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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)
 * Dear John, thank you a lot for the extensive report. Just another question: would the users have access to the backup data of their own wikis, in case you 'disappear' from the net? I just want to be sure I have the chance to reinstall it, should miraheze suffer some blackout. Cheers Patribus (talk) 01:27, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The backups we run are exclusively for our own use only because they're drag and drops of our file system, so they're not entirely useful outside of our database servers. We do run content backups on request of a wikis users and provide these when they're done, but new requests have to be made everytime you want a new backup. If we were to 'disappear' I'm sure we'd see it coming and put in a contingency plan to either ensure the fame gets back up in a reasonable time or we start preparing backups for every single wiki. Worst case, I can recover all wiki content individually through the database backup and then redistribute it to the relevant people quickly. Most of us have been part of a farm which had disappeared suddenly and we saw the distress it caused for users and volunteers because of the lack of backups - which is why weve addressed it at the start here and have fairly basic idea and plans on how to recover to a sucessful degree from a massive failure. I hope this is also what you were looking for, if not ask me again and I'll be more specific! John (talk) 10:50, 29 July 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)
 * Since I'm assuming this was an unlock request not an adoption ("work on it again", user is crat) I just unlocked the wiki. No need for John or SPF, gawd. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:29, 6 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)
 * Please read Dormancy Policy. The reason for exemption should be a reason listed on that page. Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 17:41, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Creating our own wikis
For those of us who can create wikis, are we allowed to make our own wikis or does someone else need to approve them. If we can, do we need to request the wiki first before we create it? XOF (talk) 17:32, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * You can approve the wiki yourself, but yes, please make a request and then create the wiki, so there is evidence of a request. Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 17:39, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Adoption request for sourcewiki
The old admin there only has a few edits from October 2015 and the whole wiki is unused. I'd like it as a place to post source code for my own projects but I'm fine with sharing with any other Miraheze users. Please remove all the Creative Commons info. The copyright should give rights to Miraheze wikis only. XOF (talk) 03:05, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * . Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 04:35, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm going to review the DP really quick and then handle the actual adoption. Please make a feature request for what you'd like the license to be. (Not sure how to handle the legality of the copyrights). -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:17, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Re:above but also going to remove the only sysop/crat and give you the same rights. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:25, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Links still red after new page created
Hi, I have started to add a couple of pages/templates to my wiki and have noticed that my the red links after creating and saving new pages are still showing as red (showing the visited red). I click on the link and it takes me to the newly created page, so the link should blue. I have cleared the cache and tried it on three browsers: safari, chrome and firefox and it shows the same. This has happened to me before and I know I am bit rusty on mediawiki, having not used it for a couple of years, but I can't remember how to resolve this. Any suggestions? Thanks. Borderman  talk 13:23, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Could you please link one of the pages? Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 15:05, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Here is one example page: Document library page, which I have just set up today. And here's a template page of a navigation bar I am using on several page. On the template page the links are showing up red still but on the document page they are blue. Curious. Borderman   talk 15:20, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * For me the existent pages are blue and the non-existent ones are in red. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 15:26, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Very strange. They're not blue on any of the browsers I'm using. I noticed I have to click on a link to make it blue. If I got to another page the links are red again until I click on the same link but on that page instead. Also, images upload fine but they show as red file links. When I click on that I am directed to the upload page again. Somewhat confused. Can you see a basic hand-drawn sketch map on this page? Borderman   talk 15:35, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I can't see the map. Maybe it's because the uploaded image had a different name. I'll check. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 16:06, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

(reset indent) this is all just caused by caching, I purged the page you linked with the map and the map shows up, same for links. See this manual page on purging. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 16:10, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, now I see the map as well. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 16:10, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * and Success! Thank you very much for your help, that's good to know for the future. Is this something I will have to do every time I add pages and images? Or will mediawiki purge the cache itself eventually?   Borderman   talk 16:29, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki automatically updates links (file links and wikilink colors) every so often, but if you create a page and then click the redlinks to create those pages you will notice this a lot so it can be a helpful trick. Otherwise, normal page editing and viewing should make it purge itself. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 21:20, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Wiki unlock request (Status: Open )
Looking to have http://dalar.miraheze.org/wiki/ unlocked... now that I actually have time to do things with it. Thanks! Alynnidalar (talk) 02:00, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Re-opened! <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 16:43, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Adoption/Unlock requests separate page
As a lot of requests are coming in, I think we should make a separate page for adoption and unlock requests. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 03:36, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Page is Requests for adoption. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 16:44, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

My wiki error
MediaWiki internal error.

Exception caught inside exception handler.

Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information. I entered the wiki to see these words, how can I do? https://casuarina.miraheze.org --Yunlin2015 (talk) 07:48, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * We are very sorry for this inconvenience. We will try to fix the problem ASAP. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 08:37, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The error was caused by a wrong setting, your wiki is back running now. Sorry again, for the inconveniences caused by this error. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 09:24, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Error
Over at my wiki there was an internal error and now the images seem to be missing. PlatinumYellow (talk) 23:04, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, the server which is responsible for hosting, serving and rendering images and static content is currently down due to an upstream technical issue. We are working with the physical host provider in order to resolve the issue as soon as possible and a report will be written up and published once this is done. Apologies for any inconvenience! John (talk) 23:10, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Images have disappeared from poserdazfreebies
Hello! The image files seem to have disappeared from the Main namespace of poserdazfreebies. https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles currently presents a long list of "Error creating thumbnail: File missing" messages, except when the images are used in the User or Template namespaces. --Robkelk (talk) 23:42, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Please see the above section. Thanks, John (talk) 23:43, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Get back my wiki :)
I would like to get back my wiki https://breakthegame.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

I am planning to work on it. thanks MannedTooth (talk) 02:59, 11 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Unlocked. Feel free to remove the notice on MediaWiki:Sitenotce. Note that uploads are disabled, see the global sitenotice. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 03:23, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Xdjibi (Administrators and Bureaucrats)
User: Xdjibi ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log ) Group: Administrators and Bureaucrats Reason: My wiki has just ben created but the rights haven't followed so I cannot get access to it.

Other users feel free to support/oppose/abstain from this RfP but please state your reasoning below.
 * Moved this here as this is the correct page. I see you do have the rights. Are you sure you logged in properly? Please try logging in again, and re-post here if it still doesn't work. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 14:36, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I do. I did not pay attention to the fact that, coming from Meta where I was already logged in, I needed to log again in my Wiki to get access. Thank you. Xdjibi (talk) 18:09, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

exception to dormancy policy for bitcoindebates wiki?
Hi -- I asked in the IRC channel last week about getting an exception to the dormancy policy for the bitcoindebates wiki, for the reason that it was made to be read & already has near complete info, and doesn't need to be updated much anymore. On IRC people seemed to think it qualified, but it doesn't look like it has been added to an exception list yet because I still get a warning about lack of edits when I go to the page. Can I be given an exception?

Elliotolds (talk) 00:25, 12 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Your wiki already has an exception to the dormancy policy, according to the policy page and the code for the script. If you are still seeing the notice, you probably just need to remove the notice from MediaWiki:Sitenotice on your wiki (blank that page or replace all the text with a single hyphen (-)) -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 01:52, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Importing an external Wiki XML dump file?
Hi guys, I have tried to use the Special:Import page to import an XML dump that I saved from my older Wiki site. However the dump file is around 60Mb in size, which is apparently too big. Would it be possible to send thix XML to you to extract the individual files somehow - or at least the images (as the previous Wiki used different syntax, hence I will most likely enter the individual pages in text form here)? Thx! Joe
 * Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 12:22, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Joe, can you compress this file (7-zip should give best compression rate), and send it to sysadmin@undefinedmiraheze.org? Please also tell me the URL of your wiki, and then I can import it server-side (which allows XML files bigger than 40MB). Southparkfan (talk) 14:57, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Joeyeti (talk)Thx! Sent the link to the XML file to your sysadmin email. Joe

Got "wiki being created" notification about address/title I've never requested
Hi, I've been requesting "plazmaburst.miraheze.org" wiki creationg but got notification about "fabio.miraheze.org" wiki being created for me instead :) Not sure how this can happen but I don't even know what "fabio" is. Possibly this name had to be registered for someone else?

And yes, I've been requesting name "plazmaburst.miraheze.org" for my game and so it can't have "fabio" instead of "plazmaburst" :P

Requested "plazmaburst.miraheze.org" wiki still does not exist.
 * As I replied on my talkpage, it was my mistake, I have now created the correct wiki. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 04:10, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Bakufu.miraheze.org (Status: Done )
Hello. I created bakufu.miraheze.org site. For a long time I could not work with the site, because they do not have access to the Internet. Now I would like to continue. Please unlock my project! I'm sorry for bad english, I'm using Google Translate.Samurai (talk) 13:17, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Your wiki is reopened now! Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 13:28, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

"No edits" notification still on foodsharinghamburg Wiki
Hey Folks!

After some time of no activity we started using the foodsharinghamburg.miraheze.org Wiki. But still the notification on the top, saying "Miraheze Staff has noticed that this wiki has no edits or logs made within the last 45 days." and so on has not gone away. Will it only take some more time to go away or must it be deleted by a Miraheze admin?

Kind regards Goessek (talk) 15:16, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * If you edit please feel free to remove it. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 16:21, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * If you're an administrator on the wiki (which it appears that you are), then all you have to do to remove it is blank this page. Omni Flames (talk) 02:16, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I have removed the notice. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 03:03, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Can you edit my domain name
my wiki name: (https://global.miraheze.org) can you change this to (https://global.org))
 * Please see the message on your talkpage and see Custom domains for your custom domain. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 14:44, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Generic privacy policy and disclaimer
I was just wondering if you intend to include a generic privacy policy and diclaimer that can be used by all miraheze wiki users. A generic one can then be adapted to a user's specific needs. Is this something you would consider adding? If not, do you know where suitable generic policies can be obtained? Thanks. Borderman  talk 18:53, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The privacy policy (and TOS) is a goal for 2016, and has a Phabricator ticket: https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T476. I think that our privacy policy should never be overriden, though - and that means wiki's shouldn't link to their own privacy policies (or at least put a big, bold disclaimer in it that ours overrides anyone else's). Southparkfan (talk) 19:01, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Meta's policies would be specific to Meta only. As each wiki is different, slightly different policies should apply, which is why a generic TOS and privacy policy would be helpful to other wiki users to adapt to their own sites. Meta would have it's own specific set of policies - that wouldn't change. My TOS would be different to Meta's. It would, however, be based on a generic template. It's this generic template for a TOS and privacy policy that would be useful for other users and this is what I am wondering could be made available to other users. Is this a viable option? Borderman   talk 21:15, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Meta is just Miraheze's wiki, a privacy policy by us will be available on Meta only, and that privacy policy should not be overriden by other wikis. Miraheze (we) have all of your personal data [that you gave to us], and anything that's only accessible by system administrators, stewards, CheckUsers, oversighters and other staff members is definitely subject to our privacy policy, and the rules for managing such data should not be determined by other wikis, if you know what I mean. Southparkfan (talk) 21:18, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok, yes that makes sense. So, because it is a wikifarm and everything is centralised through Miraheze (and not a separate/individual hosting package) every wiki is subject to Miraheze's policies. Does this include the TOS? I only ask because if yes, then that saves me a job of having to write them. I did that for an older wiki a few years ago, written from a rather stilted, generic template, and I know how carefully worded they have to be!  Borderman   talk 21:54, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I think that would include the TOS too, although I am not sure (we have someone for saying that :-)). Miraheze [we] provide the services and servers, and usage of them should comply with our rules. If your TOS is restricter than ours (for example, maximum amount of edits per minute), then I think your own TOS should be fine, but again, it's Labster's call. Southparkfan (talk) 09:40, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * That all sounds good to me. Will be interesting to see how the policies develop. It would be useful if they weren't too heavy going or convoluted. Borderman   talk 16:13, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Account rename 2
Hi, I've been here for a while, and decided that it's kind of weird to be known by one name on IRC and GitHub and everywhere else, but not here on Miraheze. Can you global rename my account from User:Vorticity to User:Labster? Thanks. --Vorticity (talk) 20:52, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ :D Southparkfan (talk) 21:01, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

My account, QuestionableSanity, has been IP blocked on the All The Tropes wiki.
Can you please unblock my account? I know my password, but it doesn't let me log in. Who should I send my account password to for verification? -- 2601:246:4603:4379:34b6:699b:e06b:84e2
 * Your IP was blocked on All The Tropes because you were impersonating an All The Tropes administrator. As you can see here, I am not sure either if you are the real QuestionableSanity, but it's GethN7's call. Southparkfan (talk) 09:37, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I am an administrator on ATT. I have already contacted Geth on his blog (see the comments section of the top post of http://gethn7.blogspot.com/), and he claims that it wasn't him, and that I should contact you.
 * Hi, since your blocked only on AllTheTrope wiki, please liase with Geth to have the block undone. We have not acted on the matter, it is my understanding you don't have an account already too so there's nothing to recover and nothing to compare with so unfortunately we can't do anything here. More so as its local only, we prefer not to act on the matter. Thanks, John (talk) 18:19, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Please remove closure/ dormancy notice

 * Policy: https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Dormancy_Policy
 * Wiki: https://gen.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Rationale: Previously I was using GitHub - https://github.com/genesisdotre/wiki/wiki - now I switched to Miraheze... The wiki is a collection of thoughts, ideas and I put a lot of effort into collecting them over time. Recently I've been preoccupied with life, universe and everything. Would be nice to remove the notice - and I'll carry on contributing - thank you! 31.51.90.226 11:56, 20 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Editing the wiki is enough to 'restart the timer' for the Dormancy Policy. The notice is placed by a script, and will not be added again until that time limit is passed again. However, this script does not remove the site notice just because a wiki is active (or it could remove local staff's legitimate notices). Just remove the notice yourself while logged in to an administrator account and that's all you have to do. Edit the page to be blank or a single hyphen ("-"), but you shouldn't delete the page. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 13:13, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * You may simply delete your wiki's  and that should be sufficient for red card. &mdash;  <tt>revi</tt>  11:07, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Usually these discussions are archived en-masse at a later point. Just because something is done doesn't mean you should remove it from the page, especially not if you aren't adding it to an archive page. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 15:56, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Wiki requested but not put into queue
Hello,

I am trying to create a wiki for my project "DLA to stars". I've filled the request form twice but when I click on submit I don't get any message window saying "request submitted" or similar, and the request can't seem to get into the wiki requests queue. Is there an error or is it just me not doing it properly?

Thanks Iprafols (talk) 07:46, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Please use Special:RequestWiki and fill in all the information. Take a screenshot or copy/paste the message you get after clicking submit. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 07:53, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: I have tried it and the request form works for me, so it isn't an error from Miraheze. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 08:05, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Make sure you don't use a hyphen in your subdomain name otherwise it won't work. This is what happened to me when I first tried it and all I got was a blank page. I tried it again without the hyphen and it worked straight away and the tracking page appeared. Maybe there should be a note added to the request a wiki page stating not to use hyphens in the subdomain name.  Borderman   talk 09:33, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * We did not know about this error. We will try to fix it ASAP. As Boderman said, please request a wiki with no hyphens in it. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 09:50, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The issue has been fixed. Please note that wikis with hyphens cannot be created! Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 10:08, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I successfully managed to request de wiki after deleting the '-'s. Basically I changed the domain name from "DLA-to-stars" to "dlatostars". Thanks! Iprafols

Delete my wiki
Hi, guys. Unfortunately, I need to ask you to remove my wiki. We realize, that we can't get our goals without SMW extension. We want to thank you for all your help for our project and say goodbye.
 * Acknowledged. We're sorry we couldn't meet your needed for hosting. John (talk) 14:29, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Problem including math formula to wiki
Hello,

I have encountered some errors when trying to add a math formula to a wiki page. Whenever I try to parse a mathematical formula I get the error "Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex and dvipng (or dvips + gs + convert)):"

Reading through the archived questions ( Archive 2, question 43 ) I found that someone else already had the problem but it was fixed. Does this have to be fixed on a case-by-case wiki? If so, how can I implement the patch to my wiki page?

Thanks a lot, Iprafols (talk) 11:52, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, we fixed this (indeed), but this fix was removed. We've reapplied the fix now, so the problem should be fixed now. Southparkfan (talk) 13:00, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * It's fixed, thanks! Iprafols (talk) 14:16, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Wiki request in review
I've requested a wiki to be created. Special:RequestWikiQueue/1521. I'm hoping that it can be approved soon as I would like to get started populating it with school notes. Is there anything more I need to provide to get approved? CodeAndStuff (talk) 08:09, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm really sorry your request was missed. I created it now and you can access it here. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 08:16, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Error report: Recurring problem maintaining session data
Hello!

When editing at ~09:00 ET, I get repeated "loss of session data" errors, to the point where I had to log out and log back in. However, when I try to log in after logging out, I get the error message "Login error Poser and Daz Free Resources uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again." (the wiki name varies depending on which wiki I am trying to edit), and continue to get that error until I delete my Miraheze cookies. I have cookies enabled.

This is the second day in a row that this has happened at about this time.
 * The sysadmins are aware of this error. It was caused by Tech:Misc2 (Redis) being down. The sysadmins are fixing it now. Sorry for the inconvenience Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 13:50, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Our server provider seems to have some issues, Redis (software we use for the MediaWiki logins) is now on another server, until this problem is fixed. Southparkfan (talk) 13:53, 26 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. (And I see I forgot to sign the original error report - sorry about that.) --Robkelk (talk) 00:39, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Deletion Request
Please delete wiki hftqms. Unfortunately for IP reasons this needs to be hosted internally to our company now. No reflection on the service provided by you guys - this has been a great platform to test what we wanted to do and convince management that a wiki could work for us, massively reducing the amount of paper shuffling!

Shusheer (talk) 14:30, 27 July 2016 (UTC)


 * As deleting a wiki cannot be undone, and there are also multiple bureaucrats on your wiki: Can you please confirm here that you (on behalf of all local staff I guess) are requesting that the entire wiki be inaccessible and the contents of it destroyed forever, and that you understand this action cannot be undone? Would you like a backup of the wiki before it's deleted? -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 14:42, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Making wiki private
Hiya, thanks for creating my wiki so fast! However, I checked the box "private wiki" (or maybe I forgot, I dunno^^"). Could you please make my wiki, pokelore, private? Thank you! MisterFlix (talk) 17:03, 4 August 2016 (UTC) Pages are access-restricted, but annonymus users appear to still be able to create an account. MisterFlix (talk) 17:18, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello, unfortunately we can't prevent users from registering on your wiki, as we have a shared usersystem on Miraheze. Even though they are registered, they still can't view any content on your wiki, except your Main Page, login pages, etc. If you have any other questions feel free to ask. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 17:23, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Okay, gotcha. Thanks for the quick response! MisterFlix (talk) 17:25, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Please re-open mindladle.miraheze.org
Hi,

Could someone please re-open my wiki, mindladle.miraheze.org? I went travelling shortly after requesting the wiki to be opened and now that I'm back I'd like to get back to it.

Thanks in advance!
 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 05:37, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Please remove login tag and let me improve the wiki
Dears, Doman: https://sirikot.miraheze.org Please remove the login tag so i will make the wiki more better and do improvement, thanks
 * Hello, by the "login tag" I assume you mean the button that says "Login". Unfortunately, we cannot remove that as all Miraheze logins are on one database, so not letting users login/create accounts would be impossible. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 11:41, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: I have also noticed that there is an inactivity warning (Mediawiki:Sitenotice) did you mean that? Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 11:43, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Delete wiki
I do not think my wiki is going to work as I want it, I am rethinking my aims and methods. Could you please delete yggdrasil.miraheze.org, I will be back once I sort out how to do what I want. Thanks RhianG (talk) 09:06, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Please confirm that you want us delete your wiki as this action is irreversible and all your content will be gone once the wiki is deleted. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 11:40, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Yes I confirm this action, there is not much data there anyway and anything important is backed up.RhianG (talk) 07:52, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay. It should be deleted soon.

Poser and Daz Free Resources: Category updates not appearing in category lists
Changes to pages' categories and categories on new pages are not showing up in the Category lists on Poser and Daz Free Resources. (Example: https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Floral_Crown and https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:3DFineries, but all updates are not being made at least since yesterday.) Are category updates being cached and made in bulk? --Robkelk (talk) 14:14, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

I just noticed this is also (not) happening on All The Tropes as well. --Robkelk (talk) 16:27, 7 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi, this is a known issue and is being caused because our jobqueue had stopped running. We've restarted it and the issue should resolve itself shortly.
 * Cheers, -- <span style="color: #c3ade0 !important;">Corey (talk) 16:56, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * This is a known issue being tracked here. Unfortunately it's still on-going. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 22:45, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

All The Tropes: Category updates not appearing in category lists
Categories have stopped updating on All The Tropes again today. Presumably the same cause?

Thank you! -- Looney Toons (talk) 00:27, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I have noticed this and created a task here. I will see if it is the jobqueue and if I can restart. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 04:34, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I've restarted the jobs and it seems to be working on wikis now. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 04:53, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Once again, thank you. -- Looney Toons (talk) 12:24, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Please note that the issue is not fixed yet, and we are still trying to figure it out. You can see the task for any updates on the issue. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 17:32, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I noticed the same problem three days ago on my own wiki after uploading some images with categories but the category was empty. The category has since been populated with the image pages but the article page has not yet appeared. It was the same yesterday using the ReplaceText extension, again with no effect - the replacement text hasn't appeared as yet. Jobs certainly seem to be a bit hit and miss and by the look of the task page it seems to be causing you guys some grief. Good luck with finding a solution. Borderman   talk 11:18, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't know if this is related, but I noticed tonight that "What Links Here" results aren't updating even after links or even entire pages are deleted. -- Looney Toons (talk) 02:13, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think this is related. We are trying everything we can to fix this issue, and we hope it is fixed ASAP. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 04:12, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * On my wiki at ZGradeTennis, I see that it's updated the What Links Here, although not immediately, and it's updated one of my Wanted Categories but not the other. I don't know if this helps you find the solution quicker? PlatinumYellow (talk) 23:35, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Username change
Hey can someone change my username to "TheInternetEmo"?

thanx--SimplukarroTehGreat (talk) 07:51, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * A steward should take care of this soon Reception123  (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 08:01, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Cannot log in
My wiky has been crated on July 28th. A few days later I tried to log in (in Miraheze, but could not. I thought that I didn't remember the right password, so I asked for a new one, giving my mail address. Nothing came, so I tried with another mail address, for I thought that maybe I had used that second one. Still nothing came.

What can I do?

The name I choose in my account is Piero.caracciolo

My wiki is berlin - the address being : https://berlin.miraheze.org/wiki/Pagina_principale
 * We will try to fix this soon, I will address the error to the other sysadmins. We are very sorry for the inconvenience. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 14:53, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello, I have tried this myself and the password reset email comes for me. Please try again (making sure that you put your username and email properly), and if it still doesn't work the only thing I can do is recommend that you make another account and ask for founder permissions here. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 14:58, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Request Founder Permissions
Following your peace of advice I created a new account and I request for it Founders Rights

Malombra (talk) 22:21, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Here is our last conversation:

Cancel former request
I finally could log in with my first logname (Piero.caracciolo) therefore I don't need any longer to have founder's rights under this logname (Malombra).

Thank you

Malombra (talk) 22:50, 10 August 2016 (UTC)


 * We've been having issues with our session-caching service lately, and that was probably the cause. Sorry for the inconvenience, and we're glad you can log in to your original account! -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 22:56, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Just reposting this since the other request was apparently ignored or something
Hi, i'd like to have my username changed to "TheInternetEmo". --SimplukarroTehGreat (talk) 17:33, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello. Your other request was not "completely ignored", most people here are on holidays now, we are experiencing bigger problems and no one had time to get to your request yet. Please be more patient, and someone should take care of this request soon. Reception123  (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 04:14, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh ok--SimplukarroTehGreat (talk) 05:02, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, sorry about just now replying, as I had initially commented on this just not here. I planned on doing the rename, but, after certain experiences, have been hesitant to start a global rename while jobs have been acting up, since.. it can make things complicated. I've mainly been focusing on keeping our session cache alive (so users don't randomly get logged out) and getting the jobrunner working (status: not working). I believe John said he'd handle this when he gets back today. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:11, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅. John (talk) 21:10, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Possible DB error on All The Tropes?
We have three pages on our New Pages Feed (https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed) that we cannot mark as reviewed. When we try, we get an error message in the following form:

An error occurred while marking the page as reviewed: [17d418565804d01bd8c883a6] Exception Caught: Cannot notify anonymous user: 73.33.196.34

The three pages so affected are:


 * No Matter What Happens, I Still Won't Become An Anime Character
 * No Matter What Happens, I Still Won't Become An Anime Character/Characters
 * Historical In-Joke/Laconic

all in the Main namespace.

In all three cases the user who created the page is not anonymous but a registered user, although one is blocked. The more technically inclined of ATT's admins believe it to be a database issue. Could someone please investigate it? Thank you. -- Looney Toons (talk) 02:11, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note that I've given myself local sysop to experiment. Not sure what rights are required, but the reviewer interface would not load for me as a normal user. I'll remove it when I'm done. Looking at the databases page and revision tables, it seems normal, I'm going to look at the exception logs. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 02:30, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note that this is probably 1) an echo issue 2) something related to our central auth (and possibly the very recent upgrade of the extension). I noticed when I tried to review the page I got the same error, but a different IP. Upon checking, the IP in the error message is my public IP, so I'm assuming the above is Looney's. Not sure what this is caused by... -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 02:47, 16 August 2016 (UTC)