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Community portal/Archive 1

Gadget description
I noticed the gadget description on MediaWiki:Gadget-UTCLiveClock includes the text "After adding please en:purge the page" and was wondering what the point of it is. After all, the page already says that the tool includes a purge link. purge (apparent intended target) is no help either. ping who added it. -- Void  Discuss 20:43, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I have not seen this when importing the template. Removed. Reception123 (talk) 04:41, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

The logo
Shall we remove the background color of the logo just like File:NewLogo2.png? --Gyakusyuu no Amanojaku (talk) 10:50, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * .........Already changed by Gyakusyuu no Amanojaku.--Tiger (talk) 07:31, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Bit of advice, don't change the logo by css. I'll upload a new version of the File:NewLogo.png, and, if needed, do a pull request to change the logo. -- Void  Whispers 01:14, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Are bureaucrats allowed to grant administrator right?
I found that bureaucrats are able to grant administrator right to other users technically. Are bureaucrats allowed to grant administrator right when other users request it on Request_permissions? Are they allowed to revoke the right when it is inappropriately used?--Tiger (talk) 14:51, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Bureaucrats are allowed to grant sysop and bureaucrat, and can revoke sysop. If you are granting admin/bureaucrat, just make sure that the request fulfills the requirements at the top of the page. If in doubt, let someone else handle it. -- Void  Whispers 15:06, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

RFC: Puffin Web Browser global blocks
Greetings,

As some may know, the entire Puffin Web Browser has been globally blocked on Miraheze through 4 or 5 separate rangeblocks due to suspected and in some cases confirmed abuse. However, this massive block(s) have the serious potential to cause collateral damage. I have locally blocked the same ranges specifically here, anon. only and with account creation allowed. I would like to propose the following:

"Immediately following the closure of this RFC, all global blocks on Puffin Web Browser IP addresses are to be locally disabled. The local blocks made by Primeferac shall be left as is for the time being, but any admin has permission to harden the blocks if obvious abuse occurs."

I personally use Puffin when accessing the Internet from unsecure locations like restaurants and public transportation, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Therefore, I would like to help reduce the potential for collateral damage, which is never a good thing. Primeferac (talk) 00:30, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Support

 * Strong support as proposer. Primeferac (talk) 00:30, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Protected
The community portal has been protected from anonymous editing for 24 hours due to excessive vandalism. Amanda (talk) 18:08, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Userrights update
Just an FYI in a visible place. If I'm forgetting anything, remind me. If you have any questions, ask below. Cheers -- Void  Whispers 21:19, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * After a bug was resolved in the config, sysops now have the ability to add Autopatrolled, confirmed, and rollbacker to accounts.
 * 'Crats may now assign the bot usergroup. However, please be aware to only assign the group for testing or to prevent flood, never run a full bot account without consul permission.
 * The exampleuser usergroup will be removed as the only accounts it was assigned to were locked for security concerns. It is no longer useful.
 * I think we can set a special usergroup like "flood" on Chinese Wikipedia (can be added by admins and only to admins themselves) to divide test groups from non-test groups. However, I don't think it's necessary because there are no real bots now. --Amanojaku (talk) 13:58, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Does the email notice work?
I can't receive emails when someone leaves messages, but I can receive emails when changing the email address in preferences. --Amanojaku (talk) 14:03, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Already posted to T1738 by Reception123. --Amanojaku (talk) 16:45, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Spanish PublicTestWiki
Hello, I just wanted to announce that I have established the Spanish Version of PublicTestWiki for native speakers of Spanish and that they need to have more facilities to communicate with the rest of their peers, all Spanish speakers who want to participate can visit the wiki in https://es.publictestwiki.com and begin to be part of the community. Regards. —Alvaro Molina (✉  - ✔ ) 12:24, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Que bueno, una versión en español :) Cyborg (talk) 17:04, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Don't need to test any more
Please revoke my crat and admin flag. I don't need them any more.--Tiger (talk) 12:09, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅; if you need the rights back at any time, just let me know. Cheers -- Void  Whispers 17:22, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Pywikibot official community approval
This is just something for more "formal" reasons, and so that the WMF sees that there is community support for having Pywikibot here (details. It would be nice to get Pywikibot working here so we can have that as a testing option. Reception123 (talk) 17:26, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) Reception123 (talk) 17:26, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Videojeux4 (talk) 17:40, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) —Alvaro Molina  (✉  - ✔ ) 18:04, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Amanojaku (talk) 07:07, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) PokestarFan (talk) 23:42, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) Test user (talk)  User is indefinitely blocked for disruption --Reception123


 * 1) 13Reasons (talk) 18:06, 3 August 2017 (UTC)  User is indefinitely blocked for abusing multiple accounts --Reception123

Abuse filter
Please examine my (IP) edits to my named account's userpage, it shouldn't be disallowed even though it starts with an IP address. 83.24.97.195 10:11, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Please see your talkpage. Reception123 (talk) 14:15, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Recent vandalism
I restored pages deleted by User:Anniubbo but please note that translation pages are not restored yet because they can't be undeleted directly. --Amanojaku (talk) 15:18, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

AlvaroMolina for consul
AlvaroMolina is a trusted user on other wikis including miraheze test wiki (spanish edition) and the test wiki @ https://testwiki.wiki/. If these users are the same person I hereby propose that the user AlvaroMolina be granted consul to bring the amount of consuls to 4 (1 user makes an action and the other 3 can review it/take action about the first action) which is good for confirming actions made by consuls. He is also very active and can efficiently deal with issues.

Sau226 (talk) 06:57, 9 September 2017 (UTC)


 * I don't think there is need of other consuls. Sherry J. Scott (talk)
 * As the founder of https://testwiki.wiki, I think they are doing a great job. MacFan4000 (talk) 23:35, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Per Sherry. Cyborg (talk) 17:28, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Only recently have I heard of this, I would like to clarify that at no time was I made known this proposal nor accepted it. For my part I agree with the comments below that there is no need for more consuls since the existing ones for me are sufficient and I have not seen an urgent need of another user, in addition, consul's actions are quite scarce here. For this reason I ask that this be closed as not done. Regards. —Alvaro Molina (✉  - ✔ ) 17:32, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Temporary feature
Hi, yesterday I used the temporary feature on Special:Userrights and I'm wondering if that feature was created by Miraheze or it comes with MediaWiki. Thank you, Cyborg (talk) 20:52, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Temporary userrights is a feature that was added in MediaWiki version 1.29. It is not specific to Miraheze. -- Void  Whispers 00:03, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --Cyborg (talk) 00:17, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Titleblacklist
I've added translation pages to the MediaWiki:Titleblacklist to prevent vandalism. Only autoconfirmed users can modify or create translations now. The translations of the main page are also protected. Please feel free to change it after it's safe. --Amanojaku (talk) 04:19, 16 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Good! Sherry J. Scott (talk)

Able to change protection levels
Even though deletion and move rights are consul only, I am able to change them. Why? PokestarFan (talk) 19:35, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Because the protect action is not restricted. As a result, unless we decide to modify the configuration, the only way to prevent the modification of protection levels is to remove edit access as well. It would make sense if the software only allowed users to modify protection levels if they had the ability to perform the action with its current restriction level. (eg that an admin would not be able to modify consul level move/deletion restrictions). But, this is not the case. -- Void  Whispers 19:45, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This can be configured said way. That is how it’s done on https://testwiki.wiki . Config is here. MacFan4000 (talk) 20:13, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Got fatal error
I made a test on how long can a user be blocked (except indefinite) and set a block till 31 Dec. 9999 23:59:59 on a wasted account (declared by its owner). Then I met "[cadbecb3fec4cc62aa74674e] 2017-11-29 12:16:46: Fatal exception of type "MWException"" on all the pages that involving the block log of that account.(Block log of that account, Block log of this site, Logs of me and so on.) Sorry for making this trouble and wish it not a big trouble for the consuls.--Tiger (talk) 12:22, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, it's not a problem anymore (as far as I can tell), so no big deal. -- Void  Whispers 20:50, 29 November 2017 (UTC)


 * how can I help you? Artix Kreiger (talk) 22:29, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * It seems that the problem doesn't affect anyone except me........-Tiger (talk) 10:51, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Asdfugil for consul in here
Hi guys I'm to become consul in here to help or monitoring in here. how your opinions?--Asdfugil (talk) 10:28, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Arguments against

 * 1)  Maybe if you were more actively involved in the project. Plus, this wiki is not very active. MacFan4000 (talk) 12:06, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 2)  Currently there's no need for new consuls. Esteban (talk) 20:46, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 3)  Has a few test edits, but no real serious edits, or anything that shows a need for this user to be a consul, or that they would benefit from the extra rights. At the moment, I think that three consuls is enough. Reception123 (talk) 19:20, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 4)  Not in a snowballs chance in hell... Then again who are you? Consuls should be a person thats known in the community not just anyone Zppix (talk) 19:20, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Enable protect lock
I think we need to enable protect lock. It should be defined in LocalSettings.php and will stop lower downs from changing protection levels e.g. Sysops removong consul protection. If the community consents to it very soon I can get that set up --Sau226 (talk) 02:54, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Sysops cannot currently remove consul protection, if they could do that that would defeat the point of having it in the first place. Reception123 (talk) 09:01, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * In some cases only delete and move are protected, such as this page. As long as “edit” isn’t consul protected, any non consul can remove the move and delete protection. This would prevent that from happening. MacFan4000 (talk) 12:12, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok, I didn't know. That is fine yes, we should have the protect lock. Reception123 (talk) 15:22, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Allow bureaucrats to self resign
Dear community,

I believe bureaucrats should be allowed to resign. A little bit of code like or similar should be added to wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf in LocalSettings.php.

This code would allow a bureaucrat to revoke their own access themselves immediately without letting a bureaucrat decrat another user. Consuls would still be able to remove such access from anyone as required. --Sau226 (talk) 12:02, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Can someone else please comment on this? --Sau226 (talk) 10:21, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I support this. maybe more like  like The Test Wiki has to allow admins to remove themself from any group. Bonnedav (talk) 02:46, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Consul for MacFan4000
I would like to be a consul. I am currently a sysadmin, and I helped to fix this wiki from the incident. I am familiar with the permissions. I currently have them to work on cleanup.

Support

 * 1)  Cy (talk) 06:38, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Comments
Hay, I am new so i can say nothing as to the merits of this candidate, however I do wish that people would vote based on the merits of the candidate rather than weather they believe more Consuls are needed or not. the vote should be to determine whether or not the candidate would be a good fit for the position and weather they are trustworthy or not. After that, if the vote succeeds then it can be put on hold until such time as the current Consuls decide another one is needed. Then successful candidates can be promoted without further discussion, unless they have exibed bad behavior or gone inactive in the meantime. Bonnedav (talk) 03:05, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Request for Consul - Kiko4564
I wish to be a consul and have experience with admin tools both on this wiki and here Kiko4564 (talk) 20:08, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) We have enough consuls already, plus, on wikipedia you are blocked for sock puppetry. Maybe later. Cy / Talk 05:02, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * 2) We have 4 consuls, plus this wiki isn’t very active MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 22:15, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Comments
Hay, I am new so i can say nothing as to the merits of this candidate, however I do wish that people would vote based on the merits of the candidate rather than weather they believe more Consuls are needed or not. the vote should be to determine whether or not the candidate would be a good fit for the position and weather they are trustworthy or not. After that, if the vote succeeds then it can be put on hold until such time as the current Consuls decide another one is needed. Then successful candidates can be promoted without further discussion, unless they have exibed bad behavior or gone inactive in the meantime. Bonnedav (talk) 03:06, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Special:AggregateGroups
Hi. What does Special:AggregateGroups do? Pkbwcgs (talk) 08:15, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Request for consul (Pkbwcgs)
I would like to be a consul because I have been on this Wiki for a reasonable amount of time and I have experience in combating spambots and combating vandalism on Wikipedia. I think being a consul would be the perfect bit for me. Pkbwcgs (talk) 12:32, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) you have been very active here and is nice experienced user. No oppose -Psl631 ( Let's Chat! ) 08:00, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Oppose

 * , there are enough consuls. Artix Kreiger (talk) 03:15, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) per above. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 12:33, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * 2) The user does not seem to be trustworthy enough.   Malcolm Aces! Aces!  00:01, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * In what way am I not trustworthy enough? This is publictestwiki and I have done nothing wrong. Pkbwcgs (talk) 06:47, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Comments
Hay, I am new so i can say nothing as to the merits of this candidate, however I do wish that people would vote based on the merits of the candidate rather than weather they believe more Consuls are needed or not. the vote should be to determine whether or not the candidate would be a good fit for the position and weather they are trustworthy or not. After that, if the vote succeeds then it can be put on hold until such time as the current Consuls decide another one is needed. Then successful candidates can be promoted without further discussion, unless they have exibed bad behavior or gone inactive in the meantime. Bonnedav (talk) 03:06, 14 September 2018 (UTC)


 * The worthiness of a candidate is only half the consideration. Artix Kreiger (talk) 19:08, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
 * How about you to be one of the consul in the future? SA</b> 1</b>3</b> B</b>r</b>o</b> (talk) 02:30, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I can try to become consul here at Public Test Wiki, I are trusted and like testing here :) Psl631 ( Let's Chat! ) 12:24, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I would also like to comment that the recent demands on Wmf sites for administrator and checkuser powers stands at 6 times, all 6 times were told by others with a firm "no", to put it mildly. and I mean, he really wants power. Artix Kreiger (talk) 12:57, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Bureaucrat weirdness.
Why can bureaucrats only add Confirmed users, Autopatrollers, and Rollbackers when administrators can both add and remove them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bonnedav (talk • contribs) 05:55, 11 September 2018‎ (UTC)
 * And, that's all cleaned up now. -- Void  Whispers 16:41, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I was thinking more like just let them remove the groups as well so it is easier to tell the difference in group add/remove perms between crat and Consul, but it's your call. Bonnedav (talk) 03:09, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * How about the "Testgroup"? By right "Bureaucrats", "Admins", and "Bots" it should only added by a bureaucrat. S</b>A</b> 1</b>3</b> B</b>r</b>o</b> (talk) 15:01, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Inactivity/Exceptions
I thought I was exempted from user right removal? Does anyone know what the heck happened to my admin and crat perms? &mdash; <tt>revi</tt>  10:48, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't know, it's not in the log. User:MacFan4000 has restored these rights for you. Kiko4564 (talk) 18:28, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * For anyone wondering, see Tech:Incidents/2018-04-26-DataLoss. -- Void  Whispers 00:29, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

I need help restoring this page
Hello all. Yesterday I made a bad decision to delete a translated version of the Main Page, https://publictestwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page/zh. I thought it would be a simple matter of just restoeing the page once I had deleted it. But since it's translated, I guess it has to be manually translated again in order to be restored. I am completely inexperienced with translating pages. Can anyone help me fix this page?

Hereis a little talk about the situation. https://publictestwiki.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page/zh

And I'm sorry for this whole mess to begin with. Marseillaise (talk) 16:33, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I tried to undelete that page, but it couldn't be restored manually, that page needs to be restored by using the Translate tool. If you want to undelete that page, here have a link to the deleted text which admins can view: HERE.

The link takes to a textbox where you can copy the text, but the page cannot be created manually, it MUST be re-created with the translate tool. Any additional help is needed for users who can Chinese. Unhappily, I cannot chinese :( so you need to ask another user who can chinese that can restore the page. Psl631 ( Let's Chat! ) 17:45, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Has this been done now? Kiko4564 (talk) 18:26, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * YES.Psl631 ( Let's Chat! ) 18:57, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Lua Scripting
is the Scribunto extension available for Lua scripting? --Ptwcris (talk) 01:32, 1 March 2019 (UTC)


 * You might want to open a task on Phabricator.miraheze.org RhinosF1 (talk) 18:41, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Not needed. Scribunto is enabled on all Miraheze wikis by default. -- Void  Whispers 16:18, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi
Please since you have the consul user group, can some steward or global sysop create the "Template_editor" user right on hypotheticaltropicalcycloneswiki, and add the protection level "Edit: Allow only template editors" on my wiki? Fungster (talk) 15:26, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Request for Consul by Zppix
I am requesting the Consul userright as I would like to be able to imcrease my ability to combat abuse on this wiki and to compliment my CVT rights Zppix (talk) 14:43, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Support
- No issues. Trusted. Btw you have a discord message Zppix RhinosF1 (talk) 18:40, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Rename request
User: User:Ghergher888

New name: Ghery

Thanks Ghergher888 (talk) 11:36, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Please use m:Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Void  Whispers 15:25, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Please make new interfacepage
Please make MediaWiki:Dot-separator. Copied from English Wikipedia.--デーモン閣下 (talk) 07:04, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Request at Meta too.--デーモン閣下 (talk) 07:54, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅--そらたこ🐙🌈talk 13:33, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Something wrong with the bureaucrat toolset?
Hello, I was wondering if this is intentional or not but bureaucrats cannot access the bureaucrat protection level at all. If this isn't intentional could it please be fixed? Thanks. Hypercane (talk) 21:15, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Also not related to the bureaucrat toolset, but administrators can only promote confirmed users but not demote them? Is this intentional? Hypercane (talk) 21:22, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
 * These should now be fixed, please let me know if this is not the case. -- Void  Whispers 17:38, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

~Squiggles~ for steward
<div class="boilerplate metadata discussion-archived" style="background-color: #F2F4FC; margin: 2em 0 0 0; padding: 0 10px 0 10px; border: 1px solid #aaa">
 * The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
 * Steward is not a right that testwiki can assign. See Stewards for more details. -- Void  Whispers 17:37, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello, my name is ~Squiggles~ but you may call me Squiggs, I have been here for not that long, but am requesting the "Steward" permission, so I can approve certain requests, queries and questions that the TestWiki community may have, I am also a 'crat and admin on The TestWiki and I know what responsibility's the steward permission holds, I am requesting this right for 4 weeks (1 month) as a temporary permission, and if all goes well, will request for permanent, would also like to combat abuse and vandalism on this wiki.

Thank you for taking your time to read this, -- ~Squiggles~  |  Talk To Me  💬 11:26, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Oppose
you do not need itReuben (talk) 05:12, 25 November 2019 (UTC) there are just the correct amountReuben (talk) 04:15, 26 November 2019 (UTC)


 * elaborate?-- ~Squiggles~  |  Talk To Me  💬 09:24, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Comments

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section

Templates
Can Bureaucrats make new templates without useing a computerReuben (talk) 05:42, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Anybody can make new templates without using a computer. Dross (talk) 22:02, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * How?Reuben (talk) 04:43, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * if you want to make a template you can type in the url publicteswiki.com/wiki/Template:(YOURTEMPLATENAME)-- ~Squiggles~  |  Talk To Me  💬 08:44, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Database error
When I was trying to make a test account so I can test on it I got the following: Database error

A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.

[3287968177626a1207610c6b] 2019-12-23 00:19:25: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError"

I wanted to make a new account because I can not find a test account. reuben (talk) 00:25, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Personal request
Please unprotect my upage. Sorry. I forgot to do before remove request. --そらたこ🐙🌈talk 13:54, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Can you link to the page? Your talk page is not protected. RhinosF1 (talk) 13:58, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry RhinosF1. Posting in meta is incorrect. It's My user page, not a talk page. --そらたこ🐙🌈talk 14:02, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ RhinosF1 (talk) 14:04, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Consul Request (RhinosF1)
Hello,

I’m requesting consul because I heavily monitor TestWiki and participate in permission requests often. This would allow me to handle removal requests as well, handle inactive users as well as manage the few trolls and vandals we get who I’m well versed in. RhinosF1 (talk) 13:56, 19 January 2020 (UTC)