[00:17:32] [1/2] @elliethepwincess https://discord.com/channels/407504499280707585/443926951292567562/1234288145168863284 [00:17:33] [2/2] if that's known to be abandoned and is overrun by vandals/trolls, wouldn't that qualify for administrative removal? sounds like it would be dragging the seo and reputation of miraheze downwards [00:18:59] I don’t think we have any policies on this beyond if its not edited the inactivity policy [00:19:37] @kiju1108 steward man any thoughts or policies im forgetting? [00:19:57] steward man lol [00:20:42] Its a man! It’s a steward. It’s Kiju!!!! [00:21:15] I would have thought policy or steward's discretion counts for this [00:21:31] if not, perhaps a proposal to get this in writing [00:21:45] obvious abandoned wikis are of no value [00:22:39] [1/2] Yeah, if a wiki is too rough overall, we may have no choice but to close it, but [00:22:39] [2/2] Basically, no [00:23:24] seeing that it's almost been a year since the founder was active, i doubt it will be actively maintained [00:24:09] Hey. I'm ChocoMingo. I used to be the main bureaucrat of the Polandball Wiki back when it was on its original site. I wanted to know if anyone can reach out to Agent (as in Agent Isai) [00:24:38] Agent is pretty unreachable currently [00:24:40] Agent has left Miraheze (most likely permanently); any contact attempt with him will be futile [00:24:50] think the plan for agent is to wait a bit and decide [00:25:05] I say this because he owns the PBW Discord server and since his account is planned to be deleted (it's not deleted yet) me and the other mods of the PBW server are worried his account being deleted could impact the Discord server [00:25:32] you can't schedule an account for deletion while owning a server [00:25:41] His alt owns the PBW server [00:25:51] so main being deleted won't impact [00:25:52] think we have had this conversation earlier this week and were informed: if any have the Administrator permission, file a request with discord to perform a server ownership [00:27:21] @pixldev@kiju1108@elliethepwincess probably worth a formal proposal for completely abandoned or overrun wikis to be removed at steward discretion on basis of Miraheze platform health [00:28:08] Only one user has that role, I'll try and see if I can reach out to him [00:28:14] ok [00:28:40] if its agent's alt, I guess wait for him to return. he's burned out it seems [00:28:55] if all else fails, make a new server and invite everyone [00:29:04] It's not Agent's alt. It's his account that'll be deleted soon and someone else [00:29:09] ok [00:29:18] That someone else being a veteran moderator who's been a part of the PBW for a long time [00:29:34] Agents alt has ownership not the account pending deletion [00:29:56] I know. The account pending deletion has administrator perms tho [00:30:08] Oh [00:30:11] and so does another mod, which I'm trying to contact [00:30:17] Okay [00:39:01] I also recommend not trying. He left due to a lot of overwork and pressure, to try and contact him now will not help [00:39:27] Not a bad idea [00:40:04] also ca why do you have a herald rule for when conditions are met: always, send an email to you [00:41:34] So I don't have to be a subscriber but still get notified on all tasks. [00:44:06] Cos…. How many emails are in your inbox on a regular basis [00:44:38] So the PBW Server will forever be left in limbo? [00:44:45] Because he transferred ownership to an alt of his [00:45:06] And I'm trying to get someone to transfer ownership from that alt to him to then transfer ownership to me or another moderator [00:45:16] CA is still in contact with Agent so he May transfer it still but no guarantee. [00:45:23] Pardon? [00:45:40] Ownership of the Discord server, not the wiki [00:45:45] I know [00:45:53] it’s staying with shining until stuff gets figured out [00:45:56] oh [00:45:57] nvm [00:45:59] disregard [00:46:46] I have 500,000 or so, about 30,000 from Phab/Phorge from the past 5 years [00:47:06] ☠️ [00:47:09] As I recall, large community server can get ownership by asking Discord [00:47:25] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234305004559536168/image.gif?ex=66303f9d&is=662eee1d&hm=4c1eecee123b78a0977886d7d460f2ad99a374eb160aae3d51f5aba8f14114ba& [00:47:44] I FLAME MY MOM FOR HAVING ALMOST 50,000 WHAT THE HELL [00:47:54] Yikes, that's way more than I ever had (at least 10,000 from various spam/legitimate emails to a now-deleted address) [00:48:08] WHY [00:48:25] isn't this really a discord issue? yeah, there's a relation, but we can't fix that here since we don't operate discord. [00:48:28] whu [00:48:32] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234305285259005952/image.png?ex=66303fe0&is=662eee60&hm=f10345408a976f8bd7608c51e647abad6564ead8319af16ac37745396e7e49df& [00:48:36] i have zero.. [00:48:49] I have an email I use for all high traffic stuff, at one point I got more than 1,000 per day from WMF phab alone also. [00:49:06] Because of bad rule [00:49:12] old email but i have like 1.7 mil unread (all spam) [00:49:23] No [00:49:32] No fucking way [00:49:39] there’s actually no way [00:49:41] Cal [00:49:47] im calling cap [00:49:51] it’s been sitting around for like 6 years [00:49:54] this cant be real [00:50:57] then what’s the point of getting emails from phab if everything gets drowned instantly [00:51:31] i only use the outlook website so ill have to figure out how to show total notis [00:55:03] I have filters [00:56:44] how- [00:56:45] I [00:56:56] 😭 [00:57:05] Gmail can filter things to labels which I set up. [00:57:12] you scare me man [00:57:16] legit [00:57:35] back to camping phorges homepage for something to happen [00:59:19] Or for a admib to resolve my personal project task so I can mark my stuff [00:59:24] but not like its a priority [00:59:52] Which task? [00:59:56] uh [01:00:02] its inder the phorge project [01:00:12] I can do now I have nothing better on this 15.5 hour flight lol [01:00:40] here https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/T12078 [01:01:10] wait [01:01:18] you have signal on a flight? [01:04:04] wifi [01:04:08] also https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/T12078#241946 [01:04:18] ah [01:04:28] Thanks Cosmic! [01:05:09] No problem! [01:06:37] PBW admin here. Would anybody know how to brtueforce onto a (name).miraheze.org page instead of a provided domain? [01:06:55] mostly cause our wiki’s domain either expired or is cancelled [01:07:04] or something [01:07:14] agent isai owned it so i don’t have a clue whats going on [01:07:24] you can go to the subdomain unless it's forcefully redirected to the custom domain [01:07:28] Its not, it just is pointed wrong which we should be able to fix but we can remove it if you want? [01:07:38] that is what is happening [01:07:48] It is force redirected yeah [01:07:57] oh then disregard what i said [01:12:15] it would be good to probably remove atleast the brute-force redirect, if you can? We can reinstate the domain later, right? I don’t want there to be problems once we get the link actually working [01:15:29] also @CosmicAlpha can I get a second opinion on https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/T11913 since thinking back I think's different enough from the task it was merged into to be worth reopening(restricting the deletion of crats and warning crats against managewiki-* rights) [01:16:44] (does it ping discord side when the username has caps in it? or does only cosmicalpha and not CosmicAlpha) [01:17:54] Only lowercase [01:18:23] got it [01:19:20] im having a mini field day customizing phorge(ie dashboard heard rule etc) [01:19:42] where can i find the list https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Global_blocks [01:20:01] i wanna see a list of people who are globally blocked [01:20:02] huh. the dashboard I made is dashboard 123. that's comical [01:20:20] > All global blocks are logged here on Miraheze Meta at [[Special:Log/gblblock]]. [01:20:20] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Log/gblblock [01:20:29] [[Special:Log/gblblock]] [01:20:29] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Log/gblblock [01:20:29] [01:20:30] thanks [01:20:52] I'd say go for it with a proposal, no reason for anyone to honestly object. all these types of wikis do when overrun is damage Miraheze in long term. [01:21:02] aYeah [01:22:19] Well this is interesting [01:22:53] Hey @cosmicalpha I was looking on the dashboard panels and found this https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/W190 [01:23:02] possibly old spam? [01:23:20] https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/search/query/3_XlEu29.hFJ/#R a lot of it [01:23:53] looks like trash to take out [01:23:56] I've been unable to find any info on it, how often are special pages like `Special:WantedCategories` refreshed? [01:25:26] [1/2] why is agentisai blocked 30 times [01:25:27] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234314570483499059/image.png?ex=66304886&is=662ef706&hm=1b1cea677284af1e9c53644242b5a6ffda72ebd94028270c013302b9a51b8c84& [01:26:05] He's not blocked [01:26:06] I don't know; maybe it was because he proposed renaming our beloved Miraheze [01:26:16] He's vanished [01:26:28] Tali [01:26:56] got blocked 40 times for wanting Orain lol [01:27:04] reread the logs, the gdpr user is the issuing user [01:27:05] I know [01:27:30] oh [01:27:35] normally it reads: performing_user blocked/globally_blocked target_user [01:27:49] now the logs are a mess [01:41:41] Ah, panels are on my todo list for cleanup, basically have to be manually deleted by script [01:43:46] Good to know [01:43:59] Why is so much Phorge spam car related [01:45:42] We all want to know what top factors affect our car's resale value [01:46:12] wow we are 3 boosts short of lvl 2 now? (and thus banner and roleicons) dang [01:47:08] Would definitely boost if I could [01:47:47] And my boosts are needed elsewhere [01:48:12] Can we divest some of the WTF's funds to boosts. [01:48:25] haha :ManyHappyLaughs: [01:48:37] Or instead of buying boosts we give volunteers nitro and have them boost [01:52:24] "Role icons serve the purpose of assisting those who are illiterate determine the most important role volunteers present in our Discord server hold in relation to that server; therefore, we, as representatives of the WikiTide Foundation, ask that the Foundation be allowed to use a portion of its income for the purpose of maintaining visibility of such icons." [01:53:08] Amen [01:53:25] or go all the way up to L3 for that sweet sweet vanity URL [02:00:00] have we ever had level 3 before [02:00:21] We did briefly IIRC [02:00:23] Once [02:00:41] I think I remember that but it was a long time ago [02:00:55] Like 2 months ago [02:01:13] ah [02:01:16] We went from level 3 to level 1 in like a couple weeks also. [02:01:18] I think so yes. [02:01:35] Was that shortly after the great merge? [02:01:39] Could explain it. [02:02:25] It was when I was boosting x6 [02:02:32] a [02:02:35] hold up [02:02:42] 6..? [02:02:46] Yes [02:03:10] I've said it before a lot and I'll say it again [02:03:13] You scare me [02:03:20] isn't that like $20 a month lol [02:03:51] For some reason, the OreDict permissions aren't blacklisted, but I'm unable to assign them to any usergroups. [02:04:19] Something like that [02:04:31] +nitro it was to much to maintain tbh [02:04:47] u n d e r s t a n d a b l e [02:05:15] also from what I was saying before: CA do you think [[phorge:T11913]] is different enough from what it was merged with to be reopened? [02:05:15] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/phorge:T11913 [02:05:30] [[phorge:T11913]] [02:05:30] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/phorge:T11913 [02:05:36] [02:05:39] [1/4] we must have server icons [02:05:39] [2/4] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234324689065607218/mirahezecss.png?ex=663051f2&is=662f0072&hm=ce91e6dfb4f196b0b169fdc6db4642ac5eb1881c5be2ced5f79b6a8203c69af8& [02:05:39] [3/4] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234324689376120932/mirahezemediawiki.png?ex=663051f2&is=662f0072&hm=3a508a2093405958e47cb65f0073f60e0c92521b124205218f6e0f2acfdc9c65& [02:05:40] [4/4] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234324689682436146/mirahezenitroboosters.png?ex=663051f2&is=662f0072&hm=9b64c6fd3eb4a681f6519ece34f173c5feae66ba060abf4ba6d2ca41ff89c3bd& [02:05:51] dang wikibot dont care about irc [02:06:02] irc discrimination :( [02:06:04] @idrinklisterine thats actually not the booster icon [02:06:17] #IRCLivesMatter [02:06:17] unless someone switched it [02:06:22] ikr [02:06:29] the nitro booster role had no icon [02:06:35] it used to tho [02:06:39] yeah [02:06:40] how else am I meant to chat with yall when my phone Icon [02:06:50] It had an icon with all the rest I thin [02:06:53] I made it lol [02:06:59] [1/2] ? [02:06:59] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234325023951552532/orainnitro.png?ex=66305242&is=662f00c2&hm=852b5cb085cc667bc2b42bafc8928209bb9adc8c583370c1e45c283590f94ef8& [02:07:16] this was the icon i made during Orain [02:07:19] It was the pink heze but with a crystal texture masked over it [02:07:36] yeah I remember the icon [02:07:38] hello from IRC [02:07:38] that was impossible to notice at scale but so was the texture on the bot icon [02:07:50] tali64: hello [02:08:08] i screenshotted it and recolored miraheze logo so i couldn't see [02:08:44] [1/2] oh these [02:08:45] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234325469017407488/dqaK6KU.png?ex=663052ac&is=662f012c&hm=bdda56bae39b44490d83895f67602f0468b0d95f8c6490e1e371f59ed4b2332f& [02:08:48] tali64 smh imagine not having a @miraheze/ cloak couldn't be me [02:08:54] yeah thats the one [02:09:09] Haven't gotten around to requesting one [02:09:39] [1/2] i forgot about this icon [02:09:39] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234325696537427999/miraheze_board-2.png?ex=663052e2&is=662f0162&hm=56b6626bd30cbe1ed14f60ab2deb05adb5602b78878cd716b9338cd943ef87f1& [02:10:24] hi [02:10:31] Actually your exact username is Tali64³ right? I wonder if cloaks can have special characters [02:10:36] Yeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllooo [02:10:48] On MH/inspired wikifarms it is [02:10:55] Since our policy is for cloaks to exactly match on wiki [02:11:06] ie @miraheze/PixDeVl [02:14:06] @idrinklisterine personally I liked Labster's board icon more [02:14:15] where ever it went [02:14:47] this is the exact same tho (i think) [02:14:50] agent gave me it [02:15:25] It's part of it [02:18:24] can i see it [02:18:43] If I can find it tomorrow sure [02:19:07] You can try searching labster board or smt in msgs sent by me [02:21:47] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234328752822026321/image.png?ex=663055bb&is=662f043b&hm=f021bad0681fb28773e90ea28a7010d0cf2a3c7501ce37d894874b809636f330& [02:24:00] yea that [02:24:13] could not find [02:27:00] could you try to find it? if it doesnt inconvenience you [02:27:20] [1/2] also found this [02:27:21] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234330149705617458/KwrPB3T.png?ex=66305708&is=662f0588&hm=9e9bb57233e9dde5744b031a093e31a721b80609d06a47e291cf36c40f188533& [02:27:54] oh yeah [02:28:01] yeah that one sucks [02:32:49] I have completely flooded the recent activity feed on Phorge. Should I feel bad about this? [02:35:06] no [02:36:00] Good [02:36:09] I had no intentions to [02:36:32] why did labster leave [02:38:41] shall I draft potential policy terms? [02:38:49] He's still around [02:38:54] He just lef this discord [02:39:04] he's still in the Volunteer discord [02:39:10] can you ask him for icon [02:39:16] Same as agent [02:39:25] say you need it for somthing [02:39:33] Sure, remind me tomorrow. [02:39:50] @m3w I mean sure you can make it as a user subpage [03:01:50] [1/2] uhhh tried opening my wiki to do some editing and it threw up a "server not found" error?? [03:01:50] [2/2] https://mintysocs.miraheze.org/ [03:02:06] Should be back [03:02:08] Sorry [03:02:24] I broke DNS for just like 30 seconds [03:02:24] so not just me [03:02:29] ah [03:03:40] :LettuceHandsSad: it's still throwing up that error, I'll check again in like 10 mins [03:03:49] come on CA you're not an intern anymore you're past this (jk obviously you're totally fine:) i dont wanna seem like im criticizing over a minor misclick) [03:04:13] pix not helping... [03:04:15] hmm it's loading for me [03:05:34] ope now it's working [03:06:27] yeah sorry, that was uncalled for. I apologies, my bad. It's 11 PM here, I should prob be going to sleep. Sorry CA, I know it's been a rough few days and I'm not exactly helping ~_~ [03:08:20] What happened was I was trying to fix PBW but it doesn't want to work. [03:08:53] I accidentally switched everything off cloudflare and mw firewall blocked direct connections to miraheze.org [03:10:52] PixDeVl, yep, good time to call it a night. 🙂 [03:11:20] I should sleep a bit before my plane lands at 5AM also [03:11:39] Most likely :sweat_smile: sorry again for that CA [03:11:48] Hey no problem [03:11:51] Have a safe flight and a good nap lol [03:12:03] Yep, both systems wrangling and people wrangling are not good take for the weary [03:12:13] *tasks [03:12:27] Indeed [03:13:15] if I do stay up longer i might clean up the extensions page with the newly added extensions but likely just clock it in [03:14:07] good night or afternoon/morning :slight_smile: honk shoe [03:15:19] Congrats @raidarr on mod + admin [03:16:08] ay congrats [03:16:27] oh [03:16:35] congrats raidarr! [03:16:59] good night and make sure you set a couple alarms set far apart enough for a couple snoozing [03:17:10] no more raidarr green :p [03:17:35] now it's maroon raidarr [03:17:41] or whatever that color is [03:18:01] somewhere between maroon and crimson? [03:19:09] hmm hey Pix, despite me having registered; probably isn't the best of account to make the proposal that I intend... not likely appropriate due to conflict of interest [03:19:20] Congrats to @notaracham on admin also (not yet assigned as I can't but successful) [03:19:33] :clap: [03:19:51] @m3w wdym [03:24:04] [1/14] technically, this account isn't linked to a personal Miraheze account...will post my draft below: [03:24:04] [2/14] ``` [03:24:04] [3/14] This is a proposal that further expands the [[Dormacy Policy]] with a speedy delete option for stewards. The goal of this proposal is to ensure the long term health of the Miraheze platform. [03:24:04] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Dormacy_Policy [03:24:04] [4/14] In order to provide a high quality service that respects Miraheze's resources and volunteer staff, maintain Miraheze's reputation, and SEO rankings of Miraheze; the platform health needs to be taken into consideration. [03:24:05] [5/14] With this regard, I propose stewards be granted the option to perform speedy deletion of hosted wikis that obviously become abandoned or overrun by nonsense/Content Policy violations. [03:24:05] [6/14] * This speedy deletion option would bypass the normal process and stop the clock on wikis where any of the following conditions are met: [03:24:05] [7/14]  there is an lack of activity and only log actions cause the dormacy timer to reset [03:24:06] [8/14]  user that requested the wiki has abandoned by explicitly stating has given up on the wiki project [03:24:06] [9/14]  no wiki administrators exist either by self demotion or have requested that their account be purged via GDPR tool [03:24:06] [10/14]  wiki admins are missing/inactive and repeated attempts to contact wiki admins on their user talk page results in no response [03:24:07] [11/14]  multiple reminders warning of closure have been ignored by the wiki community [03:24:07] [12/14]  repeated requests to reopen a wiki and subsequent abandonment [03:24:08] [13/14]  overrun by trolls, spammers, vandals [03:24:08] [14/14] ``` [03:32:43] has any of that ever happened before [03:33:26] Some of these seem to contradict each other, e.g. repeated requests to reopen when there are no editors and no administrators, who would be making the requests? [03:33:48] "ignored by the wiki community" - how can there be a community without activity? [03:37:24] Yeah they can but it has to be submitted by a moderator/admin and the server owner has to have either been inactive on all of Discord or be banned from Discord/deleted their account [03:37:39] Oh I see it says any of these [03:37:58] The main issue I see here is the lack of clear criteria [03:38:40] [1/3] "multiple reminders warning of closure have been ignored by the wiki community" - How long should Stewards wait? [03:38:40] [2/3] "overrun by trolls, spammers, vandals" - What is considered to be "overrun"? [03:38:40] [3/3] "user that requested the wiki has abandoned by explicitly stating has given up on the wiki project" - What if someone else took it up after the requester abandoned it? [03:39:00] Interesting, anyone ever see anything like https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/T12081 before? For reference, a nonexistent page https://isocasg.org/wiki/erg edit perms are removed in mainspace but you can still see it be funky [03:39:22] Woah that's weird [03:39:35] Very [03:39:49] Too weird for 11 40 at night to be exact [03:40:02] Guys how do you access the IRC channel [03:40:04] I thought maybe flow or comment streams but both are off [03:40:16] You need an IRC client [03:40:33] I use https://web.libera.chat/. beware if you join without a cloak it may show your IP [03:40:34] I'm already having one what is the server info [03:40:45] Collei, I have modified the formatting to be easier to understand [03:40:47] libera.chat [03:40:51] #miraheze [03:41:00] Thanks I'll use Tor or anonymous services [03:41:12] Yes chat is a TDL [03:41:31] There is a very long procedure required to make Tor work on libera chat [03:41:35] I was able to do it but it took me a while [03:41:54] (however I am very bad at using IRC, it may be easier if you're smarter) [03:42:01] What problem did you experienced [03:42:03] Looks like the content model for the main namespace is set to something weird, they should reset it to wikitext [03:42:24] Indeed, I'm still yet to get started [03:42:35] Not being able to connect, you have to make specific configuration changes (don't remember exactly what they are anymore) to be able to connect from Tor and it all went over my head because I didn't (and still don't) really understand IRC [03:42:44] I was able to figure it out but it's a bit difficult to do [03:42:52] it's set to `StructuredNavigation` for some reason [03:43:28] explains the strange message displayed on nonexistant pages [03:43:37] Yeah Ill letyvm @orduin [03:43:44] I just tried accessing this LiberaChat server and it's ok [03:43:53] two messages squished lol [03:44:45] Test message [03:44:48] Hi guys it's me [03:44:49] hello [03:44:58] Nice [03:44:59] welcome to the dark side [03:45:04] aw [03:45:07] So IRC with my Tor makes no problems [03:45:15] Ah that's good [03:45:15] Yes thanks [03:45:57] [1/2] - there are likely countless wikis with no actual activity that remain due to account registration triggering a log entry. this type of log entry resets the timer. This could involve an attempted fork, loss of interest, forgot [03:45:57] [2/2] - can't recall which volunteer staff said it, but stewards tend to simply auto approve reopen requests. not sure it matters who files the request, regular editor or admin [03:46:28] I think account creation activity should be ignored but that really doesn't require an RfC or anything [03:46:30] So anyone can join this channel without manual account set-up? How does it prevent spammers tho [03:46:33] SRE could probably just do it if you ask them [03:47:51] that's not in the formal written policy and the policy does not currently allow for exceptions even when a decision to close is obvious to a reasonable person [03:48:10] If someone spams a op can just block line them [03:48:25] yes [03:48:41] As a second opinion, the Dormancy Policy was recently extended to 6 months [03:48:52] I'm unsure if the community would approve restricting it again so soon [03:49:01] It is bureaucratic to open an RfC just to exclude account creations from being measured as activity [03:49:09] Because nobody really considers creating an account to be activity [03:50:32] Oh okay [03:51:01] We need to add the new no edit inactivity times to the script to actually work :p Reception proposed I do it but when I talked with CA he said not to touch that mess of a script so :p if the almight CosmicAlpha don't understand something leave me out of it [03:51:28] should make a task for that maybe [03:54:43] Or, if you have sufficient resources, use machine learning or some sort of LLMs to dictate if such account creation activity should be considered active [03:57:09] There was a past attempt to determine wiki request quality based on AI measurements [03:57:12] Long story short it didn't work [03:57:22] A lot of gibberish requests were seen as really high quality just because they had a lot of words [03:57:57] "Valid" activity is much more subjective and would turn out worse and I can't think of any instance where account creation with nothing further would be seen as active (if it was then I'd be considered active on 10 Discord accounts right now) [03:58:18] That AI didn't analyse on the quality of contexts? [03:58:24] It tried to [03:58:26] Just didn't work well [03:58:47] I also asked ChatGPT to review wiki requests, it got some right but there where some bad approvals and rejections [03:59:02] Tali tried the same thing and had the same experience [03:59:45] My opinion is, some wikis may cease to update anymore but the quality of contents still worth for it to remain opening [04:00:35] This is true [04:01:02] But just having most inactive wikis on the platform stay around wouldn't work because it'd be very quickly run through the server's resources [04:01:14] And also, measuring on users' activities on the website is a factor, like you include their browser version, IP address, etc [04:01:20] Just like what 3D Secure does for credit card transactions [04:01:34] I do wonder if readership could also be measured [04:01:38] You might not even need an AI for that [04:01:56] Just look at what Special:Analytics collects about viewership, if a wiki is dead editing-wise but has a lot of readers it might make sense to keep it [04:02:41] How about just turning them into some kinds of "suspended" state that public visits are still available but not for making updates? [04:02:48] MatomoAnalytics is the closest to this currently [04:02:55] This would at least help for preserving computing resources [04:03:05] Idk if it'd really preserve any resources [04:03:10] Maybe ask SRE ig [04:03:22] Yea [04:03:39] I do think so, as this saves computing resources because the server only process requests to get contents [04:03:59] [1/12] > "ignored by the wiki community" - how can there be a community without activity? [04:04:00] [2/12] - a local wiki's community is determined by the local active user list. [04:04:00] [3/12] - if those users are not active across the platform despite the site notice and potential automatic user talk messages, there is no purpose in waiting the full dormancy period. [04:04:00] [4/12] > "user that requested the wiki has abandoned by explicitly stating has given up on the wiki project" - What if someone else took it up after the requester abandoned it? [04:04:01] [5/12] - usually if someone requests a wiki then decides to quit, user will file a request to delete the wiki. The chances of someone else actually having interest so quick is minimal. [04:04:01] [6/12] - if its a group project, usually ownership is passed to someone else. [04:04:01] [7/12] > "overrun by trolls, spammers, vandals" - What is considered to be "overrun"? [04:04:01] [8/12] let's not get too caught up in what meets overrun, typically is you know it when you see it. [04:04:02] [9/12] - the core criteria is wiki admins are no where to be found, active user list is empty, and cvt is repeatedly reporting to stewards or having to perform clean up [04:04:02] [10/12] > "multiple reminders warning of closure have been ignored by the wiki community" - How long should Stewards wait? [04:04:03] [11/12] this pertains to when dormancy kicks in, if by the time 6 months were pass and there is little to no legitimate activity; [04:04:03] [12/12] @solodayheavenofficial [04:06:29] dormancy policy has exception for wikis that cease to update on basis it was covering a topic that ended, in that case disabling further actions to preserve would be respectful of the community's efforts [04:06:31] [1/3] > usually if someone requests a wiki then decides to quit, user will file a request to delete the wiki. The chances of someone else actually having interest so quick is minimal. [04:06:31] [2/3] > if its a group project, usually ownership is passed to someone else. [04:06:31] [3/3] Whether this would be the case depends on the specific project, again "usually" and "minimal" [04:06:43] Anyway I'll respond to the rest later [04:06:55] I am a bit tired [04:09:48] Some wikis are home to collectives and under cases they stopped maintaining the project their online presence can be somehow forgot for respects; while some wikis are meant to provide information to the public and such contents should linger to reach to potential audiences which can create values. [04:11:23] My experience was, after several months not checking on The iPhone Wiki when I just wanted to see what's happening over there I entered their URL but found it ceased to update, but I can still check for old contents which saved me a resort to get information on an old iPhone [04:12:03] (But this reminded me of The Internet Archive they can do the same thing while using their own resources) [04:15:03] I have further revised to be more clear [04:15:33] Give an example. For Microsoft's TechNet website, they first announced they will stop operation but keeping contents read-only for a certain period of time, then they announced complete shutdown of the website after another several years [04:16:13] that sort of situation does not apply to this proposal because already can filed a request to be exempt and where some topic has formally ended, simply turning into an archive would preserve the wiki and efforts of editors. [04:16:56] I do noticed there's an option to be exempted from inactivity checks, but don't know the exact usage [04:17:43] So I guess if this can be used by admin staff to prevent some system wikis from being deleted or, for those people really in need for example for a travel for health reasons or such [04:18:35] official Miraheze wikis are already formally listed to be exempt [04:18:47] So take this opportunity to ask, if I'll be offline like for months because of traveling can I request my wiki to be exempted from inactivity [04:19:03] you could with stewards, would be at their discretion to grant it [04:19:04] Yes since it's for administrative and operational purposes [04:19:16] I know [04:19:24] So I'll explain to them if needed [04:19:27] yeah [04:19:57] The situation is I may be offline for months because of my travel. For security reasons I will not take any electronic devices to the port. [04:20:02] you can request an exemption on [[SR/RC]] [04:20:02] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/SR/RC [04:20:03] [04:20:11] Li AO knows [04:20:35] Thanks a lot, I didn't knew until you told me just now [04:20:44] last june/july, there was serious talk of dropping wikis considered dead weight but community was strictly against it on basis of; we donated [04:21:05] though that was to cut costs [04:21:17] make sure to read through [[Dormancy Policy#Exemptions]] to make sure your wiki is elegible for an exemption [04:21:17] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Dormancy_Policy#Exemptions [04:21:18] [04:21:58] Sure I will [04:22:38] I do in support of dropping wikis considered dead and not worth for keeping [04:22:53] Provided if this doesn't affect service quality [04:23:28] even with the dormancy expanded to a full year, there are probably a lot that keep having the timer reset where review by any reasonable person would agree to close it [04:24:12] Okay so Stewards' have sole discretion on making decisions [04:24:17] Yes [04:24:25] When it comes to dormancy policy, yes [04:24:57] But I do believe this is because under certain circumstances such criteria dictating whether eligible or not is not fit to be disclosed [04:25:18] and this proposal is simply to make it easier to drop obvious "dead weight" wikis that seem seem to be in limbo of dormancy with the timer reset [04:25:21] So it's ok, this comes to be the best for the service [04:27:09] Because I don't take electronic devices being outdoors I need to ask the bank to come in person to get services, they have mandatory phone number verification requirements applying to every customer [04:27:16] [1/2] in a mobile game that I play, someone that became king basically forced all the various alliances to forcefully kick out players that have not been inactive over 30 days. essentially burn, loot, and force the game to make the player's castle fly away to make room [04:27:16] [2/2] some folks were not happy but it made sense. it makes the overall kingdom stronger. alliances were not dragging players that quit the game [04:27:55] there is in-game event that causes the "king" to rotate every few weeks [04:28:08] So I just trying to make myself an option to back up all my account access keys when leaving the country. At present I consider using a PIV card to encrypt data with certificates [04:28:26] So China's border guards won't be able to see anything from it [04:28:43] are you on a proxy? [04:28:55] actually a bit worried now per our DMs [04:29:03] Seems like a game with democracy [04:29:14] No [04:29:20] oh crap [04:29:27] I'm not doing anything for anyone [04:29:55] I just defend myself to prevent Chinese authorities to spy on my activities. They do a lot on their people. [04:29:56] ik, i'm referring to discussions we had in private...state security likely saw all of it [04:30:07] Oh sorry I forgot to check [04:30:12] Let me see. [04:30:17] too late now [04:30:33] slipped my mind, sorry if any of that put you in danger [04:31:19] It's ok I don't care [04:31:58] As long as I do not give out my Chinese phone number or ID card info, they're hard to identify me from such an English speaking place [04:35:03] ok [04:35:58] what happened after is rearranging of alliances, new ones formed with active players joining as a way to more quickly ditch the inactive players [05:43:22] Oh they're deciding to drop out inactive players [05:46:07] Safe to assume the Steward gets a notification if you comment? [05:46:16] to what? [05:46:23] a wiki request [05:46:37] it was done by king decree, sort of forced [05:47:04] Oh I don't know even a little about the game. What's the name? [06:03:26] Whoever is actioning it will, they aren't all stewards [06:36:20] Should I make "Main Page" redirect to the new main page? [06:36:50] Or do I just leave it alone? [07:13:09] I just noticed Agent is no longer on Miraheze anyone who knows what happened to him? [07:13:48] resigned [07:13:56] So it began with an unusual name saying "GDPR" stuff so I assume if he had a temporary account and then wiped all the data just for deletion [07:13:57] Oh [07:14:02] So why he deleted all his accounts? [08:01:02] long story [08:41:57] Yeah and on top of that, his resignation has put an entire wiki's structure in limbo, not just the wiki but also the Discord server as well [08:42:02] That being the Polandball Wiki [08:42:41] The SREs are working to fix the wiki and all the mods of the Discord server are trying to figure out how to address this dilemma [08:44:35] Offer from my part to take on the domain business is on the table but if that's not followed up I guess the domain will have to revert to miraheze default [08:45:02] I suppose likewise for the server if someone like shiningflair shouldn't get it, I'm not sure why that wasn't the case tbh [08:45:22] one of those being trying to transfer ownership from one of Agent's alts to the only person who has admin rights on the server outside of Agent himself [08:45:39] server side at least as long as there's a co admin aboard somewhere a request to discord to make a transfer should go alright, but it may take time as they do not do it quickly iirc [08:45:39] Shiningflair doesn't have the admin perm, surprisingly enough [08:45:51] does anyone have admin perms [08:46:18] it occurs to me I've seen like 3 levels of mod but no admin there [08:46:22] and she's currently on break after her old account was compromised in a scam [08:46:36] Her current account is fine tho [08:46:37] Agent definitely left a big problem. I'm a bit disappointed tbh, I trusted Agent a lot but the way he left things created a huge mess in the board and SRE as well that I have spent the past 3 days fixing also. [08:46:56] Collisions, a longtime mod of the Polandball Wiki, going back to when we were on Fandom [08:47:03] He's the only one [08:47:16] that might make discord request very tricky then, if agent won't do a handoff himself then say, by early june plans should be made to transfer to a new server tbh [08:47:38] and he just responded to me that he'll attempt getting ownership of the server transferred to him [08:47:44] It has 1.9k members [08:47:50] That's a lot of people to move [08:48:00] if collisions can get it then that will do [08:48:17] a move is a drastic measure but the active core at least can move and rebuild and the rest will trickle by [08:48:29] it doesn't strike me that a majority of that 1.9k is particularly active at a glance tbh [08:49:01] but that's a last resort as it is a big thing to do in any case [08:50:26] Yeah. All we can say, we're doing our best to resolve this issue and are prepared incase anything strange happens [08:51:10] Ok so we're trying to adjust the css to change link colours, but one issue we're running into is the link colours are affected by dark mode. I know the (.mw-no-invert) thing but I genuinely don't know where to put it for it to work (on top of most of the link stuff not exactly working either, just one is) [08:51:58] the dark mode extension is pretty strange tbh [08:53:53] Given the unstable situation at the top I would consider a fallback venue for core staff if one doesn't exist already [08:54:16] I guess it would be possable to make a code that swiches a dark css and a light css, in fact there is a dark mode gatget that appears to do that [08:54:40] We do have a fallback venue in place at the moment [08:54:57] then it looks like everything that could roll is rolling at the moment [09:06:18] I know this question's been asked a thousand times already but how long does it take for a wiki to be approved? [09:06:49] depends, usually within a few days [09:07:54] Fair [10:50:54] [1/2] was lurking and saw this [10:50:54] [2/2] really sorry be did that to everyone, it's not fair and it's absolutely scummy 🫂 [10:55:22] [1/2] I think he hasn't thought it through. He'll likely will correct it in due time. [10:55:22] [2/2] I can't see him as that irrisponsible. [11:02:49] ive heard shit regarding the June incident so i can't say for sure but i hope he corrects it too [11:19:55] June is long said and done [11:20:31] Where there are many people, there are many ideas. Some Ideas get shot down, and if your heavily invested to reach a goal, but then is taken off the table, it can be very disappointed. Only time will tell what the future will be. But looking back does not help. We need to look forward. [11:20:45] Exactly [11:20:59] [1/2] When in doubt [11:20:59] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234464444197634088/3F3F70F0-A8DC-428A-B8E2-AD179EE0D52D.jpg?ex=6630d41a&is=662f829a&hm=34967c8df87ecf313b046dbc234b7fe39c843ba8839103ffd06d2460b350c07d& [11:21:38] Easy peasy. [11:30:03] So that explains why Agent is no longer here apparently. I'm kind of disappointed, now that I have found out. [11:30:40] He even left from the server? [11:31:18] I'm afraid so. [11:31:46] Looks like he decided to go [11:32:09] That's why his presence got completely wiped out from Miraheze account systems [11:32:40] I was unaware he left until just now. [11:33:11] He was like a very competent Steward who knew exactly what he was doing. [11:33:26] Like, what the hell happened to that? [11:44:34] Best not to go there again, as it is still fresh, and it doesn't matter now. Don't look back. Just look forward [11:48:24] [1/2] [[Requests_for_Stewardship#support]] [11:48:24] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Requests_for_Stewardship#support [11:48:25] [2/2] Let's goooooooooo [11:48:25] [11:48:34] Very true. [12:18:51] Holy cow [12:18:53] Red Raidarr [12:19:00] :PauseChamp: [12:43:13] So Redarr? [13:03:49] I don't know; this was the first time I saw the GDPR function which wipes out identification info for a user is used. [13:04:48] So I was checking with my SSLRequest form and I remembered Agent updated my request. I checked again but found only an anonymised username which belongs to Agent. [13:18:17] [1/2] I just said: "Best not to go there again, as it is still fresh, and it doesn't matter now. Don't look back. Just look forward" [13:18:17] [2/2] So please do not bring it up again. [13:21:04] I agree [13:21:24] I have absolutely no idea what happened but I don't want to know [13:26:38] Okay [14:07:27] Guys I think I know about the background nature of the event that happened on the 24th upon checking further on Meta [14:11:57] oka [14:12:18] Please STOP [14:12:21] it's all out there [14:12:25] have a good read [14:12:34] Thanks [14:26:29] also, red raidarr! [14:59:54] I am getting concerned about Miraheze again. Agent, the SRE person, left. Also, people are becoming reluctant to start wikis here and the board is apparently “ignoring the community” by not taking the renaming RfC into consideration. [15:01:36] reddar [15:02:54] Over the latest curve hopefully [15:03:52] Got additional sre, board froze the controversial move, further discussion ongoing in other venues [15:05:10] [1/2] Is that colon supposed to be here? just asking lol [15:05:10] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234520861688729661/image.png?ex=663108a5&is=662fb725&hm=72542482eac6f53c6024da1b66165a6d839fd54ec8b9bcc67df44a94b8907ecc& [15:06:01] I saw enough doom talking in 2023, and at this very moment there are no reasons for more, what Raiddar said [15:06:27] probably not [15:07:14] o [15:08:30] Hi [15:09:31] I read complaints about Nonciclopedia and it's the same thing I complained about when it was on Fandom. It has many bad words/inappropriate pages for a wiki [15:16:17] Reddar [15:18:39] It's the worst end of the inappropriate content that has it in trouble now, but it's due for a steward sit down + review [15:20:30] Yes, I read your comment and I believe it's 100% correct to review the wiki [15:20:48] And it's the same reason why Fandom decided to close it down [15:23:15] [1/2] ngl i sense some kind of mob going on against them which finally find a reason to crack down [15:23:15] [2/2] that guy started w really nonsense ones first [15:24:56] He was odd and the wiki has been subject to abuse for a long time, but a cursory look indicates some long standing problematic content [15:30:40] fair [15:36:00] Congratulations to @pixldev on becoming a Moderator! [15:36:53] Sorry! [15:53:10] [1/2] Cheddar? [15:53:10] [2/2] Silliness aside, congrats to the new admins and moderators~ 🐱 [16:05:06] O [16:05:09] I’m urple now [16:11:35] Nice [16:24:16] ngl discord admin pink is my fave color [18:01:55] everybody is showing their true colors… [18:02:39] Ba dum chi [18:03:23] :Pepega: [18:04:19] oh pix is purple now [18:04:35] he is a mod [18:04:39] 😃 [18:06:34] I’m urple [18:06:46] https://tenor.com/view/fnaf-purple-guy-peepaw-gif-24730406 [18:06:56] Lol [18:06:59] why he ourple 😭😭😭 [18:07:02] nah u violet [18:59:55] perhaps a follow up proposal would pertain to actual criteria for archiving a wiki [19:37:17] is this something that could fail and maybe require error checking or smt? [19:39:30] Anything can fail [19:39:36] touche [19:40:29] though the only part that uses group rights here dont seem to have any failbacks [19:40:48] although its just adding the bot group to the system user [19:41:56] i dont know much bout error handling in mw tho [19:42:29] the rest of the code seems to use `setLastError()` so ig do that if the user still has groups assigned [19:47:10] also the sheer amount of hard coding in RPII hurts me but there is no other way [19:51:48] [1/4] there are alternatives to that PII extension, only problem is recent notice that mergeuser no longer works with shared tables and shared db [19:51:48] [2/4] - mainly is scramble password, remove email address, set preferences to default values [19:51:48] [3/4] - whether IP can be safely cleared from recentchanges table is questionable [19:51:48] [4/4] - use of renameuser to turn user into say "unknown_##########" where # is a randomly generated number [19:52:27] thats what PII does minus some [19:52:45] its hard coded to remove PII from a lot of places depending on extensions [19:52:49] https://github.com/miraheze/RemovePII/blob/master/includes/RemovePIIJob.php [19:53:53] is it actually safe to set user ip to 0.0.0.0 in rc table? [19:54:14] or even in those other extension tables [19:54:48] I mean it's clearly been working so far [19:55:09] wait a minute, why is this clearing out wikiforum tables? that was publicly declared security unsafe [19:55:19] was also disabled [19:55:36] prob just no one got around to removing it [19:56:02] or thought too [19:56:26] The tables still exist [19:56:33] Even if the extension is off [19:56:48] We don't delete database tables when removing an extension via ManageWiki [19:57:15] makes sense [19:57:52] if the extension is removed, shouldn't the corresponding tables be dropped? [19:57:57] No [19:59:56] https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/T10871 is still open hm [20:00:23] quite a few undeploys are still open [20:01:52] Unknown Object (User) [20:01:59] Agent 😔 [20:07:53] [1/2] I did see at least 1 unsafe delete command issued [20:07:54] [2/2] having reviewed that script, does not appear difficult to unlink from centralauth [21:33:08] They might still have tables and all PII needs to be removed so that is just to be safe. [21:33:48] hm wonder if we may have since added extensions that store PII [21:34:37] I usually try to review that when adding but could have missed I guess [21:39:53] Hmm Rhinosf1 already said no on dropping the tables despite extension is disabled...which is odd to me [21:40:22] Most don't even store PII anymore actually, they use actor rather than user name for example now. [21:41:02] It can be dropped if/when we remove the extension complete [21:41:04] how nice [21:41:12] yea [21:41:25] there'd a few open tasks for that actually [21:41:39] may be worth throwing a MWE at it [21:51:58] [1/6] I've a question about portable infoboxes. Is there a way to add a page to Category X if a portable infobox contains a non-blank entry for data source Y? [21:51:58] [2/6] Current example I have in mind: in Pandora's Tale some, but not all, characters have associated tarot cards. I added a "tarot card" entry in the Character Portable Infobox template, and I leave it blank for characters who don't have a tarot card. For example, here's one with no tarot card: [21:51:58] [3/6] https://pandorastale.wiki/wiki/Hemmel [21:51:58] [4/6] And here's one that does have a tarot card: [21:51:59] [5/6] https://pandorastale.wiki/wiki/Con_Yung [21:51:59] [6/6] What I want is to automatically populate `Category:Characters with tarot cards` based on which infoboxes have a tarot card entry. Is there a way to do that easily? [21:55:18] yes, it's completely doable with parser functions [21:55:30] [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions]] [21:55:30] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions [21:55:31] [21:55:54] you'll want to use `#if` here [21:56:02] hm [21:56:13] were there always so many errors on the doc page [21:57:13] From what I have observed, even correctly built PI seem to display big red errors on the template page [21:57:26] like `{{#if:{{{parameter|}}}|[[Category:Yourcategoryhere]]}}` [21:57:26] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/%23if:Template:%7b%7b%7bparameter https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Yourcategoryhere [21:57:39] didn't pix mean the parser function docs? [21:57:52] yea [21:57:58] I don't recall there being so many errors either but they all seem to be intentional to deomnstrate things [21:58:05] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/407537962553966603/1234624776098545734/VhrJLcy.png?ex=6631696c&is=663017ec&hm=adb63fe48165766bc4648f54aeb0a5edbc2cd365e61b66ecd069c51cf28b7e55& [21:58:24] o yea [21:58:31] Ah ok, likely because the displayed examples are missing values [22:26:06] Is it possible to put an image in an infobox behind a spoiler? Would like to make it so that a user needs to select "okay/I understand" before seeing an image that could technically count as a spoiler [22:29:16] I see that there's a "mediaspoiler" extension, but I must be implementing it wrong somehow since adding `|class=spoiler` to the infobox image section doesn't hide the image [22:29:20] I think so [22:29:36] oh yea we just added it recently [22:29:57] we found a hacky way here https://discord.com/channels/407504499280707585/1032355587838726204 [22:30:28] Could see spoiler extension [22:31:19] the regular spoiler extension doesn't work, unfortunately. [22:31:38] So create a new template, with the collapsed header workaround then? [22:33:37] the solution in the thread was made to make the collapsing optional. So you'd add this to your existing infoboxes [22:34:28] But yeah it's a 2 year old thread, I'm not able to tell you the details without reading it again haha [22:40:05] That seems to work! Thanks! [22:43:03] big congrats to our newest member of the moderation team, @serverlessharej! [22:45:05] Would I have to use CSS to increase the width of the simple info box? [22:51:24] hah, was thinking of showing what I had made..., untill I actually clicked on that at the time showing "unknown" thread, and it was litterally the thread that ended up with what I am using :ManyHappyLaughs: [23:01:27] Thank you that worked perfectly! [23:08:49] congrats harej [23:34:13] Yay! Thank you everyone [23:41:55] WHOOP WHOOP 🥳