Community noticeboard/Archive 7

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Can I backup?
If I make a personal wiki can I have a backup if Miraheze ever breaksdown?
 * Of course! Special:DataDump can be used for that effect. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 16:20, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, the data dumps also mentioned at Terms of Use. The usage of data dumps is to generate your content as xml, and your content must be comply with TOU, just in case your Wiki had accidentally breakdown. SA 13 Bro (talk) 02:56, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

How to import
I want to import pages from Wikibooks. But at Special:Import, I can only select metawiki and templatewiki to import pages on. --Fung</b> ster (contribs - email - CA) 16:56, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

How do I add other languages to my wiki?
Hey, I manage the wiki.mxlinuxusers.de in German language up to now. Now there is a request to expand it to English language too(like the wiki.archlinux.org). So I want to add https://wiki.mxlinuxusers.de/wiki/Main_Page to "in other languages" like they do. How this can be done? --Peter Littmann (talk) 16:21, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * First you need to create the interwiki (I can do it but I need to know which prefix they want to use) and enable wgExtraInterlanguageLinkPrefixes in GitHub (I can enable it). Hispano76 (talk) 16:53, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I am not sure if I understand you correctly. I understand you wish to get the following data:

Could this work in this form or does I need to create a new wiki and eventually a new domain on which it runs? --Peter Littmann (talk) 02:31, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Prefix: en or mxlinuxusersen
 * URL: https://wiki.mxlinuxusers.de/wiki/Main_Page
 * So when the user opens https://wiki.mxlinuxusers.de he should get Hauptseite and under in anderen Sprachen there should be a link English which should link to https://wiki.mxlinuxusers.de/wiki/Main_Page. Will this be practicable or would you suggest a better method?
 * Hello, i think you want to enable the "Translator" extension for your wiki like we have enabled on meta. Paladox (talk) 14:16, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * As I understand this seems to be meant for translation projects where the authors write and translate together. In our wiki a group of some germans will write and a independent group of some English speaking authors will write their articles where some are in both groups but the content may be grow independent. Some articles may exist in both languages some not. --Peter Littmann (talk) 15:06, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Then you will have to request a new specialized wiki for the English language apart from the German wiki. Then you could use interwikis as Wikipedia does. Hispano76 (talk) 20:54, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * So I have ordereed a new domain(mxlinuxusers.org) where I added a subdomain wiki.mxlinuxusers.org and set the CNAME to your server. I requested a new wiki in the form and used Phabricator to request a Let's encript certificate. So from my side seems to be all fullfilled, right? Please check it. --Peter Littmann (talk) 22:39, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

Giving access to linking between wikis
Hello, I would like my wiki (https://hasanistan.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page) to have the ability to link to other wikis in Miraheze and also this wiki (https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Main_Page). Thanks. OIMGov (talk) 14:01, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Some of them are accessible via interwiki links. Ask a staff for more details. Fung</b> ster (contribs - email - CA) 20:20, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

where is "Special:ManageWiki"
From miraheze I got the message posted on https://isac.miraheze.org/wiki/: "Miraheze Staff has noticed that this wiki has no edits or logs made within the last 45 days. If you would like to prevent this wiki from being closed, please start showing signs of activity here. If there are no signs of this wiki being used within the next 15 days, this wiki may be closed per the Dormancy Policy. This wiki will then be eligible for adoption by another user. If not adopted and still inactive 135 days from now, this wiki will become eligible for deletion. Please be sure to familiarize yourself with Miraheze's Dormancy Policy. If there is activity on this wiki you can go to Special:ManageWiki and uncheck "inactive" yourself. If you have any other questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to Stewards' noticeboard."

Following the above hint "go to Special:ManageWiki" I visit "https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages", but there searching for "ManageWiki" gives no result; "Manage a wiki" leads me to somewhere I feel lost.

So, how can I uncheck "inactive" ?

Best, Walther
 * Go to isac.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:ManageWiki Zppix (Meta &#124; CVT Member &#124; talk to me) 14:13, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * If you want ease of access, it is also accessible from your wiki sidebar. Fung</b> ster (contribs - email - CA) 20:18, 23 June 2019 (UTC)