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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? added to Special:Interwiki. I initially submitted a request to the Miraheze Phabricator, but was told to publish the request here instead. Infogalactic is an alternative to Wikipedia that some people, including me, use, and I would like to Miraheze to offer people a means to easily link to it. --Idris (talk) 15:39, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * The English Wikipedia currently possesses 48 links (37 + 17 - 6 overlapping links) to Infogalactic.
 * Many Wikia pages (around 45 results) link to Infogalactc.
 * A number of websites (around 10,200 results) link to Infogalactic pages.
 * A number of Blogspot bloggers (around 741 results, even when excluding Vox Day's blogs) link to Infogalactic.
 * A number of Wordpress bloggers (around 514 results) link to Infogalactic.
 * A number of Twitter users (around 296 results) link to Infogalactic.
 * These numbers show value allowing easy linking. --Idris (talk) 16:05, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * This is intended to be added to the global interwiki table, correct? I personally have no issues if that's the case. -- Void  Whispers 05:07, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is correct. --Idris (talk) 19:19, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Void  Whispers 00:00, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --Idris (talk) 00:42, 6 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 It's great that you want to help us with documentation, an area which I believe is very important but also outdated and not very well maintained.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) ('C' ) 20:29, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Create Infobox person
I am facing difficulties in creating infobox person template, please create it for me and show how can I create further templates. Shaunak Chakraborty (talk)
 * What sort of progress have you made? What have you tried, and what's not working? Also, what wiki are you doing this on? -- Void  Whispers 18:54, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

How do I change another user´s email?
Answers are appreciated — Preceding unsigned comment added by COEEveris (talk • contribs) 17:37, 5 November 2018‎ (UTC)
 * It is not possible to change the email of another user without their consent. They must either be logged into their account (where they could make the change themselves), or be otherwise identified to staff as the owner of the account. -- Void  Whispers 18:56, 5 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) ('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) ('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) ('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) ('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)