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Backup pulled from archive.org (Izanagi.miraheze.org)
Hi or anyone else,

Imported backup xml from archive.org. The problem now is that none of the Category pages seem to be listing their respective pages. Could you look into this plz? Also, changes I make to Mediawiki:Common.css won't show up (not immediately anyways despite refreshing cache). Oberyn (talk)

NOTE: About the categories: The pages that were not being displayed in their categories were put there within a condition specified in a template. Normal categories using the Oberyn (talk)
 * Hi, can you give some examples of this? The MediaWiki:Common.css issue should be fixed now btw. Southparkfan (talk) 15:50, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

...The Notorious Ogre Turtle page, as you can see from the list at the bottom of it, is a part of a series of categories: Bestiary, Monsters of Old Wood Forest, BossesField Boss, Animals, and Level 16 to 20 Monsters. However, visiting those category pages will give you the message, "This category currently contains no pages or media." Please note that pages such as Notorious Ogre Turtle were automatically put into their respective categories from a template, Template:Beast, I had included. Whenever someone inserts a Beast template and fills in its values, it will automatically be included into its respective categories (The "if" code was used. Example: ). Please also note that this issue only persists with "automatic categories"..pages included into categories normally work fine (By normally i mean with the command at the bottom). The "automatic categories" worked fine in our Orain wiki. The current issue is most likely due to something to do with the import process. Anyways..thank you for the help. Looking forward... Oberyn (talk)
 * Should be fixed now. Please let me know if you need something else. Southparkfan (talk) 16:08, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Hey, I had requested this on the "request features/extensions" but I doubt it would be looked at anymore since it was already marked DONE. Could you remove the MobileFrontend extension from my wiki (Izanagi.miraheze.org)? I've been told it's a global extension? I just don't want my wiki to be viewed in mobile format; it looks weird. Also...i just want to say that we are extremely grateful for the service you all are providing us. My team will be thrilled to hear that the wiki will be back up for editing. For their sake... How can i go about downloading xml-backups of the entire wiki? I'm aware of page-by-page exporting. Thanks Oberyn (talk)
 * Hi, I will try to see what I can do about MobileFrontend being disabled on your wiki. As for backups do you want old backups or someone to do backups of today? Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 17:26, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the looking into mobilefrontend. About the backups..don't worry about it: I just wanted to know if the option was available. Will request one when we make enough progress. Thanks for the prompt replies. Oberyn (talk)

Index Wiki ( transferred from Administrators' noticeboard )
Can it have a link on the main page or sidebar so new users know they can go to it and create a page about their wiki or find information about existing wikis? D4rkst4r (talk) 22:40, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't understand what you mean. Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 03:57, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The sidemenu Is global, And not only in the index page. As well - Only wiki sysop's can edit the sidemenu, and Even Stewards cannot change it. SleepyMode  11:06, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * D4rk, do you mean you want Index wiki to be on the sidebar of Meta wiki? Or all wikis? If the wiki grows and looks helpful we might link it here, but probably not globally. Also, SleepyMode, what you said about Stewards not being able to do that is not true, as Stewards have most if not all of the permissions local sysops have, we just don't use them as much on other wikis. Specifically, Stewards do have read, edit, editprotected, and editinterface globally, which are all of the rights required to edit the system interface on any wiki. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 13:02, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Request for adding testwiki to Dormancy policy exceptions
I am requesting to add testwiki to Dormancy policy exceptions as it is used by users to test out stuff so they can learn mediawiki and use it on their wikis as well as other users that want to test new stuff added for miraheze (bots, etc.) Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 16:40, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Southparkfan (talk) 16:51, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Reception123  (talk) ( contribs  ) 16:52, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Extension:MultiUpload disabled globally
I've gone ahead and disabled Extension:MultiUpload on all wikis where it was enabled. This extension is throwing end-user server 500 errors, has been unmaintained, and I haven't personally seen it working since MediaWiki 1.24 (we are currently running ). I'd personally recommend Extension:MsUpload if you still need bulk-uploading functionality, but you might want to look at other things that extension does, or find your own alternative. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 13:02, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I never saw it useful anyway. SleepyMode  13:17, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

ric.miraheze.org
Hello. Last 10th november I got my wiki at mirahaze. ric.miraheze.org

I have a problem, I enter with my user account and it seems I have no administrator and bureaucrat permissions.

Could you make me administrator and bureaucrat?

And also this other users: https://ric.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=User:SergiDiaz&action=edit&redlink=1 https://ric.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=User:RenéMérou&action=edit&redlink=1 https://ric.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=User:Pablo2garcia

If you do now want or can add them as admins and bureaucrats I would need to change my password in order to give it to them, since I am not so tech savvy, and let them do the initial setups. And I could not change my password. If you could change it for: "maravilla". But our first option is to make them admins and bureaucrats.

Also we would want to change the settings so users can create pages, and the default user language. What configuration files must we change? Just give us a hint, we will study it.

And is it possible to download back ups of the whole wiki? How?

Thanks a lot for your time and the Miraheze initiative.


 * I'm looking into the user permissions on your wiki now. What do you mean you'd have to change your password to give it to them?
 * You can't change any of the "configuration files" for your wiki, that is handled by System administrators. Some things can be changed on wiki, but what you're describing does sound like a configuration change. Please make a request at Request features.
 * You can download backups of the whole wiki. To have a backup created, please ask a sysadmin (most likely.
 * Thanks for your support :) Hopefully we can help you soon. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 15:47, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * After quickly going back to wiki creation logs for November 10th, I found your wiki and the associated request. I've gone ahead and given your Administrator and Bureaucrat rights on your wiki. You may now log in and assign these rights to any other users. Note that bureaucrats don't really give any administrative positions besides being able to choose more administrators. If you give anyone on your wiki administrator, you will not be able to remove it yourself, you will have to request a Steward to do it for you. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 15:50, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Problem with a JPG file.
Please see my recently uploaded file: Building, cannot generating thumbnail image from it, so cannot using it.

Thanks, --Lalo5555 (talk) 01:18, 10 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi It appears that the file you linked to is loading correctly for me, including thumbnails. Could you provide a link to a case where you tried to use it and it failed? Thanks! -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 15:41, 10 January 2016 (UTC)