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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? 
 * As well as using wikicoding, you can type raw HTML into a page and it will generally take effect.  21:29 8-Sep-2018

About Copyrighted Images (and that they use wgAllowExternalImages)
Hello, everybody. I am administrator of several wikis that are in pre-development phase. One of the issues that I have to resolve is the issue of using external images with copyright through wgAllowExternalImages that already have some wikis enabled.

Before asking my question, I make a clarification. My question does not refer to Wikis whose content was brought from another website because of bifurcations or for some other reason. My question is for Wikis that started from scratch and whose authors wanted to create their own projects that resembled others but were unrelated.

My question is, What is the position of System Administrators, Meta Administrators, Stewards and the entire community regarding using copyrighted images uploaded locally or through wgAllowExternalImages?

Will I be able to use Copyright or Fair Use images without problems? Wiki1776 (talk) 16:04, 8 September 2018 (UTC)


 * 1) Fair Use means you can use the images.
 * 2) Anything on Wikipedia and Commons can be used; they are strict about not allowing photos onto pages where it is not clear that Wikipedia has the right to use them (and their readers have the right to reuse them, with proper credit).
 * 3) Copyrights should not be violated, and it doesn't matter where you got the photos.
 * 4) Whether you can use these images "without problems" depends on whether your wiki has any readers and whether the owner of a stolen image wants to bother redressing the theft. I am sure that Miraheze does not want to spend time sharing your problems, whether receiving a lawsuit or even receiving an expedited demand under the DMCA law, and if they believe the first problem suggests they will share many more, they might shut your wiki down.
 * 5) I welcome corrections.  02:26 9-Sep-2018
 * @Spike the Dog I know the first three points well, so I will omit them. While in the fourth point in theory, only I would be the reader but in practice anyone could see what I publish in a wiki being public.
 * I'd like to use images of several people but I couldn't find any in the Public Domain. I have tried to communicate with possible authors but I have never received an answer. The vast majority have copyright and so my question. Can I use wgAllowExternalImages so that in my Wikis appears in the person's article, an image with copyright or unknown license? Wiki1776 (talk) 15:38, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Subordinated Accounts
I have seen User_accounts_policy and just want to check that what I am doing is in alignment with it. irrespective the situation likely will be temporary.

Background: I am about to create, user Alanoccv_test and  Alanaoccv_guest. Alanoccv_test : will be for my personal use as a 'user' who is not me, and not the creator of my wiki. (a pleb user of my wiki) Alanoccv_guest : will also be my responsibility, but would be used for inviting real-world guests. AKA: I can pre-create an account invite it anywhere that I want. Then hand out temporary browse credentials to my wiki. Questions: The above looks all ok policy-wise to me. Is it? It should be totally unnecessary, but are there any rights I can get taken off subordinate: users Alanoccv_test and Alanaoccv_guest. For instance, could they be 1/ unable to edit in meta: 2/ still able to edit in my wiki 3/ still able to edit their user: pages & user_talk: pages. That way if the unthinkable happens it happens to me? Also is that useful genral naming_pattern, (_role) that other Miraheze users might want to use? Its public way of being clear about intent. Color makes it noticeable it is not quite the real person. or am I just weird? (Ok. So I definitely am, but is that all I am?)

I'm good with answers here or extended discussions/explanations on my talk page. topic New Questions that I will ask somewhere Alanoccv(talk) 03:13, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

I am still open for discussion but I dont think codifying any of this, in any sense, has net benefit to the community. The situation is too specifc and I have thought of ways it can go wrong... and IMO stating what they are just makes it easier for my plans to go wrong. That I asked then revoked the question achieves my primary intent of tansparency with the wiki community. In the future The community group I belong to will/likley have a new category of accounts. Not strictly shared, nor multiple accounts, but an account owned by a group, but at anyone time operated by the appropriate official officer of the club/association.

I have been considering this issue. I believe the best resolution is to leave it as it is. No one except me can know who or how reponsible the people who share Alan_guest might be. So that i am repsonsible for it is the obvious state. Just as the policy page describes. That anyone else who wants or finds purpose to do such thing, has the need to think about it deeply enough to get it right. Creating a pattern or recipe for that is considred harmful by me.

Question answer status is ✅  Alanoccv(talk) 15:49, 22 September 2018 (UTC) (yes I closed my own question. I hope thats ok.)

Randomizing the wiki logo
I used to have this feature on my old wiki - every time the page was reloaded, the logo would change. On Wikia it was done through JS (the exact code can be seen on another wiki here) and I figured I would just have to change the " .wds-community-header__wordmark img" part, but no matter what I change it to (#p-logo, .mw-wiki-logo, etc) I can't get it to work. Any help would be appreciated, unless it just can't be done here MZD (talk) 11:10, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Manage users (not users rights)
I cannot find the "user rights management" page to add users and admins to my wiki. I'm boureocrat and admin myself. Please help. WikiFresno
 * It's Special:UserRights. Ucronistaw (talk) 15:43, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

User Rights on Private Wiki
(In this edit this question has been separated out from a multipart question I intend to flag as status Done of the rest of the question as done. I am doing that because upon further reflection I believe I have sorted out subordinated accounts issues for myself

Background

This FAQ says the following text:

 How private is a private wiki? A private wiki can only be viewed and edited by its members. You can go to your wiki's Special:UserRights and enter the name of any registered Miraheze user to put that user in the  group on your wiki.

However: Umm no I cant on my personal private wiki (see my talk page for link). Is that how it is meant to be?

is there a reason I cant make "Alanoccv guest" a member of my wiki((wikiname == username = link on talk page))? but instead could only make them a "confirmed user"

to be honest, Im not sure why Id want one over the other, but I cant do what the FAQ said I could/should, so its a question? Alanoccv(talk) 16:07, 19 September 2018 (UTC) (separeted into its own question) Alanoccv(talk) 15:36, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Go to Special:ManageWikiPermissions/sysop on your wiki and check off the two boxes that have the member group. They should be under Add and Remove groups. There is a strange bug where the ability to add the member group isn't being properly assigned to sysops right now, but this should fix it. -- Void  Whispers 15:56, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks that fixed it Alanoccv(talk) 17:31, 22 September 2018 (UTC) ✅