[08:45:33] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign, replying to crystalite13> [1/3] Oops. Forgot to respond to you. Feel free to do it yourself. I'll make a second pass later.
[08:45:33] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign, replying to crystalite13> [2/3] Wiki highlights may not get any content and as such we can probably drop it in light of a huge SecurePoll column. 
[08:45:33] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign, replying to crystalite13> [3/3] Tech tips can probably be done in less than half an hour since it is a low-effort column.
[12:08:32] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> I was wondering about cobbling together a wiki highlights which digs up some of the oldest wikis on miraheze and going ayy these are still going
[12:08:45] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> but that can be a future month especially if there's plenty to go with this time
[12:10:04] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign, replying to raidarr> [1/2] We did it in the [November issue](https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze_Monthly/November_2025) featuring ATT, GT New Horizons, and a Chinese mobile game wiki from 2015, 2017, and 2017.
[12:10:04] <MirahezeRelay>	 <posix_memalign, replying to raidarr> [2/2] There are probably more interesting wikis that I'm not aware of though.
[12:10:22] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> damn, I thought I knew that from somewhere
[12:10:48] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> I think there's still a range of 2015-2016 but yeah that should be sparse
[12:11:01] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> maybe it can be an idea routinely considered in or around november
[12:41:50] <MirahezeRelay>	 <kelvinlee0614> [1/4] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1225560610628964423/1499027934915203093/image.jpeg?ex=69f34e0e&is=69f1fc8e&hm=931e0a118fbf87155e027db1bd4762cd2ff4a6fe8ed1342c3caaef1dcfba5176&
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[15:34:41] <MirahezeRelay>	 <justanotherdarkmodeuser, replying to crystalite13> [1/2] is it this? https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Log?logid=1747055
[15:34:41] <MirahezeRelay>	 <justanotherdarkmodeuser, replying to crystalite13> [2/2] i honestly kind of feel bad for the guy who serviced the request, it sounds similar to people complaining to customer support
[15:35:41] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13, replying to justanotherdarkmodeuser> Yeah but like
[15:35:45] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13> So rude
[15:36:01] <MirahezeRelay>	 <justanotherdarkmodeuser> obvious it is rude, it's an online platform, what do you expect
[15:36:18] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13> I wish we could all spread love!
[15:38:53] <MirahezeRelay>	 <justanotherdarkmodeuser, replying to justanotherdarkmodeuser> not gonna lie - i'm glad raidarr took some action because if this is kept unchecked volunteers would leave because of harassment pretty much
[15:42:33] <MirahezeRelay>	 <justanotherdarkmodeuser> though raidarr told me it wasn't professional and doesn't contribute to make an better image of miraheze
[16:18:06] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13, replying to raidarr> you know....you could do that....considering you created miraheze monthly cough cough
[16:19:13] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr, replying to justanotherdarkmodeuser> this was from a guy who hated fake names and used a real first name which I tracked to the full name and found even more loony
[16:19:34] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> if anything I've met a lot of pseudonymous people who behave fine and just want to be left alone and often times you have people perfectly willing to besmirch their ostensibly good name right in the open
[16:19:55] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> in fact I tend to think I range loonier in person than under pseudonym
[16:20:43] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr, replying to crystalite13> it has developed in such a way I'd rather not just waltz in and do whatever considering I'm  detached from the day to day
[16:20:54] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> if anything it would probably be most useful for me to get into better promotion
[16:21:01] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13> i suppose
[16:21:05] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> but that's stalling a little because its connected to the broader communication question
[16:21:34] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> which I'm not overly energetic about in the way the problem is arrayed despite it being a major thing needing doing
[19:06:47] <MirahezeRelay>	 <tovojb> [1/4] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1225560610628964423/1499124810578530375/PXL_20260418_041553_486.jpg?ex=69f3a847&is=69f256c7&hm=2232591970f3353f4ba703184c6efe0e147dbdbadae296045e85d2376a82be7f&
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[19:07:44] <MirahezeRelay>	 <janebuzjane> @Discord Moderators
[21:32:31] <Crystalite13>	 anyone have any ideas for tech tips on miraheze monthly?
[21:32:56] <Crystalite13>	 trying to figure out what robot.txt and no follow is might as well be impossible
[22:06:01] <MirahezeRelay>	 <raidarr> how about some surface level reminders that people may nonetheless not know much about like how to set up group names with interface messages
[22:52:03] <MirahezeRelay>	 <thewwrnerdguy, replying to Crystalite13> @crystalite13 robots.txt is a document made for search engines that tells them what links they should be following or not
[22:52:31] <MirahezeRelay>	 <thewwrnerdguy> so basically we made it so google no longer tries to go to special pages
[22:53:07] <MirahezeRelay>	 <thewwrnerdguy> whereas before they'd constantly be hitting special:recentchanges which cannot be cached so is unreasonably expensive for miraheze servers
[22:54:58] <MirahezeRelay>	 <kockaadmiralac> It's less about "should not" and more about "must not"
[22:56:16] <MirahezeRelay>	 <kockaadmiralac> Well behaved automated programs request robots.txt before sending requests to your domain to figure out whether they are allowed to index the page
[22:57:01] <MirahezeRelay>	 <thewwrnerdguy, replying to kockaadmiralac> if it's not enforced then it's a "should not" in my eyes
[22:57:18] <MirahezeRelay>	 <thewwrnerdguy> cloudflare blocking is the closest thing we have to enforcement
[22:58:02] <MirahezeRelay>	 <kockaadmiralac> Firewall is closer to "cannot" but I guess
[22:58:23] <MirahezeRelay>	 <kockaadmiralac> Google might still index your page even if it's disallowed (without sending requests to it, so it can't generate a page snippet), but that's not particularly frequent
[23:26:14] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13, replying to thewwrnerdguy> @grok write my monthly
[23:30:03] <MirahezeRelay>	 <thewwrnerdguy, replying to crystalite13> nope you're going to have to use your own brain and not destroy the environment, sorry
[23:30:16] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13, replying to thewwrnerdguy> noooooo
[23:30:31] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13> my brain is too smooth for this tech stuff vro
[23:45:20] <MirahezeRelay>	 <emiliers> [1/2] You don't have to make it complicated. Can't it just be: 
[23:45:20] <MirahezeRelay>	 <emiliers> [2/2] > [Robots.txt](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt>) has been updated so that Special:RecentChanges is no longer indexed, which will help with server load
[23:49:07] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13, replying to emiliers> https://tenor.com/view/he-made-a-statement-so-true-even-his-gang-praised-him-gif-2243820068148274968
[23:49:23] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13> bravo
[23:51:08] <MirahezeRelay>	 <emiliers> lol just remember that you aren't trying to explain what robots.txt is (or whatever other complicated tech thing that's been updated); you're explaining what changes has happened on Miraheze and how this change is beneficial
[23:51:21] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13, replying to emiliers> o7
[23:52:52] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13, replying to emiliers> what about nofollow?
[23:53:29] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13> searching it up on phorge has a lot of results with robots.txt
[23:53:57] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13> wgDefaultRobotPolicy hmmmm
[23:54:15] <MirahezeRelay>	 <emiliers> that's what `nofollow` is doing. it's telling google not to index Special:RecentChanges
[23:54:20] <MirahezeRelay>	 <emiliers> nofollow is the actual code used
[23:54:42] <MirahezeRelay>	 <crystalite13> i see, i see
[23:54:52] <MirahezeRelay>	 <emiliers> i just figured it wasn't really super important to mention the actual coding syntax