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Tech News: 2016-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [1]
• Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [2]
• In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [3]

Problems

• On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [4][5]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
• Special:Log now has a help link. [6]
• The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [7]

Future changes

• User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [8][9]
• Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [10]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Out of scope

To mark for deletion, use template Speedy wargo (talk) 08:33, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for all the ApiParam conversions and updates you're doing on the API pages. It's a project I really want to finish (as part of a larger project I'm working on), but life just hasn't been cooperating with me lately. I'm really happy to see someone else helping out. – Robin Hood  ^(talk) 17:45, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Glad to hear it's appreciated! I'm developing around the MediaWiki API, and updating the documentation in the mean time is beneficial to both me and others. —Mainframe98 _talk 17:56, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Midwest Equity Mortgage Page

What is not acceptable by on the page? I am a Navy veteran trying to get recognition for the verifiable contributions this business makes. Beauruehl (talk) 18:20, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

See Project:About#What MediaWiki.org is not. This is not the place for that. —Mainframe98 _talk 18:22, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Guaranteed Rate has the exact same information on their wikipedia page along with a laundry list of other mortgage companies. Perhaps you don't like me because I am a military Veteran. Why can those companies put the exact same data we are but we cannot? Beauruehl (talk) 18:23, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps Wikipedia discriminates against US Military Veterans?... Beauruehl (talk) 18:23, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Because this is NOT Wikipedia. I don't care if your a veteran or not, and I don't see how it is relevant. It plain does not belong here. —Mainframe98 _talk 18:25, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_Rate Beauruehl (talk) 18:25, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

There is Grate's page on your site. Please elaborate why they can be but we cannot. Beauruehl (talk) 18:26, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Because you are in the wrong place! This is NOT Wikipedia. Here the software USED by Wikipedia is documented, not competing mortgage companies. —Mainframe98 _talk 18:27, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Very odd the wikipedia page would redirect me here. Sounds like an interface obstacle... Beauruehl (talk) 18:32, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Marking pages for deletion

Hi,

thank you for the maintenance of Toolserver namespace. I'd like to ask you to mark pages (especially templates) for deletion after ensuring that they are not transcluded and preferably not even linked from other pages, as such pages can't be simply deleted.

Thank you for your cooperation and maintenance. — Danny B. 14:02, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Admin

Do you want to be admin? wargo (talk) 15:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

I definitely would. Do you think I'm cut out to be one though? —Mainframe98 _talk 15:45, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Yes. Write on Project:Requests. wargo (talk) 16:14, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Will do, thank you! —Mainframe98 _talk 16:17, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

MediaWiki versions

Just wanted to comment, since I've seen you use edit summaries like this one a few times. A lot of the time, people have been using the unadorned template to indicate which version a feature was introduced in—they don't actually intend the template to mean it was unique to that version. That said, it's definitely more accurate to add the |+ to the template. Just don't be surprised if the unadorned version of it is fairly common around the wiki. :) – Robin Hood  ^(talk) 18:51, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

I guessed something along those lines, but since I haven't been around here for very long I wasn't sure. Thanks for clarifying! —Mainframe98 _talk 19:09, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Congrats

Congratulations on the promotion! I'm impressed you've figured out translation in so short a time...I've been around here for years and for the life of me, I still can't get a handle on it. And on that note, on API:Rollback, it's easy to miss in the diff, but I added the tags paramter, which will need translation. It's been so long since I've worked with translation, I couldn't even remember if I should be adding <translate> tags or not. (I know I'm not supposed to add the numerical tags, though.) – Robin Hood  ^(talk) 17:35, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words on the Request page. Translate is quite difficult to learn as the syntax is quite confusing and the help pages need improvement. Until today I didn't understand it either, and I feel that I've barely scratched the surface. For new pages you can use Special:PagePreparation, but for existing pages, tags are added manually. API:Rollback has been marked for translation by the way. —Mainframe98 _talk 17:56, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Deletion

I think it shows exceedingly poor tast to delete a new post that has just been started, Mainframe. OmegaForce1 (talk) 11:27, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

I guess you and yur buddies are going to be the only ones who contribute. After all, why should a Presidential advisor be on BirminghamWik? OmegaForce1 (talk) 11:28, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Your edit was Out of project scope and has accordingly removed. This is MediaWiki.org, a wiki dedicated on documenting the software that Wikipedia uses. Your article has no reason to be here. —Mainframe98 _talk 11:30, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Deletion of my sandbox

You have deleted Data:Sandbox/Ignatus/Pithagor.tab. Creating such sandboxes is encouraged in help:Tabular Data, and I think people should have sandboxes which live longer than minutes. It may possible be even in project scope since I've already referred it in a technical discussion here. Couldn't you restore it? Ignatus (talk) 19:45, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

From what I understand from that page, users are encouraged to do so on Wikimedia Commons, instead of here, which is why I'm hesitant to restore it. I've included a copy of the source of the deleted page below:

{
    "license": "CC0-1.0+",
    "description": {
        "en": "table description"
    },
    "sources": "Copied from [http://example.com Example Data Source]",
    "schema": {
        "fields": [
            {
                "name": "header1",
                "type": "number",
                "title": {
                    "en": "header 1"
                }
            },
            {
                "name": "header2",
                "type": "string",
                "title": {
                    "en": "header 2"
                }
            }
        ]
    },
    "data": [
        [
            42,
            "peace"
        ]
    ]
}

—Mainframe98 _talk 19:54, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

I believed, I modified this page 8[ Ignatus (talk) 20:08, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

You had. In my infinite wisdom, I didn't check that what I posted was the default value, not your page, my apologies, below is your content:

{"license":"CC0-1.0+","description":{"en":"Pithagor theorem symbols","ru":"Обозначения в теореме Пифагора"},"sources":"Copied from [http://example.com Example Data Source]","schema":{"fields":[{"name":"symbol","type":"string","title":{"en":"Symbol","ru":"Символ"}},{"name":"definition","type":"localized","title":{"en":"Definition","ru":"Определение"}},{"name":"element","type":"string","title":{"en":"Related element","ru":"Связанный элемент"}},{"name":"property","type":"string","title":{"en":"Described property","ru":"Описываемое свойство"}}]},"data":[["a",{"en":"Catet","ru":"Катет"},"Q110812","P2043"],["b",{"en":"Catet","ru":"Катет"},"Q110812","P2043"],["c",{"en":"Hypotenuse","ru":"Гипотенуза"},"Q104962","P2043"]]}

—Mainframe98 _talk 20:12, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! I go to commons. Ignatus (talk) 20:14, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Removing translation unit markers

Why did you remove translation unit markers 72, 73 and 74 in Special:Diff/2324011? Shirayuki (talk) 13:44, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

I wasn't aware I did. All I recall doing is changing the bugzilla link to the phabricator one. —Mainframe98 _talk 13:47, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

I see. It looks to be an edit conflict. Shirayuki (talk) 13:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence

Thanks for all your work so far! You've made tons of translation contributions, helped with tons of administrator work e.g deleting advertisements/promotional articles, reverting blatant vandalism edits (e.g blanking), and helped organize stuff too! I couldn't decide which barnstar to choose since you've done lots of different contributions, so here's the Barnstar of Dilligence! Your work is very much appreciated :D

SamanthaNguyen (talk) 20:12, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now use datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source. [11]
• There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. You can try it out.
• When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [12]
• The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
• MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [13]
• The live option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [14]

Problems

• Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [15]

Changes this week

• There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.

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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Help:Logging_in content suggestion

Hi,

You seem to be in charge of the Help:Logging_in page here on MediaWiki. My company uses an internal wiki where the login is handled through the domain accounts. The login page on the MediaWiki software seems to default to the MediaWiki's help page. Would it make sense to put on note on the help page to mention the possibility that users on private wiki's may already have logins configured for them and they should contact their administrator for access? Sorvis (talk) 13:46, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, that makes sense to add that. In fact, domain accounts are used in a slightly adapted version for Wikitech, which is also part of Wikimedia so adding it also makes sense for here on Wikimedia itself. —Mainframe98 _talk 13:49, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you I went a head and wrote up some text as a starting place. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Logging_in#Creating_an_account Sorvis (talk) 15:10, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Deleting my Pages

Why are you deleting my pages????????? Hgencer (talk) 10:08, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Because they are out of MediaWiki.org's project scope; they do not belong here. —Mainframe98 _talk 10:10, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

question about spam or promotional

Hi,

yesterday, i was proud to write my first page. the page i try to build is strictly to promote collaboration with co-worker of other health and welfare (gouvernement of �Québec, Canada) to write rules for us. we are not lucrative and i don't sell nothing. the main idea is to promote quality and organisation of what we do, for us, and then share it with people that have similar goals. and learn from them!

if it is not permitted here, please tell me, at this time, i though i was at the good place

thank you

Marc-André Conseil multidisciplinaire du CCSMTL (talk) 12:59, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

As Project:About states, MediaWiki.org is for documentation related to the MediaWiki software itself. It is not a place to place projects unrelated to MediaWiki. You'd be better off creating/requesting a wiki on one of the many available Hosting services. —Mainframe98 _talk 13:12, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

hi,

yes, this is what i am reading right now, thank you

i was first referred here by coworker but didn't read that limitation. i am learning. thank you. Conseil multidisciplinaire du CCSMTL (talk) 13:21, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Constant vandalism with translations User:WEWO

Need to disable and nuke this account's edits - abusing translations to vandalize pages DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 20:29, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Done Thanks for the message. —Mainframe98 _talk 20:34, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

just wish I could have directly reverted the edits - but it was locked out due to being a translated page, which makes no sense whatsoever. DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 20:36, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

That's the tricky part of the translation system, you have to revert the edits to the pages in the Translation: namespace, which can be found on the user's contribution page. A revert-all button would be loads easier though. —Mainframe98 _talk 20:39, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

User talk:Harris Bolton

This seems a lot more like being used as a soapbox, instead of either a temporary work area or actual user info. DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 21:06, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Not entirely sure whether this warrants a permanent block or not, but certainly needs a response of some sort. DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 21:07, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

I've left a message after I've deleted the posts. Blocking wouldn't initially do much good, because they are only active on their talk page, so they wouldn't have any way to respond to the block. I (or someone else) can always block them later if necessary. Thanks for the message! —Mainframe98 _talk 21:27, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

For future reference, is there a general report page or link I should be using instead of talk pages? I didn't see an option anywhere on talk pages regarding an "inppropriate content" report button or link. DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 21:38, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Unfortunately, not. Well there's Project:Requests, but that's mainly for the non-urgent stuff. I suppose you could ask around on IRC, but I'm not active there, nor do I have any idea what channels you'd have to use. —Mainframe98 _talk 22:13, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

I don't like using IRC for a few reasons, such as ease of spoofing, and more importantly the lack of persistent storage for later review of postings made while you're offline, as you find on services such as Slack or Discord. I appreciate your quick responses here, anyway :) DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 22:17, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

getting a lot of advertisement and spam articles in the last few hours...

‎107.77.200.139

User:Wardens Ravens‎

Division Hangers

Who we are

and so on ... they keep adding more and more offtopic pages and trying to revert my delete requests. DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 03:09, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

user image deleted

Hi, could you please restore the image you just deleted. I was trying to create a user page based on this template

User:GWicke Physikerwelt (talk) 20:15, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Done Sorry about that. Most photos of people here are from people who misuse mediawiki.org as some kind of soapbox, and I falsely assumed this image was part if that. —Mainframe98 _talk 20:18, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/2601:2C0:4100:81:A545:1ADD:CFD0:D539

Translation vandalism DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 05:14, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Done by fellow admin Shirayuki. Thanks for the report. —Mainframe98 _talk 07:18, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

think that was a new record :P

You had the page deleted after I marked it, before I even got back to recent changes list. DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 13:55, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Mentioned this on the talk pages for the messages a number of days ago, no response

Special:WhatLinksHere/File:Clock and warning.svg

These two pages need to have the links on the image disabled (the cached page messages).

add |link= to the file references. DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 20:51, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

I can do that, but I'm curious what the point of doing so would be. Is there any specific reason we need to disable the link? —Mainframe98 _talk 21:07, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

More a matter of avoiding misclicks on links, and it's not linking to any useful information, just being intended as an icon. Just one of those potential navigation pains, especially if using a keyboard to navigate the page. It tends to be one of my pet peeves to have a link to an image when it's not actually intended to be a thumbnail or link to another article. DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 21:12, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Done —Mainframe98 _talk 21:13, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Regarding my recent edit

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/BotPasswords&curid=610510&diff=2415211&oldid=2400472

Is there somewhere else this note should be added? Was a common issue with it not maintaining or processing logins using only http DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 19:32, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Not that I can think of, right now. I do recall that there were issues with InstantCommons with http/https, so if you spot any of those, it would be great if you could verify that those are set to https. Other than those, I can't think of any. —Mainframe98 _talk 19:35, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Probably should mention I don't use the bot myself, but that was a solution that was found for that specific problem. DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 19:38, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

suspicious account activity

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&user=&page=&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&subtype=create2

The last few entries in particular DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 13:55, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

They're... odd. Unfortunately there's not much I can do. They haven't done anything wrong, and it appears in the logs if they're trouble. —Mainframe98 _talk 14:03, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

User:ELVISON1972

talk page spam on ip address talk pages, completely offtopic. DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 22:31, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Done —Mainframe98 _talk 07:46, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Extension:LDAP Authentication

Do you not understand the problem or do you not understand the code?

The extension's "AutoAuth" (Kerberos) functionality does not work with AuthManager. The gerrit link even shows this: look at file 2 line 150. It throws an error that explicitly says that "AutoAuth" is not supported!

Why would you just point to the gerrit that proves exactly what the '''very important''' notification on the extension wiki page says! I've wasted hours on this issue and if you would have looked at other complaints in the Talk page, you would have noticed that I am not the only one.

It is misleading to remove the '''important notice'''!! Keep the notification on the page to not let other people waste time trying to fix something that is broken/incomplete. 203.144.93.226 (talk) 15:34, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

LdapAuthentication.php

Line 150

throw new BadFunctionCallException( 'AutoAuthSetup() is not supported with AuthManager.'...

Unbelievable.. or is this issue being covered because such an important piece of functionality not working is an embarrassment for MediaWiki? 203.144.93.226 (talk) 16:25, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Archived extension pages

Please do not mark an archived extension page (e.g. Extension:RestrictTalk) for translation. The "To see the page before archival, click here." link should point to the translated revision (e.g. Extension:RestrictTalk/ja). Shirayuki (talk) 12:54, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't realize that, thanks for pointing that out. —Mainframe98 _talk 12:57, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

question on User:* page rules

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Been considering that I should probably start to write up a user page, but I've got one particular question before I start: Should I include links to the primary wiki hosts I visit and edit regularly? Wasn't too sure if that'd fall under "advertising" or not. DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 01:57, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

As long as you just link to their main page/your user page there, it shouldn't be a problem. You wouldn't be advertising, just letting people know where else you can be found, like I've done on my user page. —Mainframe98 _talk 06:34, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

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Mark Help:Pickle for translation?

Did some updates (major rewrite) and perhaps I should do a first shot on translating Help:Pickle. Better that I wast time on finding the errors than other wasting time on them! Jeblad (talk) 18:19, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Will do, but I shall simplify the translate syntax a bit before doing so. —Mainframe98 _talk 18:20, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

You beat me, I also posted the message at @Shirayuki page. I'll go notify him. Jeblad (talk) 18:23, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Done I also took the liberty to improve spelling using Grammarly and put the warning on top of the article in Template:Warning. —Mainframe98 _talk 18:32, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Central notice code

How to get the source code of Central notice, As me too have to design a notice for a contest in ta wikipedia Shriheeran (talk) 08:06, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

The source code for CentralNotice is available on Phabricator as well as Github. —Mainframe98 _talk 08:24, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

How to create a new sitenotice using js and css Shriheeran (talk) 10:37, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

You'd have to ask on Manual talk:Interface/Sitenotice, because I'm not well versed in KS and CSS to know how to do so. —Mainframe98 _talk 11:18, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you!

NHarateh (WMF) (talk) 18:12, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
NHarateh (WMF) (talk) 18:12, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

why

WHY?!?! Krümmel-Gouda (talk) 18:39, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Why what? —Mainframe98 _talk 18:40, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Why do you deleted our text? 2003:77:4E54:9056:15BE:47ED:E57C:D2FA (talk) 19:28, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Our? How are you related to this? The original page was deleted because it does not fit on MediaWiki.org. See Project:About. —Mainframe98 _talk 19:30, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Parsoid

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Removing category Category:Parsoid for Parsoid - this was my mistake. I'm sorry, I did not notice how it happened. HotCat is true hot. Kaganer (talk) 15:39, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, and I topped it off by accidentally tapping the bot-rollback option. It has happened to me too, more than I'd like to admit. I've reset the page back to 2471303, but can you check for me? —Mainframe98 _talk 15:43, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

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User Page

Dear Mainframe98. Could you reestablish my user page or send me the source code? I really am who i claim i am, and i would like to contribute some major changes to wikipedia, i know by first hand. Because King Abdul of Saudi Arabia will take the place of Alex Younger as chief executor of the mi6. Nothing you could ever read in the news.

I agread with my coleagues, if I could just put it there and name myself as a source. Thx. OO7_Putin 15:42, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Aside from my doubts (NEVER POST PRIVATE INFORMATION LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS ON THE INTERNET), this is not the right place for such content. This is MediaWiki.org, the wiki for the documentation, discussion, and development of the MediaWiki software. (see Project:About), which is why it was removed. —Mainframe98 _talk 15:46, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Content of User:007 Putin:

===== Russian Name =====
Mikhail Putin
===== Former roles =====
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service Secret Intelligence Service / Mi6] special agent [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/00_Agent OO7]  (currently inactive)
* Head of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonal_police cantonal police] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_police Bern]
===== Current role =====
* Head of the military police in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland Switzerland]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage Intelligence officer] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industriequartier_(Z%C3%BCrich) industrial center of Zurich]
===== Nationalities =====
Swiss and Russian
===== [CH] social security number =====
[REDACTED]
===== Title =====
Sir
===== Email =====
mikhail '''dot''' putin '''at''' gmx '''dot''' ch
===== Anything left to say =====
It's true :-)

—Mainframe98 _talk 15:47, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [16]

Changes this week

• irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [17]
• Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [18]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello Mainframe

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Can you see this Template Languages. Murbaut (talk) 09:06, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Done, thanks for the message. —Mainframe98 _talk 09:15, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

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Edits

Why can be a civil and constructive user talk page edit a clear vandalism edit ? 83.28.60.106 (talk) 16:42, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I don't see how an excess of exclamation points is considered civil. —Mainframe98 _talk 16:44, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Pages for deletion

Are such pages like this, this and this kept here? I'd say they should be deleted per Project:About#What_MediaWiki.org_is_not. XXN (talk) 13:19, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

They'd be bordering. In my opinion, as they are MediaWiki families with extensions created by them that are quite popular, they should be kept. —Mainframe98 _talk 16:00, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Testing MediaWiki features

should be allowed in the _personal_ space Graphoid (talk) 16:30, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Then test there, and not in the main space. Also consider visiting an actual testing wiki, such as Test Wikipedia and Test 2 Wikipedia. See also Project:About#What MediaWiki.org is not. —Mainframe98 _talk 16:53, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

BTW: Do you know anyone proficient in doing maps with <graph>? Graphoid (talk) 17:49, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Looking at the extension page and the list of contributors, I'd say that would be User:Yurik. —Mainframe98 _talk 17:55, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Mainframe98 thx, fixed the issue. Yurik (talk) 01:18, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

deletion my pages

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Hello ! please delete my page : User:Omar Ghrida/common.js

thanks OmarWiki (talk) 20:41, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Done —Mainframe98 _talk 20:47, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

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Why did you erase my writing

Why did you delete my article about nexternew Ilkertaskin1225 (talk) 13:30, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Because it is out of MediaWiki.org's project scope. Feel free to recreate your page on one of the Wikipedia's. —Mainframe98 _talk 19:19, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything. [19]
• Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

Changes later this week

• Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [20]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [21]

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21:45, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:45, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

A question on translate tags

Regarding Special:Diff/2538084, why does Translate need tags between T:9 and T:7 but not between T:10 and T:14, T:14 and T:15, or T:15 and T:13 in the same section? I'd like to understand so I can avoid removing the close-open pairs in cases where they're necessary in the future.

Thanks. Anomie (talk) 13:22, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Translate doesn't like it when multiple messages are within the same translation tags, unless it determined upon first marking the page for translation that those units could fit there. I've tried foregoing those tags on another page and the extension threw a hissy fit at attempting to save, claiming that those two translation units couldn't coexist. Perhaps they can be removed, but if it's not broken, I'd rather not touch it, in fear that I might break it by merely suggesting it. —Mainframe98 _talk 13:27, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

So there's no editor-visible reason for requiring tags in the one situation and not the other, it depends on some invisible state stored by the extension? Anomie (talk) 13:29, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

That's my conclusion. Well either that or 'magic'. —Mainframe98 _talk 13:45, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

do you have the info that was typed on the Pizzagate page before you deleted it?

was the info that was typed on the Pizzagate page saved anywhere before it was deleted? why the deletion? Hpfan592 (talk) 18:27, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

The content was:

temporary (?) new pizzagate.wiki (archive: https://archive.is/sRk5W) while it is down
New Topics: 
- (Huma) Abedin FOIA emails

As the Special:log/delete shows, the page was deleted because it was out of project scope. Please see Project:About what MediaWiki.org is about. —Mainframe98 _talk 19:34, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

ok you deleted it before I could save the second edit and another person deleted second edit Hpfan592 (talk) 19:43, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

temporary (?) new pizzagate.wiki (archive: https://archive.is/sRk5W) while it is down
== Resources ==
* George Webb's Trello - https://trello.com/b/RMx1r5dG/hillarys-hamlettruth-leaks-hcs-leakershackers-henchmenseries-54-350-awan-spy-ring 
** related: Leaked Documents Purport To Show How The U.S., Gulf Countries Ship Weapons To Terrorists Using Diplomatic Flight Cover (similar MO to sketchy diplomatic shipment of art or with shipping containers) http://www.activistpost.com/2017/08/leaked-documents-us-gulf-countries-ship-weapons-to-terrorists-diplomatic-flights.html 
**  
*   
== New Topics: ==
- (Huma) Abedin FOIA emails (Case number:  F-2016-07895, posted on 1Sept2017)
* validating DNC WikiLeaks emails - https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6xmadf/huma_foia_email_found_in_wikileaks_dnc_dump_thus/
* (compilation) Abedin FOIA Reveals Clinton / Rothschild Connection, Soros, Human Trafficking and More Part 1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6xke60/huma_abedin_foia_reveals_clinton_rothschild/
* 
- Awan Case(s) updates
* Imran Awan Pleads ‘Not Guilty’, Asks for Ankle Monitor to Be Removed - https://disobedientmedia.com/2017/09/imran-awan-pleads-not-guilty-asks-for-ankle-monitor-to-be-removed/
* 
- addition(s) to list of mysterious deaths
* Kurt Smolek - https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6xk04p/not_again_kurt_smolek_another_hillary_associate/

This was the content of the second removal. —Mainframe98 _talk 19:44, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

thanks Hpfan592 (talk) 17:40, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Extension: MwSSE

Hello!

I have to thank you for editing and contributing with MwSSE page, it looks better now :-)

Extension:MwSSE

I have one question, the line in LocalSettings.php you commented out (deleted):

$wgHooks['AuthManagerLoginAuthenticateAudit'][] = 'MwSSEHooks::onlogBadLogin';

without that line, I'm having an error at the login page:

[9c4424149660f8c37a4118e0] /index.php?title=Especial:Entrar&returnto=P%C3%A1gina+principal MWException from line 176 of /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/Hooks.php: Invalid callback MwSSE::onlogBadLogin in hooks for AuthManagerLoginAuthenticateAudit

Backtrace:

#0 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/auth/AuthManager.php(694): Hooks::run(string, array)

#1 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/auth/AuthManager.php(381): MediaWiki\Auth\AuthManager->continueAuthentication(array)

#2 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/specialpage/AuthManagerSpecialPage.php(355): MediaWiki\Auth\AuthManager->beginAuthentication(array, string)

#3 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/specialpage/AuthManagerSpecialPage.php(484): AuthManagerSpecialPage->performAuthenticationStep(string, array)

#4 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/htmlform/HTMLForm.php(656): AuthManagerSpecialPage->handleFormSubmit(array, VFormHTMLForm)

#5 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/specialpage/AuthManagerSpecialPage.php(418): HTMLForm->trySubmit()

#6 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/specialpage/LoginSignupSpecialPage.php(305): AuthManagerSpecialPage->trySubmit()

#7 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(522): LoginSignupSpecialPage->execute(NULL)

#8 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(577): SpecialPage->run(NULL)

#9 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/MediaWiki.php(283): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Title, RequestContext)

#10 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/MediaWiki.php(851): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#11 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/includes/MediaWiki.php(512): MediaWiki->main()

#12 /srv/www/vhosts/mediawiki-1.28.2/index.php(43): MediaWiki->run()

#13 {main}

what am I doing wrong?

where am I supposed to write the line that make the extension work right? $wgHooks......

thanks again!

saludos/greetings

Nicolás. Nagruy (talk) 02:02, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

The extension is broken. Adding

$wgHooks['AuthManagerLoginAuthenticateAudit'][] = 'MwSSEHooks::onlogBadLogin'; will not help and this line should be provided by the extension itself. Instead, you should modify line 15 of the extension.json file on in the extension folder from "MwSSE::onlogBadLogin" to "MwSSEHooks::onlogBadLogin". —Mainframe98 _talk 17:54, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you!

it works like a charm now :-) Nagruy (talk) 21:31, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them. [22][23]
• Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [24]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

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15:31, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:31, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Lang

Hello, Mainframe98! Would you be so kind and add Croatian (hr) to Template:Languages? Thanks! User:IvanOS IvanOS (talk) 09:26, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Done Special:Diff/2571314/prev —Mainframe98 _talk 09:33, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Delete Userpage

Hola, no debería borrarse User:IngBHernandez por spam? 187.172.234.251 (talk) 18:00, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Done. Since it didn't appear in Special:RecentChanges I wasn't aware of that page. —Mainframe98 _talk 18:03, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Occitan instead of Catalan

Hi. I've mistakenly made my Catalan translation in the Occitan subpage VisualEditor/Portal/oc. To start solving the mess, I've already copied the Catalan text over to the right Catalan subpage. Should an administrator delete my wrong contributions in the Occitan subpage or something? Thanks. Recared (talk) 11:35, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

I’ll delete the Occitan translation, since it never contained any translations to begin with. In other circumstances, we usually delete the individual translations. Thanks for letting me know. —Mainframe98 _talk 11:43, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

OK. Thank you. Recared (talk) 11:47, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-11

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

• The Global collaboration report for October is now available.
• All wikis now have the Filters for edit review as the default system on Recent Changes page.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Most recent changes

• Filters for Watchlists are still on Beta. Please try them and give feedback before we release it for all users!
• Shortcuts to filter Namespaces and Tags are now more visible. [25]
• Discovery of the search bar has been improved. [26]
• If the Recent Changes page or the Watchlist fails to load or is time-outed, a message is now displayed. [27][28]
• The bookmark icon for creating a "Saved filter" is now grayed when it is not possible to save. Before it was not visible. Bookmarking is unavailable when, for example, the current filter set is already saved. [29]

Future changes

• Live updates on Recent changes will be moved out of beta and into the standard feature set by the end of the year. [30]
• Extension:Translate filters for RecentChanges are going to be integrated to the new filters. [31]
• Automatic edit summaries will be filtered as tags. [32]

Content translation [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• List items (suggested items and in-progress/published translations) layout restyled to prevent overflows on small screen sizes.
• Search results for new translation dialog are now embedded, instead of being displayed in floating menu. Search results remain displayed when tabbed out and can be closed using ESC key.
• Missing pages are no longer shown when there is no match for search query. Message informing that there are no results is displayed instead.
• Embedded search results enabled to provide users with more translation opportunities. Articles user recently edited (in currently selected source language wiki) are surfaced when there is no input in search bar, with additional info if article is missing in user's currently selected target language.
• Long suggestion descriptions are limited to three lines, and the rest is truncated, which is indicated by ellipsis.
• Chart data representing user translation statistics in now showing all the months since user's first published translation. Months that went without translation are now displayed in chart as well.
• A loading indicator is shown while suggestions are loading.
• Button to discard dialog is now shown through the whole process of selecting article to translate.

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• Edit-user-talk notifications are now expandable. [33]

Structured Discussions [More information • Help pages]

Future changes

• Some work is ongoing to store Structured Discussions contents from HTML to wikitext. That change will allow some specific templates and magic words to work properly on Structured Discussions. [34]
• Some tests are conducted in order to prepare the rewriting of Structured Discussions' interface. That rewriting will have no visible impact on users but it will ease future changes.

Other projects

• Compact Language Links has been deployed on German Wikipedia. [35]

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15:36, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:36, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Петя корецкий 46.133.124.139 (talk) 01:05, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thank you for keeping an eye on changes to the descriptions on Flow boards. I really appreciate your work, and it's so nice to see both the original edit and your fix back-to-back in my Notifications feed.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:57, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

monaco skin

Hi, how can i install monaco skin in my wiki?

thanks Msnhinet8 (talk) 00:51, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

can you help me? Msnhinet8 (talk) 00:52, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

That is very briefly described on Skin:Monaco. Thing is, the skin has not been updated in some time now, and might not work on newer versions of MediaWiki. However, ShoutWiki still offers the skin, so you might want to consider moving to Shoutwiki.com. —Mainframe98 _talk 05:53, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

ok, thanks Msnhinet8 (talk) 06:32, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

can you revert

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https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Links/th&curid=741775&diff=2652343&oldid=2638327 Anoop/ಅನೂಪ್ ^(Talk)_(Edits) 07:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

I just reverted that now. Thank you for letting us know. Tropicalkitty (talk) 15:57, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-3

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [36]
• There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [37]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [38][39]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [40][41]

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18:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

IRC

Sir, What is your IRC Nick? Jayprakash12345 (talk) 11:27, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

I don't have an IRC nick yet. I was going to look that up these next few days.

It's likely going to be the same as my user name. —Mainframe98 _talk 12:22, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

I have an IRC nick, it is indeed the same as my user name. I'm not often on IRC, so you may want to leave a message here if you'd like to be on IRC. —Mainframe98 _talk 10:36, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Jayprakash12345 (talk) 13:27, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [42]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [43]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [44]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [45]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [46]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [47]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [48]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [49]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [50][51]

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Nice deletion work

I have followed up with some work at Mediawiki:Titleblacklist, m:Spam blacklist, and m:Title blacklist to hopefully do some preventative controls. If you see more shite popup here that needs some of these stronger measures please ping me on my user page here, or at meta, or if you are on IRC — billinghurst sDrewth 01:35, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for doing that. I had wanted to do that myself but hadn't yet figured out a good pattern. —Mainframe98 _talk 09:42, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [52][53][54]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [55]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [56]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [57]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [58]

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Crème Brulée page

HI

We created this page to inform participants about our event. Exactly as The Borderland Sweden did

http://wiki.theborderland.se/Main_Page

Why is it not possible?

Thanks Isabelle Mas (talk) 13:50, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Because this is not that wiki? This is MediaWiki.org, a wiki about documenting how the MediaWiki software works. —Mainframe98 _talk 14:18, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Oh ok sorry ! :(

Where is the acess for wiki ? Isabelle Mas (talk) 14:41, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

I don't know, unless you're supposed to create your pages on that wiki, in which case you can just visit http://wiki.theborderland.se/Main_Page and create your pages. —Mainframe98 _talk 14:50, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

we don't want to create under their page. we want to create our owen page... And they did create their on "Media Wiki"... Isabelle Mas (talk) 15:07, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

I really don't get it as our colleagues in Sweden did use "Media Wiki" to create their page... It's written in the description.... http://wiki.theborderland.se/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=info Isabelle Mas (talk) 15:00, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Could you at least send me back the content under the link called "The essentials" in summary. Then I don't have to rewrite it again? Thanks Isabelle Mas (talk) 15:11, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

The contents of The essentials was:

== Participate ==
Unlike many other, traditional events,Crème Brûlée is an entirely participant-driven event. Participants make The Borderland what it is. YOU are responsible for your experience. No spectators!
== What is Provided ==
A place to be, a place to poop, power and a tap where water can be collected and a welfare area with basic medical supplies. That is all that is provided for you by designated groups. Everything else, including  food, drinks, extension chords, sound system, shelter, candy, art, hugs, clothing, music, fire safety (please follow the instructions from the fire safety leads), common sense, cleaning, loving and dancing will be up to Crème Brûlée participants to offer
== Leave No Trace ==
Please take everything you bring to the event back home with you or deposit in the trash containers placed at the entrance provided by org:  pack it in, pack it out – every last tiny scrap. Never ever let trash hit the ground, but clean up as You go. If it is your cigarette butt,  beer can or decoration, it goes in your car home. Make sure you check the ground where you camped or where your art piece has been.
== Commerce ==
You cannot buy, sell or barter anything. Crème Brûlée is a place of sharing and free exchange within a gift economy. A real gift is given and received without any expectation of reciprocation. That said, don’t feel expected to give, or receive, what you cannot or will not.
== Bring Your Own Cup ==
Bring and take responsibility for your own cup, bowl and cuttlery. There might be many participants offering food or drinks and if all of them bring disposable utensils it adds unnecessary strain on both our event and our planet. BYOC solves this problem.
== Cars ==
Cars that are not essential part of the art and creativity  (except mutant vehicles/art cars). They should be parked in the designated parking area.  Other cars are allowed to enter once to speedily unload and once to collect stuff and must then leave the spot after.
== Personal Safety ==
You are responsible for You. Come prepared to confront and be responsible for your own survival. It’s dark at night on the festival site — stay safe: illuminate yourself and your artwork at night.
== Fire Guidlines ==
It's not allowed with small fires close to the camping area. BBQ are only allowed in designated areas.  In case of doubt ask fire security or super heros teams
Make sure fire extinguishers are strategically placed around the event grounds. If you have a big kitchen a fire extinguisher is required.
== Sound ==
Sound should stay in sound camps. Be thoughtful of your neighbors.
== Laws ==
Crème Brûlée is a closed, private event on private land, only accessible for the members of our non-profit organization. This requires us to reject non-registered members, to be able to follow the laws of a non-public event. 
The event is nevertheless subject to all French law. Police can enter or visit The Borderland, and you risk being cited and/or arrested if you are caught breaking the law.  Under French law does the use of illegal drugs is forbidden.
== Public Boundaries ==
The area we are using is not fenced off, so it is possible for uninvited members of the public to wander into. If you encounter any outsider in the event area kindly explain to them that this is a private event on private land and ask them to leave. It  might happen that local people pass through the border road to go to the river : do respect their right to do so. Do not enter the neighbours private property. Please note that the swimming area at the river is public and neighbors might use it. Respect other users.
== Registrations ==
This is a closed event and every participants must be a registered, paying member of our non profit organization to be able to attend. Everyone will be checked in by name at the gate. Bring an idea. By registering as a member are you also legally bound to the Event Participation Agreement.
If you see someone not wearing a wrist band, please ask them to leave.
== Consent ==
We believe that consent plays a vital part in our connectivity and community. Ensure all sides are mutually consensual prior to physical encounters (ie touching someones arm, hugging, groping, spanking). Consent must be clearly granted from an individual who is clearly in control of their faculties enough to grant it. Only a clear yes is a yes.

—Mainframe98 _talk 19:15, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

deleted pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_install_Mediawiki_1.30_on_Raspberry_Pi and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_install_Mediawiki_1.30_on_Ubuntu_16.04_LTS

Dear Mainframe98

Can you please re-enable both pages, so I don't need to rewrite them. They contain some crucial info regarding msyql which are not embedded in these pages Manual:Running MediaWiki on Debian or Ubuntu. This page Manual:Running MediaWiki on Debian or Ubuntu is also not accurate enough anymore.

Kind regards

Jef JefAdams (talk) 16:21, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Then why not update Manual:Running MediaWiki on Debian or Ubuntu instead? This way the wiki ends up having way to many pages all covering the same subject. Content of both pages has been included below:

This documents provides you detailed information how to install step by step a Mediawiki 1.30 server on a Raspberry Pi.  This document will not cover the initial install of the Raspberry Pi.
[[File:RaspberryPi Mediawiki2.jpg|My Raspberry Pi MediaWiki server|center|640x640px|frameless]]
== Upgrade Raspberry Pi ==
First of all you will need to be sure your Raspberry Pi has the latest updates installed. You can install the latest updates with below cli:
 ''# sudo apt-get update''
 ''# sudo apt-get upgrade''
Most of the time, you will need to reboot your Raspberry Pi after the upgrade:
 ''# sudo shutdown -r now''
or
 ''# sudo reboot''
== Installation additional software packages ==
After the reboot you can start to install the following separate software packages needed to be able to run a MediaWiki server.  These additional software packages are: '''apache2, mysql-server, php php-mysql, libapache2-mod-php, php-xml, php-mbstring'''.
 ''# sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php php-mysql libapache2-mod-php php-xml php-mbstring''
== Enable mysql ==
After the installation of these packages you will first need to enable and start mysql and set a root password for mysql:
 ''# sudo systemctl enable mysql''
 ''# sudo systemctl start mysql''
 ''# sudo systemctl status mysql''
 mariadb.service - MariaDB database server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-03-15 12:54:50 UTC; 6min ago
  Process: 712 ExecStartPost=/bin/sh -c systemctl unset-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, 
  Process: 692 ExecStartPost=/etc/mysql/debian-start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 410 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ ! -e /usr/bin/galera_recovery ] && VAR= ||   VAR=`/usr/bin/gale
  Process: 387 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c systemctl unset-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, s
  Process: 356 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -m 755 -o mysql -g root -d /var/run/mysqld (code=exited, st
 Main PID: 519 (mysqld)
   Status: "Taking your SQL requests now..."
   CGroup: /system.slice/mariadb.service
           └─519 /usr/sbin/mysqld
 Mar 15 12:54:39 systemd[1]: Starting MariaDB database server...
 Mar 15 12:54:45 mysqld[519]: 2018-03-15 12:54:45 3069222096 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysql
 Mar 15 12:54:50 systemd[1]: Started MariaDB database server.
 ''# sudo mysqladmin -u root password''
== Enable Apache Server ==
After configuring mysql you can enable, start and test your Apache server:
 ''# sudo systemctl enable apache2''
 ''# sudo systemctl start apache2''
 ''# sudo systemctl status apache2''
 apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-03-15 12:54:47 UTC; 3min 42s ago
  Process: 354 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 632 (apache2)
   CGroup: /system.slice/apache2.service
           ├─632 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─702 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─703 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─704 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─707 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           └─709 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
 Mar 15 12:54:39 systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...
 Mar 15 12:54:46 apachectl[354]: AH00557: apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for media
 Mar 15 12:54:46 apachectl[354]: AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server'
 Mar 15 12:54:47 systemd[1]: Started The Apache HTTP Server.
If you now open a browser and go to <localhost> or <ip address Raspberry Pi>, you will be able to see detailed information about the Apache webserver running on your Raspberry Pi.  
[[File:Apache2 test.png|Raspberry Pi test page|center|640x640px|frameless]]
Before starting the initial install of the Mediawiki server, please stop the apache2 service again:
 ''# sudo systemctl stop apache2''
 ''# sudo systemctl status apache2''
== Download latest MediaWiki software ==
Now you can start to download the MediaWiki resources at the MediaWiki website: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download. The mediawiki-1.30.0.tar.gz file can then be unpacked and copied into /var/www/html (default DocumentRoot Apache server):
 ''# scp <download folder>/mediawiki-1.30.0.tar.gz pi@<ip address raspberry pi>:/var/tmp''
 ''# cd /var/tmp''
 ''# gunzip mediawiki-1.30.0.tar.gz''
 ''# mv mediawiki-1.30.0.tar /var/www/mediawiki-1.30.0.tar''
 ''# cd /var/www''
 ''# tar xvf mediawiki-1.30.0.tar''
 ''# mv html html_apache''
 ''# mv mediawiki-1.30.0 html''
After the unpacking you can start the Apache webserver again:
 ''# sudo systemctl start apache2''
If you now open your browser and fill in the ip address of your Raspberry Pi, you will see the MediaWiki server first page.
== Configuration mysql ==
But before proceeding with the initial MediaWiki installation, there are certain steps you need to do first!  
You will have to:
* create a NEW mysql user (new_mysql_user):
 ''# mysql -u root -p'' and enter password of mysql root user
 MariaDB [(none)]> use mysql
 MariaDB [mysql]> CREATE USER 'new_mysql_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'passwd new_mysql_user';
 MariaDB [mysql]> \q
* create a NEW mysql database pi_wiki:
 ''# mysql -u root''
 MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE pi_wiki;
 MariaDB [(none)]> use pi_wiki
 Database changed
* GRANT the NEW mysql user access to the NEW created mysql database pi_wiki:
 MariaDB [pi_wiki]> GRANT ALL ON pi_wiki.* TO new_mysql_user@localhost;
 Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
 MariaDB [pi_wiki]>\q
Now you can stop and start your mysql server again:
 ''# sudo systemctl stop mysql''
 ''# sudo systemctl start mysql''
== Initial MediaWiki server installation ==
After these mysql configuration settings, you can start the initial installation by clicking set up the wiki in your browser:
[[File:Install_screen_mediawiki.png|center|438x438px|install screen mediawiki|frameless]]
Please follow the on screen installation steps and fill in the mysql database '''pi_wiki''', '''new_mysql_user''' and '''new_msql_user password''' when prompted. After the configuration of the Mediawiki server a LocalSettings.php file is created. You will be prompted to download this file and copy it to the DocumentRoot (default /var/www/html) of the Apache server:
 ''# scp <path download folder>/LocalSettings.php pi@<ip address raspberry pi>:/var/tmp''
 ''# mv /var/tmp/LocalSettings.php /var/www/html''
If you now refresh your browser, you will get the main page of the Mediawiki server:
[[File:Main page Mediawiki.png|Main page Mediawiki|center|900x900px|frameless]]
[[User:JefAdams|JefAdams]] ([[User talk:JefAdams|talk]]) 13:36, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

This documents provides you information how to install a Mediawiki 1.30 server on a Ubuntu 16.04 system.  This document does not cover the installation of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
== Update Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ==
First of all you will need to be sure your Ubuntu host has the latest updates installed.  You can install the latest updates with below cli:
 ''# sudo apt-get upgrade''
Most of the time, you will need to reboot your Ubuntu 16.04 host after the upgrade:
 ''# sudo shutdown -i6 -g0 -y''
== Install additional software packages ==
After the reboot you can start to install these separate software packages needed to be able to run a Mediawiki server: '''apache2, mysql-server, php php-mysql, libapache2-mod-php, php-xml, php-mbstring''':
 ''# sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php php-mysql libapache2-mod-php php-xml php-mbstring''
During the package installation of mysql-server the system will request you to provide a root password for the mysql server.  Please remember this mysql root password as you will need it during the initial installation of the Mediawiki server later on.
== Enable Apache server ==
After the necessary packages have been successfully installed, you can start and verify/test your Apache server:
 ''# sudo systemctl start apache2''
 ''# sudo systemctl status apache2''
 apache2.service - LSB: Apache2 web server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d
           └─apache2-systemd.conf
   Active: active (running) since Die 2018-03-13 15:42:47 CET; 13min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1236 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/apache2 start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/apache2.service
           ├─1269 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─1272 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─1273 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─1274 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─1275 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─1276 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─2012 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─2038 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           ├─2039 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
           └─2040 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
 Mär 13 15:42:46 Ubuntu-MediaWiki systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Apache2 web server...
 Mär 13 15:42:46 Ubuntu-MediaWiki apache2[1236]:  * Starting Apache httpd web server apache2
 Mär 13 15:42:46 Ubuntu-MediaWiki apache2[1236]: AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fu
 Mär 13 15:42:47 Ubuntu-MediaWiki apache2[1236]:  *
 Mär 13 15:42:47 Ubuntu-MediaWiki systemd[1]: Started LSB: Apache2 web server.
If you now open a browser and go to <localhost> or <ip address Apache webserver>, you will be able to see detailed information about the Apache webserver running on your host.  Before starting the initial install of the Mediawiki server, please stop the apache2 service again:
 ''# sudo systemctl stop apache2''
 ''# sudo systemctl status apache2''
 apache2.service - LSB: Apache2 web server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d
           └─apache2-systemd.conf
   Active: inactive (dead) since Die 2018-03-13 16:03:49 CET; 6s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 2688 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/apache2 stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1236 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/apache2 start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Mär 13 15:42:46 Ubuntu-MediaWiki systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Apache2 web server...
 Mär 13 15:42:46 Ubuntu-MediaWiki apache2[1236]:  * Starting Apache httpd web server apache2
 Mär 13 15:42:46 Ubuntu-MediaWiki apache2[1236]: AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fu
 Mär 13 15:42:47 Ubuntu-MediaWiki apache2[1236]:  *
 Mär 13 15:42:47 Ubuntu-MediaWiki systemd[1]: Started LSB: Apache2 web server.
 Mär 13 16:03:47 Ubuntu-MediaWiki systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: Apache2 web server...
 Mär 13 16:03:47 Ubuntu-MediaWiki apache2[2688]:  * Stopping Apache httpd web server apache2
 Mär 13 16:03:49 Ubuntu-MediaWiki apache2[2688]:  *
 Mär 13 16:03:49 Ubuntu-MediaWiki systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Apache2 web server.
== Download MediaWiki software ==
Now you can start the download of the MediaWiki resources at the download page of the MediaWiki website: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download.  The mediawiki-1.30.0.tar.gz file can then be unpacked and copied into /var/www/html (default DocumentRoot Apache server):
 ''# cd <download folder>''
 ''# gunzip mediawiki-1.30.0.tar.gz''
 ''# cp mediawiki-1.30.0.tar /var/www''
 ''# cd /var/www''
 ''# tar xvf mediawiki-1.30.0.tar''
 ''# mv html html_orig''
 ''# mv mediawiki-1.30.0 html''
== Initial Mediawiki installation ==
After the unpacking you can start the Apache webserver again:
 
 ''# sudo systemctl start apache2''
If you now open your browser and fill in the ip address of your Ubuntu server or localhost, you will see the MediaWiki server first page and you can start the initial installation by clicking set up the wiki: 
[[File:Install_screen_mediawiki.png|center|438x438px|install screen mediawiki|frameless]]
Please follow the on screen installation steps and fill in the mysql root password when prompted.  You will also need to add a Mediawiki user and password.  After the configuration of the Mediawiki server a LocalSettings.php file is created.  You will be prompted to download this file and copy it to the DocumentRoot (default /var/www/html) of the Apache server:
 ''# cp <path download folder/LocalSettings.php /var/www/html''
If you now refresh your browser, you will get the main page of the Mediawiki server:
[[File:Main page Mediawiki.png|Main page Mediawiki|center|900x900px|frameless]]
[[User:JefAdams|JefAdams]] ([[User talk:JefAdams|talk]]) 15:12, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

—Mainframe98 _talk 16:25, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Dear Mainframe98

I will do this in the near future. But as I am a newbie to wikipedia I was trying to create pages first.

Kind regards

Jef JefAdams (talk) 16:51, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

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• On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [59]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

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• There is no Editing team meeting this week.
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Future changes

• From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [60][61]
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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikifarm help

I saw you contribute some family setup. I want to setup my won family same as wikipedia and a wikidata site for my wiki family. Can I get help from you to build my family? Thanks. Nirmol360 (talk) 19:44, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

I'm a bit strapped for time these days, so I can't promise anything. Is there anything specific you need help with?

Regardless, as a first I need an overview of what you want.

1. How is your database set up? Is it possible to have a separate database for each wiki?
2. What domain name possibilities do you have? Do you have one single domain, or do you have the possibility to use subdomains (similar to how Wikipedia does this?)
3. What is the general layout you had in mind? Wikipedia has a large amount of wiki groups in their family. Do you wish to have multiple individual languages, or just a wikidata wiki and a wiki with multiple language sub domains?

I also have some information on User:Mainframe98/Wiki Family that might help you. —Mainframe98 _talk 09:52, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

My answers bellow:

1. Yes, it's possible to have a separate database for each wiki.
2. I have my own domain and possible to use as *atheistpedia.org
3. I want to create my wikis like $lang.atheistpedia.org, a commonswiki for media as media.atheistpedia.org after all an wikidata as data.atheistpedia.org; at now I want to use en, bn & hi as $lang code. I read your family documentation but I understand quiet. Nirmol360 (talk) 10:39, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, this matches something I've built in the near past. There's only one slight issue, of which I can't find any documentation about: naming the commonswiki media might be problematic since media is a reserved namespace name. Using media for a commonswiki, will prevent using interwiki links, as they would clash with the media namespace. Another issue you might run into is that the wiki will be named mediawiki internally, and I believe that's recommended against.

I've written an example at User:Mainframe98/Wiki Family/Example. That page outlines the basic setup that your wiki family would use. —Mainframe98 _talk 15:41, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, but setting up by this way giving 500 header. Currently I running this site in a shared hosting and SSh not exist. I think for this the problem is happening here. So, I'm still running this site in separate folder installation for each wiki and following the documentation giving at wiki family. I hope I can run this site if CentralAuth extension successfully installation done. I can use your example when the site transfer to a VPS. What you thinking about? Nirmol360 (talk) 13:29, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

@Mainframe98 I pre configured the code, please look up at this if there have any wrong.

<?php
# Protect against web entry
if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
	exit;
}
# Setup $wgConf
$wgConf = new SiteConfiguration();
$wgConf->suffixes = [ 'wiki' ];
# Determine the db name
if ( defined( 'MW_DB' ) ) {
	// Command-line mode and maintenance scripts (e.g. update.php)
	$wgDBname = MW_DB;
	$wikiname = subst( MW_DB, 0, strlen( $wiki[0] ) );
} else {
	// Web server
	$server = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
	$urlComponents = explode( '.', $server );
	if ( !$urlComponents ) {
		die( "Invalid host name, can't determine wiki name" );
		// Optional: Redirect to a "No such wiki" page.
	}
	// Reverse the array so the tld is the first item in the array
	$urlComponents = array_reverse( $urlComponents );
	// If no sub domain has been given, set it to www as default
	if ( count( $urlComponents ) < 3 ) {
		$urlComponents[2] = 'www';
	}
	// Determine wiki name and remove any periods from the name
	$wikiname = implode( '', array_slice( $urlComponents, 2 ) );
	// Optional: Override database name of your "main" wiki (otherwise "wwwwiki")
	if ( $urlComponents[2] === 'www' ) {
		$wikiname = 'meta';
	}
	$wgDBname = $wikiname . $suffix[0];
}
require_once( __DIR__ . '/CommonSettings.php' );
require_once( __DIR__ . '/InitialiseSettings.php' );
$wgLocalDatabases = array( 'metawiki', 'mediawiki', 'datawiki', 'enwiki', 'bnwiki' 'hiwiki' );
#for InitialiseSettings.php start
'wgSitename' => [
	'metawiki' => 'Meta Wiki',
	'mediawiki' => 'Media Wiki',
	'datawiki' => 'Data Wiki',
	'enwiki' => 'Atheistpedia',
	'bnwiki' => 'অ্যাথিস্টপিডিয়া',
	'hiwiki' => 'Atheistpedia Hindi',
],
'wgLanguageCode' => [
	'default' => '$lang',
	'metawiki' => 'en',
	'mediawiki' => 'en',
	'datawiki' => 'en',
],
'wgServer' => [
		'default' => "//$lang.atheistpedia.org"
	'metawiki' => '//meta.atheistpedia.org',
	'mediawiki' => '//media.atheistpedia.org',
	'datawiki' => '//data.atheistpedia.org',
],
#for InitialiseSettings.php end
'wgLocalDatabases' =>  'wgDBname',
# Check if the obtained database name is in the list of databases
if ( !in_array ( $wgDBname, $wgLocalDatabases ) ) {
	require_once( __DIR__ . 'WikiNotFound404.php' );
	// Optional: Redirect to a "No such wiki" page on the central wiki.
}
function efGetSiteParams( $conf, $wiki ) {
    $site = null;
    $lang = null;
    foreach( $conf->suffixes as $suffix ) {
        if ( substr( $wiki, -strlen( $suffix ) ) == $suffix ) {
            $site = $suffix;
            $lang = substr( $wiki, 0, -strlen( $suffix ) );
            break;
        }
    }
	return [
		'suffix' => 'wiki',
		'lang'   => $lang,
		'tags'   => [],
		'params' => [
			'lang' => $lang,
			'site' => 'wiki',
			'wiki' => $wiki,
		],
	];
}
$wgConf->siteParamsCallback = 'efGetSiteParams';
# Set the wikis for $wgConf
$wgConf->wikis = $wgLocalDatabases;
# Extract the globals
$wgConf->extractAllGlobals( $wgDBname );

Nirmol360 (talk) 20:45, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Using MediaWiki (especially a wiki family) on shared hosting is usually quite problematic. I don't have any experience with that unfortunately. I can tell you that there appears to be a mistake on line 52. On that empty line the code $wgConf->settings = array( should be. Line 77 is unnecessary, since that is covered on line 50. Line 77 should instead be );. Additionally, the usages of $lang on lines 63 and 70 should be $wikiname because $lang is not defined. —Mainframe98 _talk 09:23, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Family setup looks complete and viewing as work well. CentralAuth looks work well. Manual:Wiki family#Multiple_wikis_sharing_common_resources help much and for a family on shared hosting it's actually great. Thank you and this article section for helping me to grow my family setup. Nirmol360 (talk) 11:09, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

@Mainframe98 which cPanel alternative is best for running MediaWiki? And which cPanel alternative is using for running whole WMF? Currently I have a VPS but not understanding which cPanel should I use for MediaWiki CMS. Nirmol360 (talk) 06:13, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I have no experience with cPanel or VPS hosting, since I maintain my own servers locally. From what I understand is that VPS providers usually provide their own cPanel alternative, so I would recommend using that, but that's outside my area of knowledge. —Mainframe98 _talk 08:02, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

How can I make a page about mistakes happening in the government procedures.

Truly for the people don't want to mention for any public fame to me or to any political party.

This is just for the people awareness about the wrong procedures in the system Mmk ind (talk) 17:37, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

About the edit you reverted?

Hi there... just to let you know, the recent edit I made that you reverted was a correction of a grammatical error.

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Design&oldid=prev&diff=2803900

The design team has a goal, therefore, you use a possessive apostrophe, so, the "design team's goal".

Cheers. Glammmur (talk) 14:15, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Yep, that's correct. My apologies, I've reverted my revert. Thanks for letting me know. —Mainframe98 _talk 14:25, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

RL translations

Hi, regarding 2863118. I'm aware there are/were translations of the navigation, but not of any of the actual pages. Krinkle (talk) 16:19, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

I didn't actually realize that. Do you expect the pages listed in the template to be ever translated? If not, then the whole translation should be deleted (which must be manually done using Special:PageTranslationDeletePage, or the translations end up in limbo). —Mainframe98 _talk 17:31, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm not encouraging translation of these at the moment. Thanks for that link, I'll try again later with that method. Krinkle (talk) 17:47, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua function or the #statements parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
• There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems

• Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
• Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [62]
• Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [63][64]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Deleted pages?

Multilingual Templates and Modules quickstart guide states creation of pages which you have deleted. Kindly advise on the same. Capankajsmilyo (talk) 08:26, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of that project - I'll restore the templates, and ask those responsible to inform the community.

As for the reasoning - we've had quite a lot of trouble with users unaware that they're not on Wikipedia, and the reoccurring pattern there is the use of the infobox person. —Mainframe98 _talk 08:29, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Capankajsmilyo (talk) 08:30, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Archiving extensions

Hi Mainframe, if it's not too much trouble, when you archive extensions (or skins) on MediaWiki.org, could you please also file an archival task on Phabricator for them? You can use this form to do so. Thanks! =) 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 04:06, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

The extensions I've archived so far were all

Extensions which host their code in-wiki

. There wouldn't be any point in creating a task, as there wouldn't be anything to do outside MediaWiki.org. Once I'll get to

Not LTS ready extensions

that don't host code on wiki, I'll create the tasks where necessary. —Mainframe98 _talk 10:42, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Many of those extensions will have pages on Wikidata that need to be updated to indicate the extensions' archival, actually. (though just that wouldn't require the full archival task for each extension, granted). 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 20:48, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Please don't erase our homework :(

You wiped our page called Proyecto Integrador Lomas Verdes. We need to create a wiki as a project. Please don't erase it, I beg you LMichelleBallesterosM (talk) 16:48, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Please see Project:About#What MediaWiki.org is not.

In short: you're at the wrong place. —Mainframe98 _talk 16:50, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Same thing happened to me. I had my page, that I worked for 4 hours, deleted instantly. I wanted to make a page on Fanlore, but somehow I got redirected here so I said ''great, lets do it''. What would have been nice is to at least get the text back to remake the page on Fanlore, where I wanted to make it in the first place and not waste everything.

Seems I'm not the only one at the wrong place. So can I get the page back to copy-paste the text? Aaronnnss (talk) 09:30, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

I can't seem to find any content that you have created here - had there been any, I would've provided you with a copy. Do you have a page name?

I'm also curious to know what linked you to mediawiki.org, so we might prevent people from being sent to the wrong place. —Mainframe98 _talk 09:32, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Hey!

The page is Sharesome. I honestly don't know if I even had an account here when I first made the page here.

What happened is I clicked on Help:Editing pages on Fanlore and I got redirected to Mediawiki so I assumed it's ok. Plus, the editor is so much better.

Then I naturally clicked Help:Starting a new page and I followed the steps. If i try to make a new page with the same name (Sharesome) it warns me that the page has been deleted.

So now I can see the confusion. It doesn't let you know that the page you are about to create will be on Media Wiki and not Fanlore.

Thanks! Aaronnnss (talk) 09:39, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Ah, that's why I couldn't find it - it was created anonymously. Anyways, this is the content of the page before it was deleted:

'''Sharesome''' is a free adult social media website, founded in 2018. '''Sharesome''' offers adult content creators tools to grow their audience, serving as an alternative to mainstream social media. Because of the familiar design, the platform has been dubbed as <nowiki>''</nowiki>The Facebook for Porn<nowiki>''</nowiki>. Registration on the website requires no e-mail address for regular users. The platform welcomed all NSFW content that does not break international rules or is illegal. 
[[File:Sharesome logo.jpeg|alt=|thumb|<ref>Website: Sharesome.com</ref>]]
== History ==
In December 2018, '''Tumblr''' announced that it will remove all adult content from its site<nowiki>'s directory, the event been known as '''</nowiki>'''Tumblr NSFW Content Purge'''<nowiki>'''. Traffic to the platform fell from 521 million views in December 2018 to 437 million in January next year, according to figures from Similar Web. As of May 2019, the numbers have gone down to 370 million. Sharesome positioned itself as one of the best alternatives to Tumblr, witnessing a steady growth of former Tumblr users. The crackdown on adult content was followed by Instagram, who started to demote sexually suggestive posts and other content that teeters the line of breaking its rules from being recommended on Explore and hashtag pages. Reddit updated it'</nowiki>s Advertising Policy to disallow NSFW ads and targeting on Reddit in April 2019. As of June 2019, the platform has reached over 500.000 users and 3,4 million monthly visits, making it one of the most successful alternatives to Tumblr.<blockquote>'''''<nowiki>''</nowiki>Sexuality is a human right that lies at the core of our individual freedom and happiness.''''' ''Our vision is that pornography should be arousing and empowering for both performers and consumers, it should be personal and personalized, authentic and diverse, democratic and progressive, liberating and unapologetic.<nowiki>''</nowiki> said Tudor Bold, CEO''</blockquote>As of June 2019, the platform has reached over 500.000 users and 3,4 million monthly visits, making it one of the most successful alternatives to Tumblr.
== Features ==
'''Social platform'''
According to their official press releases, '''Sharesome''' will forever be free for its users and no advertising will be allowed on the website. Registration requires no e-mail address and the feed is personalized, using machine learning to display the content that users like and interact with.<blockquote>''<nowiki>''</nowiki>The '''feed-ranking algorithm''' brings the absolute hottest content to you. Just  follow your favorite models and topics. The more you engage with posts from certain people or topics, the more you’ll see similar stuff. You have a soft spot for /WinterCuteness?''
            ''Or a “hard spot” for /Jeans? Or you simply want to laugh your ass off to /IndifferentCats? There’s probably a topic for it. Oh, and if there isn’t, you can start one for free and become the cause’s flag-bearer.<nowiki>''</nowiki> Tudor Bold, CEO''</blockquote>The platform is focused around creating communities, who share mutual interest towards any topic that doesn't break the rules ( e.g bestiality ). Users can either join already existing topics or create one themselves.  By joining or creating a specific topic, users can interact with each other based on their shared activity, likes etc. and they automatically become the moderators of that topic. '''Moderation''' can be shared with other members who follow the topic and have posted content.  
'''Chat'''
Following one of their biggest update, the company released '''Sharesome Chat''' to all its users. Fans can message their favorite stars, as well as other users.  [POZA IN DREAPTA]
'''Content creator program'''
Sharesome introduced the '''Content creator program''' in order to give verified stars & cam girls the necessary tools to grow their audience and promote their content. Every verified star account features links to your other social media sites, pay-sites, or cam-sites. Go viral with your sexy posts on Sharesome while your fans like, comment and share your content. Post your own high quality content and receive tips and likes from your fans. You can promote your posts with FLAME CREDITS to reach a bigger audience and get more engagement.  [POZA SI LINK IN DREAPTA]
<br /><blockquote>''<nowiki>''</nowiki>The adult industry is changing right now. Livechat performers and porn actors want to no longer be dependent on production studios, they want to be entrepreneurs, to produce and sell content on their own terms. We built Sharesome, so live chat performers and porn actors can grow a fanbase and send traffic to their own websites, camsites or paysites”''   Product Manager, Andrew Nelson</blockquote>
'''Flame token [POZA IN DREAPTA]'''
The Flame Token (XFL) is a blockchain based token, compatible with the ERC-20 standard of the Etherum blockchain and it is intended to be used as a value transfer mechanism for the online adult entertainment industry. On Sharesome, the flame credits are used by the users to tip their favorite stars or other members. It can be used for other digital services, like advertising on the platform. Content creators can use Flame Credits (either earned or bought) to promote their profile and their content to their relevant audience. This will allow them to build a fanbase and send interested fans to their paid sites where they can monetize them.
<br />
== Refferences ==
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—Mainframe98 _talk 09:43, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks a lot man! Have a great day! Aaronnnss (talk) 10:04, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

translating HTMLForm

Hi, concerning HTMLForm can you please ave a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk%3AHTMLForm#h-preparing_pages_for_translation-2019-07-29T13%3A57%3A00.000Z Thanks.

Christian Wia (talk) 14:02, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Translate tags

Some of the translate admins put the additional tags in, some take them out. I've translated a lot, and my impression is that smaller text fragments is easier to translate, and especially section headers and other markup should NOT be part of unrelated text. In short; what you have done here [70] is wrong. I'm going to leave it as this, but I believe it creates a mess. Jeblad (talk) 15:17, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

My experience is that the translate extension will pick out individual blocks by itself. Only if smaller text fragments are explicitly needed, then one would add additional tags.

Looking at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:PageTranslation&target=Extension%3AExpect&do=mark, with my version, all individual sentences are separate translation units. Each header is also a separate translation unit. There would be no difference between the previous version and mine.

Of course, since this is your extension, and by extension (no pun intended) your extension page, feel free to make adjustments where you see fit; I'll gladly mark it for translation when finished. —Mainframe98 _talk 15:28, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Extension:PortableInfobox

Hi! Thank you for completing my request. I'm not sure if you're aware, but I can't save any translations to this page. When I'm trying to submit message on Special:Translate, all I see is "This namespace is reserved for content page translations. The page you are trying to edit does not seem to correspond any page marked for translation." error message. Could you look into this and help?

Thanks again and sorry, Rail01 (talk) 16:29, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

To which language are you trying to translate? I added some translations for Dutch (Extension:PortableInfobox/nl), but can't reproduce your error. Also: Does this happen with a specific translation unit? —Mainframe98 _talk 16:45, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Everything seems fine since your edit. I'm not sure what caused that but now I can translate page (po Polish). Rail01 (talk) 16:47, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

I did mark the page for translation after the image was added, maybe that's all that was necessary for the translate extension to start working again. —Mainframe98 _talk 16:49, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Remove to allow marking main category for translation

Hi! Are you sure deleting Category:Firefox Extensions/de was necessary? I marked many pages for translation (as a translation admin on Commons) that had sometimes dozens of language subpages, and it had always worked—FuzzyBot simply overwrites the content, but otherwise leaves the page intact, and doesn’t prevent the marking process. Tacsipacsi (talk) 15:19, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

What doesn’t work (it’s a long-standing regression), however, is that pages don’t immediately become translatable. Please mark Category:Firefox Extensions for translation once more—the double marking seems to do the trick and make pages really translatable. Tacsipacsi (talk) 15:22, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

I haven't had much experience with converting existing translations (e.g. using {{languages}} instead of the Translate syntax), but the few cases I had to deal with were messy. This seemed the easiest solution, given it was only one page.

I've marked the page for translation again, hopefully it will work now. —Mainframe98 _talk 15:30, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

OK, so nothing concrete. 🙂 Then I’ll continue to keep translations when converting pages. (I’m sure to have converted several dozens of Commons templates using various legacy i18n methods, and there licensing issues arise from deleting old pages. Luckily here don’t.) Tacsipacsi (talk) 15:41, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Most of the legacy language pages here should be fairly easy to convert, if you have the time. Thanks for going through the effort! Let me know if you need anything marked for translation. —Mainframe98 _talk 15:51, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

sandbox

hi.

i saw your deletion of Template:Tstest/Testts2.css. the summary said "Test, please use the sandbox"

i do not necessarily object the deletion - tbh, can't recall what or why. the fact it appeared in my watchlist is a strong indicator i created this in the first place, but i was not really aware of its existence, and if i was indeed the creator, i totally forgot about it.

however, the summary is wrong and not helpful: this was a "templatestyle" page, and such pages are special, in that the templatestyles extension will only take pages which are "subpages" (i.e., contain slash as part of the name) in the Template namespace.

so the deletion might have been a good thing, but the rationale was completely wrong - it's not possible to use sandbox for testing templatestyles.

if you know differently, please teach me - i'll be more than happy to learn how to test templaktestyles other than creating a "subpage" to a template.

peace. קיפודנחש (talk) 21:19, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

on 2nd look, this test was indeed useful - it taught me that it's not enough for a templatestyle to exist in Template: namespace for it to work - it _must_ also be a subpage...

(not sure if the page above the subpage must also exist, but i guess that if i want to test it, i won't do it here... :)

peace קיפודנחש (talk) 21:24, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

In hindsight, I should've used a different deletion message; one that links to testwiki:.

However, back in 2018, TemplateStyles might not have been available there, and this wiki would've been the only place to test it.

In any event, tests like Template:Tstest/Testts2.css aren't really an issue; there isn't a specific enough deletion message to indicate that. —Mainframe98 _talk 07:34, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

sorry for being petty. it really has no significance, and in hindsight, as you say, i shouldn't have wasted your time.

i guess i was just a bit surprised - tbh, i totally forgot about this little experiment, and when i saw the deletion i was not even sure if i was the one who created it...

peace. קיפודנחש (talk) 07:58, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

thank you for deleting vandal

I hope you blocked him! Moscowdreams (talk) 11:15, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Du erhältst einen Orden!

	Der Beitragsorden
	ok, danke Marianblog (talk) 14:51, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Apologies

I am sending this kitten as an apology because I like to be at peace with not only mediawiki administrators but also users I know I cannot question you because you are an administrator.

Gustavo Borges Matos (talk) 15:00, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Gustavo Borges Matos (talk) 15:00, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

A request for translation

Hello! Would it be possible for you to translate some messages about the Community Wishlist Survey, starting from the invitation message? The Survey is starting in 2 days (on Monday).

If you know other English-Dutch translators, could you consider sharing this request with them, unless you feel committed to take care of all the remaining translations? Thanks! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 13:39, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Civility Barnstar
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Request for translation

Hello! I'm looking for someone to translate this message. Soon, we will put a banner on all wikis and ask volunteers what they like or don't like about this prototype. I need as many large and mid-sized communities informed in their languages as possible! Would you have time to translate into Dutch? (Frysk too, if you like!) SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 20:41, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello!

Thank you for your translation of the instruction of the Desktop Improvements prototype. The instruction has been translated into 30 languages. This would not happen without you!

This week, we would like to post a banner inviting your community to test the prototype and give feedback. We only need to make one more step - translate three short lines of text in that banner. Would you be able to do this, ideally today or tomorrow?

Thanks a lot for your support, as usual! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 18:37, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Done —Mainframe98 _talk 19:11, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

This is awesome. Thank you so much for the immediate reaction :D SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 19:42, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

thanks!

thank you for removing spam from my user page! 56independent (usurped) (talk) 11:30, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Please block user

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Please block the vandal Flash Version. Thak you! FF-11 (talk) 10:01, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Done Thanks for letting me know and reverting the vandalism. —Mainframe98 _talk 10:03, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

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20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Why you delete my page Ishita9 (talk) 06:57, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

I told you why: it is outside the scope of MediaWiki.org.

Also: please do not use existing threads to ask questions - create a new one using the Start a new topic bar. —Mainframe98 _talk 07:03, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

message from Discord

Hi Mainframe98, hopefully you get time and are able to review the message sent over at Discord :) AmazingWikis (talk) 02:01, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello again

Hey Mainframe, it's been a long time since we last interacted. I need a bit of help trying to get your wiki-family example to work. I believe I'm up to about step 3 or 4 as listed in your github project. However, I am getting a HTTP 500 error when I try to visit the "meta wiki". And I get this relevant message when trying to use update.php in the command line:

PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: wgDBName in /var/www/html/w/CommonSettings.php on line 80
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Exception: Unable to open file /var/www/html/w/extensions/MessageCommons/extension.json: filemtime(): stat failed for /var/www/html/w/extensions/MessageCommons/extension.json in /var/www/html/w/includes/registration/ExtensionRegistry.php:176
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/html/w/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(72): ExtensionRegistry->queue()
#1 /var/www/html/w/SharedExtensions.php(37): wfLoadExtensions()
#2 /var/www/html/w/LocalSettings.php(183): require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
#3 /var/www/html/w/includes/Setup.php(145): require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
#4 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(90): require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
#5 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/update.php(264): require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
#6 {main}

I was fascinated by this method due to the less complex nature than some other methods, namely the CentralAuth extension. I believe we are also friends on Discord so if you have any spare time would you be willing to help me? Thank you.

P.S. my discord username and tag is Hypercane#0001. Megacane (talk) 20:13, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

Looks like I made a typo in https://github.com/mainframe98/MediaWiki-Family-Configuration-Example/blob/master/CommonSettings.php#L80, it should say $wgDBname , with a lowercase "n". I'll fix that. Let me know if that solves it.

I really need to update that example though. I'll get to that soon. —Mainframe98 _talk 08:25, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

The fix is in https://github.com/mainframe98/MediaWiki-Family-Configuration-Example/commit/ae6f33efca5c129c8902f1ba6e0c5f9543a31767. —Mainframe98 _talk 09:08, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Alright, thank you. I did get the meta wiki working now in my attempt too. Megacane (talk) 09:50, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

buenas noches

deseo crear mi portafolio virtual mediante esta pagina de wiki, ya que me resulta muy util para poder presentar mi tarea de la universidad Kerlinmagallan97 (talk) 23:50, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

You will need to do that somewhere else, see Project:About#What MediaWiki.org is not. —Mainframe98 _talk 07:28, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Stevence

What is needed to create a biography for South African artist "Stevence" Stevence SA (talk) 09:48, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

It needs to be Notable, and not on this website. See Project:About#What MediaWiki.org is not. —Mainframe98 _talk 09:53, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Request for translation

Hello! I've noticed that you have shared feedback on two Desktop Improvements prototypes so far. Would you be able to finish translating this instruction? This will be the fourth and last prototype. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 22:26, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Done —Mainframe98 _talk 12:55, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Based on the answers we've got so far, we've decided to add one more question. Could you translate it as well? You can also answer the questions whenever you have time, even before we set up the banners for the community. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 12:33, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Done I'll have a look at the survey itself later. —Mainframe98 _talk 12:42, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

By the way, what do you think, would the nlwiki community be interested in having the new Vector as default? SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 13:07, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

I'm not active there, so I have no idea; I got the impression they are somewhat reserved towards new features, but what I've seen in regards to ORES and GrowthExperiments suggests I'm wrong. —Mainframe98 _talk 13:10, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

I've filled in the survey. —Mainframe98 _talk 15:39, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Paid Collaboration for MediaWiki Skin

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Hello @Mainframe98 - I am currently working on a MediaWiki site for our upcoming game. I'd love to work with you in creating a custom skin/theme for the site. Great job with the Mirage Skin!

We can start as soon as we conclude on the details. Please let me know if you are available as soon as you can. This is my email address. ThorVisionaries (talk) 14:43, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

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