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How do I allow someone to be an administrator on my wiki?
Hello, I created a wiki at https://talkingtomandfriends.miraheze.org. It is still up and coming. When new editors come to it, I might have to make some of them administrators/bureaucrats. But how will I allow them to delete or protect pages? Zkhanr123 (talk) 10:57, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * You can go to Special:UserRights. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 09:15, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks,Reception123. It'll be of a lot of use when my wiki gets viewed by someone other than my relatives. Zkhanr123 (talk) 10:57, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * To be clear, making someone an administrator does confer the ability to delete and protect pages. Bureaucrats usually are also admins and can do so too.   15:12 9-Dec-2017
 * Well, bureaucrats don't have the right per se, it's just because the vast majority of bureaucrats are also sysops/administrators. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 16:43, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Add a what links here to various pages on meta
I'd like to have the what links here added to various pages of meta.

I posted an example on my user space:

https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Rsterbal/Code_of_Conduct

thanks! Rsterbal (talk) 04:33, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
 * You don't state why this is necessary.
 * You can see it by clicking "" in the sidebar, why do we need to transclude it? &mdash; revi  07:11, 16 December 2017 (UTC)


 * No, least of all, to create a separate section containing nothing but back-links. Some of these are passing references or lists of pages, and not of value to the reader of the current page.  If reading a policy page inherently puts questions in the reader's mind that could be answered on other pages, a See also section, like Wikipedia, might be appropriate, though in-line wikilinks are still better.   13:17 16-Dec-2017

Miraheze Finance Graphs
I made some graphs to visualize Miraheze's finances from August 2015 to November 2017:


 * File:Miraheze Finance Graph.png
 * File:Miraheze Finance Graph by Month.png
 * File:Miraheze Balance Change by Month.png
 * File:Miraheze Income by Month.png
 * File:Miraheze Expenses by Month.png
 * File:Miraheze Hosting Costs by Month.png

CoolieCoolster (talk) 04:24, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Good idea! I think the graphs are a good way to better vizualize our finances. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 15:10, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Navigation Popup available on Meta


The navigation popup available in enwiki is now also available in miraheze meta. Enable it from Special:Preferences's Gadget section. If you ever want to use it on your wiki, copy&paste MediaWiki:Gadget-popups.js, MediaWiki:Gadget-popups.css, MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition, and MediaWiki:Gadget-Navigation popups. By enabling this gadget, your User-Agent and the referrer will be known to the Wikimedia Foundation, and that information will be handled under the rule of WMF Privacy Policy. That's because the gadget loads CSS and JS from English Wikipedia, site controlled by WMF. (I intentionally did this because this way Miraheze local sysops don't have to take care of code maintenance.) &mdash; revi  12:58, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

What happened to the multimedia viewer?
Is the MultimediaViewer extension not compatible with the latest version of Mediwiki? I find it quite a useful tool for viewing galleries. 22:18, 21 December 2017 (UTC)