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Where are the servers of miraheze located?
Well, the title question says it all. Patribus (talk) 22:33, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, the majority of our servers are located in the Netherlands near Rotterdam but we host three servers in America for various reasons. The core backbone of the service (MediaWiki, databases, mail, monitoring and other dependencies) are wholly located in the Netherlands. We have caching and DNS services distributed equally in the Netherlands and Atlanta, US to ensure we can serve content quickly to people not in Europe, Africa or Eastern Asia but also to provide redundancy and failsafes for critical infrastructure. We also have off-site backups with a separate host in Chicago, US to ensure even in the worst case scenario, we can quickly bring services back online with little or no data loss. I hope this is what you were looking for! John (talk) 11:25, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

No admin rights?
Hi,

I've just opened newly created site https://19702.miraheze.org and got a message that I have access rights error (even if I logged in). Is that ok or I should see some start page?

Thanks.

09:42, 16 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi there! It appears you have administrator and bureaucrat rights on the wiki in question. I (a user with global rights) have noticed issues when trying to use my rights on wikis in a non-English language. Please try completely logging out and logging back in, being sure to use the right account. After this, instead of a message saying the wiki is only accessible to administrators and members, you should be able to see the main page (and all other content). Thanks for choosing Miraheze! -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 16:07, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Wiki adoption
Hi. I was unable to update my private wiki biblicalwiki.miraheze.org for a while as I had other things to attend to. Now that I have a little more time to spare, I'd like to adopt this wiki back. I spent a lot of time on it, and I would like to continue expanding it. Cheers, Cat (talk)
 * Wiki is reopened. John (talk) 17:55, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks @John. How can I unprotect the wiki? I'm unable to edit or create any articles. Also, can it be privated again? Cheers, Cat (talk)
 * The wiki is unlocked (for real this time?) Not sure why but the wiki was closed in cw_wikis so I reopened it. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 19:00, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks Could it be privated again? Much appreciated! --Cat (talk) 19:14, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
 * This is done. I'm now assuming that John accidentally made it public and left it closed instead of leaving it private and reopening it when he ran the query (very similar commands). -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 23:38, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Deletion confirmation
I am the steward of both wikis covered here.

https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T389

Tophattingson (talk) 04:23, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Do you mean the founder? SleepyMode (talk) 11:39, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I think that was quite obvious.
 * Both wikis were already deleted last night, fyi -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 13:20, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Wiki closed
Hello,

My wiki (ggdr) have been closed because because there have been no edits or logs made within the last 60 days.

I couln't make modifications these last months, but I would like to do. Is it possible to re-open the wiki? Babskwal (talk) 05:39, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ - wiki has been reopened. Southparkfan (talk) 14:14, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Account rename
Hi, could you rename my account please. Cörey -> Corey

Thanks, Cörey (talk) 07:51, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Southparkfan (talk) 12:06, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

creating a page
Hello, How do I create a page on vlierhof.miraheze.org I sounds kinda stupid, but I only find the edit button on the main page. I don't find a create button anywhere."Hi, to create a new page on the wiki just append the page name to your URL. So if you wanted to create a page called 'How to care for your penguin' you would want to navigate to https://vlierhof.miraheze.org/wiki/How_to_care_for_your_penguin and click 'Create'.""Cheers, -- Corey (talk) 01:22, 28 June 2016 (UTC)"""

Need my wiki private
Hi,

thanks again for the wiki. Can I now get it in private mode?

I would also like to have some of the pages public, but i'm not sure what pages will be public. Can I make those changes myself?

Thanks again,

Rulmer


 * (Currently) Only system administrators can switch wikis between private and not, but we do so on request. Unfortunately, you can't really choose which pages are public/private, as mediawiki isn't really made a CMS. Your wiki is either all public, or you give us a list of pages and we can put them in a whitelist that makes them readable even when they're private. (This is usually used for the main page and special pages like Special:UserLogin that are required for technical reasons). Please be mindful of the fact that each time you want us to update the readable pages on a private wiki it requires a configuration edit, and as such won't happen immediately. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:34, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * (PS) The above is about ds.miraheze.org -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:34, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * There are ways to do it but you have to be really careful to make sure they aren't visible. You have to do all kinds of tests because they can show up in places like template previews.  There are extensions that can do per page access but you shouldn't trust them with anything sensitive.  XOF (talk) 13:04, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Again, MediaWiki isn't really made to be a CMS. Any of the extensions you're talking about would have to go through a security review (which usually includes vulnerabilities to our systems, not readability of pages) if you accepted the risks they might be enabled but I'm telling you there's no really secure way to do it. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 14:56, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Please reactivate wikiconstitucio
The owners of https://wikiconstitucio.miraheze.org have contacted me requesting the reactivation of this wiki. I am asking here (please) on their behalf.--Icaria36 (talk) 06:16, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The wiki has been reopened. Southparkfan (talk) 12:31, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Please reactivate MadGenderScience
Hello, I let my wiki (MadGenderScience.mirageze.org) go without updates for too long, and it was closed. I'd like to become the owner again, and swear that I will regularly update it.

May the wiki be reactivated?

Thanks!
 * reopened. John (talk) 17:44, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

miraheze donation button on our wisdomwiki
id like to implement a donation button for miraheze somewhere in the footer of our main page.

if youd please send me the "button" (code or whatsoever) and what youd like it to say?

(be brief, im thinking about a 100% wide footnote, so not the most space for a novel ;p ) and if theres another place that be appropriate for non-tech talk, please let me know!

Wisdomstudent june 2nd 2016 ~13.45utc

Adoption
I wish to adopt ATPL wiki that I may begin work on it again. Thanks.
 * . Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 14:44, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Since I'm assuming this was an unlock request not an adoption ("work on it again", user is crat) I just unlocked the wiki. No need for John or SPF, gawd. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:29, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Please exempt telemetrywiki from the dormancy policy
It shouldn't go dormant since any use of my API applications will trigger activity, but just in case there's a long period of inactivity from MirAPI applications. XOF (talk) 17:30, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Please read Dormancy Policy. The reason for exemption should be a reason listed on that page. Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 17:41, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Creating our own wikis
For those of us who can create wikis, are we allowed to make our own wikis or does someone else need to approve them. If we can, do we need to request the wiki first before we create it? XOF (talk) 17:32, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * You can approve the wiki yourself, but yes, please make a request and then create the wiki, so there is evidence of a request. Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 17:39, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Adoption request for sourcewiki
The old admin there only has a few edits from October 2015 and the whole wiki is unused. I'd like it as a place to post source code for my own projects but I'm fine with sharing with any other Miraheze users. Please remove all the Creative Commons info. The copyright should give rights to Miraheze wikis only. XOF (talk) 03:05, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * . Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 04:35, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm going to review the DP really quick and then handle the actual adoption. Please make a feature request for what you'd like the license to be. (Not sure how to handle the legality of the copyrights). -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:17, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Re:above but also going to remove the only sysop/crat and give you the same rights. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 12:25, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Links still red after new page created
Hi, I have started to add a couple of pages/templates to my wiki and have noticed that my the red links after creating and saving new pages are still showing as red (showing the visited red). I click on the link and it takes me to the newly created page, so the link should blue. I have cleared the cache and tried it on three browsers: safari, chrome and firefox and it shows the same. This has happened to me before and I know I am bit rusty on mediawiki, having not used it for a couple of years, but I can't remember how to resolve this. Any suggestions? Thanks. Borderman  talk 13:23, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Could you please link one of the pages? Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 15:05, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Here is one example page: Document library page, which I have just set up today. And here's a template page of a navigation bar I am using on several page. On the template page the links are showing up red still but on the document page they are blue. Curious. Borderman   talk 15:20, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * For me the existent pages are blue and the non-existent ones are in red. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 15:26, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Very strange. They're not blue on any of the browsers I'm using. I noticed I have to click on a link to make it blue. If I got to another page the links are red again until I click on the same link but on that page instead. Also, images upload fine but they show as red file links. When I click on that I am directed to the upload page again. Somewhat confused. Can you see a basic hand-drawn sketch map on this page? Borderman   talk 15:35, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I can't see the map. Maybe it's because the uploaded image had a different name. I'll check. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 16:06, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

(reset indent) this is all just caused by caching, I purged the page you linked with the map and the map shows up, same for links. See this manual page on purging. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 16:10, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, now I see the map as well. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 16:10, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * and Success! Thank you very much for your help, that's good to know for the future. Is this something I will have to do every time I add pages and images? Or will mediawiki purge the cache itself eventually?   Borderman   talk 16:29, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki automatically updates links (file links and wikilink colors) every so often, but if you create a page and then click the redlinks to create those pages you will notice this a lot so it can be a helpful trick. Otherwise, normal page editing and viewing should make it purge itself. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 21:20, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Wiki unlock request (Status: Open )
Looking to have http://dalar.miraheze.org/wiki/ unlocked... now that I actually have time to do things with it. Thanks! Alynnidalar (talk) 02:00, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Re-opened! <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 16:43, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Adoption/Unlock requests separate page
As a lot of requests are coming in, I think we should make a separate page for adoption and unlock requests. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 03:36, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Page is Requests for adoption. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 16:44, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

My wiki error
MediaWiki internal error.

Exception caught inside exception handler.

Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information. I entered the wiki to see these words, how can I do? https://casuarina.miraheze.org --Yunlin2015 (talk) 07:48, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * We are very sorry for this inconvenience. We will try to fix the problem ASAP. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 08:37, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The error was caused by a wrong setting, your wiki is back running now. Sorry again, for the inconveniences caused by this error. <font color="#FA80231">Reception123 <font color="#4418E1"> (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 09:24, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Error
Over at my wiki there was an internal error and now the images seem to be missing. PlatinumYellow (talk) 23:04, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, the server which is responsible for hosting, serving and rendering images and static content is currently down due to an upstream technical issue. We are working with the physical host provider in order to resolve the issue as soon as possible and a report will be written up and published once this is done. Apologies for any inconvenience! John (talk) 23:10, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Images have disappeared from poserdazfreebies
Hello! The image files seem to have disappeared from the Main namespace of poserdazfreebies. https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles currently presents a long list of "Error creating thumbnail: File missing" messages, except when the images are used in the User or Template namespaces. --Robkelk (talk) 23:42, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Please see the above section. Thanks, John (talk) 23:43, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Get back my wiki :)
I would like to get back my wiki https://breakthegame.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

I am planning to work on it. thanks MannedTooth (talk) 02:59, 11 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Unlocked. Feel free to remove the notice on MediaWiki:Sitenotce. Note that uploads are disabled, see the global sitenotice. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 03:23, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Xdjibi (Administrators and Bureaucrats)
User: Xdjibi ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log ) Group: Administrators and Bureaucrats Reason: My wiki has just ben created but the rights haven't followed so I cannot get access to it.

Other users feel free to support/oppose/abstain from this RfP but please state your reasoning below.
 * Moved this here as this is the correct page. I see you do have the rights. Are you sure you logged in properly? Please try logging in again, and re-post here if it still doesn't work. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 14:36, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I do. I did not pay attention to the fact that, coming from Meta where I was already logged in, I needed to log again in my Wiki to get access. Thank you. Xdjibi (talk) 18:09, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

exception to dormancy policy for bitcoindebates wiki?
Hi -- I asked in the IRC channel last week about getting an exception to the dormancy policy for the bitcoindebates wiki, for the reason that it was made to be read & already has near complete info, and doesn't need to be updated much anymore. On IRC people seemed to think it qualified, but it doesn't look like it has been added to an exception list yet because I still get a warning about lack of edits when I go to the page. Can I be given an exception?

Elliotolds (talk) 00:25, 12 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Your wiki already has an exception to the dormancy policy, according to the policy page and the code for the script. If you are still seeing the notice, you probably just need to remove the notice from MediaWiki:Sitenotice on your wiki (blank that page or replace all the text with a single hyphen (-)) -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 01:52, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Importing an external Wiki XML dump file?
Hi guys, I have tried to use the Special:Import page to import an XML dump that I saved from my older Wiki site. However the dump file is around 60Mb in size, which is apparently too big. Would it be possible to send thix XML to you to extract the individual files somehow - or at least the images (as the previous Wiki used different syntax, hence I will most likely enter the individual pages in text form here)? Thx! Joe
 * Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 12:22, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Joe, can you compress this file (7-zip should give best compression rate), and send it to sysadmin@undefinedmiraheze.org? Please also tell me the URL of your wiki, and then I can import it server-side (which allows XML files bigger than 40MB). Southparkfan (talk) 14:57, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Joeyeti (talk)Thx! Sent the link to the XML file to your sysadmin email. Joe

Got "wiki being created" notification about address/title I've never requested
Hi, I've been requesting "plazmaburst.miraheze.org" wiki creationg but got notification about "fabio.miraheze.org" wiki being created for me instead :) Not sure how this can happen but I don't even know what "fabio" is. Possibly this name had to be registered for someone else?

And yes, I've been requesting name "plazmaburst.miraheze.org" for my game and so it can't have "fabio" instead of "plazmaburst" :P

Requested "plazmaburst.miraheze.org" wiki still does not exist.
 * As I replied on my talkpage, it was my mistake, I have now created the correct wiki. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 04:10, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Bakufu.miraheze.org (Status: Done )
Hello. I created bakufu.miraheze.org site. For a long time I could not work with the site, because they do not have access to the Internet. Now I would like to continue. Please unlock my project! I'm sorry for bad english, I'm using Google Translate.Samurai (talk) 13:17, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Your wiki is reopened now! Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 13:28, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

"No edits" notification still on foodsharinghamburg Wiki
Hey Folks!

After some time of no activity we started using the foodsharinghamburg.miraheze.org Wiki. But still the notification on the top, saying "Miraheze Staff has noticed that this wiki has no edits or logs made within the last 45 days." and so on has not gone away. Will it only take some more time to go away or must it be deleted by a Miraheze admin?

Kind regards Goessek (talk) 15:16, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * If you edit please feel free to remove it. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 16:21, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * If you're an administrator on the wiki (which it appears that you are), then all you have to do to remove it is blank this page. Omni Flames (talk) 02:16, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I have removed the notice. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 03:03, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Can you edit my domain name
my wiki name: (https://global.miraheze.org) can you change this to (https://global.org))
 * Please see the message on your talkpage and see Custom domains for your custom domain. Reception123 (talk) (<font color="#AF91521"> contribs  ) 14:44, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Generic privacy policy and disclaimer
I was just wondering if you intend to include a generic privacy policy and diclaimer that can be used by all miraheze wiki users. A generic one can then be adapted to a user's specific needs. Is this something you would consider adding? If not, do you know where suitable generic policies can be obtained? Thanks. Borderman  talk 18:53, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The privacy policy (and TOS) is a goal for 2016, and has a Phabricator ticket: https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T476. I think that our privacy policy should never be overriden, though - and that means wiki's shouldn't link to their own privacy policies (or at least put a big, bold disclaimer in it that ours overrides anyone else's). Southparkfan (talk) 19:01, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Account rename 2
Hi, I've been here for a while, and decided that it's kind of weird to be known by one name on IRC and GitHub and everywhere else, but not here on Miraheze. Can you global rename my account from User:Vorticity to User:Labster? Thanks. --Vorticity (talk) 20:52, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ :D Southparkfan (talk) 21:01, 19 July 2016 (UTC)