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Wikilevels
I have moved ownership of Wikilevels from the current wiki manager to User:TCN7JM. Per discussion with the user they are interested in the site and since the current manager did not do anything with the wiki, TCN7JM will make a good person to manage the wiki. If people want a brief background on the user and why I did this without seeing them contribute here first, it is because I work with the user on Wikidata (A Wikimedia Foundation project) where TCN7JM is the holder of sysop rights therefore shows competency.

Any objections are free to be discussed below but I will continue with this and I would prefer it not be reverted without discussing with me. I also discussed it with the creator of the wiki's logo who has no concerns with TCN7JM managing the wiki in its current state. John (talk) 23:32, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Tanner
I have removed Tanner's global Sysop due to him leaving TestWiki totally. This should not be controversial since he has not continued to edit nor contact has been made expressing interest in keeping it. As for David, regular (practically daily) contact shows he is still interested but is un available to do much but has the interest and will keep the right for when he returns.

As a note, Tanner gained the rights through a single stewards decision while David gained them from a stewards decision before Addshore joined us. John (talk) 21:03, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Arcane
I've granted Arcane a local sysop flag. I've done this based on his assistance thus far with Orain and his knowledge of MediaWiki. I see no issues in his behavior and believe he'll be an asset. D u s t i *Let's talk!* 03:40, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Interaction ban request - AugurNZ and Zhuyifei1999
I would like to request an enforced interaction ban between myself (AugurNZ) and the user known as Zhuyifei1999. There may not be established policy for such a ban here at Orain at present, but I would respectfully ask that such a policy be enacted forthwith in response to this request.

For an example of the form such a policy might take, please see the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP) Interaction Ban policy page, and their archived discussion about the issue.

Evidence: Please see the Community Portal discussion and the following IRC chat log from tonight (23-Aug-2013 NZT)... [19:15] AugurNZ: answerd [19:16] AugurNZ: ping [19:16]  just reading it now [19:17] AugurNZ: If you want to know whether I'm actually on IRC or not, just ctcp me [19:18]  I'm not getting into it with you any further, zhuyifei1999. I'm not really all that bothered whether or not you like my contributions. [19:18] I don't [19:18]  fine [19:19] zhuyifei1999!*@* added to ignore list. ...both of which indicate that an interaction ban would be appropriate in these circumstances. This is not something that I take lightly, and I am aware of the gravity of making such a request. Augur NZ &#x2710; &#x2315; 07:50, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

 Zhuyifei1999 has been blocked for one week due to the harassment both on wiki and the continued harassment on IRC after a warning. D u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 07:58, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you Dusti, but I still feel that there is a need for this interaction ban. As far as I know I have done nothing to provoke personal attacks against me. Also for consideration I submit my contributions to the WikiIndex site as this was raised in Zhuyifei1999's comment in the CP discussion. Note that my profile page there was created at 10:47 on 22-Aug-2013 (NZT), which was before the first offensive post from Zhuyifei1999 was made here at 11:39 (NZT) on the Meta.Orain Community Portal. I had seen  edit appear in the RC here at Orain, and followed the link to WikiIndex. Impressed by what I saw there, I registered an account and proceeded to create my common user profile components in preparation to start contributing there. When I saw the commotion that was going on back here at Orain between myself and Zhuyifei1999, I swiftly blanked my pages at WikiIndex and removed the account entry from my KeePass, so I can no longer log in on that site under that username.
 * BTW, I should have mentioned that the IRC log posted above was from #orain on Freenode. <font color="#000" face="Times">Augur <font color="#33f" family="Arial">NZ <font color="#000" size="4">&#x2710; <font size="4" color="#000">&#x2315; 08:53, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

- AugurNZ and Zhuyifei1999 are hereby instructed to cease communication via this interaction ban. This ban encompasses both Orain and all projects hosted by Orain, as well as any room associated with Orain on IRC. Should either user initiate contact with the other violating this Interaction Ban - the user may be blocked initially for up to 1 month, then with new violation a block increasing in duration to a maximum of 1 year. <font face="MV Boli"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 16:19, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * We really shouldn't be needing to do these but I guess it seems fine for enforcement. John (talk) 17:49, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree with John. This shouldn't have to happen, but since it did, I support the IBAN, albeit I like both editors, so this is beyond unfortunate. Sorry.  Coach  Wikipedia  ( T  •  C  •  G  •  E ) 18:46, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Seeing as there's no real reason to decline this - I'm ✅ this - effective the end of Zhuyifei's block. <font face="MV Boli"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 19:51, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. <font color="#000" face="Times">Augur <font color="#33f" family="Arial">NZ <font color="#000" size="4">&#x2710; <font size="4" color="#000">&#x2315; 20:02, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Global Importer
Due to my recent change limiting importupload, I have created a global importer group for users who have experience with importing and are skilled with doing related duties such as history merges. The rights have been added as they are per recommendation of Eikes. For information, Eikes (not his Wikimedia username) has experience on Wikimedia wikis with import rights and related responsibilities such as histmerges. This is why I therefore listened to his advice on rights and assigned him the rights to begin with. If a fellow steward disagrees with a right in the group, please communicate with me first before removing it unless it is apparent that it is or can be very easily abused. Also note, my focus for the group is users in or limited to those who need to use it globally or have great experience with it. In addition, I wish for the group to remain fully globally though wikis may opt out of it as needed. Thanks, John (talk) 22:36, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Ombudsman Group Creation
I just wanted to let everyone know that I've gone ahead and created the ombudsman group with the following permissions: Those were just some basic permissions that they should have (in my opinion), if you feel there should be others, feel free to add them and post here. I might consider removing abusefilter-log-private after more discussion. This group is active on all wikis. -- Joe G. (Talk) 18:20, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * abusefilter-log-private
 * checkuser-log
 * suppressionlog
 * Hi Joe, thanks for creating the group. I also added,  ,   and   for read-only purposes, so that the Ombudsman can review what was actually deleted/suppressed. Kudu (talk) 19:57, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, I wasn't sure if that was necessary for them to view page text and such. -- Joe G. (Talk) 21:00, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

I have two accounts on the Orain wiki farm
I have GethN7 (the account I used to set up All The Tropes), and the other account is Arcane. I use the name GethN7 on Wikia and on ATT. Arcane is my name on most other wikis (Arcane21 on Wikimedia projects).

I have the accounts for different reasons since I'm known by different names on different wikis. "Arcane" is my local admin account here on Orain Meta and is strictly for Orain Meta related purposes. GethN7 is strictly for running the All The Tropes wiki, a name I chose since it's what I am known as on Wikia.

I have tried not to use either account for illicit purposes and while I did not intend deliberate deception, I did not want to reveal my alternate accounts since I use them for different purposes. However, since I accidentally outed myself on the Orain IRC channel, I have decided, in the interests of transparency, to make clear my two accounts and my intentions for both.

If I have caused any confusion or I should have admitted this information earlier, I apologize for any confusion or problems this may have caused.

Regardless, I am proud to be member of Orain, and I promise neither of these accounts will be used in a manner detrimental to this service. GethN7 (talk) 20:40, 7 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the clarification, I would like to take this opportunity to note that an email has also been sent to the steward team regarding this topic and confirming that these two users are really the same. Thank you, -- Joe G. (Talk) 20:43, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi GethN7, could you please confirm this by editing under your Arcane account? Kudu (talk) 15:06, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I left an edit on my Arcane account as GethN7 confirming it is an alternate account, with an edit reasons stating I did so by your request. GethN7 (talk) 19:29, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * OK. Please note that alternate accounts should normally be identified on both user pages, or, at the very least, known to the stewards. Kudu (talk) 17:36, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Dormant Wikis
Hi guys,

Today, I am going through and tagging wikis per the Dormant wikis policy for locking sometime in the future. Stewards should check this list periodically to see if the wikis listed have passed the acceptable lock date and take action if they are still inactive.

Wikis to be locked on 24 November 2013 (inactive since/before 25 October 2013):
 * micronationswiki (micronations.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013) (Active as of 14 November 2013)
 * alleniawiki (aliena.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * buswiki (bus.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * chemdaqwiki (chemdaq.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * distracteddrivingwiki (distracteddriving.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * elderlordswiki (elderlords.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013) (Active as of 14 November 2013)
 * enmodamobwiki (enmodamob.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * levelswiki (levels.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * logopediawiki (logopedia.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * meridian59wiki (meridian59.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * nflwiki (nfl.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * onlinicawiki (onlinica.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * penguinrpgwiki (penguinrpg.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * programminggameswiki (programminggames.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * sacwiki (sac.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013) (Reopened as of 29 November 2013)
 * sohwiki (sohwiki.orain.org) (notified 09 November 2013)
 * storytellingwiki (storytelling.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * sturmkriegwiki (sturmkrieg.orain.org) (notified 09 November 2013) (Note: Wiki has edits as recent as 30 October 2013 but they are a steward's reverting of vandalism; the most recent constructive edit was 20 October 2013) (Active as of 19 November 2013)
 * triggerwarningwiki (triggerwarning.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * turielwiki (turiel.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * wikiteamwiki (wikiteam.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)
 * ukrwiki1wiki (ukrwiki1.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)

Thank you, -- Joe G. (Talk) 20:38, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Elder lords and Micronations
Hold on a minute. I returned and edited on my elder lords wiki and my micronations wiki so don't close em please.-Tyreek (talk) 13:03, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Tyreek, at the time that we checked, your wikis were inactive. I am marking them as active again and they will not be closed. In the future, if your wikis are marked as being subject to being closed, please do not remove the banner yourself; this is only because it is a way you can get confirmation that a steward has acknowledged activity on the wiki again. If you have further questions, please feel free to ask. -- Joe G. (Talk) 19:22, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

SAC wiki
For the record, SACwiki (sac.orain.org) has been experiencing a glitch with logging in for over a month by now that effectively prevented its members from contributing. I notified global steward John of the problem back then, but it's still unresolved, hence the absence of activity, which has now led to the inactivity charge. Moreover, contrary to the statement above, I have not been notified of the dormancy issues, otherwise I would have brought this issue up here long ago. It was only by chance that I stumbled upon this notice today. Could you please remove SACwiki from the shutdown list and help fix the login issue. Much obliged. Regards, SAC SEC (talk) 08:33, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ and we will check into that login issue right away, my apologies for the mistake. -- Joe G. (Talk) 14:08, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ We have resolved the login issue on your wiki. -- Joe G. (Talk) 17:22, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, Joe G. Regards, SAC SEC (talk) 21:46, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Policy update
The policy has been updated to require that wikis be deleted after 3 months of inactivity. There will be an additional concurrent grace period of 14 days, meaning that no wiki will be deleted earlier than March 30, 2014. However, wikis whose 3 months of inactivity fall after that date will not get an additional time extension. <span style="font-family: Georgia, Garamond, serif;"> Kudu ~I/O~ 20:49, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Sturmkrieg
It's active again. Please remove the notice. Sturmkrieger (talk) 03:26, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

AlleniaWiki Inactivity Notice Removal
This wiki has been semi-inactive due to a temporary hiatus of the project. However, the wiki will become more active as more players come onto the server, and as more features are added. I would like the banner to please be removed. Thank you.
 * Hi there, could you please make an edit to the wiki? Then, per the dormancy policy, the wiki will become active again and the banner will be removed. Thank you! (The edit is strictly procedure to make a record of when the last edit was made so we don't accidentally mark it again!) -- Joe G. (Talk) 00:13, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Cricket Wiki
In Cricket Wiki transwiki import is available. But I'm requesting here to enable the file upload import at Cricket Wiki. Cause there's many thing that cannot be imported only by transwiki import. In these cases file upload import is very very much useful. There's no active community there. I'm the only one active there and currently managing that wiki. So I'll not be able to give any consensus. -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 11:41, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * For which reason do you need import upload where simple copy and paste can not be achieved? Similar to your previous use for importing Wikimedia specific gadgets? John (talk) 11:43, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually I'm gonna import some Module Space pages and some complicated templates from English Wiki (en.wikipedia.org). That's why I'm requesting to enable file upload import. Also that's a cricket wiki. It'll contain article about only cricket. So I'll need to import a little. But copy and pasting takes a lot of time while import is automated and you don't need much time. @John -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 11:53, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Done temporarily. John (talk) 12:12, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

GS wiki
We currently have a GS nomination on SRGP, and I want to know these things: (Although I don't have any private wikis,) do GS' have access to private wkkis? And, what's the rule for GS opt-out wikis? Thanks, &mdash; 레비 Revi D C M 13:50, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * GS have Sysop access on private wikis, how the lack of the 'read' right means it is impossible for a GS to make use of the rights. Stewards on the other do have read access only for steward work. GS opt-out is done based on a request from the wiki owner. Similar to opt out for bots. John (talk) 14:46, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Admin request
Could I please be promoted to sysop so that I can work on organization and editing this wiki to serve as a community wiki? I did similar work at Wikkii before they were abandon by the sysadmins. Also, Arcane is a sysop here and we've worked together on plenty of projects before. Inquisitor Sasha (talk) 16:58, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Please follow the local process John (talk) 17:23, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Interwiki request
Please add  for GitHub ansible-playbook repository page(or issue page), so   goes to GitHub ansible-playbook issue 1. &mdash; ReviComplaint?  02:03, 19 July 2014 (BST)
 * Added interwiki to admins. Feel free to do it yourself. John (talk) 14:56, 21 July 2014 (BST)
 * Thanks: ✅. &mdash; ReviComplaint?  14:40, 22 July 2014 (BST)

Blocked on dragonballwiki
I wonder why I am blocked on dragonballwiki? I didn't made any edits or log actions (only account creation), but Esmost blocks me anyway. Obviously, I am not able to ask Esmost why and I request an unblock, as it seems there is no appropriate reason to block me. Southparkfan (talk) 18:17, 30 August 2014 (BST)
 * Unblocked and asked them since you are a trusted user globally. John (talk) 18:19, 30 August 2014 (BST)

Error on Page
I stumbled on this page when searching for something and found an error.

==> allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/Alien_Sky

I am not a user and do not want to become one, but I found an error on one of your pages and maybe you want to fix it. As a scientist I hope you will since you are saying 'Bad Science'.

It says,

"The Sliders episode "State Of The A.R.T." changed the color of the sky to lilac. The Ridiculously Human Robot gives it a Hand Wave about pollution particles-- not one that makes scientific sense, of course, but at least it was acknowledged."

The robot does not say "pollution particles", he says "particles and gasses" and what he says Does make scientific sense. He is explaining in a very simple fashion, 'Raleigh Scattering' which is the correct explanation and main reason as to why our sky is blue.

Our sky is 99% nitrogen and oxygen which are almost the same size molecules and cause scattering of blue light. (There are also secondary reasons from the emission spectra of oxygen and nitrogen, our ionosphere, how thick our atmosphere is, and the way the cones in our eyes work.)

It is perfectly reasonable to have an atmosphere of smaller particles(maybe helium and oxygen) that would have Raleigh scattering of violet light. --71.174.126.2 21:52, 31 August 2014 (BST)
 * Hi there! This would be best reported on that individual site as we have very little to do with local content. You can share your concerns by going back to that page and clicking on the "Discussion tab" at the top. <font face="MV Boli"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 16:21, 1 September 2014 (BST)

Recent changes problem
Hello there, on my wiki nationale.orain.org, whenever I click recent changes the page says "This is a cached copy of the requested page, and may not be up to date. Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.

Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

(Cannot contact the database server: No such file or directory)

You can try searching via Google in the meantime. Note that their indexes of our content may be out of date."

I would love for this problem to be fixed please.--Tyreek (talk) 14:28, 21 September 2014 (BST)
 * Hello Tyreek! We are undergoing some cache & HHVM problems, the sysadmins will look at this soon. Southparkfan (talk) 14:29, 21 September 2014 (BST)
 * Okay, thanks.--Tyreek (talk) 22:20, 21 September 2014 (BST)
 * The issue is genuinely unknown here. The error message is less than helpful, no error logs or any logs at all are being generated about it however enabling HHVM fixes the issue which is currently a beta feature on all wikis and will likely be one our default runtime on Saturday. John (talk) 22:36, 21 September 2014 (BST)

Import from XML dump please?
The wiki I proposed was recently approved at class.orain.org and the person who approved it said I could request that someone here perform the import from my backup file. I would appreciate it if that could be done. The backup file is here. Thank you in advance. --KiserJ (talk) 01:52, 27 September 2014 (BST)
 * Added to my list of things to do. Priority is low but I'll aim to get it done before I start work on upgrading our infrastructure later today. John (talk) 13:46, 27 September 2014 (BST)
 * Thanks, let me know if you need a download mirror or anything. --KiserJ (talk) 03:51, 28 September 2014 (BST)

Just thought I would check in on this and see where we are at. Do you have an ETA or need anything else from me? --KiserJ (talk) 01:34, 1 October 2014 (BST)

New Global Sysop Right
Global sysops now have the ability to make and remove global blocks on IP addresses. This feature was enabled in an effort to combat the growing amount of spam that is being received on a daily basis. Questions and concerns may be made below. <font face="MV Boli"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 21:25, 29 September 2014 (BST)
 * The problem is that the IP-addresses used for spam are entirely different, I've made some rangeblocks on Meta (local), but it doesn't seems to help. Any ideas? Southparkfan (talk) 21:34, 29 September 2014 (BST)
 * Unless I'm mistaken, you can rangeblock globally as well - which should have an impact. <font face="MV Boli"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 21:46, 29 September 2014 (BST)
 * Though really should be avoided unless necessary. John (talk) 22:07, 29 September 2014 (BST)
 * Visiting Special:GlobalBlock only triggers permission errors here. Southparkfan (talk) 21:55, 30 September 2014 (BST)
 * The userright is enabled - I just double checked. Try logging out and clearing your cache. I'm able to go there no problem. <font face="MV Boli"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 22:06, 30 September 2014 (BST)