Community noticeboard/Archive 33

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Image Uploading Failed
Trying to upload an image, I'm getting a "Could not open lock file for "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/5/5e". Make sure your upload directory is configured correctly and your web server has permission to write to that directory. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgUploadDirectory for more information." error when I hadn't before. Looking up this error gives me instructions for a bunch of complicated file setting terminal stuff or whatnot that I've never touched and can't find the settings for. Any advice for, like... even the first page to look on in settings to fix this?

also, some images are failing to load on the wiki. could be connected? is my internet just having a moment? Chantolove (talk) 04:10, 4 October 2022 (UTC)


 * If MediaWiki asks you to do something in the terminal, always ignore it, those instructions are never meant for users. Regarding images, one of our file servers broke and is in read-only mode at the moment meaning images can be read but not written/uploaded (which prompted, as you may have noticed earlier, widespread downtime due to this server hanging all the connections). We're working at this moment to fix that. Sorry for the issues! Agent Isai  Talk to me! 04:13, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for letting me know! I'm glad I didn't accidentally break anything haha. Chantolove (talk) 04:32, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Ukrainian letter Ґ
Ukrainian letter «Ґ» is five letter of ukrainian alphabet, but on categories this letter is very last. Please, fix this problem. Thefirstdarkness (talk) 08:59, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * AFAIK, this is an issue with MediaWiki itself, not with Miraheze. Most "special" characters are listed last, so that's expected behavior. I don't have an exact place where you can complain, but here is their site. -- Bukkit  [ cetacean needed ] 00:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
 * See mw:Help:Sorting and mw:Help:Categories for more information on how to try remedying this yourself. Otherwise, what you're encountering is more noticeable whenever Special:AllPages is browsed through--a major bane of Unicode-heavy wikis such as mine.
 * Maybe try pinging "Bawolff" at mw:Project:Support desk if you haven't already? --Routhwick (talk) 02:35, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Are there any ways to build a fanbase for a wikis users
Hi I don't know what we don on this noticeboard but I need to know easy ways to get started with help on a wiki and I don't know how to grow a community :( Could anyone here provide tips for me or anything? CharlieFiddlesticks (talk) 19:16, 5 October 2022 (UTC)


 * A good way to get started is to put a short description of your wiki on the Gazetteer of wikis. --Zeus  (talk|contribs|accounts|uploads|email) 19:21, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The best way is to appeal to/be appealing to the destination community you are making a wiki for. This wiki and everything on it, even the Gazetteer linked above and even the Special:WikiDiscover page, are only really used by people with fleeing curiosity in other projects. Rarely does that become long term audience. If you're making a wiki about a game then you need to be known by the people who play it, so on and so forth. --Raidarr (talk) 20:31, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @CharlieFiddlesticks there is only one way to improve your wiki; advertising people. if people see and click on your ad and start editing, your wiki will start to evolve. I think it's easiest to start with this.  Hey Türkiye  message? 16:58, 6 October 2022 (UTC)