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A feedback, surprisingly "identified as SPAM", took me here
In response to a request for feedback, on the contents translation tool, in https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tema:T2vwbskdnhgwkwek (the catalan Wikipedia) I just reported a problem (Subject "Tables translation"... or so) but, when sending it, I got a warning message saying that this had been identified as spam and suggesting that, if it wasn't, I should contact an administrator. The "user list" pages the message link took me to do recomend comming here for admin actions. My feedback provided links to original, translated and reconstructud pages, which would take me some effort to rebuild. Can someone do somethig for me: recover my contribution and take it to the proper destination? Thanks, --FranSisPac (talk) 17:24, 28 April 2016 (UTC) (also in ca:Usuari_Discussió:FranSisPac)

New wiki
I need help finding links to create my own wiki. Can somebody help me? --Brynda1231 (talk) 02:17, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * See Hosting. &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 09:26, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Non-MW related manual talk pages
On manual talk pages which are not directly related to mediawiki, the MediaWiki:Editnotice-101 message which appear while editing should be replaced with another message(s). There are many Pywikibot manual talk pages; try to edit one of them, and you will see how irrelevant are the links in that message. --XXN (talk) 09:19, 14 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Perhaps non-MediaWiki content shouldn't be in that namespace – would it be better to put pywikibot items in their own namespace? Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 00:26, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Testing search in deleted pages archive
Hello,

During Wikimedia Hackathon 2016, the Discovery team worked on one of the items on the 2015 community wishlist, namely enabling searching the archive of deleted pages. Now we are ready to deploy this capability in production, and are asking admins of select wikis to test-drive this feature. After accommodating any feedback from this trial, we plan to deploy it on all wikis and enable it by default.

To test it on your wiki, please go to the  page, and add   to the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1. Then search for the pages you're interested in. The results should show more results than before, due to using ElasticSearch indexing (via the CirrusSearch extension). If you find anything that is not right with the results, or that you want to be changed, please comment.

Please note that since Special:Undelete is an admin-only feature, this search capability is also only accessible to admins. CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:02, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Redirect override tool not working
As seen from my account logs, I've been moving the pages for early MediaWiki versions into their own pages rather than subpages of the Release notes pages. For the first two moves, MediaWiki 1.1 and MediaWiki 1.2, I was able to successfully delete the existing redirect and move the page to the new name with ease. However, for some reason, on MediaWiki 1.3 and up, I can no longer do this. Attempting to move Release notes/1.3 to MediaWiki 1.3 and delete the existing redirect at MediaWiki 1.3 results in an error saying that I do not have permission to do such. I've copy-pasted MediaWiki 1.3 and I need an admin to histmerge, but before copy-pasting all the other versions from 1.4 and up, I was wondering if someone would know what the problem here is. Thanks. Nestor Lozano (talk) 14:17, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The moves are incorrect: Release notes are still published under that title, see for instance Release notes/1.29 vs. MediaWiki 1.29. Please revert. --Nemo 16:44, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of subpages
Hello. I've archived Extension:Ads. Please delete Special:PrefixIndex/Extension:Ads/ as the template from Extension:Ads will display in the user language already. Thanks. &mdash;MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:49, 10 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Hey there. I'm not sure blanking the extension's page is the right approach here – don't we normally just mark it as unsupported? Happy to delete them all but can you link to equivalent examples? Don't want to set a new precedent without discussion. :-)
 * BTW, I think these kind of items should go on Project:Current issues – it's not a user rights request or other +bureaucrat task request, just a regular +sysop (well, +translateadmin) action thing. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 00:16, 11 September 2017 (UTC)


 * ✅ but by mere redirecting now that the page was removed from translation. Replacing content with the notice is an established practice for archived extensions, but no need to delete history. Nemo 06:27, 11 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Works for me. Thanks for your help. I'll keep doing that. Regards, &mdash;MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:33, 11 September 2017 (UTC)