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Discussion: Central notice changes
This is for the sake of having an open discussion on the changes proposed in this RfC, though I won't really touch much on the last proposal that was added by another person (of course, you're welcome to talk about that as well nonetheless). Hopefully this comment will at least make it clear what the proposals I brought up are intended to mean. Also, please ask nicely if you would like clarity on anything at all.

The first one to discuss is the following:

Central notices with the purpose of soliciting participation from wiki communities for an event or a discussion should last while that event or discussion is open for people to participate. As in, the central notice would only be removed after the event or discussion has closed.

Let's start by saying that this is not changing what a central notice is made for. It's not saying that every discussion gets a central notice, what it's saying applies in the instance when the people who make central notices decide that a discussion will get a central notice, which is still at their judgement. This talk page comment might show some insight on what such judgement it is, which again they would still retain. What changes is specifically the duration of such particular central notices, in that it would be in relation to the discussion that it would be notifying of.

The discussions being referred to can be gleaned from Special:CentralNotice (click "Show archived campaigns" to see the older ones). It is what is meant to gather people to provide their input and feedback, and this description fits, for example, Requests for Comment or Requests for Stewardship. And if they have yet to be closed by the closer, then the closer presumably decided that it needs more time to gather more comments before a conclusion can be drawn. If so, the methods used to notify of the discussion's existence should get continued use to gather more discussion from people.

Another proposal to discuss is the following:

A campaign type can be set for central notice campaigns, allowing users to opt out of specific campaign types in their preferences, specifically in the "Banners" section. Here is a proposal for what campaign types Miraheze should use:
 * Fundraising
 * Surveys
 * Maintenance
 * Requests for Comment
 * Requests for Stewardship
 * Requests for Community Director

To make it clear how to use preferences to opt-out of campaign types, some text instructing people how to do so should be added to central notices.

In technical terms, campaign types are configured with $wgCentralNoticeCampaignTypes in LocalSettings.php.

This can presumably work with ManageWiki to apply for a whole wiki. To sysadmins, this would presumably be done by using a custom variable to set $wgDefaultUserOptions['centralnotice-display-campaign-type-whatever'] = 0.

Now, in regards to how to decide on the campaign types to be used, I'd say that having the communities' consensus is still relevant, in the case of disputes over what should be grouped together or partitioned. And the RfC does show a dispute over whether Requests for Global Sysop should be included, excluded, or grouped with another type. So it would at least be useful to have some sort of discussion with wiki communities to figure out what's best.

In response to other comments in the RfC: Including Requests for Global Sysop in the list of campaign types does not mean that every single one of that request gets a central notice, it is meant to mean that a RfGS would be allowed to get a central notice, which would still have the judgement of the people who make central notices to actually get one. And people should be able to decide for themselves if they want to opt out of seeing certain central notices, and I figure that if someone desires a tool to stop seeing a certain kind of notification, they likely aren't interested in what's being notified about in the first place. Finally, it was concluded in this RfC that there is consensus for community-oriented posts to be posted on Miraheze's social media accounts, therefore a community-elected role would be appropriate.

Feel free to say your thoughts on any of these topics. K599 (talk) 15:29, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * And will there be a way to disable CNotice for some, and leave only fundraising? YellowFrogger (✉ Talk  ✐ Edits ) 15:33, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * @YellowFrogger As said in the explanation of how campaign types work, people should be able to go into their preferences and opt-out of the types that they don't want to see. K599 (talk) 16:27, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * But there has to be an option to hide it across the whole wiki (not just in preferences), but yes, all visitors to a particular wiki would be better. Nobody is obligated to see CNotice either, so it had to have that. Showing only CNotice for fundraising, which is important for Miraheze to maintain the wikis maintenance, the others don't matter (or only matter in Meta). YellowFrogger (✉ Talk  ✐ Edits ) 19:59, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * @YellowFrogger I mentioned above that there's presumably a way to make campaign types work with ManageWiki, though I suppose a sysadmin should comment on the method I talked about. K599 (talk) 20:19, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note that the list of campaign types proposed in my initial comment is based on past central notices as seen on Special:CentralNotice. Of course, feel free to discuss any desired changes to the list. K599 (talk) 03:04, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * For some added context, the banner preferences can be seen in Special:Preferences, where it's currently the extension's defaults. These options have been unused probably due to being unrelated to Miraheze. K599 (talk) 03:46, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * This talk page discussion has a review of the proposed list of campaign types. In response:
 * Okay, but I would prefer that "Community Notices" have a page that explains what would fall under this label. Then this page would be linked, if possible, from the related user preference and, if implemented, the related ManageWiki setting proposed in the community wishlist proposal. K599 (talk) 01:29, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I think it'd be useful to consider above suggestions like the instructions thing as well. K599 (talk) 03:25, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Finding a conclusion on campaign types
It would be good to at least have some course of action that outlines whether or not this wikifarm will make use of campaign types, and what those campaign types will be. K599 (talk) 03:51, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
 * There was a talk page discussion that reviewed a list of campaign types, but it seems that no sort of action has been concretely decided on.
 * Reiterating what's been explained before, campaign types refers to Special:Preferences, a user preference that is used to choose what types of central notices to have displayed for your own account.
 * Currently, as can be seen by checking your preferences, the configured campaign types don't particularly reflect how Miraheze uses central notices (see Special:CentralNotice). Hence the suggestion above for a more appropriate list of campaign types. The description for the preference also makes reference to Wikimedia rather than this wikifarm, which probably confuses people.
 * This community wishlist proposal would also need campaign types to be configured to be useful. I'll also note the suggestion of using ManageWiki on a custom variable to set $wgDefaultUserOptions['centralnotice-display-campaign-type-whatever'] = 0.
 * If campaign types do get properly configured and used, it would be helpful to take the suggestion of including some text in central notices that instructs people how to use the user preference and ManageWiki setting, to make it clear that the banner isn't forced to appear.


 * I still want some sort of concrete conclusion on this, as I do think this would be helpful to people. K599 (talk) 23:03, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Additional suggestion: Make a page detailing CentralNotice
I would still like a response to the above section on campaign types, and also have another suggestion to make.

If campaign types come into use, a page that details central notices, mainly the campaign types as stated before, would help people understand what these notices are for. Some other info, like what Wikimedia's pages cover, would likely also be a bit helpful. And to allow people to easily find such a page, it should at least be linked from user preferences and any ManageWiki settings related to central notices. K599 (talk) 01:16, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Need some help with my email
No email confirmation code hasn't arrived in my yahoo inbox as I also checked thoroughly into the spam and trash folders as it hasn't arrived for four days now. Peakbread (talk) 14:43, 19 January 2022 (UTC)


 * This is a late reply but I suggest you try again and if that still does not achieve a different result you should open a ticket on Phabricator so a system administrator can look into this. DeeM28 (talk) 06:09, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Finally, someone replied! Thanks, hopefully they will fix my problem. Peakbread (talk) 23:41, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The answer was more of a recommendation, not a promise that it will fix something. As suggested, if you're still having these issues, open a ticket on Phabricator Miraheze they'll try to analyze, perhaps, the site's SREs. --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 23:47, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
 * ok! Peakbread (talk) 23:52, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

CNotice translations
CNotice translations don't appear in recent changes, or did they? I have not seen. Well, that's an option for vandals, if there's no other way to monitor CNotice translations. --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 23:51, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * By default, translations don't appear in Recent Changes unless you unselect the "Not translations" filter. I don't know how it works on Minerva Neue but with Vector, you can unselect it at the top of Special:RecentChanges. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:00, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Now that I saw. Yes, it works on Minerva too. And, how do you know I'm on Minerva? By the tags? --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 00:04, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Earlier, you posted a link to a diff via Special:MobileDiff which tells me that you primarily use Minerva. Additionally, many of your edits are marked as mobile edits. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:10, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I use Minerva's advanced settings, to be specific. --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 00:05, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Sorry for the bother, but...
Doug hasn't gotten back to me yet. It's been awhile and I would like to request a Wiki please? Thank you. SperosDurrell (talk) 02:53, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * To request a wiki go to Special:RequestWiki Naleksuh (talk) 02:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * im blocked because i was requesting to many... SperosDurrell (talk) 02:56, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * He was blocked from creating more wikis when he requested a lot of wikis. But that's a few months ago, and he's waiting for it to be revoked as he didn't try to request more wikis anymore. <span style="display:inline-block;border:2px solid #bfff00;border-radius:8px;background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom right, #75ff75, #ffff80)"> Anpang 📨 06:55, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * , you may still create a private wiki of yours, assuming you only have one public wiki. But if you'd like to appeal the restrictions, go to SN or email the stewards at stewards@undefinedmiraheze.org. --Magogre (talk) 07:10, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * There's no way to reopen your wikis in Special:ManageWiki/core? --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 14:38, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Incident disclosure
On 1 February, 2022, Site Reliability Engineering received an isolated report that the MediaWiki interface indicated that a user had been shown as being logged in to the account of another user when browsing Miraheze. As a precaution, we logged everyone out of their accounts and reset all user tokens to ensure no accounts were at risk. We have no evidence that this was abused in any way nor affected anyone other than the user who made us aware.

Your security and privacy are very important to us. As such, we have steps to harden our configuration to prevent future incidents like this from happening. In keeping with our commitment of transparency, SRE is informing the community of this incident so that they are aware. No action is required from your part.

If you have any questions, feel free to reply on to this thread or email us at sre@undefinedmiraheze.org.

On behalf of Site Reliability Engineering, Agent Isai (talk) 05:19, 6 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Has the other affected user been notified individually about the issue? Are there any recommended steps toward security improvements for users? dross  (t • c • g) 06:05, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes. In fact, the affected user was the one who alerted us that another user had been able to log in to their account as the other user reached out to the affected user to let them know. As this was something that doesn't have anything to do with passwords and the such, there's nothing that can be recommended to users at this time. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 06:42, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Is there a reason why you are not mentioning the names of the two users? Or why you seem unable to determine the cause? If users are just being logged into each others accounts and you have no idea why, that is a problem. Naleksuh (talk) 06:49, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * We can name them and you yourself can see the name of the users in this task. We were able to pinpoint the issue and have filed an upstream Wikimedia Phabricator task to address the issue. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 07:02, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The user affected was in direct contact with SRE via a now public Phabricator task. There's no need to mention them in a wider announcement. We are aware of a possible cause but due to lack of logging there is no way to tell for sure. We've taken measures to improve logging. RhinosF1 (Miraheze) (talk) 14:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

wiki analysis???
i have many visitors but no activity i even wrote a listing on gazateer. What needs to be done??? Thank you. SperosDurrell (talk) 22:00, 6 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Generally speaking it is quite difficult to develop a community from nothing, and the founder of a new wiki who does not have background or a community is going to have to put in a lot of personal work to make the wiki worthwhile to new editors. --Raidarr (talk) 20:55, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
 * As stated above, and, perhaps because there are already many wikis on different subjects and many of them already have a community, FANDOM, for example, has thousands of wikis. <span style="display:inline-block;border:1px solid black;font-weight:bold;border-radius:0px;background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom right, #3dff84, #0afcec)"> Ninox (✉️ talk  |  ✏️ edits  | ☁️) 04:47, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

How to translate $wmgWikiLicense?
It's English by default. How can this be translated? খাত্তাব হাসান (talk) 09:42, 9 February 2022 (UTC)


 * If you're referring to this Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) unless otherwise noted. that appears at the bottom of the wiki then you can translate it by adding something like this to your wiki's MediaWiki:Copyright;
 * You can mark it for translation afterwards, note that you need the translate extension enabled. --  Joseph  TB  CT  CA   01:23, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * You can mark it for translation afterwards, note that you need the translate extension enabled. --  Joseph  TB  CT  CA   01:23, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * You can mark it for translation afterwards, note that you need the translate extension enabled. --  Joseph  TB  CT  CA   01:23, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * You can mark it for translation afterwards, note that you need the translate extension enabled. --  Joseph  TB  CT  CA   01:23, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * You can mark it for translation afterwards, note that you need the translate extension enabled. --  Joseph  TB  CT  CA   01:23, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * You can mark it for translation afterwards, note that you need the translate extension enabled. --  Joseph  TB  CT  CA   01:23, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Trademark abuse for the second time this year
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 * A misunderstanding resulting from a joke + Naleksuh being fast at making CN posts resulted in this thread. Just as a note, Miraheze will never ever be involved in the NFT business. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 07:11, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Post closure Steward comment: Admittedly, I do misunderstand Agent Isai's sarcasm, and it seems that was the case here. The sarcasm seems to have gotten Agent Isai in trouble, but that being said, I do concur that Naleksuh should have sought clarification from Agent Isai or another functionary on whether there was any truth to the matter. I'm also uncertain as to why the the thread is titled "trademark abuse." Dmehus (talk) 00:32, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

User:Agent Isai has confessed to me via IRC that they plan to mint Miraheze NFTs later this year. If you see any, please let me know and also email Miraheze legal. Naleksuh (talk) 06:59, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * By this do you mean Miraheze is minting its own NFTs, or Miraheze NFTs are being created without permission and should by copyright claimed? Raichu&#39;s Endless Nights (talk) 07:09, 10 February 2022 (UTC)


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Infobox issue
Hello. I know that someone else has an infobox issue on this noticeboard but it seems a different problem. I cannot get my infobox to display at all, despite extensive googling. I'd really appreciate any help: https://meggipedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Liz_Taylor Simintaylor (talk) 18:30, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, could you explain in detail your issue? Your wiki is private and I can't see what's there --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 18:37, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. I've (tried to?) imported the infobox templates, but I only seem to have some strange formatting when I use one.  I'm trying to add a link to images, but when I do a box appears saying CAPTCHA with nothing to tell me what to enter. Simintaylor (talk) 23:29, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * It's imgur.com /a/G7bEuZx Simintaylor (talk) 23:30, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * It looks like you haven't enabled the TemplateStyles extension yet, hence the tags appearing strangely. If you've already enabled the extension after these errors, I recommend you delete the modules and recreate with the same content as once did. --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 01:03, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Partially retired
Hello everybody. Unfortunately I will have to partially retire (I will only edit Meta eventually) and I will perhaps be more active on my wikis. I would like to be wiki creator in that community than any other right, with all of my two requests being failure. Now I will edit less often and now it's going to be more complicated with my latest edits. Thanks --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 19:20, 13 February 2022 (UTC) .I'll stay on Meta, but I'll be more responsible and clear, CIR: more competent. --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 23:54, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * YellowFrogger, how so?  is not a prerequisite to apply for  . What is a prerequisite is a solid understanding of and demonstrated ability to apply correctly Content Policy, the substantial majority of the time it in wiki approval or decline decisions. You've been working with raidarr on that, as your mentor, and that's been helpful, so my best advice would not be to seek a self-nomination and let him nominate you when he thinks you're ready. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 19:26, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I didn't say autopatrolled is a requirement, I'm just saying how it feels to use it [revocation] in the future. I also think I'm aware of CP, according to my answers to but for someone to make a request to me it's practically impossible. Anything you can disregard what I said above (in case I undo and go back to edit), so I will only edit the noticeboards more often. --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger  ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 19:44, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay. Sounds good. :) Dmehus (talk) 19:53, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, this question is a little more difficult. FANDOM has a lot of ads, no Wikipedia style themes, ShoutWiki is slower to update, charges 5$ to remove ads. It's really thoughtful stay here and hope you stay well! <span style="display:inline-block;border:1px solid black;font-weight:bold;border-radius:0px;background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom right, #3dff84, #0afcec)"> Ninox (✉️ talk  |  ✏️ edits  | ☁️) 04:54, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Regarding my RfP
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 * <span style="">Not a use case of Community noticeboard. Also essentially seems to be a thread to stir up drama. <span style=""> Naleksuh (talk) 08:40, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Since everyone cited "concerns" and the request was closed by WP:SNOW, why not invite me, as Dmehus has already done in an RfP, to become a temporary Wiki creator (1 month for example), to test, how much my conduct regarding requests? If I did well, I'd take rights or open a new RfP to look into it. For me, a genuine option that gives second chances to those who are really interested. I've seen WCs that haven't even created more than 5 wikis. It is worth thinking a lot about the interest of being a user volunteer as well. 6 months/1 year is too much and I still DOUBT that waiting that long would be a reason for success. It's just a while. There are wiki creators who became WC in 4-5 months. It's really something to think about. I also saw that one of the opponents made fun of my English. I expect constructive reception. --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 01:39, 14 February 2022 (UTC)


 * You could've requested this in your first, or even your second, wiki creator request, but given that you've now had three requests closed in a short span of time, I don't feel this would be appropriate here, given the concerns expressed. Dmehus (talk) 01:45, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Nobody has a crystal ball to know how harmful I'm going to be in the future. Also, you mentioned reasons, typical of giving up to the extreme: "I've already made two or three requests, you can't make any more", so I can give up trying to volunteer. Thanks! --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 01:53, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * While I'm not Dmehus, I really think you should try to calm down. I'm speaking from experience here when I say I get your frustrations, but you can't let it get to you. There's always a next time, trust me. Hypercane  <font color="#8152C6">(  talk <font color="#8152C6">) 01:56, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Look, thanks for the answer but I'm not annoyed with anything, but citing the part that, frankly, I don't agree: there are no policies that limit the number of requests, he mentioned how I had already made a lot of requests and that I can't do it again. --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 01:59, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * There are no policies, yes, limiting the number of the permissions requests for the same permission you may make in a given period of time because the very fact is, it should be common sense that if one has to keep trying and trying again, for the same permission, without taking into consideration the community's desire for someone to seek a mentor, and seek a third-party nomination from said mentor, then that ought to be enough to suggest that one is quite literally, figuratively speaking, bashing their head against a figurative brick wall, no? Dmehus (talk) 02:04, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't want to start a rivalry with you, so we'd better stop there. --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 02:20, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The fact that you put "concerns" means that you aren't agreeing to those concerns - a concern is a concern. <span style="display:inline-block;border:2px solid #bfff00;border-radius:8px;background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom right, #75ff75, #ffff80)"> Anpang 📨 01:49, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Also remember to load the argument itself in your brain. With glue, tape, slime? perhaps. Edits like this: is anything but exemplary. I don't ping you, so I don't expect your opinion. --<span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,#89005E,#89005E, #FF00AF); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">YellowFrogger  ( talk ) ( ✔ ) 02:14, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * NO! Just understand me already! I added that because you never understand the word "per" - that's it. The "Also remember to load the argument itself in your brain.", how am I supposed to comment on that if I didn't think of that? You also need to load the argument inself in your brain, you don't understand the argument of my vote. You're telling me to load the argument but you also don't load the argument. You make zero sense. That's it, I'm opposing your next RfPs until you realize. To be honest, it's probably because you don't understand certain english words, but you never correct them even if other people tell. <span style="display:inline-block;border:2px solid #bfff00;border-radius:8px;background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom right, #75ff75, #ffff80)"> Anpang 📨 07:14, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Being honest here, you're partially correct on the whole "6 months/1 year is too much and I still DOUBT that waiting that long would be a reason for success" statement there. Regardless of how much time has passed, if you don't show noticeable improvement...why would that change the result? I personally think you should just try to work on resolving the concerns and go from there. Hypercane  <font color="#8152C6">(  talk <font color="#8152C6">) 01:53, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hello
How do I specifically change the username? I went to the designated page but do I have to wait? Thanks! HamiltonRoss (talk) 02:53, 14 February 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm pretty sure you will have to wait for a Steward to complete the request on their end. Hypercane  <font color="#8152C6">(  talk <font color="#8152C6">) 02:56, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I already went to Special:GlobalRenameRequest (which is the designated page). What estimate do you give that s|stewards from Meta-Wiki will fulfill the request? HamiltonRoss (talk) 03:00, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Well Dmehus already did it quickly for you. I hope you like your new username though and have fun! Hypercane  <font color="#8152C6">(  talk <font color="#8152C6">) 03:00, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Ninox, as Hypercane mentioned, this has been ✅. While your global rename is in progress, you will not be able to use this user account. Dmehus (talk) 03:07, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * and Thanks! I'm login now. If you are interested in the next projects managed by me, welcome! --<span style="display:inline-block;border:1px solid black;font-weight:bold;border-radius:0px;background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom right, #3dff84, #0afcec)"> Ninox  (✉️ talk  |  ✏️ edits  | ☁️) 03:47, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Ninox, no problem. Dmehus (talk) 04:44, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

I am unable create an account
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 * ✅. So ✅. Dmehus (talk) 06:05, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi I am strangely unable to create an account, tested with my friend it ended up failing several times and a message appears:

"reCAPTCHA validation failed: score retrieved from server is lower than the minimum required score. Please try again later. If problems persist, please fill in this form"

Anyone to know what this is? When you try again, you get a message "Users with this IP address have already created an account". someone to help? Pesiano15 (talk) 20:03, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * It's not the first time it happens to me with reCAPTCHA. Unfortunately the way is to change or wait for the Miraheze team to do it. Hirnanian2 (talk) 20:30, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, about that, you might want to try filling out this form or if someone out there is having trouble creating an account. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 20:33, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, i agree to users above. I realizrd this form!!!! I've filled out !!! have to wait ??

The only problem I see here is new users on the wiki. Surely a lot of people couldn't create accounts on a particular wiki because of reCAPTCHA. It must have been bad for Miraheze too. I hope it will be fixed in the future, which is likely. EnergiaKAK (talk) 21:05, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Really weird. It is said that it was to avoid spambots, which it actually did. To keep confident, I know this was unintentional and it will get better, trust me don't worry  Buford (talk) 21:12, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi,
 * someone will create your account for you within a few days. We get a few requests a day. Compared to the number of creations blocked, it's a huge benefit. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  21:11, 14 February 2022 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section

Change the look of the galleries ?
Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to change the appearance of the image galleries: give a round shape, a background, etc... A bit like here, on Fandom, m'kay: https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Mario_Bros Thank you in advance. Darkrai18 (talk) 17:40, 18 February 2022 (UTC) Darkrai18 (talk) 17:40, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
 * This page might be relevant for you. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 16:09, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

reCAPTCHA is unavailable in Mainland China
Google is blocked in Mainland China, so both reCAPTCHA and the Miraheze account request form are unavailable in Mainland China. Can reCAPTCHA be replaced with another CAPTCHA? --沈澄心 (talk) 09:36, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * If the request form is also unavailable, please email sre-mediawiki@undefinedmiraheze.org instead. As to ReCaptcha, unless a reasonable alternative is proposed and agreed upon by the community, SRE will not be replacing ReCaptcha for the time being. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 16:09, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

How to get syntax highlighting?
How do I get the syntax highlighting in the edit box on my wiki, like there is when editing on Wikipedia? Both sites have the gadget enabled, there's something else here that needs fixing. Rob Kam (talk) 14:58, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Do not include quotes on the page preview?
Hi, How not to include for example a quote when previewing the pages? When I say "preview", I mean when you are on a page, you click on the link and you can preview a page without clicking on it. Mario Encyclopedia for example does this (https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario): when you hover over a link, you only see the introductory text and not the quotes, templates, etc. Thanks in advance. Darkrai18 (talk) 19:31, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Internal server error
Stock car racing has an internal error. Zcook1052 (talk) 22:21, 19 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Which page? In any case, this sort of thing should be raised on Phabricator, not here. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 22:25, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * SRE are aware. I will get a trace shortly. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  22:30, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * stockcarracing.miraheze.org Zcook1052 (talk) 22:32, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * RhinosF1, thanks. I wasn't sure whether this was a widespread issue, or a localised one unique to, though arguably a Phabricator ticket would be better for tracking purposes in either case.
 * Zcook1052, thanks, but which page? The main page you linked to gives me no error. Dmehus (talk) 22:36, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Category:Cross-reference templates Zcook1052 (talk) 23:55, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Change color of audio files ?
Hello, so here it is, I would like to know how to change the color of my audio files, make it appear in the color I want. Currently, they appear in white on a white background, which is not very practical. I know it's possible because Mario Encylopedia did it: https://www.mariowiki.com/File:SM64_Mario_It%27s-a_me_Mario.oga Thanks in advance for your answer. Darkrai18 (talk) 13:07, 20 February 2022 (UTC) Darkrai18 (talk) 13:07, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * On my browser, Mozilla Firefox, I can right click and in  shows the coding

.video-js .vjs-control-bar { background: #000; }
 * This is stored in mh:fiction:MediaWiki:Common.css PercyUK (talk) 13:51, 20 February 2022 (UTC)