Miraheze Developers Wiki:Community portal/TemplateWiki archive
This page contains comments originally made on TemplateWiki prior to the merge. Subsequent comments should be made at Miraheze Developers Wiki:Community portal
The top category
The top level category of Template Wiki's category system is on the wiki's front page. You should be able to browse the whole site from there. Subcategories should assist with navigation of the wiki. Every wiki page should be in a category, and will often be appropriate in more than one. Every category should be a subcategory of at least one higher category. Rob Kam (talk) 07:50, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
Extension:CategoryTree
The wiki has the Category Tree extension enabled, seen here on the right. Rob Kam (talk) 07:51, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
Wanted templates
In case you'd like particular templates to be added to those already available, if you can't import them yourself please list them here. N.B. Currently (Feb 2018) Miraheze backend issues are preventing imports.
- {{Infobox Miraheze user}}
- {{Userboxtop}}
- {{Userboxbottom}}
- {{User Asia}}
- {{User Asian}}
- {{User Catholic}}
- {{User male}}
- {{User Teen}} --stranger195 (talk • contribs • guestbook) 12:07, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
- {{=)}}
- {{Current time}}
- {{Smiley}}
- {{User Earth}}
- {{User in Asia}}
- {{User time}}
- {{User time zone}} I want to build my profile here at Miraheze Developers Wiki.
--stranger195 (talk • contribs • guestbook) 12:15, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
- Done :-) except {{Infobox Wikipedia user}} is now {{Infobox Miraheze user}}. --Rob Kam (talk) 17:19, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
- {{Support}} (and related voting templates), might be useful on other wikis. Reception123 (talk) 18:38, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
- Then please import these. --Rob Kam (talk) 19:14, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
- Ok, mi pedido sería tener Plantilla:Resultados_electorales de Wikipedia en español (entre otras plantillas). ¿se puede? además, estaría bien que las plantillas se categorizen por ejemplo «Category:Templates from English Wikipedia» o simplemente «Category:Templates from English Wikipedia» Wiki1776 (talk) 19:22, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
- Rob Kam, he hecho dos propuestas de categorías. Espero comentarios, si tienes alguna propuesta puedes agregarlo en mi sandbox. Wiki1776 (talk) 22:18, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
- Those are fine but I'd categorise by function. Anyhow there can be more than one scheme. --Rob Kam (talk) 23:40, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
- Ah, bueno. Solo sería agregar también esas categorías, ver Proposal 3 Wiki1776 (talk) 01:33, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
- Those are fine but I'd categorise by function. Anyhow there can be more than one scheme. --Rob Kam (talk) 23:40, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
- {{Support}} (and related voting templates) are now included. --Rob Kam (talk) 23:40, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
- Could {{Infobox settlement}} and {{Infobox information appliance}} be added too? EzekielT (talk) 22:33, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
Extension:MobileFrontend instead of scary transclusion?
By the way mw:Extension:MobileFrontend has Testing with articles on a foreign wiki (live data):
"MobileFrontend can now be configured locally to render articles from other MediaWiki instances. This can help you debug problems locally instead of importing articles which may have dependencies on various templates and Wikibase identifiers from production to your local instance. This is not recommended for production usage.
The code below will turn your local MediaWiki mobile site into a Wikivoyage viewer:
$wgMFContentProviderClass = 'MobileFrontend\ContentProviders\MwApiContentProvider';
$wgMFMwApiContentProviderBaseUri = 'https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/w/api.php';
This is particularly useful for testing different mobile skins using the wgMFDefaultSkinClass config option."
I have noticed the "This is not recommended for production usage." and suspect this would be regarded as a security risk on Miraheze.
There's a demo on YouTube at How to pull content from remote wikis in your local MediaWiki instance.
--Rob Kam (talk) 11:02, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Interwiki transclusion needs fixing
Interwiki transclusion needs fixing, e.g. for infobox, while interwiki transcluded templates with local modules function properly, those without local modules don't. (See Maniphest T2697) Rob Kam (talk) 07:53, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
How do you use these templates?
I read Miraheze_Template_Wiki#How_to_use_this_wiki but I don't understand what I'm supposed to do with these templates.
If I use {{raw:templatewiki:merge from|Article title}}, I get 'Script error: No such module "Unsubst".'
Am I supposed to copy or import the templates from templatewiki into my wiki? Psephomancy (talk) 04:34, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
- You should export templates from Template wiki and then import these into your wiki. Interwiki transcluding would be better for keeping your templates up to date but unfortunately it is still broken. Rob Kam (talk) 07:13, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Rob Kam Ok, thanks. I see that Special:Import has a "Import from another wiki" option that includes templatewiki.
- I should use "Import to default locations" to keep them in the Template namespace?
- Which of these options should I check?
- Copy all history revisions for this page
- Include all templates (imports dependencies as well?)
- Assign edits to local users where the named user exists locally (aren't users already shared between my wiki and templatewiki?)
- Is there an advantage to exporting from https://template.miraheze.org/wiki/Template:Reflist vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Reflist? Psephomancy (talk) 19:52, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
- I use Upload XML data, I've not yet figured out what Import from another wiki is.
- Leaving Import to default locations checked seems to work fine.
- Because of attribution requirements I used to include all the history of every template but that way the XML file quickly becomes huge and unwieldy. I'd recommend leaving out the history and just put a footer on each page pointing to the history on the source wiki, e.g. at {{Bang}}.
- Yes, check Include all templates, templates transclude other templates, etc. also don't forget to check the MediaWiki:Common.css page for any styling used by the templates.
- Yes do assign edits to local users. Most of the templates are from Wikipedia so that doesn't really apply on Miraheze anyway.
- While Template wiki is under construction (currently stalled) there's little advantage using the templates here over those on Wikipedia. The templates here are meant to be more universal, but they aren't yet. Ideally Miraheze wikis wouldn't have templates referring the users to various Wikipedia/Mediawiki pages. See Customising templates, but that's maybe 2000 templates here that need refining. -- Rob Kam (talk) 22:29, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks. You should post that on the Stack Exchange question. Psephomancy (talk) 23:07, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
- Done, for the opportunity to describe Mediawiki templates as sabotaging the efforts of anyone who just wants to edit their own wiki -- Rob Kam (talk) 07:18, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks. You should post that on the Stack Exchange question. Psephomancy (talk) 23:07, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Interface Pages (Such as Mediawiki, Gadget etc.)
- The following discussion has been transferred on Stewards' Noticeboard Please do not change it.
There is a lot collection of Template. That's really great job. but there is no good collection of Interface Pages. (Gadget Also.) if you are busy, you can get me Administrative right, I'll try to improve it. Note: I'm with Miraheze for three years, And I like Miraheze's Voluntarily manner. And I inspired to help miraheze like they help me. Ahmsaqib (talk★contribs★email) 09:20, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- @MacFan4000: and other stewards, if okay with this?
Support to maybe get more done on/with the wiki -- Rob Kam (talk) 08:17, 22 September 2018 (UTC)- I’m okay with this. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 10:57, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
- @MacFan4000: Is there requirement any special permission to do this? Ahmsaqib (talk★contribs★email) 11:06, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
Request for Template
Respected!
We have seen, Request for templates are put on phabricator individually. As I think, If we start request system on this Wiki. it will be better.
N. Sorry for grammatical mistake. I'm not practical on English. Ahmsaqib (talk★contribs★email) 05:38, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
Avoiding categorization
Hello.
I have created two neccesary templates for my wiki. And they are working fine but I have a small problem. Everytime I add a template to an article, this article is authomatically categorized as an Infobox template. how can I avoid these and not adding incorrect categories to every article that uses them?
Thanks.
Juan Panfilo (talk) 01:18, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- Stuff for the template itself goes between <includeonly> and </includeonly> anything else goes between the <noinclude> and </noinclude> such as [[Category:Infobox templates]] should to fix this. --Rob Kam (talk) 22:21, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
I just imported a Navbox template to a wiki I launched, and apparently, my one doesn't have a collapse option. I tried importing one from another wiki, to no avail. Is there an easy way to make my wiki's Navbox collapsible? Cheers. - ManiacACS (talk) 17:45, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
- You also need to copy the parts needed from MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css --Rob Kam (talk) 22:32, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
Language template help
My wiki project has another template problem. I'm trying to integrate a language template to the wiki, and all I get is "Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 15: attempt to call field 'length' (a nil value).". Several other templates on the wiki apparently have that same unresolvable problem. Is there a way to fix Lua errors? Thanks. ManiacACS (talk) 10:23, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
- This isn't the place to ask about problems with imported templates on other wikis. Try asking at the Miraheze Community noticeboard. --Rob Kam (talk) 12:16, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Withdrawal of permits
Hello, I request that these permissions be removed from my user account: autopatrolled, confirmed, rollbacker. Greetings. Hispano76 (talk) 22:49, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Title blacklist
I was trying to move Template:Wikipedia-adnavbox to Template:Miraheze ads/navbox to (a) remove inappropriate Wikipedia-isms and (b) make it a subpage, since the identical change happened on Wikipedia a while ago, and was stopped by the title blacklist. Could an admin (a) make that move for me, and (b) consider blanking or deleting MediaWiki:Titleblacklist, since it seems to consist primarily of English-Wikipedia-specific content. Pppery (talk) 22:09, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
- Done and much thanks for all the work you're putting in here. Ps. You might want to consider using AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) or Javascript Wiki Browser (JWB). --Rob Kam (talk) 09:12, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
- I don't generally like using automated tools for edits I make. Pppery (talk) 13:25, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
- I use them sometimes but have also discovered how much havoc they can cause. --Rob Kam (talk) 12:50, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
- Also, automated tools, even if they worked, wouldn't help much, since they would only fix the simple Wikipedia-isms while leaving the more complicated ones alone. Pppery (talk) 03:28, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
- I don't generally like using automated tools for edits I make. Pppery (talk) 13:25, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Request for Sysop and Bureaucrat rights (Universal Omega)
User: Universal Omega (contributions • CA • blocks log • rights log • global rights log)
Group: Sysop and Bureaucrat
Reason: Hello. I would like to request the Sysop and Bureaucrat rights here. I will be active sometimes here on templatewiki, de-wikipedifying templates, deleting duplicate or useless templates that's never used, amongst other things. Thank you. Universal Omega (talk) 13:30, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
Done MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 13:49, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
Request for new translationadmin group and user rights changes to the rollbacker group
We have quite a few active translators, some of whom are also translation administrators, on Meta, and I expect many are eager to extend their translation work to Miraheze Template Wiki and Miraheze Commons—whether it be to essential templates or the documentation pages on each of those wikis. So, I'm wondering if any bureaucrat could create a translationadmin group consistent with the following user rights that MacFan4000 set up on Miraheze Commons following my request on IRC?
- Change page language
(pagelang) - Change workflow state of message groups
(translate-groupreview) - Delete pages
(delete) - Edit using the translate interface
(translate) - Import offline translations
(translate-import) - Manage message groups
(translate-manage) - Mark versions of pages for translation
(pagetranslation) - Review translations
(translate-messagereview)
The delete user right is somewhat unique for this user group, but the use case here is that it could be useful for translation administrators, which I recommend continuing to be able to be added by administrators to trusted users upon request, to better manage the translated subpages (i.e., deleting poor or long unmaintained translations, for example).
Similarly, for rollbacker, if we could also add the following user right, which would be useful for reverting blatant page move vandalism or good-faith but ill-conceived or undiscussed page moves?
- Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
(suppressredirect)
Thanks,
Dmehus (talk) 23:06, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
- Done MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 00:16, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
Request for autopatrolled, interface-admin, rollbacker, and translationadmin
Assuming the translationadmin user group is added by any bureaucrat, I am a local administrator on Meta, a consul on Public Test Wiki, and a global interwiki administrator, which generally command most of time and volunteerism. Nevertheless, during lulls in activity on those wikis and helping users on Discord, I like to WikiGnome on our smaller, sister wikis, which, of course, include Miraheze Commons and Miraheze Template Wiki (namely fixing or otherwise resolving broken redirects, double redirects, orphaned talk pages, as applicable). As well, as I do monitor the individual IRC wiki RC feeds, I revert blatant vandalism. Near term, I would also like to assist in setting up certain gadgets and interface messages locally on Miraheze Template Wiki. So, I'm wondering if any bureaucrat and administrator, as applicable, could add the following flags to my Template Wiki user account:
Thanks,
Dmehus (talk) 23:59, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
- Done MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 00:16, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
Request for autopatrolled and translationadmin for Raltseye
In this log action on Meta, I have granted translation administrator to Raltseye, one of Meta's most active and experienced translators, following his requesting the user group. He is also eager to assist with both translations and translation page administrator on Miraheze Template Wiki and Miraheze Commons. As well, he has had a Miraheze account since around 2018 and is also autopatrolled on Meta. As such, he has additionally requested translationadmin on both of those wikis, to which I am also requesting autopatrolled for him. I will update him (likely on Meta) on the relatively minor/nuanced differences between autopatrolled and translationadmin on Meta versus Miraheze Template Wiki and Miraheze Commons. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 02:32, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- Done MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 02:45, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
Request for autopatrolled for R4356th
Similar to my request for Raltseye above, in this log action on Meta, I granted him autopatrolled, mainly as he helps out with translations and answering questions on community noticeboard and on Discord. Autopatrolled users on Meta don't have the patrol user right, whereas on Miraheze Template Wiki they do, but he is also the co-founder of Snap! Wiki and is an experienced programmer. Thus, I have no doubt this user group will be helpful for him donating his time developing and improving templates. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 06:12, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
- Done Reception123 (talk) 15:53, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
Requesting bureaucrat and administrator on Miraheze Template Wiki
I thought I would be able to make do with autopatrolled and translationadmin in terms of my RecentChanges and NewPages patrolling, but, unfortunately, I would need to request many more user rights be added to either user group, so I'm requesting bureaucrat and administrator on Miraheze Template Wiki. I am active on Miraheze Template Wiki, mainly relating to patrolling, counter-vandalism reversion, WikiGnoming, and documentation page creation and editing in project namespace. In addition, I'm an administrator on Meta Wiki and a bureaucrat and an administrator on Miraheze Template Wiki's companion wiki, Miraheze Developers Wiki. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 02:57, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
Moving Template:Thomas.H1/sandbox/doc to User:Thomas.H1/sandbox/doc
Hi,
I have trying to move this page into this page as the user was probally want to create a doc for this sandbox. But, for not know reason, I can't not doing it because Title blacklist is restrict me. Can a sysop take care about this ? Thanks HeartsDo (talk) 19:20, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
(PS: I am now autoconfirmed on this wiki, it would be good if you can remove me confirmed group on my account, thanks! :) )
- The page was moved by MacFan4000, and I've removed confirmed from your account. Pppery (talk) 00:59, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Wordmark
I propose that we use the following as our new wordmark. What does people think?
MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 22:44, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
- The official name of the wiki is Miraheze Template Wiki, which is a bit long. Do we need a wordmark? For this wiki, I was thinking we could just have the space in New Vector allocated for the wordmark be whitespace. Dmehus (talk) 22:47, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Expand scope
This may be a bit much (and I believe approval of this should not require anyone to actually start doing, just have the opportunity), but I believe in addition to this semi-official method of distributing templates, there should be scope for quasi-official guides to template setup and operation not bound to particular templates offered on this wiki. These can be approved in essay form as 'the right way' is discretionary, but allows there to be a good vehicle for observations like, 'you need to know what you're doing to just import wikipedia templates' and suggesting a consistent scheme of organization for people building them up with categories and documentation. If this is already possible, then I'd ask for this to be officially reflected in the scope of the main page, particularly the 'how to use this wiki' section and allowing for a category structure/reference page that can distribute these written works and be offered to newer users seeking to learn more. Just an idea. --Raidarr (talk) 11:23, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
- Agreed that these should be within scope. That said,
you need to know what you're doing to just import wikipedia templates
is definitely true; in fact the majority of this wiki consists of one person blindly importing lots of templates from Wikipedia and creating a mess that I've been slowly cleaning up. Pppery (talk) 01:06, 5 November 2021 (UTC) - I concur with Pppery as well that template creation help guides are already in scope of Miraheze Template Wiki. Pppery's done good work with cleaning up the mass import of Wikipedia-specific templates, whether by de-Wikipedia-ifying them or deleting them where they're just too Wikipedia-specific (say templates related to the Wikipedia Teahouse or something like that). So any template creation help guides should include some sort of essay or other explanation that notes that point. Dmehus (talk) 16:22, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- That is, on the rare occasions I feel motivated enough to do something. I've been inactive for the last few months because I've become convinced that cleaning up this wiki to the point that it's something other than a low-quality Wikipedia mirror is far beyond my abilities working alone. Pppery (talk) 22:24, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Requesting bureaucrat and administrator as well
I believe I can be of great help here de-Wikipedia-fying templates, as well as importing templates that could help in wikis' maintenance and in the wikis I edit in, such as the {{Non-free ...}} templates and political election-related ones... MLastCelebration (talk) 04:11, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
- MLastCelebration, thank you for the request. Looking through your contributions here, though I see some effort being made in this area, note that de-Wikipedia-ifying templates doesn't just mean removing the word "Wikipedia" from templates. It means converting wikilinks to interwiki wikilinks, so they're not broken, removing complexity from templates and modules, and going through our templates and modules to remove templates that serve no likely purpose on Miraheze. Given that, I'm inclined to mark this as
not done, but would be willing to grant you autopatrolledpermissions indefinitely and temporaryimporterpermissions, if you can outline/articulate a clearer purpose on what you intend to do. Dmehus (talk) 03:18, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
"Starter pack"
I'd suggest this be added, per mh:meta:Community Wishlist for 2022/"Templates" for newly created wikis. Anpang (talk) 03:04, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
- Anpang I believe this is a great idea. What would you suggest would be the best way to approach this? I would suggest creating a page like New wiki template starter pack, then provide brief listings with annotations for each template included therein. You would also want to add, say, Category:New wiki starter templates, or something like that to any templates included within the "starter pack." We probably have most of the suggested templates already, but if you require importer rights, let me know, and I'll add the flag. Dmehus (talk) 03:10, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
How do
Whenever I imported one of this wiki's templates into my personal wiki, it sent me to a create page. How do I get the template to work? What should I put in the page to create it? The Triple Trouble Collective (talk) 18:13, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Request for permission: Request for Sysop and Bureaucrat rights (小美粉粉)
User: 小美粉粉 (contributions • CA • blocks log • rights log)
Group: Sysop and Bureaucrat
Reason: Hello. I would like to request the Sysop and Bureaucrat rights here. I will be active sometimes here on Miraheze Template Wiki, remove vandal pages, patrol edits, change useful system messages, Creating gadgets, etc. Of course, I will adding some useful templates here and I want to help developing Miraheze Developers Wiki. Thank you. 小美粉粉 (talk) 03:55, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Request for Comments: Changes to Template Wiki
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
- Proposal 1 Successful The community agrees that Template Wiki should be reset.
- Proposal 2 Successful Template Wiki is to be merged with Miraheze Developers Wiki. Part of this proposal is however mute by the fact proposal 1 is successful and Template Wiki is to be reset. No content from Miraheze Developers Wiki will need to be moved here. This wiki will simply be renamed to templatewikiarchive, where it will remain so until determined otherwise by the community. The current subdomain for this wiki will redirect to Miraheze Developers Wiki, where the rest of this RfC will now apply to. All policies from Template Wiki may now apply to Miraheze Developers Wiki. The scope of Miraheze Developers Wiki will now include templates as well as CSS/JS. Templates from the archived Template Wiki may be imported to Miraheze Developers Wiki, but any templates imported that make it more difficult for users attempting to use them (I.E. direct copy and paste from Wikipedia) may be deleted at the discretion of the administrators of Miraheze Developers Wiki.
- Proposal 3 Successful With proposal 2 successful, this proposal now applies to Miraheze Developers Wiki. All current bureaucrats and administrators will be given their respective groups on Miraheze Developers Wiki, where they will then be required to initiate a confirmation vote within 1 month. If a confirmation vote is not initiated within that time, rights may be revoked, however, they may always be requested again at a later time through the normal community venues on Miraheze Developers Wiki.
- Proposal 3.1 Successful With proposal 2 successful, this proposal now applies to Miraheze Developers Wiki. All administrators and bureaucrats who have not made any edits or log actions on Miraheze Developers wiki for more than 1 year may have their rights revoked.
- Proposal 1
Universal Omega (talk) 18:04, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
This wiki is one of the most commonly referred to resources by our new users yet can be a confusing maze of incomplete documentation, Wikipedia templates that have little to no modification for Miraheze purposes (and are now very outdated), and other. For quite a while now, I've discussed this wiki with other users who agree that it's not the best it could be. I know some users have tried to clean up and de-Wikipedify some templates which is extremely helpful and appreciated but there is much to do on this wiki and lots to clean up. For this reason, I am proposing changes to the structure of Template Wiki in hopes that we'll be able to get this wiki into a better state. If this RfC is passed, after Proposal 1 is done, on the new wiki, we'll work to develop new content policies on what sort of templates are allowed, what should be done to a template if imported from Wikipedia (i.e. impose a requirement that documentation and such must be de-Wikipedified), or other policies as the community sees fit in order to prevent a repeat of this current situation. Agent Isai (talk) 05:49, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Proposal 1 (Resetting Template Wiki)
Miraheze Template Wiki will be reset and recreated. This wiki, as we know it, will be moved to templatewikiarchive.miraheze.org, to allow for migration of certain salvageable pages, for an indefinite amount of time until the community believes best after which it may be deleted. During that period, the old wiki will be locked to prevent editing.
Main, project, and user pages (including their talk page companions) will be moved over to this new wiki. Templates will be analyzed one by one to see what benefit there is to moving these overs. If an administrator believes there is merit on moving a template to the new wiki (i.e. templates that have been significantly de-Wikipedified, which have good documentation for new users, among other reasons, according to an administrators' best judgement), they may move it over.
Templates which are just standard copy-and-paste imports from Wikipedia with no significant modifications will not be imported from this wiki and can instead be re-imported on the new wiki directly from Wikipedia after which they may be de-Wikipedified.
Explanation: I have discussed the topic of Template Wiki for months now with various community members and we've all come to the conclusion that Template Wiki needs to be reorganized from the bottom up. Many templates on here are simply copy and pastes of Wikipedia templates and are horribly out of date or a maze to navigate. This RfC was actually prompted after a user on the Miraheze Discord server requested help and asked why Template Wiki's version of a template did not match the one they saw on a Wikimedia project. It was discovered that the template was horribly out of date and was probably only harming users rather than helping them. For this reason, I believe a full reset is needed. Once a reset is done, we can better focus on how to move the project forward and on developing better guides and more helpful template documentation pages rather than just importing Wikipedia templates directly without any modifying. Should this RfC pass, as stated in the foreword of this RfC, we will try to work together as a community to develop standards of how and when to import templates, what sort of templates should be on this wiki, etc. Agent Isai (talk) 05:49, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Support (1)
- Support As proposer and per the explanation. This wiki needs to be reorganized badly. Agent Isai (talk) 05:49, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Support Per the explanation above. I think we need a rethink of template wiki to make it less messy and more useful to users. Reception123 (talk) 05:59, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Support Wiki admins need to have templates that are easy/transparent to implement and maintain, this current wiki doesn't make that happen. Rob Kam (talk) 09:11, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Support I tried to clean this wiki up a few years ago, and deleted over a thousand useless imported pages before largely giving up. This wiki is inherently a ghost town filled with Ahimsaqib's cruft dump in 2018. Also, here's an unsolicited bit of advice for future users, do not tick the "Include all templates" box when importing; it almost never does what you want and careless use of it is one of the major causes of the problem here. Pppery (talk) 03:41, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
Neutral (1)
Oppose (1)
Comments (1)
Proposal 2 (Merge and expand scope)
This wiki is merged with Miraheze Dev Wiki and will assume that wiki's name, subdomain, and branding. This new unified wiki will still focus on templates but will also now focus too on user scripts, CSS, and JS, as Dev Wiki does.
Content from Dev Wiki will be moved to Template Wiki. The old template.miraheze.org subdomain will redirect to the new wiki and so will old interwiki prefixes.
Explanation: Dev Wiki and Template Wiki are closely related in scope. It has been discussed time and time again to merge these two wikis to expand both of these wiki's scope to be more helpful to users. Templates deal heavily with CSS and JS sometimes and DevWiki's focus is just that. With this new branding and scope, this wiki will expand its reach in order to assist users better and reduce the overlap between these two wikis. Merging these two wikis also helps reduce the moderation burden on our users and could help ensure better moderation as there'd be one less wiki to patrol. Agent Isai (talk) 05:49, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Support (2)
- Support As proposer, per explanation. Agent Isai (talk) 05:49, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Support Two wikis is arguably too much for such a related purpose. Merging them will make them easier to moderate and maybe even boost activity. Reception123 (talk) 06:00, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Support Rob Kam (talk) 09:11, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Neutral (2)
Oppose (2)
Comments (2)
Proposal 3 (Bureaucrat and administrators confirmation)
If Proposal 1 passes, all administrators and bureaucrats will be subject to a confirmation vote on the new wiki.
Explanation: We have a lot of inactive wiki bureaucrats and sysops so we want to check if they're still interested in their hat by holding a confirmation vote. Agent Isai (talk) 05:49, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Support (3)
- Support As proposer, per explanation. Agent Isai (talk) 05:49, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Support Makes sense, with the reset we should also reset admins and bureaucrats and make sure they're still interested and available. Reception123 (talk) 06:00, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Support Rob Kam (talk) 09:11, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Support (although I do plan to run for confirmation) Pppery (talk) 03:41, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
Neutral (3)
Oppose (3)
Comments (3)
Proposal 3.1 (Inactivity)
The following is added to both Bureaucrat and Administrator policy pages:
- If a user does not make any log actions or edits on Template Wiki for one (1) year, they may be demoted.
Explanation: We don't want to continue to collect inactive wiki bureaucrats and sysops so this will allow for their removal if away for an extended period of time. Agent Isai (talk) 05:49, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Support (3.1)
- Support As proposer. Agent Isai (talk) 05:49, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Support One year is a reasonable time for at least a few edits. Reception123 (talk) 06:01, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Support Rob Kam (talk) 09:11, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Support Speaking as someone who has been largely inactive here for months, I probably should have lost my rights due to inactivity. That said, hopefully the reset of the wiki will inspire me to contribute more. Pppery (talk) 03:41, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
Neutral (3.1)
Oppose (3.1)
Comments (3.1)
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