[01:35:11] How do I disable IP edits? [01:38:31] Go to Special:ManageWiki/permissions/* on your wiki and unassign all rights related to editing/creating pages (these rights should also be in the "user" group by default, but make sure they're assigned to that group just in case [03:30:15] how do you access managewiki subpages without navigating there directly? [03:31:13] Thanks! [05:06:13] Is there a way for embeds to show a preview of the text/image from a page? Right now it currently displays just a dot whenever I link it on Discord. [05:17:37] Hi all! I've been getting this odd behaviour where "Wanted Images" (made as such when I make the page, which are intended to be clicked and then uploaded after making the page) are automatically filled by something from the Wikimedia Commons. Does anyone know 1) what setting or extension causes this behaviour 2) How to make it stop [05:19:09] It registers the images as being "part of" my wiki when I try to upload their correct replacements too, despite never having been uploaded by anyone. Super weird [05:21:12] Also for clarity I do have UploadWizard enabled for bulk uploads. Couldn't find anything to suggest it's the culprit in its settings but just trying to be thorough [05:26:00] for future reference for anyone getting this issue, turn this off [05:35:53] Wondering if we should maybe make that feature opt-in by default instead of opt-out. [06:06:30] That would be probably good [06:06:59] There are links in the toolbar. "Manage this wiki's _" [06:27:00] It wasn't bothering me until late in my fangames pokedex when I guess I started having more names that can be words otherwise hehe [08:40:41] [1/2] [[mw:Extension:WikiSEO]] [08:40:41] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiSEO [08:40:41] [2/2] there's template-like coding where you can set description and image, I insert this into infobox [08:40:42]

[08:44:35] alternatively [[mw:Extension:PageImages]] but it loves to ignore images in infoboxes and has strange algorithm on choosing image overall [08:44:35] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages [08:44:35]

[08:54:59] Being able to just force an image to be a page image would be awesome [16:46:26] [1/3] can't rename a .webp file (migrated from fandom), gives me [16:46:26] [2/3] `The new file extension does not match its type.` [16:46:26] [3/3] any ideas? [16:46:43] .webp is allowed per Media settings [20:04:55] [1/4] my wiki has been around at least longer than a week but I still don't see a sitemap.xml ? [20:04:55] [2/4] does this generate automatically without doing anything or do I have to enable anything ? [20:04:55] [3/4] I think my wiki already existed on the 14 of August but just containing the base text. [20:04:55] [4/4] I have constantly been editing it and building it up which is taken quite a while. [20:05:28] It is automatic [20:05:48] where do you check sitemaps? [20:06:17] [1/2] they are listed in [20:06:18] [2/2] `https://static.miraheze.org/`your wiki db name`/sitemaps/sitemap.xml` [20:06:20] Every Saturday [20:06:43] oh [20:07:02] in google console you should submit links kisted on this page [20:07:10] but not all of them [20:07:20] Google should automatically find them [20:07:31] At least if the big index is still playing nice [20:07:51] But yeah you can submit to console [20:09:27] I mean, if you need wiki to appear sooner then better to submit [20:09:50] Yeah [20:10:07] There is zero method to how often google actually read what we give them [20:10:44] better to submit the ones endinf w/ `0-0`, `4-0`, `14-0` and `6-0` [20:11:36] if your wiki is not big, this will be enough [20:11:49] those are just the most important types of pages [20:12:23] [1/2] ok I just went through your link I get you don't have permission page. [20:12:23] [2/2] when I first was trying to get it I follow these instructions then I get a blank page [20:13:31] that page should work too huh [20:14:47] tommorow is saturday tho [20:17:39] [1/3] well this is what I get when I follow that first link you suggested. maybe I need to authorise something somewhere I don't know. [20:17:39] [2/3] I just hope to pop up on Google Search eventually since the page will contain a lot of history [20:17:39] [3/3] and I am working with artist I'm in contact with. [20:18:48] I often check google by myself, on top of using search console [20:22:44] yeah I check Google quite a few times the search result haven't been updated yet I am not popping up not even in the lower page or directly naming it Bing or duckduckgo or Yahoo no problem it's not on the top Page but it's there. [20:23:30] all I can suggest to wait more [20:23:38] google is an enigma, really [20:24:19] it took 3 months for my wiki to start appearing, despite me submitting sitemaps as soon as they appeared, in a week or two after creation [20:24:52] meanwhile Bing indexed it in a month w/o me even getting console over there [20:25:49] the other time, a wiki migrated out of fandom got indexed before they started deleting junk like user blog and comments - and it all got indexed [20:28:50] [1/2] well I have one last trick up my sleeve I can call on everybody in the community I know to start posting the link that would definitely Accelerate things. [20:28:50] [2/2] but for that the wiki has to be finished bbeing a one-man job not easy too much history to cover. so I'm focusing on the key things currently the rest should follow with other people helping out I hope. [20:29:09] feel ya [20:29:21] actualy, another trick is to post link on big places [20:29:47] like I've made a twitter account for the wiki, ofc it has link to it, and it started appearing in google on day 2 or 3 [20:29:55] YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr [20:30:05] these things get indexed hella quickly [20:30:27] then the fact they have links to your wiki will help too [20:31:41] once I reached to the point where I can safely say people can share it I will they are very active on these big places anyway. [20:36:20] i’m actually disgusted can this person be global blocked [20:36:32] i just got on my wiki for the first time in two weeks coming back from the mental hospital [20:36:51] and this person kenergy edited my main page to have some disgusting stuff [20:37:22] i can’t send it here but it literally made me vomit he added || FGM and gore || [20:37:32] is there any way they can be globally blocked [20:37:46] i already blocked them from my wiki and hid their edits [20:37:57] they did it to many of my pages [20:41:24] Locked, will look closer later [20:42:17] Strongly recommend turning off Instant Commons (Special:ManageWiki/settings under the Media tab) unless you are making use of images from commons.wikimedia.org [20:54:17] also protect main page [20:55:31] @tatiannaz were sorry you had to see and thank you for making people aware [20:55:48] @orduin can look into it later [20:55:59] But if you need any additional help, let us know [20:58:20] Hi, I have a little problem with my wiki, I deleted my management rights by mistake, please help me 🥺 [20:59:24] We really should stop allowing that [20:59:35] @orduin you still here? [20:59:48] @gromynet what wiki? [21:04:01] sanpedia.miraheze [21:11:08] Would you like all permissions restored to default, or would you prefer I simply restore managewiki access to the bureaucrat group? [21:12:31] All the permissions please, and I won't touch it again... 🥺 [21:13:31] Done [21:14:22] Thank you 🙏 [21:36:34] Does Googlebot have Saturdays off? [21:37:14] Saturday is when we update googlebot [21:37:15] sitemaps generation [21:37:35] Interesting day to chose [21:37:45] Why [21:38:27] Well my initial thought was more people have free time on a weekend so traffic would more than likely be higher on weekends [21:40:28] Yeah but googlebot doesn't listen [21:40:32] We provide the data [21:40:46] It scrapes it randomly [21:40:49] Google is very good at ignoring sitemaps. [21:41:03] Bing is very good at removing sites from the index for no reason. [21:41:13] SEO is confusing [21:41:52] Re the image vandalism from before, I'm wondering (if not disabling InstantCommons by default), whether or now we can setup something like MediaWiki:Bad image list globally [21:42:23] Yeah, doesn’t add that WMF doesn’t really care about optimising MW for SEO because it would arguably not make a difference for them [21:42:41] Even WMF sites struggle [21:43:10] Interesting [21:43:20] I don't think anyone really knows what to do though [21:43:34] _looks at Fandom_ [21:44:08] Fandom don't want to share free knowledge [21:44:12] They want money [21:44:19] Different aim [21:44:21] Fandom doesn’t want to share anything [21:44:47] They want to share profit with the board [21:44:57] Truth [21:45:12] 99% sure Perkins Miller has never edited a wiki in his life [21:46:06] All he probably knows is it's lining his pockets [21:48:22] I can't sleep for like 15 minutes [21:48:27] Stupid festival [21:49:39] Fixed with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Math/+/952438 [21:57:23] what's up w/ DPL3 Nuke and AWB ignoring redirects ... [21:57:53] we need to delete around 300 redirect pages left as FANDOM social junk [21:58:43] like, I can make a list w/ title match [21:58:55] and when I press Start it just skips them all ... [21:59:20] [1/2] actually I first started on fandom but they told me to basically group up with other people already making a similar wiki and then delete it my wiki immediately. but I can't do that what fandom told me to do, because I have a different view than people behind that wiki so that's why I came here also asking for approval for everything would not be good idea in my eyes [21:59:21] [2/2] I like to have control. [22:02:06] what was the issue? seen phab task? [22:13:24] thanks [23:24:25] [[Special:MathStatus]] is giving results but it's often still stalled [23:24:25] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:MathStatus [23:24:26]