User:Raidarr

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Hello, welcome to my userpage. I am currently a Steward on Miraheze. Stewarding, countervandalism, and occasionally chipping into platform development are what I mostly do here. You might see me drop commentary or support the adminship on local wikis by request or personal interest.

I joined in 2021; between then and late 2022 I became a Wiki Creator, Global Sysop and finally a Steward. I burnt out in late '22 and came back after handling my affairs in early 2023. I re-requested Global Sysop and then Stewardship in the wee months of '23. Now here we are.

Otherwise I've been involved in reception wikis, polandball-type wikis, and independent wider internet wikis mostly for game franchises. I'm not tangibly involved on Wikimedia and I pass through at most on Fandom and other farms.

I have a (private) wiki (raidarr.miraheze.org, not much to see) and an alt account for testing (Raided Lemons).

Feel free to reach out if you have questions, concerns or just want to say hello.

Essays

 * /Don't import Wikipedia/, a case against mass imports of Wikipedia templates.
 * /Wiki explorer/, an essay about the people who 'explore' the wikis of Miraheze.
 * /Adoption process/, an essay for how to 'adopt' a wiki where no official procedure for this term exists.
 * /Wiki creators' guide/, an essay reflecting the best practices of wiki creation.
 * /Requests for reopening guide/, a fairly short guide for how RfRW is processed.
 * /Restrict editing to authorized users/, tackling one common permissions-related issue. In need of heavy revision and improvement, and possibly expansion to an FAQ for permissions in general.


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Troubleshooting hacks
I'll probably make this an essay but I'll compile them here until I have enough to make a page out of. These are things I do to skip certain hurdles, steps or points of confusion in context of performing CVT or general troubleshooting.
 * "I don't know what wiki they're talking about": This is not foolproof but you can often find the answer by looking up the user in Special:CentralAuth. You have your answer if they have one wiki where they are bureaucrat and sysop. On Discord where user is authenticated (mainly in context of the support section), look up the user mention in #auth-logs. Having CentralAuth close on hand is a good idea if you volunteer at global scale. You should use this trick with good sense; if you're fairly but not completely sure, ask if it is that wiki before running with it. If it's indeterminate then the user needs to specify. It's ideal for them to specify anyway to save time, but many do not and it can be quicker to just take a look.
 * If you are on desktop, have rollback and are looking at a user with lots of vandalism to hit: middle click rollback links one after another. Refresh and see if you missed any. I don't have tricks to make this easy on mobile unfortunately, unless you turn on the setting in preference where you don't get a confirmation screen (I don't use this setting and I imagine it's rather dangerous to have enabled anyway). There are scripts to be even quicker, but someone will need to remind me where to find them.
 * VisualEditor not working: Basic steps to try first: if in talk or another non-standard namespace, make sure it's enabled first via Special:ManageWiki/namespaces. It should be the Edit button with an additional option of Edit source. If a bit of time has passed and it still does not appear, add the following script to the wiki's MediaWiki:Common.js: User:Dimpizzy/scripts/addmissingbutton.js. Some skins play worse with VE than others and VE is generally a pain in the ass. If this doesn't do it then there might be a deeper issue or MediaWiki SRE needs to be poked.
 * Red box with error code: Probably needs to be referred to a phabricator task or a message to MediaWiki SRE if you know them outright if the error is received consistently.
 * Infoboxes in general: Two paths. 1. Suggest PortableInfobox as generally easier to use especially for those with a Fandom background, and refer them to the Builder that comes with it (is linked in the interface where you enable the extension). 2. If someone is dead set on wikipedia style infoboxes, refer them here, and for an implementation example refer them here. Use Special:Export on wikipedia to pull the template and Special:Import on the local wiki to use it. Avoid option 3 at all costs: playing whack a mole imports with wikipedia infoboxes. If someone really wants to use lua, send them to chaotic on discord (one of the few who delve in this rabbit hole with success).