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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? is the first Google result, but  isn't on the first 5 results pages at all. Psephomancy (talk) 22:45, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Maybe making the old wiki a redirect to the new wiki will work. Though it could take some time.-- 01:31, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * As The Pioneer says, it does take some time, but you can try to make it quicker by doing what is described here. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 15:13, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * User:Reception123, I added it to SearchConsole and it says the pages are excluded from Google: "Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical Status: Excluded". Not sure what that means, and it doesn't list what it thinks the canonical URL is.  It says it will scan the site within a few days so I guess I will find out then. Psephomancy (talk) 16:01, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I've posted more details here: https://electowiki.org/wiki/Electowiki:The_caucus#Search_Engine_Optimization Psephomancy (talk) 16:01, 5 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Okay, I will ask the other sysadmins what they think as well. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 17:24, 5 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi, User:Reception123, I posted more on https://electowiki.org/wiki/Electowiki:The_caucus#Search_Engine_Optimization I'm not sure if it notified you. Psephomancy (talk) 17:42, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

upload content of existing wiki
We have a wiki http://www.ist.tugraz.at/isac/ with about 60 pages and want to upload the content. Since we have many links from somewhere else to this wiki, we want the content in Miraheze as close as possible to the present wiki.

On Miraheze's pages we could not find an information, whether upload of whole wikis is supported by Miraheze. So we ask here (and hope that we only have to send a file of 380 kB starting with the line "" to the Stewards' noticeboard.
 * Yes, it is possible to import a wiki. Please upload the XML file on Phabricator or if the wiki is private, send it to staff[at]miraheze[dot]org Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 11:47, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Create Wiki going wrong?
I found out that the requesters of wikis from my environment has all changed to Hearth to Matilda for an unknown reason. I think something is going wrong with Special:RequestWiki or Special:CreateWiki. I'll leave a note here because I wonder if other wiki creators have the same issue.-- 12:48, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * The problem seems to be fixed.-- 13:36, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Wait, it still isn't in some older request. I guess I need to manually fix them for now.-- 13:50, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * What wikis are affected, and what's wrong with them? -- Void  Whispers 02:49, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * We've fixed it on the created wikis, I'm currently going through already done wiki requests to see what's wrong. -- Void  Whispers 03:22, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Should now be resolved, let us know immediately if something like this happens again. -- Void  Whispers 04:35, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * OK. Thanks for fixing everything.-- 11:57, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Please add six interwiki links to my wiki (mahuset.miraheze.org).
Hello,

My wiki (the Royal Wiki, mahuset.miraheze.org) covers a subject which would be easier for me to cover if the following six interwiki links were added: These wikis all cover material similar in nature to that of my wiki, and it'd be incredibly convenient not to have a seperate article on each different wiki. --Oxocero (talk) 21:16, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * konmalehth:, redirecting to konmalehth.miraheze.org
 * pavlov:, redirecting to pavlov.miraheze.org
 * hasanistan:, redirecting to hasanistan.miraheze.org
 * microwiki:, redirecting to micronations.wiki
 * mnf:, redirecting to micronations.wikia.com
 * mfe:, redirecting to mahuset.wikia.com
 * OK, now it's ✅-- 12:10, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Use of Global User Page
Hi, to all users who are currently using the Global User Page feature, please be advised that the wiki where the user page is based has been changed. The new wiki is loginwiki (login.miraheze.org). This means that if you were previously using a global user page, your user page should now be copied over to loginwiki. If you have any questions, let me know. -- Void  Whispers 04:41, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Template Navbox show/hide won't appear
I know this has been discussed before, but I cannot see to make Template:Navbox work on my wiki. I've copied so many Lua files, Common.js and Common.css, and reloaded the cache til I'm blue in the face. Would anyone being willing to take a look? Unlike previous users' problems, I can't seem to get it to get started at all: the show/hide box has never appeared for me. I am willing to scrap everything and reimport anything you say! --Aquatiki (talk) 03:01, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Template:Navbox is based on collapsible tables. I've added the JS to your Common.js that handles allows such tables to function. -- Void  Whispers 21:29, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I am filled with undying love and admiration!!!! 😍🙌🏽🤓👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨💓👍 Thank you!!!  --Aquatiki (talk) 02:44, 5 January 2019 (UTC)  P.S.  Where did you get it from?

Wiki's logo (File:Wiki.png) won't update
I always have a hard time adding a new version of the nonciclopedia's logo; even if the upload is successful and the new version appears in the history, the file stays on the previous version for days or forever. Purging the page won't help. Attempting to reupload the file fails, I'm told that version already exist, and checking the options to ignore system errors and such fails too.

If you check the you'll see there's a few differences between the 21 dic 2018 and 2 gen 2019 versions (the title doesn't overlap with the logo and the wiki-sphere is slightly different) and you can see those differences in the history thumbnails, but if you click on the last version you're taken to the previous version. Also, in Special:ManageWikiSettings I can't link to the newest version for the same reason: the link to the new version is https://static.miraheze.org/nonciclopediawiki/b/bc/Wiki.png, exactly the same as the link I previously set, and it leads to the old version. There's maybe an issue with caching? --Wedhro (talk) 03:49, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, is this still an issue? It could just be your local browser cache not updating as well. -- Void  Whispers 22:04, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
 * After 3-4 days the issue if finally gone. Today I uploaded a new version of a different files and, again, it was stuck on the previous version, this time only for a dozen hours. This never happens on Fandom using the same browser, so it's probably on Miraheze's servers.--Wedhro (talk) 22:35, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Looking to hire someone to customize Miraheze main page
Would anyone here be interested in some *paid* work to customize the main page of my Miraheze wiki? I’m hoping for a three column layout with three icons which are links.

Here is a diagram showing what I want (assuming it's possible):. Link to site:

You can contact me at librarylexique@gmail.com.

Here are examples of two Miraheze wikis with two column layouts. I couldn’t find one with three columns.

https://maiasongcontest.miraheze.org/wiki/Home https://thelonsdalebattalion.co.uk/wiki/Main_Page


 * Hello. I will very happily do it (it is possible) but first I would like to ask how much you'd be willing to pay and how you would be willing to pay it. You can have a look at mh:sofw:Swords_of_Wrath_Wiki which I styled using CSS.
 * El Komodos Drago (talk) 16:51, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 * P.S. How would you like me to submit it? I could place it directly on to the main page.

Global Interwiki feature
Hi folks, you can now link to any wiki on Miraheze by using a link in the format of mh : wiki : Page. This will generate a link to wiki .miraheze.org/wiki/ Page. For example: mh:test:Test will display as mh:test:Test, and mh:login:User:Void will show mh:login:User:Void. There are a couple of caveats to this however, as these links only work on a page. You cannot use the prefix to search for a page on another wiki (which is possible with standard interwiki prefixes). These links will override any existing interwiki link that uses mh as its prefix. If this is a problem for you, please let us know so we can adjust it for you. If you have any questions or encounter any issues, please leave them below! -- Void  Whispers 22:00, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Extra CSS background image
Hey there people from Miraheze which I need a special request or help for the extra background image in my common.css of the PlayStation All-Stars Database which I was making the image for User header at the top right, here is what it look like. (this was created in Paint.NET for the concept)

I've tried to combined and shared the image with body CSS along with the background, but it wasn't work. Here's the code of this that you could help me for added another background image.

-Official-PSASD (talk) 01:31, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * It looks like it's working fine. Sometimes it may take a while before your css will actually work, and all you have to do is to wait.-- 06:41, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Request for deleting a translation
Please delete Donate/zh-cn since Donate/zh already exists and MediaWiki is able to transform it to different Chinese variants (zh-cn, zh-tw, zh-hk, zh-sg, etc.)

A further proposal is to disable translations to variants of Chinese and direct users to contribute their translation in "zh". --Tiger (talk) 07:35, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, since it's a machine translation, it could sometimes be inaccurate, and I don't think we need to delete pages that have been already created because manual translations could be more accurate.-- 08:53, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Both Donate/zh-cn and Donate/zh were translated by human I think. And /zh is good enough. In other words, /zh-cn is totally a redundant translation.--Tiger (talk) 09:52, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * What I meant is about the automatically generated variants (such as this). While I do think the all the variants are understandable (as even I, being a Japanese and share some characters in common, can understand them), I'm not sure whether they are all accurate enough.-- 11:34, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * In most cases, MediaWiki just change Chinese characters between simplified and traditional form and does not cause problems. However, some of differences between variants can't be fixed in this way (very rare under circumstance of a site like meta). In Chinese Wikipedia, they use  for those complicated cases, but they don't deal with a translation system. meta.wikimedia.org forces users not to use variants. I'd better figure out how meta.wikimedia solve this problem (maybe they just ignore it since native Chinese are usually able to read other variants).--Tiger (talk) 12:52, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

meta.wikimedia.org uses only basic word conversion function provided by MediaWiki and I see little complaints on inaccuracy of the conversion. One shortcoming of allowing translation to variants of Chinese is that content of variants can be not exactly the same (caused by outdated content and differences between translators). I'm not quite sure about what negative effects will appear if this proposal is realized. Just put it here for discussion.---Tiger (talk) 11:45, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, I may want others opinions on this topic. For now, I'll ping and, as I know they use Chinese.-- 13:48, 16 January 2019 (UTC)


 * I agree what Tiger said. Some pages include many Chinese variant translations (Such as Miraheze page) and more variants may be added in the future. Once the page is updated, we'll have to spend more time updating multiple Chinese pages. But I think we can remain zh-hans (or probably just zh) and zh-hant (translatewiki.net separate zh-hans and zh-hant, but they disable other Chinese variants) ? Unlike Chinese Wikipedia, in Miraheze Meta, the variants of Chinese cannot be automatically changed on the basis of users' preferred Chinese variant. People who use Chinese-Traditional may be hard to adapt Chinese-Simplified. But it's just my initial opinion. 我同意Tiger的看法，有些像是Miraheze的頁面存在不同中文變體的翻譯頁面，以後可能更多. 一旦頁面更新，我們就必須花費更多時間更新它們. 但也許我們可以統一將頁面翻譯成簡體中文和繁體中文兩個部分（translatewiki.net是區分簡體和繁體翻譯，但不翻譯其它變體）？中文維基百科可以根據用戶的偏好設定自動轉換變體，但是Miraheze Meta無法這樣做. 不過這只是我一開始的想法，因為我身邊使用繁體中文的人，其實不一定能完全理解簡體中文.  📞Laundry Machine  15:01, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, the default variant chosen when you visit a "zh" translation is "No conversion" which shows original text the translator wrote. You need to select one in the menu. Is it possible to fix this technically?--Tiger (talk) 01:32, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Math expressions do not show
Hello. I have a problem using the Math extension. When I enter a valid LaTeX expression between tags, nothing is displayed. I can write anything, the extension considers that my equation contains errors. Thus, all my pages that contain mathematical expressions are in the category "Pages with math errors". This problem has appeared recently. Thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sydiorn (talk • contribs) 08:27, 15 January 2019‎ (UTC)
 * This should have just been fixed, let us know if you encounter any other issues with the extension. -- Void  Whispers 18:11, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

What is the best way of adding a scratch project to a wiki?
I would like to add a scratch project I have made to my wiki. What is the best way of doing that? Some kind of iFrame (scratch is now 100% W3C technologies)? the scratch extension even though it hasn't been updated since days of yore? something else? is it even possible?

Thank you for your reply in advance.

El Komodos Drago (talk) 09:18, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Hmm, do you think this could be done using a widget? -- Void  Whispers 18:12, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I am getting an error saying "Requests to the server have been blocked by an extension." I think it was mentioned elsewhere that this was because of security measures put in place by miraheze and the domain would have to be added to some whitelist.
 * El Komodos Drago (talk) 00:35, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Replacing Wikimedia SiteLinks on item page with internal article links
Is it possible to create sitelinks to articles on my wiki (ffgxv.miraheze.org) from items (using Wikibase) to other articles on the same wiki? As it stands, my only options for sitelinks are to wikimedia wikis (i.e. Wikipedia, etc...)

ThutmosisV (talk) 09:48, 16 January 2019 (UTC)