You should be able to hide it from the sidebar but you can't block access to them completely.

All Special pages

Do you mean all Special pages or specific ones?

Unfortunately, there aren't any backups for private wikis from April 2020. I'm sorry :(

Thanks! :)

I will do this for you shortly.

All done now.

In T6888#135814, @Universal_Omega wrote:

In T6888#135813, @Dmehus wrote:

@Universal_Omega Thanks. Can you link to the Phabricator ticket in the format of [[phab:T6888|Requested]]?

Yep, did that.

In T6888#135813, @Dmehus wrote:

@Universal_Omega Thanks. Can you link to the Phabricator ticket in the format of [[phab:T6888|Requested]]?

@Universal_Omega Thanks. Can you link to the Phabricator ticket in the format of [[phab:T6888|Requested]]?

I can do this now.

Added @Blacksheep per this import request

@MarioMario456 We had a swath of import and page deletion requests recently, the backlog for each has largely been cleared. Reception123 should be to process this during his tomorrow morning (tonight North American time).

Needs a discussion with SPF.

So this can be resolved upstream.

Created upstream task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275416

I'm still working on a fix to ManageWiki, which if needed can be a new task, but deleting just https://snapwiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Newsletter:Wiki_Notices should resolve this task in the meantime. Thanks!

Whoops. Was talking about that elsewhere and accidentally added it.

Declined per T784#12341. It requires a service we don't have and unable to install currently. I apologise for the inconvenience.

Also, as far as I know, the extension's main job is to help transfer content available on one wiki to another through translation so it may not be suitable for your use.

Hi, the ContentTranslation extension is used on Wikimedia wikis so it would not need a security review but could you please consider using the Translate extension, which we already offer? Thank you.

Already available from Special:ManageWiki/settings

Import in progress.

whoops

I am really sorry for the confusion, I misread your initial post and didn't realise it was regarding an XML dump.

I had a quick look and unless I'm blind it's not quite as simple as I thought but I'm looking into it.

In T6871#135654, @Squareblob wrote:

This would be fine, thank you

I can look into filing a change of url notification to google but if I recall correctly I might have to ask @Southparkfan for help with that.

Technically the location of the file means little and moving it to be in MirahezeMagic would seem out of scope - as it's a root-level file. Keeping it within puppet seems easiest as theres no gain from moving it to mw-config.

This would be fine, thank you

Thanks. Hopefully that should take care of those useless user blogs.

In T6881#135642, @Universal_Omega wrote:

Won't be to hard to do this if we want to: https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/blob/44747b0002359f29c336cd3dab6b9f5d7d1c4947/w/robots.php

• would need to change this: https://github.com/miraheze/puppet/blob/4e68cce031a164027d28b44029ecba9958c04ab2/modules/mediawiki/files/robots.php
• Would need to make robots.php part of /srv/mediawiki/w/, not just /srv/mediawiki/
  • https://github.com/miraheze/puppet/blob/4e68cce031a164027d28b44029ecba9958c04ab2/modules/mediawiki/manifests/init.pp#L75-L79
  • https://github.com/miraheze/puppet/blob/a9e81fb54ef69dbf43e2852054d9eff260fd118b/modules/mediawiki/templates/mediawiki.conf.erb#L119-L121
  • https://github.com/miraheze/puppet/blob/a9e81fb54ef69dbf43e2852054d9eff260fd118b/modules/mediawiki/templates/mediawiki.conf.erb#L280-L282

Alternatively, we could make robots.php part of MirahezeMagic, or even /srv/mediawiki/config with some work, I think.

@Squareblob Subdomains on the miraheze.org are normally not retained, as that prevents that wiki database name from being reused. Would you be okay if we retained the redirect for 3-6 months, to ensure all of the search engine results got updated to the subdomain? I know we've done that in the past, and it's worked out well.

In T6882#135645, @DarkMatterMan4500 wrote:

No problem, and that's okay. I just wanted to see if you got what I was saying.

No problem, and that's okay. I just wanted to see if you got what I was saying.

@DarkMatterMan4500 Thanks. That's not the full list, though, I'll show you how I mean this time.

Won't be to hard to do this if we want to: https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/blob/44747b0002359f29c336cd3dab6b9f5d7d1c4947/w/robots.php

• would need to change this: https://github.com/miraheze/puppet/blob/4e68cce031a164027d28b44029ecba9958c04ab2/modules/mediawiki/files/robots.php
• Would need to make robots.php part of /srv/mediawiki/w/, not just /srv/mediawiki/
  • https://github.com/miraheze/puppet/blob/4e68cce031a164027d28b44029ecba9958c04ab2/modules/mediawiki/manifests/init.pp#L75-L79
  • https://github.com/miraheze/puppet/blob/a9e81fb54ef69dbf43e2852054d9eff260fd118b/modules/mediawiki/templates/mediawiki.conf.erb#L119-L121
  • https://github.com/miraheze/puppet/blob/a9e81fb54ef69dbf43e2852054d9eff260fd118b/modules/mediawiki/templates/mediawiki.conf.erb#L280-L282

@Dmehus Got it. I'll do it right away.

@DarkMatterMan4500 It would be very helpful if you could format the blog post page names under the "page title matches" section of that search into a text file, as it saves work for busy system administrators and will help to your batch deletion request is processed more quickly. Just format as a text file and upload to the task, or create a Paste, titling the paste as something like, "List of blog posts on crappygameswiki to be deleted in Task T6882" or something.

Possibly would be normal priority, but will triage as low based on triaging of similar requests