User talk:Lcawte

Lewis Cawte Chief Technical Officer, ShoutWiki Your wiki should work properly, and that is my interest.

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Welcome, Lcawte, to ShoutWiki Hub! ShoutWiki is a free, ad-supported wiki hosting service. We offer wiki hosting to individuals, companies, schools, universities and a large number of other communities. Our staff are very experienced with the MediaWiki software and can help you with any and all problems or questions that you may encounter. Below are some useful links for you: Our privacy policy Our terms of use Our features Help on creating a new wiki Read more about ShoutWiki Please sign your comments on talk pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. If you have any questions, please contact a member of our staff team, visit our IRC help channel, or ask me on my talk page. — dɛɾfəl talk 12:52, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm here to say

I was very disruptive here and I was a bad user in the past! I'm ashamed for behaving badly here, I'm very sure that nobody loves me! 😢 UVA talk

Issues on some articles in s:w:fr.24

Hi Lewis,
I have an error message like this on some page on s:w:fr.24. When I look for s:w:fr.24:Victor Rovner or s:w:fr.24:Jeff Ricketts (available articles in the wiki), I find this:

Do you know the issue, and more, can you fix it please? Thank you for your reply. --LIMAFOX76 (talk) 16:02, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Extension Request: Story Paragraph

Arcane gave me a good idea for my site, and he also helped develop it. I know this extension is beta, but could you please install the extension Story Paragraph on http://writing.shoutwiki.com? The link for this extension is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Story_Paragraph. DJ m0m0 (talk) 20:01, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Install

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Contribution_Scores hi lcawte may you add this to the repository as i would love this on my wiki.http://en.userwiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page --N64dude (talk) 18:48, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Problem

Lcawte DISPLAYTITLE doesn't seem to work on my wiki. --N64dude (talk) 00:45, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

What do you mean? What happens when you try to use that magic word? What do you think that should happen?

DISPLAYTITLE is restricted by default — that is, custom titles must normalize to the same page title. So if you have a page about the cell phone manufactured by Apple, you could use {{DISPLAYTITLE:iPhone}} on that page to render its title "correctly", because for MediaWiki (and especially in its default configuration), "iPhone" and "IPhone" are the same title. But you can't change the title of the iPhone page to "Apple iPhone" with DISPLAYTITLE, because whereas "iPhone" and "IPhone" normalize to the same title, "Apple iPhone" doesn't.

Some wikis have a template, usually named Template:Title, which requires additional JavaScript code to work. This template allows to change the title of a page to any arbitrary name, but honestly, that's a pretty scary ability, as it tends to confuse people. With DISPLAYTITLE and its default restrictions, it should be relatively obvious what the page's real name is and thus you'll know how to link to it. But what about if the page is called "IPhone" but its title is displayed as "The best cell phone ever"? Yep, many users would try linking to [[The best cell phone ever]] and then wonder why it isn't working...

In any case, if you need either the DISPLAYTITLE restrictions lifted and/or help with implementing Template:Title for your wiki, let me know. --Jack Phoenix _(contact) 12:49, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Can you help to implement it on my wiki please. --N64dude (talk) 17:07, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

By your wiki do you mean s:w:en.userwiki? I'm asking to make sure that I have the correct wiki; many ShoutWiki editors are active on multiple wikis and there are several prominent users who have started multiple wikis on ShoutWiki, too, and in such cases, it's not obvious what wiki or wikis they mean. ;-) --Jack Phoenix _(contact) 20:39, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes Jack thats my wiki. --N64dude (talk) 19:27, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

All done, enjoy! --Jack Phoenix _(contact) 20:03, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Jack :D --N64dude (talk) 23:13, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Can't make site backup

• I'm not sure if you are the one to turn to with this, but the button to make a backup on the statistics page on my wiki is suddenly gone... Could you help me out? Also, Jack once made a backup for all the images for me too and that is also gone... Thanks in advance. oddguy 16:43, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the multiple uploads problem

I uploaded multiple images at once without problems today. Thanks, --Timeshifter (talk) 16:47, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Old request: Semantic MediaWiki

Hi Lewis,
I would like to ask you about an old Bugzilla request for upgrading Semantic MediaWiki. I know you've been quite busy recently, yet I think it should be great to update the SMW version up to 2.0 (last one). The actual ShoutWiki SMW version (1.8.0.1) has some issues, especially counting some property pages on statistics and I saw issues on Concept pages. Thank you for your answer. --LIMAFOX76 (talk) 11:29, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

• Affected wikis: s:w:fr.stargate, s:w:stargate, s:w:fr.24, s:w:fr.eureka, s:w:eureka

We'll look into doing this now we've just upgraded to 1.24. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 16:14, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much. As tested in a personal home wiki, it seems that unlike the previous versions, the 2.0 installation is specific for each wiki. You'll have to use Composer separately for each Semantic wiki. Installation seems quite, simple, may be the upgrade is a little bit more complicated. Cheers --LIMAFOX76 (talk) 21:27, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi Lewis, just a reminder as there are some updating issues with this version of SMW; properties appear then disappear with no apparent reason. Even if I do an Edit/Save without modification, the issue still exists. The SMW version is now 2.3, according to the main SMW wiki site. Thank you very much. --LIMAFOX76 (talk) 11:36, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hello, this message, already I it put to Cook, but it has not answered, like that that I you put to you, I suppose that your, you will not be inactive, Cook, this one inactively for time.

1 Vandal one (I am sure that it is only, because his IP address changes, but not for ranges, sinó that changes it with a program that surely he arranges in his computer.) there is vandalizado the page of Jack Phoenix's discussion and they are different IP'S, not for ranges, because the range is different, sinó because they are programmed by the computer of the user, this already goes from bad to worse, because, when the users, undo the editions, it returns to vandalizar. The content that it has put till now, for vandaliar is " Very nice site " or something like that, then, I ask for help him with this, because this one Problem, already multiplying this one (I want décir, that the vandalism repeating itself) and I ask for a checkup him to the IP'S that exist vandalizado, to see if my suspicions are true (my suspicions they are that it treats itself of same it presents, only that programming in the computer multiple IP'S) or that treats itself about another person. In this case, I ask for a solution him, I suggest him: 1-In the case of which my suspicions are accepted, so, would be necessary to go blocking the IP'S while they continue appearing, because in another wiki, I pass that a blocked IP, he said to me that IP and I was programming I suppose that he programmes them with his computer, there must be programs like that. Also I ask you, that pìense another solution, if the mia does not prove (I it created that if, that there will be another solution). 2-En the case of which they are different persons, also I ask you to think a solution and I think the same one that in the first case.Thanks in advance--Libros (talk) 17:40, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Staff members

Staff members, does not publish much. What happens?. Thanks in advance--Libros (talk) 16:52, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Re: Job e-mail

I agree in how you do things. --DeviantSalens 17:42, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Would you rename me?

Hi Jack Lcawte,
would you rename me "鯉色マッリ"(Carp-Marisa) to "カルサヴァ" in both ShoutWiki and my wiki? Because present name may cause some trouble between me and user of the site.--T-カルサヴァ (talk) 09:02, 4 December 2014 (UTC) - rewrite T-カルサヴァ (talk) 09:05, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, I wrote from different account. T-カルサヴァ and I are same for the reason that I couldn't change name, I took new account. --Carp-Marisa（鯉色マッリ） - talk 10:03, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

※This massage is written again from Jack Phoenix's talkpage. Because he has left from about 2 weeks ago.

No. Unfortunately we are not currently able to rename accounts. For now the only thing you can do is make a new account. If you want Steward rights switched to this new account, let our support team know by using Special:Contact. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 09:26, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Rights transfer

Hi Lewis, following our emails (Re: BrunelRacing / WomenInEngineering Wiki's [#1351]), I'm writing to confirm I am the account holder of User:Andyli95. Please remove/transfer the rights from this user to admin-br if possible please? Thanks, Andy Li 13:29, 26 January 2015 (GMT)

Bad Webcomics Wiki

Bad Webcomics Wiki is getting seriously hit with pagemove vandalism still. Any chance you can revert it all and maybe put a lock on page moving for the moment? Maybe even promote someone to admin so they can fix it faster? DentsAndDings (talk) 23:11, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Most of the admins are still active, including Oddguy. You should ask him if you want admin rights... --Lewis Cawte (talk) 23:18, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

The last one was a joke suggestion, but if you could kindly help me in reverting the mess since both admins are offline and the vandalism is still progressing. DentsAndDings (talk) 23:27, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks for the help, but could you make it possible for people to edit again? You made it so that only admins can edit. I asked Jack a few days ago but he hasn't responded. Also, there is something wrong with the sidebar. It doesn't look the way I set it to look. oddguy 10:07, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
  • You need to be more patient. We're looking at taking backups and things so that if the same thing happens as it did last time, we can rollback the site quicker. The sidebar is an issue that I've requested someone look into. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 14:59, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks and sorry. I'm nagging you because my users are nagging me. I'll tell them to calm down and wait. oddguy 22:37, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

• Sidebar is fixed fyi. Memcached went away rather stealthily. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 22:41, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Independent domain

Hi, I have bought the domain bkdrum.com and currently it is forwarded to bkdrum.shoutwiki.com. I would like to use bkdrum.com as THE domain for my wiki. Please let me know what should I do. -- Muhammad2017 (talk) 09:46, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Presumably help with spam?

Special:Log --Saftzie (talk) 18:57, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Would you still be able to?

Hey, would you still be able to help me with this issue? I know I am responding late, but I've tried fixing it myself, but it is clear I am missing some kind of template installation that is not letting the (Hide/Show) option happen on infoboxes, etc.? MusicNation (talk) 19:50, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps mw:ResourceLoader/Modules#jquery.makeCollapsible has the info you need. --Saftzie (talk) 20:31, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

How might I go about installing that, then? I mean, I put all of the Hidden/Hidden top and Collape/Collapse top, etc. templates on my Wiki and it still is not working. MusicNation (talk) 20:47, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

There's nothing to install. It's provided by default in MediaWiki. As Lcawte asked before, a link to a page where you think it's broken would help a lot. --Saftzie (talk) 20:48, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

This template is where it does not work, for one. And then there are others, but I would assume if that one gets fixed, the others would, as well. MusicNation (talk) 21:07, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Try now. --Saftzie (talk) 21:09, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Excellent. I will apply this to other templates now! Thank you! MusicNation (talk) 21:12, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

NP. --Saftzie (talk) 21:13, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Do you mind telling me where I'd install it on this template? MusicNation (talk) 21:15, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

In class="tracklist {{#ifeq: {{{collapsed}}}|yes|collapsible collapsed}}", where collapsible collapsed are used as classes, change them to mw-collapsible mw-collapsed. {{{collapsed}}} is a replaceable parameter name, so that stays as it is, unless you want to change it. Collapsible content works on elements specified with those classes. mw:ResourceLoader/Modules#jquery.makeCollapsible has more info if you want to get trickier. --Saftzie (talk) 21:49, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Again, thank you so much! Those two templates were pissing me off without collapsing! You are a miracle worker! MusicNation (talk) 22:02, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

A little thing.

Hello.

this user is admin on this wiki (ShoutWiki Hub). And my question is:

Can you giff me the admin right please?

I can help:

PD: On the past, I used the account Libros, and I can help with the wiki.

(I change my account beccause in shoutwiki IS NOT POSSIBLE rename accounts).

Regards.

---

--Pastelerohelper92 (talk) 08:57, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

API returns invalid date format

I know you really don't need another problem right now, but using the API to query the recent block

http://www.shoutwiki.com/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&usprop=blockinfo&ususers=Netkeeper

returns a non-ISO time for blockexpiry, "20160818213400" instead of "2016-08-18T21:34:00Z". I haven't checked an exhaustive list (or other blocks), but the other timestamp in the same API (blockedtimestamp) returns an ISO time. Before the upgrade/rollback, both times were ISO, as I believe they're intended to be. --Saftzie (talk) 22:59, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Just to be clear, I'm wondering if knowing this helps figure out (part of) what went wrong. --Saftzie (talk) 23:16, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

I went digging around the API some more. It seems not-ISO for that value is consistent with other MW versions. Oh, well. --Saftzie (talk) 12:04, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

OVH Montreal

198.100.145.75 reverse resolves to chirp.shoutwiki-servers.com hosted in OVH's Montreal data center with a DNS authority ns1.skizzerz.net and ns2.skizzerz.net. 198.100.145.75 has been the source of IP spam in the past. I'm kind of wondering what the story is there. --Saftzie (talk) 12:07, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

We actively spam ourselves to see how alive our community is. I'm not actually sure, but I'm going to have a guess and hope I remember to file a Phabricator task about it when I get back from work. It may be that the anonymous spammer is using HTTPS, which is the only reason I can think of for it to go through Chirp. We've had some email spam from Vertex before, although this was through one of the forms so I guess it needs a little more validation as the address was probably just random@vertexsIPgoeshere. With this case, it would make sense if the IP header isn't getting forwarded somewhere in the horrible chain of servers for HTTPS requests

User (DNS, etc) -> Vertex (HTTPS forwarding) -> Chirp (SSL Termination) -> Vertex (Varnish) -> Monolith (Backend) -> Grunt (Database) -> User (Browser)

It was initially set up as a test, and has been a sort of hidden feature for most wikis for a while. Once we sort out how we deal with the remaining issue (sub.sub.domains.com), I'll probably move it to Vertex as it makes more sense. I'll have to look more into the forwarding theory, though... --Lewis Cawte (talk) 12:37, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

This pretty much confirms my suspicions. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 12:51, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

CEO?

Who's the CEO of shoutwiki? Jello ^chitchat! 03:07, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

No CEO. Two directors. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09749047/officers --Saftzie (talk) 04:01, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

As the very resourceful Saftzie said - we don't have a CEO. The company has two people legally responsible for looking after it, but we have no appointed head other than when required by our articles in our board meetings. Our board chair alternates each meeting.

Is there any particular reason you ask? If you need to discuss something regarding the company, you can email me (or Richard). If I think it needs to be referred to Richard, I can sort that out, etc.

--Lewis Cawte (talk) 01:25, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

I was mostly just wondering, thanks --Twilight~Sparkle This is MY book, and I'm gonna READ IT!!! 23:45, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Castaway2000

Hi Lcawte, I'm having problems editing on my account Castaway2000 because every time I try and hit the edit button it doesn't work. It makes no sense to me, and is beyond frustrating. I was referred to you by Rock-O-Jello because you're one of the directors here.

But when I edit with my IP I don't get this error. it makes zero sense. 73.11.240.169 00:40, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

OK, I forgot to add more details but what adds to the confusion is that 30 minutes ago I could message Saftzie, and now I cannot because of stupid "Session timeout" errors. See this image, because I keep getting this error on my Castaway2000 account: files.catbox.moe/cgcqrv.png 73.11.240.169 00:43, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Adoption request

Mind looking over my adopt request for AWA please? This is MY book, and I'm gonna READ IT!!! 00:42, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Cook Isn't Responding

I didn't understand what Cook879 meant when he said "ping me when you've made a database dump". Did he meant by email or talk page? I did say I made a database dump, but yeah. Castaway2000 (talk) 02:01, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply, but he probably meant by email (support@shoutwiki.com). --This is MY book, and I'm gonna READ IT!!! 17:14, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Wiki deletion

Hey, Lcawte, could you do me a favor and delete http://spongefan.shoutwiki.com please? --This is MY book, and I'm gonna READ IT!!! 17:12, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I went ahead and deleted spongefan.shoutwiki for you, it's removed from ShoutWiki now. :-) SamanthaNguyen (talk) 22:29, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Special:CreatePage

Hi, could you please add this extension so that others can use a special page to create articles on Green Day Wiki? Thanks. Castaway2000 (talk) 19:56, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

As someone who spent a fair amount of time working on the CreateAPage extension back in the day, I can assure you it's not coming back anytime soon. The code is very ugly and buggy and the upload form stuff hasn't worked properly in years. Sorry. :-/ --Jack Phoenix _(Contact) 08:39, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Testing

Testing per request SamanthaNguyen (talk) 00:26, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Deletion forum

Hey Lwcate! I was wondering why you deleted this (http://www.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Forum:Wiki_Deletion&t=20170322031838) without leaving any explanation? I explained that I contacted support to delete the wikis placed on the forum page as well, but I still have no response.

--JoshuaTheRoman (talk) 21:36, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Question concerning Module:Lua

I had a question about Module:Lua, which is in-use on the main Wikipedia database. I understand this module — mostly used in the cases of infobox templates — was, at least for a short interim period, used here at ShoutWiki. However, I am also aware it was disabled, due to the ShoutWIki servers being unable to handle what the module called for. While I am sure there are no immediate plans to re-install the module, I did read that [some] ShoutWiki databases could have it installed. I was wondering: is there a downside to this happening? Like, does it crash the selected Wiki, due to [potential] instability? and, also, is there any potential of it coming back full-time to the ShoutWiki database? Thank you for your time! MusicNation (talk) 16:54, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

ShoutWiki uses Scribunto to implement Lua. If you don't have it on your wiki, you can ask for it. --Saftzie (talk) 21:19, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Is it stable enough once implemented on a specific Wiki, or is it something that is discouraged against because it can crash the Wiki? MusicNation (talk) 00:51, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

It's very stable and quite common. It's also what Wikipedia uses. There's a good chance it's already on your wiki, but if it's not, you can have it added. --Saftzie (talk) 07:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

I know it isn't, because a lot of the Lua modules do not work. Who do I potentially see about having it installed, and once it's installed, if I choose to, can I have it removed? MusicNation (talk) 03:18, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Scribunto is a globally enabled extension on ShoutWiki. If your modules aren't working these days, it's probably an issue with the Lua code itself. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 04:39, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Damn, really? That sucks. Guess I'll have to go into my code and try to figure out how to fix these a bit... and see if that works, then! MusicNation (talk) 13:23, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Forum:Need to change text for entire wiki

Thank you Lewis for the assistance.

I sent you an invite to my wiki page.

An example of the issue I'm referring to is on this page: http://sultans.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Elena_Alexandria

The numbering of the contents have a very dark gray background with black text. This is a terrible contrast, I can barely see the numbers. I would like to change the number text to white. Pikazilla (talk) 14:48, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Pikazilla, I've changed the coloring of the numbers in the table of contents for you to white. I noticed you've now started signing your comments which is much appreciated. I meant for you to leave a message on your wiki as opposed to hub, but anyway. A further tip if you continue to use other ShoutWiki sites, is that when linking you can use interwiki links, for example a link to that page using an interwiki link is [[s:sultans:Elena Alaxandria|whatever text you wish to show as the link]] ---Lewis Cawte (talk) 15:26, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Forgot to add, you may need to do a hard refresh as the CSS is likely cached in your browser. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 15:26, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

It worked, than you Lewis. I'll let you know if I have any future issues. Pikazilla (talk) 15:35, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Bar Chart Issue

Hello again Lewis. I'm trying to create a chart to mimic the example on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphs_and_charts#Bar_box

The link to my wiki page is here:

http://sultans.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Bar_Test

Please see what you can do to get the chart to work; I've tried everything with no success.Pikazilla (talk) 15:13, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Join to help ShoutWiki

‎Can I join to ShoutWiki Staff group for help to other users? I'm a Web Developer and can speak to Persian, Arabic and English. Can I? SkyHelper (talk) 16:20, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

banjokazooie.shoutwiki.com

i'll continue the conversation here. how do we fix the wiki? it's been broken for about a year now Castaway2000 (talk) 14:23, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

2MB limit

How do we increase the filesize limit for Conker Wiki? there's some files i want to upload. I suggest maybe 5MB or 10MB. Castaway2000 (talk) 11:53, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Bureaucrat

Would you please give me Bureaucrat rights on this wiki? Thanks --Vlad26t (talk) 06:36, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

How to use Whitelist

Hello! You told me to use the extension Whitelist, to make some pages of my private wiki readable by anyone, or a group of users. But could you explain me how to use it? I didn't find it by myself. (you can message me on my page)

Thank you.

--PERCE-NEIGE (talk) 15:02, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Spam accounts started daily on my wiki

Thanks for your work. I don't know if this is where I should discuss this. I am getting spam accounts started daily. I delete them every day or every other day, and block the user names for a month. That seems to be long enough to prevent reuse.

Is there any way to filter this? I don't want to block good users. I get a rare few who register so that they have the possibility to edit the 2019 page via a specially created user right just to edit the 2019 page:

• http://cannabis.shoutwiki.com/wiki/2019

Maybe the addition of links to user pages could be blocked until the user meets a minimum number of non-deleted edits?

Or maybe user page creation could be blocked altogether until a minimum amount of time passes. A couple weeks maybe.

User registration could occur right away, but not user page creation for awhile. And then no links until another couple weeks passes.

Maybe this could be suggested to Mediawiki developers.

The multi-step process could be built into Mediawiki. So no work would be required of admins on wikis. It would be automatic. It would be much rarer to see spam links since spammers would have to go through a multi-stage process for a single spam link.

The time period could be set to vary automatically. Or an option to choose the time period could be given to wiki admins. This would help thwart any auto-timing software attempted by spammers. --Timeshifter (talk) 07:30, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Rather than core MediaWiki, it would be better to put such functionality in an extension. In fact, the capability (and much more) is already in the AbuseFilter extension, which is already installed on your wiki. --Saftzie (talk) 08:42, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

I did an advanced search of everything in my wiki for 'extension' and 'abusefilter'. It did not show up.

http://cannabis.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=all&search=extension&fulltext=1

http://cannabis.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=all&search=abusefilter&fulltext=1

--Timeshifter (talk) 10:23, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

OK. I see it listed in Special:Version. A long time since I have been there. I had forgotten. Maybe put "extensions" in the sidebar under tools by default. More admins would be made aware of these tools.

http://cannabis.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Special:Version --Timeshifter (talk) 10:42, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Protect your user page

Hi, Lewis! I'm Dove. I have noticed that your user page has been vandalized many times by disruptive I.P. addresses. Whilst I was looking at your user page history, I recommend that it gets protected to prevent it from happening again in the nearby future. It basically makes it much easier and less worrying to deal with. Plus, staff user pages should be protected anyway, right? Hope it helps! MinecraftFan (talk) 19:04, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

3 times in 9 years is a very low vandalism rate... --Lewis Cawte (talk) 19:12, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, I suppose. But still... I'd protect it, just in case. MinecraftFan (talk) 20:51, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Getting more editors?

Hi Mr. Cawte, I was just wondering if there was a way to get more editors for your ShoutWiki site? I'm an admin on a forked Wikia and I want to stay way ahead of the spoon (especially since someone there pissed me off recently). Thanks! --Listen to the beat of the soul ☆ Talk to me~! 22:56, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Hey! So there's some generic starter advice I'd give to most wikis and no single piece of advice below is guaranteed, or a single way to achieve your goals, but, use them with consideration and integrate them as a broader strategy, and you're far more likely to get better results.

I will note, however, it is far harder to make forks work. Forks by one person are probably the hardest to get going again. They work best when there's a group of editors. Having that community, however small, can make life a lot easier, especially as you're not fighting against your rival. Forks also have huge issues with identity and SEO which can hinder your efforts (and there really isn't a huge amount that can be done to fix this in any small timeframe)

• Get your wiki on social media - I created a wiki for the NBC show State of Affairs, and while the accounts didn't necessarily drive more editors, there was a trackable increase in visitors (staff perks) - the Twitter account to this day remains followed by some of the main actors in the cast, and was retweeted by them on various occasions. Admittedly, being in the UK following a US show did result in me pulling some rather painful early starts/late finishes being up until the very early hours of the morning to try and get as much interaction as possible.
• Engage new people - a wiki is nothing without editors. The HAWelcome tool will automatically welcome new editors to your wiki. If you use that, or even if you don't, make sure anyone new to your site has a friendly, relevant first experience that encourages them to come back and help again. You should assume good faith. Unless you are a Wikipedia clone, most new editors won't necessarily instantly understand or know about a manual of style, your wikis individual templates, etc. You may have to spend a bit of time cleaning up the good in their initial edits, and then slowly introduce them to complexities like a MoS and templates (though I would certainly include a link to the relevant documentation somewhere in that conversation in case they want to "skip ahead".)
• Work out who your potential editors are, and where to find them - this is something that is wiki-specific. Game communities you might find on a forum, entertainment communities perhaps on social media, etc. I don't know every corner of the internet or every topic, but, people that run wikis should know where their audience is. Once you've worked that out, be there. I'd advise you to be smart about how you advertise the site. If you find discussions about your wiki topic, for example, if someone notices a small detail in a forum discussion about a TV episode covered by the wiki that I haven't spotted, I'd reply with something like "Oh cool, I hadn't noticed that, I've just added it to the page on the (topic wiki)" and inline link somewhere that. In addition, I'd have a link in my signature if allowed, normally just with "admin at wiki", or just the wiki name. This would normally keep within the rules, and, you're not spamming. If you find someone that is constantly spotting things, you might approach them more directly and see if they'd be interested in helping out. Other platforms you might have to take a different approach, but, the general theme is don't spam, advertise in an appropriate and measured way.
• Bureaucracy kills small sites - play it cool with your first editors. There's a lot of things that appear on bigger wikis that impede the operations of small wikis. If you've got a lot of vandalism and you've only got a small team, be more liberal with your admin tools. I'm not saying give everyone that joins sysop after their first edit, but, you don't need a RfA process if you've got a team of 4 editors... this is just one example of some wiki bureaucracy that pushes people away. Give people the right tools to do their jobs and let them get on with it. This leads to my next point...
• It isn't your wiki - Just because you've founded a site, it doesn't mean you have all the control. Wikis are community projects, work as a community. Have discussions between your editors, have votes where necessary. You're not an army of clones, make people feel included in decision making, be bold, but don't push people around. It's a fine balance, but, it is important to get right. Your ideal end point in building a community is one where you could step away and the community could carry on like nothing happened. Don't take that as an invitation to do nothing or be a nobody, but, your team should have the skills/knowledge/drive to continue without you (even if they do notice you're missing!)
• Make your site unique - customize it a bit. You don't necessarily have to go overboard and write a custom theme for your wiki, but, make sure your wiki tone is different. Create a logo and favicon for your site. This gives your site identity, it means it isn't just a bulk standard generic wiki. If you need styling/design help, the community help forum is a good place to start.

This isn't necessarily an exhaustive list, just a few tips that I've heard and/or used over far too many years being involved in a fair few wiki communities and web projects - both successful and unsuccessful. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 13:07, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

I'll keep all that in mind, thanks! So far my wiki has at least three editors including myself so we have that going --Listen to the beat of the soul ☆ Talk to me~! 23:33, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Create database dump for s:w:wikisfera

Hi Lewis,
Please make a database dump for s:w:wikisfera, incl. all page content, deleted revisions, and logs. The place to make that is here. Vlad26t (talk) 12:57, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

tickets

can we forget about the fucking tickets already. thats not the point anymore. the point is i requested a wiki to be deleted, and you wont do it unless i file a ticket. i sent an email to support@shoutwiki.com asking for it to be closed, or at least redirected to conker.rarewiki.com. you're driving me crazy -- listen, i left shoutwiki -- just do this one last thing for me please Castaway2000 (talk) 16:44, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

I literally emailed support@shoutwiki.com and didnt get a support ticket. just please stop and delete the wiki like i asked -- i moved it and it's dead & inactive Castaway2000 (talk) 16:52, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

sry for my tantrum above. thanks for deleting the wikis Castaway2000 (talk) 20:23, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Why?

Since you don’t have the CentralAuth extension, how can you manage user accounts (locks, oversight, merges and un-merges?) —Znotch190713 ^{(Talk Contributions)} 07:35, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

We've always had a global user table, we don't need to do merges and unmerges and the Oversight extension was merged into MediaWiki core. Staff currently hold those rights and can use them where nessesary. We've got a number of tools to block global accounts, but, that's not something anyone other than the people with access to them need to worry about. As to why we don't use CentralAuth, it was an architectural decision taken by ShoutWiki's founders due to the way it requires you to setup up MediaWiki. It was felt to be unscalable for the type of farm ShoutWiki wants to be. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 09:51, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

@Lcawte: So where is the global user table? Znotch190713 ^{(Talk || Contributions)} 11:40, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Not in a CentralAuth database. -- Lewis Cawte (talk) 11:58, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

I agree with you, Lewis! I cannot find a global user table on the CentralAuth database. -- DRWindsor (talk) 13:26, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

@Lcawte: —Znotch190713 ^{(Talk || Contributions)} 18:06, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Admin

Mind if I become an admin here? -- DRWindsor (talk) 10:58, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I do mind. You've virtually no constructive edits here and have no demonstrated need or use for sysop privileges. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 15:43, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Uh, you shouldn't, as this user has been indef blocked. Znotch190713 ^{(Talk || Contributions)} 07:07, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Babel AutoCreate

It's not an interactive user. It's part of Babel. --Saftzie (talk) 16:56, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

My bad, I'd forgotten it is one of those extensions that uses some odd magic and acts from the user's IP instead of the server. Although, it wouldn't be the first time someone has created a "system" user account! --Lewis Cawte (talk) 08:35, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Babel AutoCreate should be a bot. Znotch190713 ^{(Talk || Contributions)} 20:40, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Sanrio Wiki

Hi I'm the creator of the Sanrio Wiki which was locked on April 2, 2018 due to bot spam, and would like to continue the project. May you unlock it please? Thanks in advance. :) Torchickens (talk) 11:43, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for getting it enabled! ^^ Torchickens (talk) 14:11, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Hey, sorry for not replying. I thought I replied, but, I was doing a few different things when I unlocked it and forgot, my apologies! Happy editing! --Lewis Cawte (talk) 18:44, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

no 5 wikis limit

• hi i need use 5 above wikis, can you help me?--Msnhinet8 (talk) 05:39, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
  • No. You've got 5 wikis, four of which have next to no content, and none of which have been edited in the last 30 days. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 04:17, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
    • I can find time edit my the other 4 wikis, can you open give me create 5 above wikis?--Msnhinet8 (talk) 04:54, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
    • beacuse i want to write the orter theme.--Msnhinet8 (talk) 05:03, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
      • If you, by some small miracle, were able to give enough attention to each of the 5 wikis you already have created, therefore proving your point, we might reconsider. To this point, nobody has provided that level of evidence, as such, we've not even added the necessary change to the code to allow us to grant more than 5 wiki creation privileges. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 12:04, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
• ok.--Msnhinet8 (talk) 12:31, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
• i can use the other account create a wiki?--Msnhinet8 (talk) 02:36, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
  • If I were you, I wouldn't do that. You encourage yourself to cheat so you can have 5 extra wikis. I think it's one of the reasons for banning on ShoutWiki. And believe my experience, you won't have enough time to expand correctly the whole 5+ wikis. Life will keep you away from your wikis for many (good) reasons and to gather a community to make them grow is difficult if not impossible. --LIMAFOX76 (talk) 06:24, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
    • Yes, correct, it is a bannable offence. If you're not going to manage the wikis you've created, email supportshoutwiki.com and we'll delete them for you. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 07:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
• ok,thanks.--Msnhinet8 (talk) 07:46, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
• please the future create a wiki can open 5 wikis above?--Msnhinet8 (talk) 02:52, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
  • It won't take us particularly long to put it in, but, we'll only do so when someone has a proven need for it. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 08:16, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
• ok.--Msnhinet8 (talk) 04:47, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

User rename

Hi Lcawte, I want to change my user name from SADQIUI to SADIQUI. Is this possible. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SADQIUI (talk • contribs) 14:30, 20 November 2019‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with --~~~~!

I'm not Lcawte, but no, it's not, for two reasons. No name changes are possible. Even if they were, someone (possibly you) has just created that one, so it's already in use. --Saftzie (talk) 20:02, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Checkuser tip?

... from an anonymous source. It's worth checking, I suppose. --Saftzie (talk) 18:51, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

One step ahead of you on this one ;) --Lewis Cawte (talk) 19:18, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Sometimes you just have to wait for them to slip up and reuse their old IPs. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 12:45, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Again? --Saftzie (talk) 04:24, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

... thank you. I'm getting bored of whack-a-mole. Do you think they'll ever get the message? --Lewis Cawte (talk) 09:48, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Delete

Lcawte, do have the position to delete wikis? I would like Sploder and Wikijunior gone. I am only sticking to one wiki. --Wikijunior (talk) 05:05, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Wiki not working

http://en.techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com

all working now thx DarkShadow (talk) 15:28, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Now under maintenance all day, is this normal? DarkShadow (talk) 00:58, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

As I said in my email, talk pages are not the place to get support on issues like this. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 15:23, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Can You Restore Deleted wikis

Can You Restore My Deleted Wikis? logos.shoutwiki.com logosreuploads.shoutwiki.com — BPN (Talk!) 03:01, June 26, 2020 (UTC)

No, you can whichever one of the 20+ wikis I left up. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 20:13, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Message From Beckham

Hello, thank you for removing my conversation. I tried to reason with that user, but I guess that did not work. Thanks again for your help. --bpn (talk) 03:13, July 5, 2020 (UTC)

I TOLD YOU CANNOT BLOCK ME!!!!! --JTVI (talk) 03:17, July 5, 2020 (UTC)

My Wikis

I was not been able to access the My Wikis page or the Create a wiki page. I've emailed you about this -- Memofan // ✉ 16:13, July 20, 2020

Cannabis Light

I've removed the SpamRegex entry for it, since it was preventing s:w:cannabis from posting about it. (It's a low-THC strain that's legal some places where other strains aren't.) If spam about it recurs across the farm, it'll have to get blocked some other way. --Saftzie (talk) 18:57, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Not a problem! Thank you for all your hardwork! I do quite like your description of SpamRegex ;) --Lewis Cawte (talk) 20:19, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

I Can’t Create Wiki

Help. I can’t Create Wiki, Help Me Fix it --bpn (talk) 11:07, July 30, 2020 (UTC)

Me too.--Msnhinet8 (talk) 03:41, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Create Wiki

i cannot create wiki. it says: "You have been banned from creating new wikis by ShoutWiki Staff." help me fix it --bpn (talk) 11:47, August 10, 2020 (UTC)

CreateWiki Ban

can you remove createwiki-ban? --bpn (talk) 12:05, August 10, 2020 (UTC)

YouTube Logo

can i have "YouTube Logo"? --bpn (talk) 15:24, August 11, 2020 (UTC)

create a wiki

• hi,you can enable my account create a wikis?thanks.--Msnhinet8 (talk) 13:09, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
  • You have access to CreateWiki, you're just at the 5 wiki throttle. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 18:18, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
    • In fact, we actually had this very same conversation last year. See #no 5 wikis limit for a reminder. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 18:20, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
• ok,thanks.--Msnhinet8 (talk) 09:57, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Problem with Semantic wiki

Hi Lcawte!

I have a problem with semantic wiki. It prevents me to access my wiki. I have this message instead of my wiki pages:

"Semantic MediaWiki a été installé et activé, mais il manque une clé de mise à jour appropriée.

Publier 3.1.6 (smw:2019-09-23)

Pourquoi je vois cette page ? La structure de la base de données interne de MediaWiki Sémantique a été modifiée et nécessite des ajustements pour être pleinement fonctionnelle. Il peut y avoir plusieurs raisons à cela, dont :

Des propriétés corrigées supplémentaires (nécessitant une installation de table supplémentaire) ont été ajoutées Une mise à jour contient certaines modifications de tables ou d’index rendant une interception obligatoire avant d’accéder aux données Des modifications au stockage ou au moteur de requêtes Comment dois-je corriger cette erreur ? Un administrateur (ou toute personne ayant les droits administrateur) doit exécuter le script de maintenance soit update.php de MediaWiki soit setupStore.php de Semantic MediaWiki.

Vous pouvez aussi consulter les pages suivantes pour une aide supplémentaire:

les instructions d'installation page d'aide pour la recherche de fautes" --PERCE-NEIGE (talk) 15:38, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! I think you did something, because it has not been working for a long time, and it works again now! Thank you again!

--PERCE-NEIGE (talk) 11:36, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Regarding the Chess Platforms wikis

Hello. I would like the Scots version of my Chess Platforms wiki restored since there the wiki contained a list of powerups that I haven't memorized, and I need them undeleted in order to continue developing Chess Platforms. Are there backups of my wikis? Can these be restored? Pyro Newman (talk) 00:42, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

No, these were deleted 252 days ago. Deletion backups are only kept for 30 days. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 21:51, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

flow

• Hi,you can install extension flow in my 網路百科this wiki? thanks.--Msnhinet8 (talk) 04:36, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

requests for heroes.shoutwiki.com

1. Make the stellarbook theme of the MonoBook skin the default skin and theme. (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_configuration) (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Theme)
2. Set $wgCapitalLinks = true (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgCapitalLinks)

Adfree questions

I signed up for another year via Special:AdFreeBase on May 25, 2021. I have been signed up since March 6, 2019 when I signed up for 3 months adfree. I have signed up for a year at a time since then. So, I believe I am good through June 6, 2022.

I notice ads still in mobile view on my iphone X, but not in mobile view on my desktop PC. Any progress on getting ads removed completely from mobile view on cell phones?

There are no ads in desktop view whether on PC or cell phone. --Timeshifter (talk) 19:37, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

No progress at the moment, no. The way the mobile view is implemented is majorly different to desktop skins, finding a solution to disable the ads in this view or... to enable them in a more configurable way, is way down the todo list. Considering we're... many months behind pushing even the latest MediaWiki LTS release, or replying to support tickets, is a pretty scary display of how little time I have to dedicate to ShoutWiki things at the moment. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 11:07, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

OK. Is Shoutwiki profitable? I hope so. I would hate to see it disappear. Or is much of the technical work done by volunteers? --Timeshifter (talk) 20:22, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Vandalism on Tiresome Wikis Wiki

Various pages on Tiresome Wikis Wiki are being vandalized. Could you please try and clean it up? 2001:8003:745A:6600:754C:E319:2F22:94FE 04:35, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

The administrators on that wiki (BenPlenty, Bray, and Frigg) would be the first people to ask, rather than staff. If the wiki has been abandoned by the admins, that's a different problem. --Saftzie (talk) 17:11, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, but the wiki doesn't allow anonymous editing. 2001:8003:745A:6600:EC35:86AB:D0A9:F4C7 07:29, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Access to Special:CreateWiki

Why I cannot create a wiki at this special page? I have tried it at August till now and it still doesn't work. It say that their is a bug fixing. Matttest23 (talk) 14:09, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

CreateWiki doesn't get along with the currently deployed MW version. The plan is apparently to update CreateWiki when the next MW version is rolled out (soon). --Saftzie (talk) 20:14, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Close wiki

Hello, İ wrote you a message via troppusmoc.ikiwtuohs several months ago requesting you to close the wiki http://codigolyoko.shoutwiki.com/ but you still didn’t answered me, so can you close the wiki http://codigolyoko.shoutwiki.com/ please? Thanks in advance! --Josep Maria Roca Peña (talk) 17:55, 30 December 2021 (UTC) (See https://support.shoutwiki.com/tickets.php?id=4015 which is still unanswered)

İ’ve seen your reversion on Saftzie's talk page, does it mean that you’ll handle my request? Sorry if İ wrote on three users’ talkpages, but İ’ve been waiting for a long time and the request https://support.shoutwiki.com/tickets.php?id=4015 has been unanswered since April, more than half year ago. --Josep Maria Roca Peña (talk) 20:27, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Saftzie isn't staff, don't copy+paste messages to get attention. Here's the answer, 2021 has been my busiest year ever. What I was doing prior to getting email notifications of all this nonsense, was working on those backend changes ready to do our first full test of 1.35, but, oh well. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 20:49, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Firstly, İ didn’t know that Saftzie isn’t Staff, sorry with this. About what you tell here, İ did sent a message at troppusmoc.ikiwtuohs in April 2021, you can see it in the URL https://support.shoutwiki.com/tickets.php?id=4015 so what more must İ do to get my request answered?İn that forum you’re talking about December 2020, we’re in December 2021 and in the last week, when will my request be answered? İ did had patience for 8 months (aprox. 250 days), thaťs why today İ copy+pasted messages to get attention. İ’m not sending requests every day, İ think iťs the second or third request İ fulfilled, so İ think İ did followed all the needed procedures to request something. At least İ expected to get a bit of attention to my request in the eight months İ’ve been waiting, and in its absence İ copy+pasted those messages to get that expected attention. So İ hope you can understand my copy+pasting of today. And please, if you can tell me, İ’d like to know at least if my request will be reviewed soon. --Josep Maria Roca Peña (talk) 22:28, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Ban SobySobea

This user is threatening me to unblock YouTube Logos. Beckham Wong (talk) 15:15 February 14, 2022

How close is staff to finishing the 1.35 upgrade?

I asked on the forums, but I didn't get the answer I was hoping for. I was asking you since I was told a while ago that you would know. Tali64^2 (talk) 21:27, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Phabricator account

I have a concern about the way you handled this Phabricator task I made in which I suggested to make CreateWiki open-source. I made that task to hopefully prevent CreateWiki from ever being down for a long time again. It was a serious suggestion aimed at improving ShoutWiki, but you responded by leaving a sarcastic comment and then disabling my Phabricator account. I'd understand if you gave a legitimate reason for keeping CreateWiki closed-source, but you didn't. My Phabricator account should not have been disabled for simply suggesting an idea. I'd like to know the reason why you acted the way you did and if there's anything I can do to have my Phabricator account reinstated. Tali64^2 (talk) 19:59, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

About that edit war on Weirdcyclopedia...

I'm very sorry for having taken part in that edit war on Weirdcyclopedia; it's just that the anon there who is actually Leerdoman74 (AKA FighterMortalHyper) was actually responsible for all those hostile edit summaries and was even the one who started all those wars, because he was unwilling to accept the changes on those pages, and the fact that he can't take any form of criticism when being called out for his mistakes. Not to mention that he uses those anons to keep returning to that wiki to evade his bans.

I've also been wanting to adopt Weirdcyclopedia so that I could improve its quality control since Salarvander, the only admin on that wiki is gone now, and things have been getting so much worse since then, but it seems to me that my chances of adopting the wiki may be minimal now, because of what just happened now, and for that, I take full responsibity.

Even if I can't adopt Weirdcyclopedia (which I hope I still can despite what happened), I wish to at least have my block there appealed and I'll try my best to not engage in any more edit wars with other users like Leerdoman74. SuperStreetKombat talk 3:58, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Go and read the block summary, please. It's a 24-hour equal-sided block that will expire automatically. We're half-way through the 1.35 software release, which means the servers are under a lot of strain doing all the extra stuff it has to do without having to deal with multiple edits a minute from two people in a revert war. It has now gone midnight locally, and I'm not waking up at 3AM again to fix a server that's died because people can't behave and pushed it over the edge. If it continues tomorrow, you'll both receive further blocks until I or someone else on the team has a chance to properly review the situation and intervene as necessary. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 00:08, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Please block this user.

• [1]

This user is invading that some person's privacy.--51.195.166.195 09:31, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much. It was a great help!

[2]

[3]

But this wiki is a similar wiki, too. Please delete it.--185.220.101.86 11:04, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Closing my wikis

Bonjour,

Could you please delete these two wikis? I've sent support tickets about them numerous times, but they're still up for some reason. Thanks! --Listen to the beat of the soul ☆ Talk to me~! 18:48, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Bump the support ticket, I'll catch them next time I'm doing a batch. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 21:10, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

i bumped the ticket like you said, but they're still up, and the second one i mentioned is getting attacked by spambots. just delete them, please. --Listen to the beat of the soul ☆ Talk to me~! 19:03, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

-abigblueworld- has struck yet again

The vandal called -abigblueworld- has returned to Weirdcyclopedia once again and has vandalized articles, created sockpuppets, and troll pages like last time she was there: http://weirdcyclopedia.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/IncredibleRoadFighting http://weirdcyclopedia.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/SUPERDICKSUCKINGKOMBAT http://weirdcyclopedia.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/This_stops_NOW

Those sockpuppets of hers need to be blocked right away, and those pages she made need to be deleted right now. Also, I know you're a bit reluctant to give anybody admin rights to Weirdcyclopedia because of that edit war caused by Leerdoman74 a while ago, but the wiki is in serious danger and is getting worse month after month, and I'm the only one who can save it from any further destruction, so if you can actually reconsider shutting down and instead let me adopt it, that would serious help the wiki and everybody else in the long run. SuperStreetKombat (talk) 12:02, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikia creation tool

What's the status on the creation tool? I'm still unable to it. I made a request a few months ago to possibly make ShoutWiki the new host of Real Life Villains Wikia (most recently on Miraheze) where I was a bureaucrat. Is it still being updated? Rangerkid51 (talk) 19:16, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Staff are still working on testing the wiki creator to make sure that absolutely no bugs remain. There's still no fixed date for its return, which is mildly frustrating given that it's been down for two and a half years at this point. Hopefully it'll be up soon. Tali64^2 (talk) 23:14, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

I would like for one of the mods to make a wiki for me as the create a wiki option is limited to staff at the moment.

Seeing as the create wiki feature is currently staff only to prevent bugs from leaking,may you or a selected member of staff help me make a wiki upon my behalf? It's for my website,sidson.city and I've been looking to make a wiki for it. Miraheze refused to host the wiki and thus I came to the Shout Wiki hoping for more open service. Thank you for your understanding, Sidty Curator (talk) 01:38, 31 May 2023 (UTC)VATH

Nope. It's not there to stop bugs from leaking, it's there to stop bugs from doing damage, again. Also, given that Miraheze won't host your wiki, there's a good chance we wouldn't either... --Lewis Cawte (talk) 22:30, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Please shut down Weirdcyclopedia. For good this time

Hello. I'm requesting that you terminate a doomed wiki called Weirdcyclopedia, because ever since the only admin there quit ShoutWiki, the wiki has fallen victim to vandalism, edit wars, troll pages, no administration, and now spam bots to the point of absolutely no recovery whatsoever. I tried my absolute best to adopt Weirdcyclopedia, but my request to do so was a failure, and it looks like Salarvander, its founder, is probably never coming back since he's been gone for 5 months. Since Weirdcyclopedia is already decaying, I think it's best that you staff members just close it already so that it doesn't have to suffer any longer. Thanks in advance. SuperStreetKombat (talk) 3:33, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

I regrettably say this, but thanks for accepting this request. I apollogize for all the trouble that's been caused on Weirdcyclopedia, especially since Leerdoman74, -abigblueworld-, and those spam bots are to blame for it. SuperStreetKombat (talk) 11:38, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

languages

• Hi my 網路百科 can help me change language zh and change wiki name 网路百科 wiki? Thanks.--Msnhinet8 (talk) 10:14, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Please global lock my account

Could you globally block my account? I have no intention of working here any longer and I want to end this platform for good. Szczypak2005 09:36, September 10 2023 (GMT+2)

Version 1.4 of mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Tabs

Hi! Can you please add version 1.40 of mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Tabs to heroes.shoutwiki.com --imahero 08:32, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Also why is webp banned? --imahero 08:33, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Also, my special help pages report to have been cached since "07:57, June 5, 2021" why isn't that updating? --imahero 18:15, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Also, my site tries to go to http:// sometimes. Can you turn off http:// for my wiki? --imahero 18:20, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Please Close Tiresome Wikis Wiki

If can I ask you, as I know, you closed Weirdcyclopedia because of a lot of dramas, I want to ask you to do the same with the wiki called Tiresome Wikis Wiki since that wiki is suffering from literally the same problem as you can see that from recent changes.

A lot of edit-wars are happening there, most notably on Qualitipedia page s:w:tiresomewikis:Qualitipedia and the Original Reception Wikis (2019-present)?action=history, but not only that, there are a lot of vandalism on a lot of pages on that wiki like this s:w:tiresomewikis:Special:Contributions/Konichiwa.

Also, most notably there are a pointless war between SSK and LeerdoMan as you can see it here s:w:tiresomewikis:Leerdoman74 controversy?action=history no mention the pages like I've introduced may cause a drama, and also SSK is edit-warring with UVA for rather laughable reasons like quotes for example s:w:tiresomewikis:Crappy Games Wiki (2020-2022)?action=history.

Tali, the only admin of that wiki, is barely doing anything to stop that mess that's happening there, plus, he also literally blocked user called UVA indefinitely just because he said the wiki community is toxic s:w:tiresomewikis:Special:Contributions/UVA s:w:tiresomewikis:User talk:UVA?diff=prev&oldid=8166.

That wiki is slowly becoming a Unfavorable Wikis and Users Wiki 2.0 as this wiki dares to attack multiple users, including those who left those wikis years ago and don't want to be associated with those wikis anymore, no even mention some of them got death threads, so please close that wiki for save the reputation of ShoutWiki, thanks.

-regards (Szczypak64) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Szczypak2005 (talk • contribs) 12:02, 13 July 2024‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with --~~~~!

Okay, 1: the vandalism on Tiresome Wikis Wiki has been very minimal so far, and Tali has been doing a decent job at blocking vandals. 2: Leerdoman came back to ShoutWiki because he wanted revenge on me for exposing him on Fandom, so he took to TWW to make a page about me that was full of false accusations and not to mention he kept trying to get that page about him deleted because he still couldn't take criticism at all. I mean, he's harassed you before on ShoutWiki, so I figured you'd understand him being the one to start the chaos going on. 3: The only reason why I "edit warred" with UVA was because they kept adding that nonsensical quote on the QP page's infobox that basically advocated for vandalism on other wikis. Not to mention that other users called out UVA for that weird quote. 4: Tali blocked UVA because the latter made questionable decisions on the wiki such as accusing me of harassment on another wiki, insulting Tali during their block, bringing up Bluba's obsession with the old QP which is old news now, making poor edits, adding info to pages that added nothing to them, and continuous readding pointers after they were initially removed. And finally: no, I don't think Tiresome Wikis Wiki should close because everything is going fine, and Tali has been a fairly productive admin there despite him being busy across various other wikis, even though I did suggest the idea of there being more admins there. I think the reason why you want this wiki closed because you're spiteful towards people who called you out for your takes and you refuse to see the bigger picture. Let's not forget that you yourself side with controversial users who've vandalized pages and created sockpuppets to evade their bans in the past. SuperStreetKombat (talk) 10:05, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

I say sorry for my behavior street!But I know really right that you harassed the 3Kittens classic about Dora the Explorer on the old QP so you might say sorry from that Dora the Explorer hater,Because i wasn't a user in that awful networkUVA (talk) Someone give me the proofs on Why SSK harassed the 3Kittens? Brazilian user?give me the proofs on why this user insulted the 3Kittens?UVA (talk)