[01:27:36] Universal_Omega: hey, look, I finally turned on cosmos on my wiki :) https://pokemundo.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Charizard&useskin=cosmos what do you think? [01:27:38] [ Charizard - PokéMundo ] - pokemundo.miraheze.org [01:27:45] i don't know if you're on offtopic [01:28:32] @Lake: Oh nice, and I am on offtopic. [01:28:56] oh right, it's because I was randomly banned from freenode yesterday [01:29:19] it says my IP had an "open proxy" [01:29:51] @Lake: probably because of significant ongoing freenode spam, you may need to register your nick if you didn't. [01:30:15] yeah, I did. I sent a request for review today, but I'm still waiting the response [01:35:18] @Lake, is Lake also your IRC nick? [01:35:32] Lakelimbo [01:58:23] anyway, now I just need to find a way to mass upload all my images to the wiki [02:13:28] @Lake if you have them, you can compress them and send them via email to us and we can upload them with maintenance script. [02:20:22] Universal_Omega: oh ok. But would be possible to make that minor adjustment in the file description template for each image? [02:21:17] @Lake: don't know. Don't think so though. [02:21:45] 🤔 [02:22:44] well, if someone can find a way where I can do that, just ping me :D [02:44:05] Yes, I accepted it (obviously to spare us some time for the maintenance script bots to be activated). [10:08:49] Hello husch! If you have any questions, feel free to ask and someone should answer soon. [18:39:33] @Reception123 https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T6891 [18:39:34] [ ⚓ T6891 More Wikia junk to get deleted ] - phabricator.miraheze.org [18:40:16] MarioMario456: small suggestion, perhaps you should get a full list and just make 1 big task? [18:40:46] It contans leftovers on the big reception wikis [18:40:53] Download and open the archive [18:42:12] MarioMario456: hi. I've seen the approval and I'll get to it soon [18:42:23] Zppix: well there is a list of each wiki and each page to be deleted contained inside the dump [18:42:53] The leftovers include: Message Walls (Flow talk pages on Wikia), user blogs (and comments), Wikia comments, and threads (Message Wall posts), [18:43:04] Ah, i was making an assumption based on the title, i shouldnt have [18:45:17] I still prefer to call it Wikia (because the name FANDOM is stupid) [18:45:47] MarioMari456, yeah, I agree. Or Fandumb. Wikia or Fandumb. [18:46:35] * dmehus remembers Wikia's short-lived spinoff wiki farm, OpenServing.com [19:04:47] Hi dmehus I have a paid wroiter for my wiki and a promise of an unpaid writer) [19:08:15] Uh [19:08:31] Do we allow paid writers on mh? [19:08:52] Let me check global policy [19:09:33] Zppix: they write my lore for me, I ran out of voleteers [19:10:10] It seems to be against the Content Policy: "The primary purpose of your wiki cannot be for commercial activity." [19:11:00] dmehus: do you know? [19:14:00] Paid writers are fine, after all we host corporate wikis - which essentially are people paid to write [19:14:34] I do not make monety out of them writing,I loose money in fact as I pay them to write lore [19:14:51] Great, wasnt sure, and i didnt want BurningPrincess2 to get in trouble. Thanks JohnLewis [19:43:32] > It seems to be against the Content Policy: "The primary purpose of your wiki cannot be for commercial activity." @Miraheze-IRC MarioMario456, it's not Wikipedia, and Miraheze does run a bit different than what you might be familiar with. [19:50:18] * hispano76 saluda [19:50:35] Yeah, interesting question, BurningPrincess1. Paid writers are fine for the reason JohnLewis mentions. Essentially, we just don't want wikis hawking commercial products or services with little "buy it now" buttons. Sponsored ads on a wiki would also generally not be okay. Fundraising banners and Patreon links would generally be fine, provided the donation pleas aren't actually selling a good or service [19:51:26] Do you ever have to delawith wikis like that: [19:52:08] Basically, you can't earn a profit off your wiki. Paying writers is an expense, not earnings [19:52:37] * BurningPrincess1 nods [19:52:52] BurningPrincess1, to my knowledge, no, but there may have been a wiki or two deleted per that criterion before I arrived. JohnLewis or Reception123 might know definitively [19:54:18] I think ads would be ok only if: 1. they would go solely for wiki maintenance (like domains). 2: if part of the revenue would go to miraheze [19:54:44] but I don't know if a system like that would be viable, and I don't think it's needed (for now), so eh [19:56:55] To my knowledge no, there's been no wikis on that topic that were deleted [19:57:09] but either way, if there were it wouldn't be an instant deletion, there would obviously be a conversation with the wiki before [19:57:34] hola Reception123 cuánto tiempo :) [19:57:47] hispano76: hola :) [19:58:15] reception: yeah, but I mean only in a hypothetical sense. [19:58:42] but i sometimes I still don't believe Miraheze exists without ads, it's too good to be real [19:59:39] heh yes, I'm sure some users must be doubtful when they see :) [20:02:24] @Lake, yeah, ads would have to be looked in terms of how blatant it was and the type of ads. As Reception123 said, we'd have a conversation with the wiki first in order to understand what the ad revenue is funding [20:02:29] * hispano76 loves Miraheze [20:02:38] hi hispano76 :) [20:03:33] hola [20:04:23] ;If I had ads, they would be used to fund writers [21:05:26] dmehus: would ads be allowed to fund writers/ [21:06:20] BurningPrincess1: while I know the question wasn't directed at me, ads are against the content policy [21:06:48] Meh, I dislike ads anyway [21:07:14] I bloody *hate* video ads [21:14:12] BurningPrincess1, I would say that would be strongly discouraged per the above, but it would really depend on the type and manner of ads and how used. Something like Google/DoubleClick ads, I would so, no definitely not; however, if it were like a logo for an organization that funded a specific fictional novel or series of pages, like a sponsorship rather than a pay-per-view or pay-per-click, it may be okay (like the PBS documentary funding model [21:14:12] whereby organizations sponsor certain programming without actually paying for ads) [21:15:45] What is the views on ads used to fund writers (vi Kofi/GoFundme) to get content fot rthe wiki (a still image ad under the sidebar) [21:16:23] Like, ther would be an ad, and clicking it sends one to a KoFi saying "Donations to this Kofi are used to fundwriters to write content" [21:41:17] BurningPrincess1, that's a bit iffy, I would probably say no / avoid that because you're actively soliciting for clicks in order to be paid. It's one thing if someone or a company sponsors all or part of your wiki in advance, but if it follows the traditional affiliate marketing/pay per view/click model, then I would say no [21:42:01] I don't thinlkI willget a sponsor sadly [21:42:31] Luckly, I have enough money to fun £100 a month writing spending + £3 server copsts formy selfhostefd wiki [22:06:28] BurningPrincess1, cool :) [23:40:58] dmehus: are donations allowed, though? I was wondering if anyone does that on MH [23:52:58] @Lake, I would say donations are allowed, though of course I would welcome wikis sharing their donations with Miraheze. For example, `minecraftathomewiki` solicits donations through its Patreon account, even though Miraheze provides their wiki for free; however, maybe they have an actual Minecraft server they pay for? 🤔