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Why have I been blocked?
I have been blocked on several wikis where I have never made a single edit, one is in Chinese, the other in Italian, both languages I do not understand. The reason in the italian wiki is that I posted meaningless content Inserimento di contenuti privi di senso, in fact I have not made a single edit in this wiki (why would I???). Lily talk and I will listen · Lilypond Wiki 20:06, 18 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Possibly consult those wikis? Collei (talk) 20:27, 18 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Also, I'll just add, if some are private wikis found using Special:WikiDiscover, (I have clicked on a few of these without realizing they were privte)... apparently once you land on one of these site's main page, it shows on their RC a new account being created. Sometimes the staff/volunteers of these wikis ban all usernames, thinking random people have access when we really don't (has happened to me on several private wikis), and just for landing on their **public** Main Page. I don't think they realize that we have access to view nothing else, and their banning is pretty much fruitless and silly, but it still happens regularly. If that's the case Lily, I wouldn't worry too much about it. For those where you've been falsely banned, I'm thinking you should be able to appeal on a user page and inform them of their mistake as Collei mentioned (depending on that wiki's settings)? | -- FrozenPlum  (Talk / Email) 20:47, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you; these are all private wikis, and they all have been closed. The bans just do not look nice im my user stats, otherwise I do not care. I think the admins do not know what they are doing, LilyLilyu - smile.svg talk and I will listen · Lilypond Wiki 20:52, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * You're welcome Lily. :) I hear you, and I have thought the same of my own stats, but if anyone were to review the reasons for the blocks, they'd see we've never made edits in any of these communities. I suppose we could try to help educate these users on their meta/global user pages, though that's a lot of effort for something so silly! ;-) Cheers! | -- FrozenPlum  (Talk / Email) 21:32, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I realized I misread your earlier comment, the wikis are now closed, I see what you mean. In this case, I'd consider enquiring if these will stick on user stats after the wikis have gone dormant or are closed. | -- FrozenPlum  (Talk / Email) 04:40, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
 * By the time that they are actually deleted, they will no longer be in the database. Collei (talk) 01:03, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Transferring temporary wiki to permanent domain
How easy would it be to make my wiki with one domain now and then transfer the content to a different wiki once I gain ownership of that one? (I am currently trying to reopen and gain ownership of deepwoken.miraheze.org) Heroku (talk) 20:21, 21 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Probably more trouble than needed. I've reopened the wiki so you can edit freely now. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:21, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

How do you make a page editable by only Bureaucrats?
Hello,

My home Wiki is Liberty Center Schools Wiki, where I want to make a page editable by ONLY bureaucrats. I have tried to search through the Manage Wiki page and can't find it. How do I do this? There are also some other Manage Wiki settings that I would like turned on, like the ones on TestWiki. LC Developer (talk) 17:32, 22 March 2023 (UTC)


 * The highest level of protection in default MediaWiki is administrators only; however, you can create an abuse filter that prevents anyone without the "managewiki" right (which only bureaucrats have by default) from editing that page. Tali64³ (talk) 18:03, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Will do. LC Developer (talk) 18:05, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Tali64³: I know how to create an abuse filter, but what text do I add to it? LC Developer (talk) 18:07, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * You can add a new level of protection to the wiki by making a few changes to the mw-config repo on GitHub, feel free to make a Phabricator task requesting this addition. -- Bukkit  [ cetacean needed ] 22:17, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Here's an example filter I made:

action == "edit"

& page_title = "[add your page's title here]"

& !contains_any(user_rights, "managewiki") Tali64³ (talk) 18:12, 22 March 2023 (UTC)