a login to phabricator, so I can't comment there.

Rsterbal (talk) 14:14, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * You can login to Phabricator using your Miraheze username and password. Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 15:05, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * hi User:Rsterbal Can you uploaded your icon at your wiki.TriX (talk) 15:14, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

I should have uploaded the favicon sooner. It is now uploaded at https://sqlserver.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Favicon.ico

Rsterbal (talk) 03:40, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Southparkfan (talk) 16:07, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Change logo
Hi,

I'd like to change the logo of my wiki, tried uploading a file, but don't know how to link it.

Could you help me, please?

User:Jordi site: https://startupfiascos.miraheze.org/
 * Are you sure you want to use https://startupfiascos.miraheze.org/wiki/Archivo:Mylogo.jpg? Southparkfan (talk) 16:02, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Wiki adoption — Safiria Wiki (safiria.miraheze.org)
I wish to adopt Safiria Wiki that I may begin work on it again. Halian (talk) 17:54, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Wiki has been unclosed. John (talk) 17:59, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you, but the wiki-closed notice is still present. Halian (talk) 18:06, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Removed. John (talk) 18:47, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Your CSS is caching hard
Check out this page: https://xof.miraheze.org/wiki/MirAPI

That's CSS I completely rm -rf'd from the wiki and there's no way to force it to display what is actually on MediaWiki:Common.css now. I'm having a problem with the source code and I can't post it until I make it clear that the page it's on isn't free like the rest of the wiki so it can't be taken by rival wiki hosts. XOF (talk) 23:00, 2 June 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure how to check what the current CSS of that page is, but based on the fact that you use a background image set to 100% of the page width it actually looks like it's doing what it should. I believe the 'page' goes from the vertical line on the right of the sidebar (left of the page button, past the edge of the text) all the way to the right side of the screen. This seems like something that should be in a protected header IMO instead of MediaWiki:Common.css (especially since you're just using it to modify the top of page?) Try editing the width or playing around with it a bit and then adding "?action=purge" (no quotes) to the end of the url after you save the page. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 11:57, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi XOF, I strongly recommend you to test CSS changes before applying them in production. The caching problem with CSS has been partially fixed (now the CSS cache will be purged after 5 minutes), thanks for finding that.
 * Also, if you want your content to be copyright-protected, then that's fine, but your footer still shows "Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike". I recommend you to request a license change. Greetings, Southparkfan (talk) 15:12, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Does Phabricator allow you to post code without making it free software? If so I only need to post it there.  XOF (talk) 23:35, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I suppose we can do whatever we want with out Phabricator Pastes, but you can do the same thing with your wiki content. Wikis don' t have personal Phabricators, we use it for our global issue tracking. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:08, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Visual editor
Hi, how can I load the Visual Editor?

Thanks for all!
 * you're. You can submit in Request_features

TriX (talk) 01:48, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Change domain and logo?
Dear miraheze-Team,

I wan't to warmly thank you for you great service :) It's great that there are such opportunities on the web! First I want to ask if it is possible to change my domain from nanopedia.miraheze.org to nanopedia.cf. I changed the C-Name Records on my domain to miraheze and requested a CSR-Certificate (which worked for some hours) but unfortunately the domain was changed back to the subdomain and the CSR-Certificate doesn't work anymore.. Is there a way to change that? And as I already made my custom logo for my wiki is it possible to change the miraheze logo to my own or do you want to keep it as backtrack to your website?

Thank you very much. Best Regards, Tim H. (User:Nanopedia)


 * Okay. Thanks for using miraheze. If you want to request feature, please going to Request_features. And if you want to upload logo, pixel maximum 135 x135 px thanks. TriX (talk) 09:19, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Could you change my domain then with a CSR-Certificate :)? Where do I upload and set up the logo? :)
 * I'm not sysadmin. I don't to change domain on your wiki and also logo. You should to upload on your wiki. If the change subdomain you submit in Request_features.TriX (talk) 09:37, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Please sign your messages (with ~ ) to create signatures and avoid confusion. Also, please read custom domains for information on custom domains. Generally we will have to send a to create a CSR for your domain and our servers, and then you send this CSR to a certificate authority to get an SSL cert that you then provide to us.
 * Edit, just saw you created a Phabricator ticket, which is now closed as resolved. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 13:28, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the dumb question but do I have to buy a SSL-Certificate or where do I have to send this CSR to get SSL-Certificate? I got my free domain from FreeNom Nanopedia (talk) 13:40, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Private configuration
Hi. I recently requested the wiki https://dh8257.miraheze.org, however I forgot to tick the Private box in the request form. Would it be possible for someone to change the wiki from Public to Private please.

Thanks, DH8257 (talk) 07:23, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah you must request on Request_featuresTriX (talk) 10:22, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. John (talk) 15:32, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Please, I would like to make the madciclista.miraheze.org wiki private.
Thanks.

Sinorto (talk) 07:56, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay but you may request on Request_features. TriX (talk) 09:04, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. John (talk) 15:32, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Unable to find and give access to two new users to private wiki.
The wiki: https://madciclista.miraheze.org

The users: Lovalle

https://madciclista.miraheze.org/wiki/Especial:Informaci%C3%B3n_de_la_cuenta_global/Lovalle

and Pacarlas

https://madciclista.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Especial%3AInformaci%C3%B3n+de+la+cuenta+global&target=Pacarlas

For some reason, they don't show up in the permissions page and I can't give them access to the wiki

https://madciclista.miraheze.org/wiki/Especial:PermisosUsuarios

Thanks

Sinorto (talk) 12:32, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The reason they don't show up is they're not registered on your wiki. They need to visit the wiki (logged in) in order for their account to be created. Alternatively they might have to login in the wiki to trigger the automatic creation of their account. John (talk) 14:13, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Bad translation - Français - CHERCHER
Hi,

I have a Miraheze Wiki in French.

MediaWiki is a fantastic system, but...

I see that one specific word has a translation error (or typing error most likely).

The word "search" in French is "CHERCHER" not "CHARCHER".

It is almost everywhere ... That is very confusing and disrupting!

!

Is there a way to let the team responsible for MediaWiki to know of that mistake?

Thanks.

Rodrigo Marques Canonmarques (talk) 16:31, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Canonmarques, in your wiki request you specified "frc" (Cajun French) as the requested language. This is not the same as "French" (fr), which you can see if you go to https://eva.miraheze.org/wiki/Page_Principale?uselang=fr. If you want I can change the language of your wiki to "fr". Southparkfan (talk) 19:35, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * YES! PLEASE! That was a mistake... I taught it means CANADIAN French, not CADIEN French...So, in my case, French is better than Cajun French. Thanks Canonmarques (talk) 19:23, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Southparkfan (talk) 18:24, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Possible serial ban evader on All The Tropes
Please run CheckUser on these accounts:
 * Star Knight Subaki
 * Stolen5487
 * Takari Shipper
 * Empty Superior

If any or all share an IP address, please ban that IP address from All The Tropes.

Thank you!

-- Bob "Looney Toons" Schroeck
 * All except the last one were already dealt with. The last account added two new IPs to the mix so I've blocked the full /24 range. John (talk) 06:56, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --Looney Toons (talk) 13:02, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Correction - Usernames - eva.meraheze.org
Hi,

Please make these changes in usernames and names for my wiki (eva.miraheze.org) : Thanks

Canonmarques (talk) 19:14, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I've renamed the two users but the local real name of the user 'Eric_Yelle' is only changeable by the user themselves by visiting Special:Preferences on the wiki. Thanks, John (talk) 18:17, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks...Canonmarques (talk) 22:04, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

No admin rights?
Hi,

I've just opened newly created site https://19702.miraheze.org and got a message that I have access rights error (even if I logged in). Is that ok or I should see some start page?

Thanks.

09:42, 16 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi there! It appears you have administrator and bureaucrat rights on the wiki in question. I (a user with global rights) have noticed issues when trying to use my rights on wikis in a non-English language. Please try completely logging out and logging back in, being sure to use the right account. After this, instead of a message saying the wiki is only accessible to administrators and members, you should be able to see the main page (and all other content). Thanks for choosing Miraheze! -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 16:07, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Wiki adoption
Hi. I was unable to update my private wiki biblicalwiki.miraheze.org for a while as I had other things to attend to. Now that I have a little more time to spare, I'd like to adopt this wiki back. I spent a lot of time on it, and I would like to continue expanding it. Cheers, Cat (talk)
 * Wiki is reopened. John (talk) 17:55, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks @John. How can I unprotect the wiki? I'm unable to edit or create any articles. Also, can it be privated again? Cheers, Cat (talk)
 * The wiki is unlocked (for real this time?) Not sure why but the wiki was closed in cw_wikis so I reopened it. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 19:00, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks Could it be privated again? Much appreciated! --Cat (talk) 19:14, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
 * This is done. I'm now assuming that John accidentally made it public and left it closed instead of leaving it private and reopening it when he ran the query (very similar commands). -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 23:38, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Deletion confirmation
I am the steward of both wikis covered here.

https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T389

Tophattingson (talk) 04:23, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Do you mean the founder? SleepyMode (talk) 11:39, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I think that was quite obvious.
 * Both wikis were already deleted last night, fyi -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 13:20, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Wiki closed
Hello,

My wiki (ggdr) have been closed because because there have been no edits or logs made within the last 60 days.

I couln't make modifications these last months, but I would like to do. Is it possible to re-open the wiki? Babskwal (talk) 05:39, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ - wiki has been reopened. Southparkfan (talk) 14:14, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Account rename
Hi, could you rename my account please. Cörey -> Corey

Thanks, Cörey (talk) 07:51, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Southparkfan (talk) 12:06, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

creating a page
Hello, How do I create a page on vlierhof.miraheze.org I sounds kinda stupid, but I only find the edit button on the main page. I don't find a create button anywhere."Hi, to create a new page on the wiki just append the page name to your URL. So if you wanted to create a page called 'How to care for your penguin' you would want to navigate to https://vlierhof.miraheze.org/wiki/How_to_care_for_your_penguin and click 'Create'.""Cheers, -- Corey (talk) 01:22, 28 June 2016 (UTC)"""

Need my wiki private
Hi,

thanks again for the wiki. Can I now get it in private mode?

I would also like to have some of the pages public, but i'm not sure what pages will be public. Can I make those changes myself?

Thanks again,

Rulmer


 * (Currently) Only system administrators can switch wikis between private and not, but we do so on request. Unfortunately, you can't really choose which pages are public/private, as mediawiki isn't really made a CMS. Your wiki is either all public, or you give us a list of pages and we can put them in a whitelist that makes them readable even when they're private. (This is usually used for the main page and special pages like Special:UserLogin that are required for technical reasons). Please be mindful of the fact that each time you want us to update the readable pages on a private wiki it requires a configuration edit, and as such won't happen immediately. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:34, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * (PS) The above is about ds.miraheze.org -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:34, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * There are ways to do it but you have to be really careful to make sure they aren't visible. You have to do all kinds of tests because they can show up in places like template previews.  There are extensions that can do per page access but you shouldn't trust them with anything sensitive.  XOF (talk) 13:04, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Again, MediaWiki isn't really made to be a CMS. Any of the extensions you're talking about would have to go through a security review (which usually includes vulnerabilities to our systems, not readability of pages) if you accepted the risks they might be enabled but I'm telling you there's no really secure way to do it. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 14:56, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Please reactivate wikiconstitucio
The owners of https://wikiconstitucio.miraheze.org have contacted me requesting the reactivation of this wiki. I am asking here (please) on their behalf.--Icaria36 (talk) 06:16, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The wiki has been reopened. Southparkfan (talk) 12:31, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Please reactivate MadGenderScience
Hello, I let my wiki (MadGenderScience.mirageze.org) go without updates for too long, and it was closed. I'd like to become the owner again, and swear that I will regularly update it.

May the wiki be reactivated?

Thanks!
 * reopened. John (talk) 17:44, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

miraheze donation button on our wisdomwiki
id like to implement a donation button for miraheze somewhere in the footer of our main page.

if youd please send me the "button" (code or whatsoever) and what youd like it to say?

(be brief, im thinking about a 100% wide footnote, so not the most space for a novel ;p ) and if theres another place that be appropriate for non-tech talk, please let me know!

Wisdomstudent june 2nd 2016 ~13.45utc

Adoption
I wish to adopt ATPL wiki that I may begin work on it again. Thanks.
 * . Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 14:44, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Please exempt telemetrywiki from the dormancy policy
It shouldn't go dormant since any use of my API applications will trigger activity, but just in case there's a long period of inactivity from MirAPI applications. XOF (talk) 17:30, 5 July 2016 (UTC)