[01:26:41] Quick question: Is it valid to ask here if someone would like to help/contribute with your wiki, depending what is your wiki about? [01:27:34] or there's another proper place (and a proper way to talk anyone about your wiki project)? [01:28:18] The [[Community noticeboard]] sounds like what you're looking for [01:28:18] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Community_noticeboard [01:28:19]

[01:29:31] This is not a place where you are likely to get a lot of replies for that kind of stuff though, as well most people are likely not interested in whatever specific topic your wiki is about, would be FAR FAR better to find a place that have the same topic as your wiki. [01:54:12] [1/2] The other benefit to soliciting existing communities (if they happen to exist) that are focused on your topic is driving more natural traffic to your wiki. [01:54:13] [2/2] That type of attention tends to help your wiki in showing up in search engines too. [01:55:29] @tali64 , @notaracham and @gummiel , thank you so much for your replies and the way ppl talk to each properly in this channel. Wish the PT channel could be (and learn) like you. [01:56:21] You're right, my wiki still doesn't appear in the browser results, no matter how far I navigate. [02:03:37] [1/2] Helpful guide for wikiseo setup, if you haven't done so already: [02:03:38] [2/2] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:NotAracham/WikiSEO_-_Improving_Search_Ranking [02:04:02] It's not a cure-all, but I've found that it does make a difference on my wikis [02:06:29] Thanks a bunch. Any help is enough. [02:56:35] This isn’t technically wiki-related, but does anyone have recommendations for what domain provider is best? I’m looking to get a custom domain for my wiki [03:17:14] Namecheap is typically pretty good [04:27:49] I also was suggested porkbun as being cheaper sometimes [04:28:13] (we somehow still end up w/ namescheap) [04:29:13] I've heard of Porkbun but they sometimes charge you a big renewal fee [04:29:30] so they might give you a $5 domain and then on renewal, charge $15-20 [04:31:09] seems same [04:31:25] namecheap also was 20$ renewal [04:32:08] we lost initial domain we wanted too because the guy who owned it suddenly lost interest in the game and deleted his namecheap account lol [04:32:19] it immediately got scalped [04:45:17] so we now lowkey fight that domain in SEO too because in roughly a year of existence kt managed to crawl next 2 fandom (normal and archived Gamepedia) results [06:57:50] I put a request on phabricator to reset my wiki to its initial state about 6 weeks ago. It hasn't happened. Should I be a bit more patient, or should I nudge someone? [08:21:58] More patient [08:58:05] Hello! I need help with a wiki I just started. Even if I copy/paste it directly from the Miraheze Developers Wiki, any /styles.css subpage of a Module gives me an error stating "unexpected symbol '.' near 'infobox'". How can I get it to stop doing this? [09:10:38] raw copy pasting won't work in most cases, the correct way to copy templates is import [09:12:42] [1/2] there's a section about it in this guide, but we usually suggest to create infoboxes using PortableInfobox extension, or import simpler templates from other wiki (the rest of the guide) [09:12:43] [2/2] [[Infobox]] [09:12:43] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Infobox [09:12:43]

[09:12:52] damn, wait [09:13:03] [[Infoboxes]] [09:13:03] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Infoboxes [09:13:04]

[09:38:35] There is no page titled [[Infobox]] on meta.miraheze.org, dev.miraheze.org, or login.miraheze.org. Which wiki are you referring to that has the page [[Infobox]]? [09:38:35] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Infobox https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Infobox [09:47:55] I've sent another link later, it's Infoboxes [09:48:02] idk if IRC catched up [09:48:13] I'm on Discord [12:17:03] A redirect from infobox to infoboxes would be good idea [12:20:08] Prob [12:21:37] ye [12:24:14] I could get on meta and do that rn [12:28:01] Wow triple warning. It yelled at me to make sure the page should be in meta, it was automatically detected as harmful, and to top it off I wasn’t logged in [12:30:44] Yeah a Meta-Admin needs to do it :/ [12:30:49] Eh I tried [12:42:54] Done [12:42:58] No warnings [12:43:02] I'm not an admin [12:57:58] I got abuse filtered on dev wiki when I tried to move template drafts under my user page [13:06:42] Guh [13:17:03] maybe it's autopatrol [13:21:46] It said it triggered the page creation in meta namespace rule [13:21:51] Idfk [13:22:04] Might be that my only meta edits were for the RfC [13:54:18] [1/12] Someone “Strongest opposed” Option C yesterday and even included a little poem: [13:54:18] [2/12] “Paranoia is in bloom, the PR transmissions will resume [13:54:18] [3/12] They'll try to push drugs that keep us all dumbed down [13:54:19] [4/12] And hope that we will never see the truth around [13:54:19] [5/12] Another promise, another seed [13:54:19] [6/12] Another packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed [13:54:20] [7/12] And all the green belts wrapped around our minds [13:54:20] [8/12] And endless red tape to keep the truth confined They will not force us [13:54:20] [9/12] They will stop degrading us [13:54:21] [10/12] They will not control us [13:54:21] [11/12] And we will be victorious” [13:54:22] [12/12] I’m guessing WikiForge is what fueled their concerns even though it’s entirely separate? [13:55:06] I saw that, seems like malding to me [13:55:37] https://tenor.com/view/jarvis-cope-seethe-mald-jarvis-cope-gif-24471463 [13:55:59] But likely, all the opposes seem focused on one of three things [13:56:03] WikiForge [13:56:04] What is “malding”? [13:57:09] Ah sorry, I’m used to more gaming communities so sometimes the slang don’t carry to places like wiki [13:57:29] [1/2] > Extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game. [13:57:29] [2/2] Not this exactly but [13:57:47] It’s one of those things that you pick up the definition and it’s hard to verbally explain [13:57:56] I guess the issues with Miraheze made them angry then? [13:58:16] From this: [13:58:22] Wiki forge being a for profit [13:58:27] And what are the other two things the opposes focus on? [13:58:30] The history with many of WTs team [13:58:51] I'd like to see a CU on that user [13:59:05] Huh?! What’s a CU? [13:59:13] And the last one is imo just don’t wanna do it, people tend to complain over changes to the status quo [13:59:16] Check User [13:59:25] Basically a steward looking at their IP [13:59:29] To see if it’s an alt account [13:59:41] It’s a carefully regulated thing [13:59:43] All uses are logged [13:59:45] It's the software we use to see if they are linked to other accounts [14:00:00] @rhinosf1 how does this user look sus though? [14:00:03] [[mw:Extention:CheckUser]] [14:00:03] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extention:CheckUser [14:00:04]

[14:00:08] It's 18 hours old [14:00:21] OK then! [14:00:21] What do you mean no text on this page! [14:00:45] It’s probably a misspelling. [14:00:56] In that case can’t even vote on the RfC at all, so yeah I’d say ask void to Check it [14:01:09] Normal than it gives a edit Lin [14:01:14] Yeah it is extension, not extention 😉 [14:01:19] [[djwitnen]] [14:01:19] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/djwitnen [14:01:19]

[14:01:24] Wdym? [14:01:26] The vote was struck [14:01:31] Curse you English language [14:01:45] [[mw:Extension:CheckUser]] [14:01:45] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser [14:01:45]

[14:02:19] OK then! But it’s still an interesting poem capturing the concerns of all of the “opposes”, isn’t it? [14:02:43] It’s certainly creative [14:03:34] Don’t mean it’s original though [14:03:47] https://www.letras.mus.br/muse/1522867/ [14:04:04] It's an interesting poem [14:04:12] They lyrics [14:04:15] https://genius.com/Muse-uprising-live-lyrics better site [14:04:53] I didn’t know that was from a song! [14:05:07] I didn’t either, I just had a feeling [14:05:13] One google later [14:05:40] Looks like @agentisai locked as a sockpuppet [14:06:17] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1189569946775199754/image0.jpg?ex=659ea458&is=658c2f58&hm=a356263d7c1bdc492c5f501564a5c6c9c8054a83c5379718590717b673e5b579& [14:06:39] We love Wikipe-tan [14:06:42] Why is Oppose #9 for Option C crossed out? It’s from one of the stewards I think. [14:06:53] Because it’s invalid [14:07:05] Only accounts created prior to the RfC opening may vote [14:07:23] How? Zippix is one of the stewards! [14:07:26] Zppix isn't a steward [14:07:27] To prevent sockpuppeting [14:07:33] Oh! [14:07:36] But because they've changed their vote [14:07:37] That [14:07:47] ^ [14:07:51] They retracted it [14:07:54] Sorry! I thought he was on the Miraheze team though! [14:08:00] Now support #68 [14:08:04] He is kinda [14:08:19] He’s a discord mod here and a board member for the Miraheze Foundation [14:08:44] Also a meta admin and wiki creator I think [14:11:30] [1/2] Is there a way to hide the subtitle? [14:11:30] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1189571260435406948/image.png?ex=659ea591&is=658c3091&hm=d0196ab7f3467b3946c059620b99e2672a65df511f766e2989012cdfdc30e0e1& [14:13:27] I believe it's some setting or MediaWiki page [14:18:30] What bots accounts do you guys use on your wikis? Curious [14:18:40] I wanna make a bot for fun but no ideas [14:19:31] never used a bot lol [14:20:00] Something Something #siteSub { display: none; } [14:20:19] I’ve all I’ve done is read only(making a list of stubs, technically a web crawler) and making a list of pages that break formatting guidelines [14:20:47] The latter took 30 minutes to finish because my approach was to parse the text of every single page(~10k) [14:21:07] <:xsob:912928935577276526> [14:21:29] I just want to hide it on the main page, not all the pages [14:21:33] don't reinvent the wheel, pywikibot does a lot for it, and if you're feeling inventive you can write your own scripts for it. [14:21:51] Yeah, for the later I did use pywikibot I think [14:21:57] [1/7] I think its [14:21:57] [2/7] ```css [14:21:57] [3/7] body.page-Main_Page.action-view #siteSub, [14:21:58] [4/7] body.page-Main_Page.action-submit #siteSub { [14:21:58] [5/7] display: none; [14:21:58] [6/7] } [14:21:58] [7/7] ``` [14:22:10] But what good is a tool with nothing to use it on [14:23:18] This garbage needs to be marked with a hazard sign [14:23:30] https://replit.com/@pixDeVl/Stonework-Wiki-Utilites if anyone wanna cringe [14:23:36] [1/4] Do i replace [14:23:36] [2/4] #siteSub { [14:23:36] [3/4] display: block; [14:23:37] [4/4] with that? [14:24:48] dfgh [15:02:20] After two weeks of solo editing and learning too much about cursed mediawiki internals, I've just handed over the wiki I've been working on to my community for public editing, yay. Thanks a bunch for hosting all this infrastructure, Miraheze! (It's https://kosmo.miraheze.org/ if you fancy DIY synths) [16:11:28] Can we change the subdomain name of our wiki? [16:11:59] you can buy and set up a custom domain [16:12:04] Ugh [16:12:23] I just wanted to change Chesapeake to nsuk [16:12:33] wait a sec [16:12:42] mb [16:12:55] thought you meant the "miraheze.org" part [16:12:59] Nahhh [16:13:31] you should create a data base rename task on [[Phabticator]], config change [16:13:31] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Phabticator [16:13:32]

[16:13:38] oh common [16:13:46] [[Phabricator]] [16:13:46] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Phabricator [16:13:47]

[16:14:00] Because the region I joined is gonna use my wiki instead of me finishing the one I set up for them [16:14:20] Would it remove any pages? [16:14:30] no [16:14:54] Do I first have to delete the NSUK wiki? [16:15:04] huh [16:15:23] That is exactly why I tend to just go to the webpage and manually copy paste the URL instead of using the bot to try and spell it out tbh xD [16:15:25] you have 2 wikis? [16:15:34] Yes [16:15:37] and essentially want to merge them? [16:15:42] Ig [16:15:44] or replace one w/ another [16:15:48] Yes [16:16:35] I wanna make Chesapeake NSUK wiki without deleting Chesapeake's pages bc I have like 100 pages of lore [16:16:55] and NSUK wiki isn't needed? [16:17:24] I dunno what correct order of action to suggest here [16:17:42] because deletion process nowadays takes long [16:18:50]