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Uncyclopedia interwiki
My Phabricator task 2384 has resulted in discussion about process but no decision. 's opinion was that it should be brought up here, so I am doing so. My Phabricator request stated:


 * In 2013, Uncyclopedia (uncyclopedia.wikia.com) forked into two projects. The Fork (en.uncyclopedia.co) started a campaign to induce as many wikis as possible to point to it rather than the original site on the basis that "the community has moved" and the original site was "unused and abandoned." Requestor remained on the original site, became an Admin just after the split and is now a bureaucrat on sabbatical. My opinion is that, in the intervening years, the Wikia site has valued the reader while the Fork site has been operated for the sake of the authors. In the cases where the content is not identical, the Wikia site is better maintained and has more mature and entertaining content. Your call; but at the least, the arguments given for the original switch are not truth but one side's spin.

Reception123 granted the request for my own TheMirror wiki but the global issue is unresolved and the Phabricator task remains open. 12:08 17-Nov-2017
 * This clearly needs discussion between the community so that it can be decided which one of the sites is preferred to be linked in the interwiki, and if we perhaps want to have two links (one for the Wikia wiki, one for the other). Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 08:06, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The Wikia version can already be accessed at wikia:c:uncyclopedia, just like every other Wikia wiki can be accessed with wikia:c:SUBDOMAIN-NAME. Meanwhile, the only iw link for Uncyclopedia.co is . 12:32, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Remove uncyclopedia, leave uncyclopedia blank, and add two variants for .co and .wikia.com. I don't think we're in position to make a decision which one is "authentic". &mdash; revi  15:45, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Do we really need to make a(n another) interwiki prefix for uncyclopedia.wikia.com? Just like every other Wikia wiki, it can already be accessed with wikia:c:uncyclopedia. Besides, the people over at Interwiki map once did what you suggested (which is to delete uncyclopedia: because now they're on .wikia.com), but then the editors from the true Uncyclopedia asked Wikimedia Meta to link it to the fork and they agreed. 02:35, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * You know what, now I support 's proposal (at least farmwide). Add uncyclopediaco: and uncycco: for  and uncyclopediawikia: and wikiauncyc: for  . What does everyone think? ?  11:36, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * What I think is that reaching a decision here is like pulling hen's teeth. The farm-wide proposal is fine with me; I have the interwiki I wanted on my own wiki.   21:17 10-Feb-2018

Authentication Required popup when logging in
When logging in on miraheze, I get an 'authentication Required' popup (firefox) saying that https://wiki.lspdfr.de is requesting my username and password, and a warning that those will not be sent tot the website I am visiting (miraheze). Strange thing.

It will keep me logged in on miraheze if I cancel the popup.
 * Hmm I got that on miraheze the other day. you are the owner of said wiki, do you know anything about this? MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 21:21, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
 * This is very strange. I invite you to file a task on Phabricator about this (maybe also provide a screenshot) so that we can investigate this better. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 05:56, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I, too, get exactly the same thing on Safari whether I login on Miraheze and my own wikis. Seems pointless as it doesn't serve any purpose. It only started appearing the other day after the site went really sluggish and then went down for a short while. After that I started getting this annoying popup. 11:09, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Interwiki link for Wikisource needs updating
I noticed the other day that when using the interwiki for Wikisource it didn't link correctly. I checked Special:Interwiki and it is missing the "en" prefix. It currently looks like this  instead of like this. The interwiki link I use in a reference template doesn't link to the appropriate Wikisource pages because of the missing "en" prefix. Instead it links to pages on Wikisource that don't exist. This is a problem when trying to reference material properly. Is it possible to get this updated so that the interwiki links point to the correct location? Thanks. 11:22, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I this change only if  is created. You see,   is the old and original multilingual Wikisource, and is linked to as  on Wikimedia wikis. Just like your proposal, Wikimedia currently has  linked to  .  11:31, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Created oldwikisource, and changed wikisource to the "en" version. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 13:59, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Interwiki link for Miraheze Template Wiki
mtw for Miraheze Template Wiki please. So that for e.g. other wiki can use. Then users can collaborate on templates instead of every wiki having to re-invent the wheel for themselves.
 * I like the idea of having one wiki where users can get templates from. Though, I would like to see what other members of the community think as well. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 20:13, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Should we have another vote, or should we just comment? I think that having a template wiki is a good idea. CoolieCoolster (talk) 20:22, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
 * It's not my wiki, I'm just one of the collaborators. I'd really like to see the community working together on this wiki. I strongly support the idea. It's something that should have happened before now but MW are too tied up in their own bureaucracy to be able to implement it. Users will still be able to have unique templates on their own wikis. --Rob Kam (talk) 22:14, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I think having a wiki just for templates is a great idea, especially if those templates were categorised for easier identification and navigation (instead of just listed on the special page). If a user has created his or her own set of templates that he or she thinks would be useful for others, can they export/import themselves to template wiki or do templates have to go through some sort vetting process first to check for suitability?  23:10, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Apparently it's a free-for-all, just put the templates up and see what happens. Perhaps other people will edit them. --Rob Kam (talk) 14:39, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I am happy to assign permissions to anyone that wants them. You can consider it as a community owned wiki. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 21:39, 5 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Done. Interwiki is Meta administrator's discretionary area, for now. Added as, so it is easier to understand than "mtw". And people: Discussion about templatewiki on elsewhere (ideally on templatewiki or on Community Noticeboard) please. &mdash;  revi  08:00, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. For discussion about templatewiki, use template wiki's community portal, linked in the sidebar there. --Rob Kam (talk) 10:37, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Please note the template edit on that wiki might have BIG impact on other wikis - please make sure your wiki get proper attention and if vandals are not managed we might have to disable the interwiki. &mdash; revi  10:50, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * The possibility of disastrous changes, and of malicious changes, are two good reasons for wiki owners to pull over a copy rather than just use what happens to be at  right now.  Unfortunately, the interwiki link encourages wiki owners to "simply" use the copy at   and consider the problem solved for good.  I don't know of a Special:WhatLinksHere that searches all other wikis, so there is no way to know, when improving a template there, who will be affected.   12:25 6-Feb-2018
 * Anyone can monitor Recent changes on template wiki and fix any damage. --Rob Kam (talk) 13:14, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Some help required with editing Template:Stub on templatewiki
Template:Stub on Miraheze template wiki, I'd like to change ''This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.  to This article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.'' but can't see where to? --Rob Kam (talk) 21:34, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
 * https://template.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Module:Asbox&diff=21720&oldid=13018 MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 22:30, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I get it now ... --Rob Kam (talk) 23:38, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
 * However inserting on a page produces "This article is a stub. You can help  by expanding it." i.e. the magic word isn't working, (except the comparable Lua function is mw.site.siteName). How to fix this please, (this is going further than I'd like already)? --Rob Kam (talk) 10:23, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Solved thanks to mw:User:Tgr.

Interwiki for The Multilingual Encyclopedia for the rest of Miraheze
Please add  and   for   sitewide so that I can link to TME from MTW and VW. Also, please don't add  as a prefix because it may conflict with TME's   namespace (which is its Project: namespace). -- 03:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Request for interwiki links on WIXOSS Chinese Wiki
We need some interwiki links on WIXOSS Chinese Wiki (WIXOSS中文维基 wixoss.miraheze.org):
 * 萌百:$1 for the link https://zh.moegirl.org/$1
 * $1 for the link http://selector-wixoss.wikia.com/wiki/$1

Thanks a lot! --Honoka55 (talk) 10:12, 22 February 2018 (UTC)