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Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates
Today I present to you a problem that has me completely baffled. If you look at, you can see that it has only translations of Custom domains. That said, the reason that it says "incorrect protection template" is most likely because the original Custom domains is in fact protected, but that doesn't carry over for translations. Do you think there is a fix to this or will this be permanent? Just to clarify once again, this is regarding  --Integer  talk 03:55, 21 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Please note that I have moved this here from SN as this only concerns Meta where Stewards generally should not interfere. Thank you. 07:57, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Also, I noticed this while cleaning up Special:WantedCategories. It is likely caused by a template imported from Wikipedia. 08:26, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Integer Thank you for raising this issue. R4356th was correct in moving this thread from stewards' noticeboard to Administrators' noticeboard, where this request is now more in scope. I would quibble just a bit with the phrasing of R4356th's explanation, though, as stewards do have some managerial responsibility for Meta Wiki. It's a governance structure that is somewhat complicated, to put it mildly. For example, Meta bureaucrats oversee most local user group permissions requests requiring a community election (i.e., at Requests for permissions) or which can only be granted by Meta bureaucrats as a discretionary appointment at Administrators' noticeboard (i.e., interface administrator) whereas stewards oversee the global group permissions requests plus one local Meta user group permission request, wiki creator, which was functionally implemented as a local rather global user group for various reasons, but it very much is a global role (i.e., it's just only used on Meta, essentially). Meta bureaucrats generally close most local Meta Wiki discussions, whereas stewards close most global discussions. ManageWiki settings changes are done by stewards. Extensions are enabled by stewards, though in most, but not necessarily all, cases, stewards should consult with a Meta bureaucrat to see whether a community discussion of some sort is needed. In short, it's quite complicated. Alas, I digress. Nevertheless, R4356th is correct that stewards have little concern for which pages or templates are appropriate to Meta, or even such matters as how pages should be titled, generally speaking. Thus, Administrators' noticeboard is the best venue for anything concerning Meta Wiki only. Most requests here can be handled by either a Meta administrator or Meta bureaucrat, whether a community discussion is warranted or not. That's not to say that there may never be a particular request at Administrators' noticeboard that would never be handled by a steward, depending on the specific change required. For example, a minor change to Special:ManageWikiDefaultPermissions might be requested here, though community noticeboard would probably still be a better venue, it's not unreasonable for it to be requested here. In any case, to your specific question, I've gone ahead and just ✅ Template:Pp-template that was causing this issue. While we could have corrected the template to improve the category by which the template categorized pages, since it was only used on one or perhaps two pages, it wasn't really used. And, to be honest, unless we have a bot like AnomieBOT that updates the page protection icons automatically when page protection levels change or expire, these errors will be commonplace. Since one can easily view the protection status in the "page information" feature of a given page, it's not that useful. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 13:21, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Got it, and very much! Integer  talk 13:23, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Integer ✅. Dmehus (talk) 13:28, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Request for Updating Miraheze
Could someone please update the news section in "Miraheze" to note that Miraheze now hosts more than 4000 wikis? Thank you. 10:52, 21 January 2021 (UTC)


 * R4356th I'm going to mark this as ❌ because (a) we've hosted over 4,500 wikis before and (b) a large swath of closed wikis is due to be added to Special:DeletedWikis in the next few days, which will likely drop us below 4,000 wikis again. Thus, if it's considered significant enough news to note on Main Page, I'd rather wait until it's over 4,100-4,200 wikis. Dmehus (talk) 11:08, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * : ( Okay. 11:10, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I have to agree as I believe we did once update the News like that and afterwards it was quite awkward when the number went down because of the wikis deleted per the Dormancy Policy Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 20:05, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Request for Reviewing Template:Documentation
Could someone please review Template:Documentation? It has a Lua error. I am guessing you may have to import a Lua module. Thank you. 17:38, 20 January 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅ Integer talk 21:25, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Please leave importing to admins from the next time. We should attribute the module authors by importing instead of merely copy-pasting. This is due to legal reasons. I hope this helps. To admins, this is ❌. 21:34, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, ok. Got it. Will note this for future reference. Integer talk 21:36, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, past practice on Meta Wiki with respect to importing versus copying and pasting has been...mixed, to say the least, often without even a required edit summary linking to the source page (via an interwiki page link). Thus, while it's true attribution is required, full history attribution is not required, provided an edit summary link to the source page is included. Best practice here is to say something like, where   is the source page from English Wikipedia. Dmehus (talk) 23:50, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * R4356th I don't see where there's a Lua error on either Template:Documentation or Template:Documentation/doc. Can you clarify what you mean just a bit? Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 23:52, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The errors have been fixed by copy-pasting the required modules mentioned in the error by Integer. However, as we do not have any link to WP or MW.org stating that we imported them from those sites in a widely visible place for modules, conventionally, we import them instead of merely copy-pasting. This is what you are requested to do now. 09:23, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * R4356th I don't see where Integer fixed these issues by copying and pasting, though, unless you don't mean Template:Documentation and Template:Documentation/doc? I just don't see a revision issued by this user. These templates we did actually import correctly, though; however, we could do well to provide a link in an edit summary to the source templates, so I will do that now. Assuming it was only these two templates, I'm going to mark this as ✅ following my correction. Dmehus (talk) 12:31, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The template needed a Lua module which Integer copy-pasted themselves. This sadly means that this is ❌. 13:16, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I am assuming you forgot about this. 22:01, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * R4356th Oh, you didn't link to the Lua module. I thought I checked Module:Documentation and saw it was already imported or properly attributed, but I'll have another look. What other module(s) need to be imported? Dmehus (talk) 22:25, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * It needed some other module. I cannot remember the name right now. Perhaps, can. Nevertheless, I will recheck the template.  12:51, 22 January 2021 (UTC)