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A problem over at Great Characters Wiki
https://greatcharacterswiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Topic:V5se88lch6zd42he

Angrybirdsfan2005: It appears that someone can't write a blog due to a problem.

Hiding the "from *wikiname*" text
Title says it all... how can I hide that? I'm pretty sure it's possible, but I haven't found much in the settings.FraazT0 (talk) 22:12, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Could you please elaborate on the issue? Examknow (talk) 21:38, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I know how to fix it. Could you please give me interface admin on your wiki so I can fix the issue? Examknow (talk) 21:44, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Also next time please post this request under the Community noticeboard as it is not an issue that the steward needs to fix. Examknow ● talk ● contribs 22:55, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * ❌ Unless you can give me edit interface rights I cannot help you. Examknow ● talk ● contribs 20:01, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Whoops, sorry, I've been away these days. Void's solution worked anyways, so that works I guess. --FraazT0 (talk) 18:01, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Issue can be simply fixed by blanking the page MediaWiki:Tagline, or by adding  to MediaWiki:Common.css. Do be aware that either solution will take time to update and become visible (or in this case, become hidden). --  Void  Whispers 21:11, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Merge users on nonciclopedia.org (20)
Hello, Special:CentralAuth/Rum e pera temp needs to be merged into his original account, Special:CentralAuth/Rum e pera. Thanks.--Wedhro (talk) 09:45, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅-- 09:50, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

The user says he can't login.--Wedhro (talk) 13:42, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Is he getting a specific error when trying to log in? Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 14:22, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * When merging the user, the credentials originally belonging to the final account are only ones that can be used to log in. As the original accounts are more like "placeholder" accounts, they can't be logged into. Therefore, in this situation, the original account needs to be merged into the temporary account, and the temporary account then needs to be renamed to have the name of the original account. -- Void  Whispers 17:02, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for your tips. Could you ask the user to re-create his/her temp account so that the process goes successfully?-- 17:10, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. The new temporary account is Special:CentralAuth/Rum e pera 2.--Wedhro (talk) 05:10, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

I have merged the account into Rum e pera 2, but cannot rename it because the rename is still in progress. Please wait until it's done.-- 06:15, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Actually, as I asked above, the temporary account was supposed to be merged into "Rum e pera", not the opposite. --Wedhro (talk) 07:03, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Oops, I probably misunderstood.--Wedhro (talk) 07:05, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Two more users asked to get their accounts back by merging temp accounts into the old ones: --Wedhro (talk) 12:11, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Special:CentralAuth/Fulmin_temp -> Special:CentralAuth/Fulmin
 * Special:CentralAuth/R-Phoenix1 -> Special:CentralAuth/R-Phoenix

Also: So, right now there's 4 users waiting to get their accounts back, just as a reminder.--Wedhro (talk) 07:26, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Special:CentralAuth/GiusXp_TEMP-> Special:CentralAuth/GiusXp

Can I get an update on this 4 users? (Rum e pera, Fulmin, R-Phoenix and GiusXP)--Wedhro (talk) 06:21, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Please see Special:GlobalRenameProgress for current progress. Somehow the renaming of Rum e pera hasn't finished yet - and maybe it's an issue that should be dealt through .-- 09:21, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * All are now done. -- Void  Whispers 23:19, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Requires Check user right
Hello I am ''Shaunak Chakraborty. I am facing many sock users doing vandalism in my wiki. I request you to give me the Check user permission so that I can find and block the sock users. There are many language versions of Gyaanipedia wikis so if I do it on my own then it will take a less time. Please help me. Thanking you. Shaunak Chakraborty (talk)
 * Please can you give examples of the abuse, I have also responded to you at the pioneers talk page. Please can you read that as soon as possible. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat) · CA · contribs · Rights - ) 09:32, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
 * One of the abuse is as follows . According to the account creation and behavior of these accounts it might be sock users, adding false information. I had already blocked these accounts. But for future I need to block accounts with proof. So I request to have the Check user right. Thanking you. Shaunak Chakraborty (talk)
 * Thanks, a steward will look soon. Please can you read the note I left you here as it's quite important. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat) · CA · contribs · Rights - ) 09:49, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I have checked the accounts in question, and Noobmaster69 and CB100T seems to be identical. However, Loca seems to be unrelated from a purely technical point of view.-- 01:07, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Please give me Check user right on my wiki so that I can do it in future on my own. Thanking you. Shaunak Chakraborty (talk)
 * The only way for you to become a CU of your wiki is to become a Steward, and you will have to show global contributions (especially on meta) to make your request successful.-- 09:24, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I have more than 2000 global edits. Can you please tell me the minimum amount of edits in Meta. To become a Steward Shaunak Chakraborty (talk)
 * I would strongly on giving the user check user and oversight rights. Yes, I would agree that users to work on themselves and not let stewards interfere. znotch190711 (temporary signature) 22:53, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
 * There's no minimum number - what you need is to gain trust.-- 09:42, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Can wikis be deleted without creators permission?
Can a wiki be deleted without the permission of the person who created the wiki? I recently submitted a request for a wiki here and I just want to ask to make sure I know all the rules and stuff to prevent my wiki from being deleted if it gets approved. ARZ100123 (talk) 01:29, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Read Dormancy Policy, what you intend to do on your wiki request "for anyone to add there opinions or anyone else", is relevant to games project? SA 13 Bro</b> (talk) 01:45, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Wikis could be deleted if inactive for a long time per Dormancy Policy, and it can also be deleted manually in some cases (ex. founder request, severe global policy violation), but manual deletion can be only done by those who have permissions to access restricted functions of ManageWiki (meaning, generally speaking, local crats cannot). If you want to make your wiki exempted from deletion, you can make a request following the policy above.-- 05:02, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! ARZ100123 (talk) 16:37, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

password reset / user merge
Hello, this is a newly created possibly temporary account, as I've apparently forgotten my password for my original account Crimgan, which doesn't have an email attached. If possible, I'd like to attach an email to that account so I can reset its password. Is it possible to confirm that these two accounts are connected through the same IP address? If not, I saw some other topics mention user merging. Could I request to merge these two accounts?

Sonansu (talk) 02:13, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The cases of the Italian Uncyclopedia are to merge temporary accounts on Miraheze and automatically imported accounts from Wikia. Unlike them, there's no way that you can prove that your former account was yours unless you have a committed identity and can ask sysadmins to recover your account. Even checkuser is not a valid proof for this case, as the account in question could be owned by another person who share environments with you. The only solution is to restart with your new account and just leave the old one alone.-- 14:05, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

MediaWiki-namespaced pages are sometimes used and sometimes not
See this page (or in other languages). Sometimes the sidebar and module-documentation notice is very simple as MediaWiki's default. If you repeat refreshing page, you will find sometimes the sidebar will display as the MediaWiki:Sidebar defined, and the documentation is also displaysed as the template defined by MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-does-not-exist. It seems that it's a likelihood that things defined in the MediaWiki page are used. --SolidBlock (talk) 08:15, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Part of this happens because the messages are untranslated on the MW software. The way to avoid it is to create a localized version for each page such as MediaWiki:SIdebar/qqx. Though most wiki users don't care about other languages apart from the language they use in the community. As for modules, it's possible that the script is somehow localized and doesn't work on non-local languages.-- 14:11, 14 September 2019 (UTC)