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Anyone using extension PDFEmbed?
Does anyone use the extension PDFEmbed in their wiki? It seems as if it is not working due to a block of the static.miraheze.org sever. I have already filed a phabricator task, greetings --Lily talk and I will listen · Lilypond Wiki 12:40, 10 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi there, Good job for filing a phab task, let's see how the response goes. I trust the sysadmins to make it work. Ugochimobi (talk) 09:33, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your interest, the problem has been solved now, --LilyLilyu - smile.svg talk and I will listen · Lilypond Wiki 11:05, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Ugochimobi (talk) 11:10, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Use the same domain for a wiki and other things
Hello, I would like to use a custom domain for my wiki, but I would also like to use it for other things. I would like to know if it is possible to use the same domain for both a wiki (example.com/wiki/) and for other topics (e.g. example.com/info) that would be separate from the MediaWiki interface, so that the /wiki/ part is just a topic of the complete site and that when you just type example.com, you don't go directly to the wiki, so that you have to type example.com/wiki to access it (I don't know if I'm clear). Have a nice day, Soronos (talk) 18:04, 12 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi there, AFAIK, once your domain DNS records have been mapped to miraheze's nameservers, you can not use your domain elsewhere, you can only use it on miraheze.
 * I believe this information I just share has answered a lot more of your present quest. Greetings. Ugochimobi (talk) 09:38, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Not to contradict, but I'm quite sure you can adjust the destination subdomain, and even if you can't it only reaches yourdomain.com/wiki, not yourdomain/everyotherlinkhere unless you go out of your way to redirect it to be so. I would make a Phabricator task to verify what you're trying to set up as I haven't personally attempted the process. --Raidarr (talk) 10:25, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

View internal top search terms?
Fandom allows you to see the top internal search terms via the analytics dashboard - is such a thing available on Miraheze? I found the ExtendedStatistics extension (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ExtendedStatistics) but it is not available as a default on Miraheze so I wonder if there's an easier way. Thanks in advance ~ HanTheGene (talk) 17:15, 14 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi there, you might want to request this extension to be installed on miraheze using our bugzilla, an Extension Reviewer will review it and if it passes, it will get installed. Ugochimobi (talk) 09:53, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Side note that the software is Phabricator, but potato, potato. Bongo Cat (talk) 15:13, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Now requested at T8038 --Rob Kam (talk) 17:33, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * And declined:
 * Unfortunately this extension is made for BlueSpice, and therefore likely won't work on normal MediaWiki.
 * --Rob Kam (talk) 13:56, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. Unfortunate, but it was worth the ask. Thank you all! ~ HanTheGene (talk) 14:30, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Is there a sitemap I can submit to Google Search Console?
I would like to submit a sitemap of my wiki to Google Search Console. Is there a sitemap I can submit to Google Search Console? If so, it would be helpful if you could tell us where to find it. If not, how can I prepare one? menndouyukkuri (talk) 04:06, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Added  . - menndouyukkuri (talk) 08:05, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * We automatically handle sitemaps. I can manually kick it if it's being slow for you wiki if you tell me which. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  08:32, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Problem with tabber in infoboxes
Hello, so here it is: I have a problem with the tabbers that I place in my infoboxes. Indeed, as you can see on this page (https://personnages.miraheze.org/wiki/Ghetis), in the infobox, the tabber is unable to be applied. Why is this? Thanks in advance. Darkrai18 (talk) 12:30, 17 September 2021 (UTC) Darkrai18 (talk) 12:30, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Tabber is disabled in presets. Ticking the box on this page hopefully gets tabber working - PercyUK (talk) 13:40, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks you very much ! Darkrai18 (talk) 14:12, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Adding Custom Font ( bumped ) SOLVED
I have created a custom font face that I want to use (as a web font) for my RPG gaming wiki. Is there a way to upload the .woff (and/or the other format font files) and then utilize it as part of the custom css for my wiki?

As this is a font face I have created from scratch, licensing of it is not an issue as I am the rights holder for the font.

What are the precise, and full steps I need to take to actually get my custom font hosted (i.e. uploaded then installed) and referencing it properly within css as a web font, for use across the entire wiki?

I would be grateful if someone could fully walk me through (or spell out precisely) the all steps needed for uploading and hosting the custom font. – Mitchell Gore (talk) 23:45, 17 September 2021 (UTC)


 * if you want to use custom fonts, use: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Name%20of%20the%20font:400,400i,600,600i&display=swap%27 for example: want Montserrat font? use: @import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:400,400i,600,600i&display=swap'); ​in your MediaWiki:Vector.css (or Common.css). Therefore, this issue of using a font in the content of the pages that you created yourself is very complicated YellowFrogger (talk) 23:19, 22 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply. The issue was more about uploading (i.e. hosting) a custom made webfont within my wiki's space here miraheze, than using Google fonts within the CSS for my wiki. But again, thank you for the reply. That said, I did manage to figure it out now and I think I have it solved (I hope). Here's an example of my custom Lakise script (fonts) being used on a test page for my fantasy RPG wiki. – Mitchell Gore (talk) 06:39, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Please contribute on my wiki
To anyone that reads this: My wiki needs contributors. Its name is Decyclopedia, it is at decyclopedia.miraheze.org, and it was founded on September 24, 2019 (its two-year anniversary is right around the corner!). It's a humor wiki (at least, it should be). And it needs people like you to contribute to it! Join today! Tali64³ (talk) 01:34, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I will see. But, pornographic content, well, there are a lot of people who don't like it. More is just not overdoing it. The only ones who like it are the ones who come to the site just to... instead of editing, because it's a wiki, not xvideos YellowFrogger (talk) 17:51, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, I cut down on the porn. One of the parts of contributing is spreading the word, so, if you have any friends, please tell them about Decyclopedia. Tali64³ (talk) 23:43, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * To provide a counter argument, pornographic content can be acceptable if you stick with it in premise and introduce proper content warnings so the wrong users can't stumble on it. But Miraheze has a significant underage audience, so it may still be a problem in general and it's especially a problem trying to get just anyone to spread it off this section. You might consider appealing to more target audiences than this Meta or a suitable description in the Gazetteer if you haven't already. --Raidarr (talk) 10:21, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Expiry of X3 Root Certificates
Hello all,

From the end of this month, the following users may encounter issues accessing Miraheze due to the expiry of upstream SSL signing certificates:
 * Windows before XP SP3
 * MacOS before 10.12.1
 * iOS before 10
 * Android (2.3.6 - 7.1.1 may be impacted) less than 7.1.1
 * Firefox before 50
 * Ubuntu before 16.04
 * Debian before 8
 * Java: 8 before 8u141 and 7 before 7u151
 * NSS before 3.26
 * All versions of FireOS Silk Browser
 * OpenSSL prior to 1.0.2u

This is not an exhaustive list and others may fail. You may also find devices on that list already has issues due to TLS versions supported.

Please see articles on the Iden Trust X3 Expiration on google for information.

Thanks, ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  16:14, 20 September 2021 (UTC)  ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  16:14, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Translation request
Hello. Please help translate Template:Shortcut caption in your language. Thanks, --Mazzaz (talk) 08:55, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ for zh-cn. --SolidBlock (talk) 12:51, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Wiki being stubborn; can't change skin to Chameleon, wiki stuck on MonoBook
Hello people

I manage a Wiki for my Discord server.

Here's my problem:

I wanted to replace the skin on my wiki (MonoBook) with Chameleon, but my wiki is being stubborn, I removed all the skins I added, except Chameleon, and I switched to some other skin, and then I switched back to Chameleon, but nothing happened, and the wiki still defaulted to MonoBook despite how I obviously told it that Chameleon was the default from now on, can you help? Do you need to wait some time before your skin changes? Magicpeartree (talk) 06:03, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Well firstly, upon entering the wiki (I assume Discordia) the first skin I get is actually Apex. I don't see anything named 'Chameleon' as an option in user preferences. Upon examining the skins section it doesn't seem your addition saved. I would try to get it to be used one more time and if that fails, perhaps close out of the browser you're using entirely and let it start over when trying again. Let us know if it doesn't catch - use the skin menu to verify it's there with a checkmark. Only then can it properly become default. The current default I see here appears to be apex, which does seem to be properly added and saved. --Raidarr (talk) 10:13, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Code Editor doesn't note errors, warnings and info
@SolidBlock When SolidBlock and I edit CSS, JavaScript or Lua modules on RSWiki, the code editor does't note errors. Are there any wikis having the similar problems with Code Editor? Zes M Young (talk) 12:42, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

In addition, the following logs that may be relevant are found in the console: Content Security Policy: 页面设置阻止读取位于 blob:https://rs.miraheze.org/fce8550f-73e7-4237-97ef-c826cb8f9c02 的一项资源("script-src"). The same issue happens on Meta as well. --SolidBlock (talk) 12:49, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

The role of Global Sysop
I might have the wrong idea on this, so I'd like to present the scenario before presenting something like an RfC to address it. Global sysops are opened with the following line:

"Global Sysops on Miraheze are users who assist Stewards in supporting the community and working with communities to address issues facing them locally as well as cleaning up vandalism, preventing it when possible and enforcing Miraheze's global policies."

This is the opening premise of the page, where the three 'blocks' of duties are supporting communities/addressing their problems in general (clarified in 'Local interference' as being on request or policy need, not just meddling whenever they want), CVT duties and policy enforcement.

However, based on conversations in the past (I sadly do not have diffs to offer at this time) I have gotten the impression that only the CVT portion is regarded, and policy enforcement only with respect to CVT duties. The community support aspect is effectively absent in practice, both with current membership of a few GS with their performed duties and expressed opinions elsewhere on Meta that Global Sysop should effectively stay out of the way of Stewards making decisions on all community matters straight up and stick to CVT. I think this has raised a problem where community dramas or lighter issues that require an authoritative, but not 'top level' take have been left sitting for extended periods, waiting for the absolute top of community managers on Miraheze to review. The current situation here started by a Steward's oversight has been left languishing because it totally depends on the involvement of a Steward who frankly only participates in sprees, not consistently to maintain and review, or various adoption requests that mainly depend on a few community members handling the most obvious cases with any final decisions taking an extended period of time to be made. Likely it would only take a direct poke or mention (like this) for these things to soon be addressed, but otherwise they may be addressed months down the line or whenever somebody decides to get to it. This is not to condemn the Stewards, but note the need of someone acting to review topics like these in a timely manner of their own volition without putting yet more on a Steward's busy plate between here and real life. Faster turnaround to address them would surely look better on Miraheze as a platform, as the response time of Stewards has come up a number of times in observations. Meanwhile nobody can or will address even some of these tasks.

Perhaps this reflects the need for more Stewards, but it's my impression that there is nobody with plentiful time who would really get the position if they tried due to the (reasonable) high conservatism in making appointments, and those who might get it do not wish to take on more given they are already quite filled up with duties such as sysadmin. The clear compromise is staffing a position just below top that can be accountable to both community and the trusted Stewards. The position that is not the final arbiter, but 'good enough' to cover a majority of communal issues in a timely way and defer only if the top (Stewards) are truly needed with their current availability. By stated policy above I think this gap is already filled. But it seems to me there is a strong current that it should not be filled by anyone except Stewards. Am I wrong? Can Global Sysops be more useful and I've mislead myself into believing nobody trusts them to do more, and if someone were to request the role they can get the position on grounds of community support over purely CVT duties? If I am right then I think the language should be changed to reflect this, as it would misleadingly imply and put first the idea that GS are a community support role with CVT as 'another' duty rather than the primary one. But that would mean there is a gap in addressing issues that should be solved another way, as I think the current turnaround time on Steward-level actions should not continue if only for their sake. Thanks for the read. --Raidarr (talk) 13:37, 23 September 2021 (UTC)


 * This is most truly an interesting question. Pursuant to this RfC, the old CVT group's scope was expanded and renamed accordingly. In fact, that section about supporting the community was codified by the aforementioned RfC. I would say your interpretation is correct. Various comments on the RfC thought so too as they also interpreted this as being an expansion of the Global Sysops scope with one user calling the new group "Deputy Stewards". The proposer of the RfC, Reception123, stated in a section supporting the rename of the group that "I think global sysop best describes this group because the role of a sysop is to support the community as well as to combat vandalism, so the name works," suggesting that by expanding Global Sysops scope, they would efficiently be acting as a local sysop would but in a global sense. Additionally, it was suggested that a new "Global Rollback" group with focus only on vandalism be created further reinforcing the idea that Global Sysops are supposed to help the community should they face issues and should be more involved in community affairs as this RfC's purpose ultimately seems to be that.
 * Indeed, focus is primarily put on CVT only and not the latter part of supporting communities. Based on this, I believe Global Sysops could probably help more in the community apart from Counter-vandalism. I don't know what others think but that has been my interpretation of the RfC and scope of Global Sysops. I invite Reception123 to opine on this above and give us his view seeing that he started that RfC and is a current Global Sysop. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:34, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Help, embeded content not working
I was doing well building up the content for the land wiki alliance, but recently all my embedded content stopped loading (video's from youtube and vimeo, and google sheets). It all used to work. It just says "this content is blocked. Contact the site owner to fix the issue."

Can someone tell me how to fix this? here is the wiki:

https://landwikialliance.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page Jono.hughes (talk) 11:00, 24 September 2021 (UTC)