User talk:Reception123

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Changing a custom domain
Dear Admin

We are planning to change the domain of Gyaanipedia from gyaanipedia.co.in to gyaanipedia.com so is it possible to request this change and if it is then is there anyway to redirect pages from previous domain to this, I mean gyaanipedia.co.in/wiki/xyz should redirect to gyaanipedia.com/wiki/xyz kindly help me in this matter Shaunak Chakraborty (talk) 05:18, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll be honest, this does sound like a great deal of work with very little benefit, given the number of wikis involved. While I can see you updating the "gyannipedia.co.in" subdomains to "gyannipedia.com," and this can certainly be done in a Phabricator task, adding a whole bunch of redirects for "gyannipedia.wiki," "gyannipedia.xyz," and "gyannipedia.co.in," each requiring its own certificate, is an extraordinarily amount of unnecessary work. To be honest, what you should do is host your DNS for the latter three domains with a free DNS provider that provides 301 web redirects/web forwarding addresses. That way, all the configuration can be done on your end, not Miraheze's. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 05:28, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for your help I just want to know that what are the DNS records or settings to redirect all the 108k pages of gyaanipedia.co.in to gyaanipedia.com if you know it, kindly help me. Shaunak Chakraborty (talk) 05:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, that is a consideration when changing your domain name. Changing gyannipedia.co.in to gyannipedia.com should either redirect all your pages on the old domain to their location on the new domain in either or one of the methods or, at the very least, redirect all pages on the old domain to the main page/homepage on the new domain in either or one of the methods. Please bear in mind this is a consideration you'll have to bear in mind, though, and you should fully consider all ramifications, as we are all volunteers and not equipped for months of back-and-forth trying to correct search engine search results from a switched domain. Dmehus (talk) 06:29, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Can't Get SSL License With CSR
Dear Admin，

I wanted to combine my domain name with my wiki, but my domain server needn't me to apply a SSL license with CSR (because they had simplify it). Do I have to apply for an SSL certificate through CSR?

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fdawn (talk • contribs) 15:17, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi. I'm not exactly sure if I understand what you mean but there are two options: 1) You would like to use your SSL provider and that means that we need to give you a CSR that you then have to give your provider 2) you use our own certificate provider (Lets Encrypt) in which case there is no CSR involved and you just point the domain to us. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 17:35, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Changing custom domain
Hi Reception123, could it be possible to change domain of PetraWiki, which is currently www.petrawiki.org, to en.petrawiki.org?

I would like to make this wiki multilingual by creating separate MediaWiki instance for each language so I would like URL of each instance to be subdomain of petrawiki.org (en.petrawiki.org for English PetraWiki, hr.petrawiki.org for Croatian, etc). Is this possible?

My domain registrar name servers are currently pointing to "ns1.miraheze.org" and "ns2.miraheze.org". Do I need to change this? --Luka Ibrišimović (talk) 17:43, 9 January 2021 (UTC)


 * To answer your questions in reverse order, since Miraheze is hosting your DNS, the zone file change will need to be done by them, though you could also probably do it with a pull request in the applicable Miraheze repository, too. In terms of the custom domain change, ordinarily this would be requested on Phabricator; however, since it's just a change of an existing custom domain, I'm sure can process the request here, linking to the diff in the log summary. Did you want   to be set up as a redirect as well? And, if so, which wiki should it redirect to? Dmehus (talk) 17:46, 9 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Well, since you ask,  can be set up to redirect to  . As for the first part of your answer, does this mean I don't need to change anything with my domain registrar? --Luka Ibrišimović (talk) 18:12, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yep, that's correct, unless you're using backup nameservers at your domain registrar, of course. But, yeah, that is an advantage to fully outsourcing your DNS to Miraheze. Reception123 can make the changes to your domain's zone file, hosted with Miraheze, then process the request for a custom domain as requested above. Once your wikis are set up, please ping me on my user talk page if you require interwiki and interlanguage prefixes to be set up on each of your wikis' interwiki tables. Dmehus (talk) 18:22, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd still recommend filing a task because then it makes it easier for other sysadmins to work out which wiki the custom domain was set for and on who's request in the event that it broke for whatever reason. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  18:45, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, that does seem like a bit of unnecessary bureaucracy. If it's broken, then a task can be created at that time. Dmehus (talk) 18:48, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
 * When it breaks, it's a lot harder to find the initial information if there's no task for it. It's too late to make a task about it being created if we've forgotten why. It's not bureaucracy, it's accountability and documentation. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  21:01, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I've created this task in order to track this request. Are the only domains that you want en.petrawiki.org -> petrawiki.miraheze.org and hr.petrawiki.org -> petrawikihr.miraheze.org? Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 06:57, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * He would also like  to be set up as a custom domain redirect to  . He also has a shared media repository wiki, too, though he hasn't said if he wants that to be on a custom domain yet or not. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 06:59, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I will stop writing here since you created task for this and will write there instead. Thank you all for your help! --Luka Ibrišimović (talk) 13:14, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * No problem. Dmehus (talk) 16:03, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Trustworthiness
Hello. You promoted one Pppery to a bureaucrat in TemplateWiki. Due to importance of templates it’s nearly a position of Miraheze staff member. The steward deems he’s the same person as the Wikimedian Pppery. Surely you checked Pppery makes various template stuff fine, but how about trustworthiness? Your guys, probably, didn’t investigate in-depth how does Pppery behave in Wikipedia.

On September 10 Pppery suddenly nominated my module for deletion. Note that had no arguments with this person in the past.  was not notified in proper (or, in fact, in any) form. Fortunately noticed the attack early enough to recover my things from Google cache and recreated it here (Lua, test case). When approached Pppery for satisfaction, he replied with a sort of polite bollocks without any glimpse of regret. Unfortunately has been unaware that the person behaving in this ignoble manner holds a position of trust here.

If the Miraheze administration won’t induce Pppery into making apologies for his past conduct—specifically, ruining other people’s work without providing a decent opportunity to save it elsewhere—then ’ll see his involvement here as a stain on the reputation of Miraheze.

Regards, Incnis Mrsi (talk) 17:07, 5 February 2021 (UTC)