Minecraft Wiki:Admin noticeboard

Minecraft Wiki Admin noticeboard

The admin noticeboard is one way through which users can notify administrators of issues needing administrative attention. While users are welcome to directly contact specific administrators (especially if they are seen to be active), posting here can be an easier and quicker way of ensuring that at least one admin will notice an issue and respond to it promptly. Remember to sign (using four tildes: ~~~~) when posting an issue.

Before posting an issue here, please consider the following:

• This page is for reporting wiki issues. Please post any discussions on the community portal talk page.
• Post only issues that require administrative action, i.e. blocking vandals, protecting pages, restoring deleted pages etc.
• Do not post deletion requests here; instead, the page should be tagged for deletion.
• Do not post issues regarding content disputes. Try making a request for comment instead.
• Mediation requests between users should only be made once a resolution could not be reached between users.
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• For issues with filters preventing edits from being saved: filters are not able to be disabled for specific people. However, an admin may be able to perform the edit themselves for you. "New user" filters expire after you log in and make some edits around the wiki.

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In case of vandalism, posting about it here is low priority. Revert it first, anyone can do so. If the vandal created a new page, tag it for speedy deletion. Assume good faith and consider leaving a message on that user's talk page to explain the reason. Post here only if the user has made several disruptive edits and/or persists despite a warning. Always avoid a revert war with the vandal; it is far better to wait until an admin has a chance to intervene.

If a user must be reported here, do not create a new section. Instead, add * {{vandal|Example user}} Your concise reason (e.g. vandalised past 4th warning). ~~~~ in the Block requests section.

If a protection or unprotection request must be requested here, do not create a new section. Instead, add * {{la|Example page}} '''duration (temporary or indefinite) and protection level''': Your concise reason (e.g. constant spam and vandalism). <nowiki>~~~~ in the Protection requests section.

Please post new topics at the bottom of the page by clicking the "add topic" button above.

Current issues

Can't edit links of my own program

When trying to update the links for my own program (WorldPainter) on the Mapping page, I was unpleasantly surprised to be confronted with the following text: "Your action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. A brief description of the matched abuse rule for your action is: Global AF - New user adding link at end or in heading If you believe your edit was constructive, please post a message on the admin noticeboard or notify an admin directly." I believe my edit was constructive. How do I go about changing the links for my program on that page? 83.87.130.122 15:07, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Edits from IP addresses are necessarily suspect on a platform that is prone to spam / vandalism. If you create an account and make enough edits while logged in to that account to become trusted, then you should have no problem — Game widow ^(talk) 15:16, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Alright, I managed to dredge up my old Minecraftforum/Minecraftwiki/Curse/Gamepedia/Twitch/Whatever account and it let me do it. Thanks! I seem to remember that the reason I usually do this anonymously is that the sessions here were annoyingly short. Can I configure somewhere how long I want to stay logged in? Captain Chaos (talk) 15:37, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

At the rate such questions are asked, I think a mention in the noticeboard header may be beneficial. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 15:45, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

I wonder whether it might be worthwhile to change the text of that notification. Telling legitimate users that their attempts to contribute are "harmful" might put them off, while malicious users won't care what you say. Captain Chaos (talk) 16:02, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

It is difficult to craft a message that works in all instances and does not give spammers / vandals the information they need to defeat the filter — Game widow ^(talk) 16:19, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

User subpages don't redlink

For some reason user subpages don't redlink anymore—why is this? – Nixinova 07:39, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Am I correct to assume you're talking about links to non-existing subpages of a userpage? Like User:Jack McKalling/get to the chopper? I've noticed that too some time ago, didn't think of it. – Jack McKalling [ ] 07:50, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Simple edit - unable to submit

Trying to submit the new design for a clock circuit:

Dropper-Dropper clock

Simple design that does not require iron or pistons of any kind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJLxY6q7GxA

I understand the wiki has a rule that prevents new users from posting link. Please review the above edit and add to the "Clock circuit" page. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 103.10.197.194 (talk) at 12:33, 27 April 2018‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

 Done. MarcelTheHippie (talk • contribs • logs • block log) 🐷🥕☮️ 02:35, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Global AF caught my constructive edit

I tried to edit Tutorials/Update_Java to reflect the current status of Oracle's Java versions. I got an error message telling me to post here:

  Your action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed.
  A brief description of the matched abuse rule for your action is: Global AF - New user adding link at end or in heading
  If you believe your edit was constructive, please post a message on the admin noticeboard or notify an admin directly.

--79.242.6.179 10:23, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Yep, that's the abuse filter. Can you tell us what edit you were trying to make? If you can, then we may be able to do it for you. This specific filter likely blocks all unregistered users as well as registered users who have not made 3 edits yet.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 12:18, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Three things, mainly:

• I changed the terminology so that "development versions" (they're not really development vesions) are now referred to as "short-term support versions", same for "stable" and "long-term support versions".
• The Java 9 download link is now broken because Oracle removed it from their downloads, so I removed that and added a Note with a link to the Java Archive, also saying that Java 9 is no longer supported, will no longer receive security updates and that Oracle recommends you don't use Java 9.
• I cited the Java Archive page and the the page where Oracle lays out the End-Of-Life dates of Java releases.
• Updated the latest versions to 1.8.0_172 and 10.0.1

The complete new wikitext that I tried to change it to can be found at https://pastebin.com/raw/4yG5vR4s --79.242.6.179 17:24, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Ninjaedited the above to include cited links separately because I feared the AF might catch my contribution to this page if I included all the links. --79.242.6.179 17:28, 29 April 2018 (UTC) Ninjaedited the above again to include the "Updatedthe latest versions" because I completely forgot that change. Sorry! --79.242.6.179 17:40, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Reduce issues pages protection down to semi- and note on /video pages

I suggest that we reduce the protection on issues pages down to semi. Although usually these pages don't need editing, you really just never know. Specifically, many pages and files are being moved to more appropriate names, causing a lot of links to need to be updated. If semi protection doesn't work out, then maybe we can go up to full again, but I really don't think full protection is necessary anymore.

On a similar note, I suggest reducing the number/types of users that are affected by the AF on the /video subpages. The abuse filter is one of the areas of wikis that I'm really not knowledgeable in, but would it be possible to do something like only allow users to edit it only if they have made at least 200 edits to the wiki or something like that? I know there's some kind of filter that filters registered users that have made less than 3 edits from performing certain actions, which is why I would even think something like this would be possible. I'm not sure if it would be a great idea to allow any registered user to edit video pages, but if something like a minimum of 200 edits is possible, I think it would be beneficial to try doing that for the /video subpages and see how it goes.

Oh, and one more thing. Are we going to start demoting admins who have been inactive for over a year? This was discussed on the community portal talk page and has now been archived, and it seems like most of the community supported this idea, but none of the admins who haven't edited in years have been demoted since.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 02:32, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

I don't have much comment on the protections, other than to note that /video protection specifically is a policy that was put in place when Curse was still producing videos for the wiki, at their request; the edit filter is a natural extension of that policy. It is definitely technically possible to change it to only apply to editors with fewer than x edits, but I'm not prepared to do so without a comment from Game widow or another Curse person giving the okay.

The inactive admin demotion not happening yet is just because I haven't taken the time to write up a notice and drop it on admins' talk pages. If anyone else wants to do so before I get around to it, feel free, and drop me a list of notified accounts on my talk page. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 04:11, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

If a video is out of date, then whether or not Curse produced it, it is fine to remove — Game widow ^(talk) 11:54, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

"Talk" button doesn't work

The "talk" button in the drop-down box in the top right doesn't work. – Nixinova 07:14, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

I don't know what you mean, it works for me? Or has it been fixed already. – Jack McKalling [ ] 10:58, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Abuse filter for Java Edition hardware performance/entries

So many entries added by IPs are completely empty (see history). Maybe a filter could be set up to prevent it? --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 16:45, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Personally I consider this extremely excessive vandalism instead, I'd vote for semi-protection. – Jack McKalling [ ] 07:49, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

More likely to be testing than vandalism, I think. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 07:50, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

But still, I think that page should only be edited by trusted editors instead of everyone (because of this excess of malformed edits). There is a warning message on the page with instructions below it. Even in the edit form there are custom instructions. It's just no excuse IMHO to keep doing this like they have. I feel like if these IP editors cannot behave as requested, the page should get protected from them. – Jack McKalling [ ] 10:08, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

...Why do we even have that page in the first place? --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 10:11, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

I don't know, I'm just defending the case of the page. It's been going on for more than half a year. – Jack McKalling [ ] 10:13, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Putting aside the fact whether the page should be kept at all, I've drafted an abuse filter which when testing against the recent changes to that page, prevents all of the blank entries from being added and does not have any false positives so far. There are a few cons to using the current abuse filter, and I'm sure there are multiple ways it could be improved by somebody who's more advanced with AF coding than me:

• It currently only works for users with less than 10 edits, meaning that if somebody made more than 10 edits and then added a blank entry it would succeed
• This one's probably the worst of all - if a user made less then 10 edits, they can't revert an edit adding a blank entry, because abuse filters apparently cannot detect the number of bytes added in an edit - only the number of bytes changed, which is... very annoying. With my last revision, this is no longer the case. The abuse filter will now allow an edit to be made that has a change size of 188 bytes IF it removes the text "{{HardwareEntry", meaning that users who made less than 10 edits should be able to revert blank entries now just fine.
• If anybody adds or removes even 1 character, the edit would succeed, due to the abuse filter only disallowing the edit if it adds exactly 188 bytes.

I'm currently going to be changing a lot of stuff with the draft to see how it works, so some of these problems may be fixed.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 20:56, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

I just went ahead and added the AF - when I tested it it disallowed all of the edits that added blank entries, and didn't hit any false positives. We may eventually just delete the page, but I do think the abuse filter will be very helpful in the meantime or if we don't end up deleted it.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 13:09, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Why do we even keep Java Edition HW performance data?

What's the purpose of users submitting their JE performance data?

Pro:

• ?

Contra:

• There are external benchmarking software programs, some of them with more maintained and comprehensive result databases, which may also include submission verification.
• There are official system requirements, and a free demonstration version to determine whether/how your computer runs MC.
• A substantial portion of users are likely to use unofficial content which impacts performance (such as modifications or higher/lower resolution texture packs), making vanilla measurements not very useful.
• Users are submitting bogus entries almost all the time. We have to revert it.
• There are just too many factors affecting PC performance in general, far more than on mobile devices.

I propose we delete Java Edition hardware performance and all related pages. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 10:28, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

 Yes please! Bedrock Edition hardware performance isn't at all scientific either, so also isn't useful. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 11:06, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Shouldn't it be archived and protected instead like with the old issues pages? - MinecraftPhotos4U (talk) 11:26, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Aren't issues pages just as pointless now? Oh, and there's recently been a proposal to unprotect issues pages.

The problem is maintenance. Unless it's deleted, we have to maintain it. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 11:29, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Issue pages document historical bugs. If we knew all that data was documented elsewhere (maybe even including who reported it?), such as the issue tracker, then they could be deleted. The hardware performance pages don't contain any reliable information to begin with, so there's no reason to archive them. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 11:42, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Letting users to submitting their performance data is complete useless. People only see the minimum requirements and recommended requirements. This page should only show the requirements, not the performance. The page Server/Requirements is long not updated. Server software from Mojang is completely free, so there is no need to worry. List of request for deletion page:

• Java Edition hardware performance
• Java Edition hardware performance/entries

These pages should instead be redirected to Java Edition hardware requirements. Skylord wars (talk) 11:53, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Pinging RhythmicDaze as he is the main maintainer of the Java Edition HW page. –KnightMiner · (t) 23:53, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Didn't receive a notification for this, thanks Internet!

Anyway, I have to agree that even with all the effort that we put into this to keep the benchmarks semi-reliable for the benefit of others .. it's definitely not the best way to go about benchmarking and sharing data seeing as the way we ask users - with full trust not to manipulate or poison the end results - to get that data is based on opinion of what may work best. It's sad to think that to hours of work I put into it are a bit of a waste but yet that seemed rather inevitable when I started. I can't see this data being useful for future use as most modern machines will run this software just fine anyway. I can see it being good for only archival use going forward. -- RhythmicDaze^(Edits)

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It looks like there is consensus that these pages should not be kept. Given these pages were rather prominent, it is likely they should be redirected instead of deleting, possibly with notices at redirect target pages.

A proposed list of redirections follows:

1. To Java Edition hardware requirements:
   1. Java Edition hardware performance, with all subpages deleted instead of redirecting.
2. To Bedrock Edition#Compatible devices:
   1. Bedrock Edition hardware performance,
   2. Bedrock Edition hardware performance (Android),
   3. Bedrock Edition hardware performance (iOS)

Other notes:

• Hardware performance currently redirects to the JE page, but could be turned into a disambiguation page. Same with Hardware requirements.

Requesting comments. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 09:51, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

 Support Looks good – Jack McKalling [ ] 09:59, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Sounds decent, though I would redirect one of Hardware performance to Hardware requirements rather than keeping separate disambig articles, especially since the performance pages already will redirect to requirements. –KnightMiner · (t) 15:06, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Should I perform the proposed actions with KnightMiner's amendment? I will assume the answer is "yes" unless someone objects and explains the objection. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 18:02, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Acting on it now. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 09:59, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Cleanup task is completed. No double or broken redirects remain. Links to deleted pages in userspace have not been addressed. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 10:11, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Old issue pages

Why aren't the old issue pages deleted? They don't contain any kind of useful information and some of them are horribly long, such as Issues/1.3.1, which is almost half megabyte in size. I think deleting such long and deprecated pages would be a good idea. 85.76.82.187 11:17, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

The issues pages may not be of interest to you (or me, to be honest), but they have historical value to lots of people, particularly those who reported bugs or commented on them. Also, since most of the bugs reported on these pages were never transferred into the bug tracker, this may be the only record that certain bugs ever existed or were fixed. – Auldrick (talk · contribs) 18:04, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Nintendo Switch Version History Link on Homepage

On the homepage the link to go to the history for the Switch version uses #14 when it should be using #s14 and it goes to the wrong entry every time because of it. This is an issue that's been happening constantly for ages. --Pizza2004 (talk) 02:14, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

I looked at fixing this, but to be honest I just can't wrap my head around the tangle of nested templates responsible for creating those links well enough to know what to change. I can say that it's something in {{Version link}}, but beyond that I'm lost. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 05:04, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

 Fixed. I ended up having to add a new prefix to version link for Switch as right now Console always redirects to the Wii U version, and both versions use the same format. –KnightMiner · (t) 06:01, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Honestly that whole mess should be replaced with a module, but it'd have to be someone who's actually competent in Lua, unlike me. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 15:00, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

In the case of version link, yeah, its a bit of a mess, but with how frequently it is used and how simple it's remaining code is overall I'm not sure its worth the extra overhead of invoking a module. –KnightMiner · (t) 15:22, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

I'm referring to the whole collection of version templates, not just version link. (Of course, it's also distinctly possible that I'm just overblowing the problem in my mind...) 「ディノ奴千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 15:43, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

issue with user pages

Hello. On my user page, when I try to add {{Special:Contributions/Psl85}}, and trying to publishing the edit, will I appear logged out, it is usually technical error which causes I to automatically log out, it is a huge error and I want to have the template to my user page, and I not want to be logged out automatically when I try to save the edit. It also occured earlier today while in school, I got logged out and could not publish the edit, I saw on the screen:

Error: Your edit could not be saved due to a technical error. Please try again later.

Error code:685

Please search the systems for the error and then fix it. Psl85  ♦Chat with me♦  ᗒMy Contributionsᗕ  13:41, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Special:Contributions isn't a template, it's a page. When you put it in the template syntax {{Special:Contributions/Psl85}}, you're telling the MediaWiki software to interpret it as a template, but because it's just ordinary text that won't work. There is a way to show your contributions on your user page, but I wouldn't advise it because it would it's relatively expensive in terms of server load. By the way, your signature is ugly and hard to read. – Auldrick (talk · contribs) 13:56, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Also, in your particular instance, because of how this "transclusion" works like Auldrick said above, some of the new pages that you created that are being listed, are actually processed as code. So instead of showing page created with "...text..." it would actually process any and all partial codes that said text contains, messing up a lot of stuff during page rendering. – Jack McKalling [ ] 14:06, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

I updated my signature to non-ugly signature, I updated to this text:  Psl85  T  C   Psl85  T  C  14:08, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Psl85 - Although as Jack McKalling and Auldrick pointed out, you can't completely transclude your contributions, as that would mess a lot of things up, you can show your most recent 5, 10, 25, etc. contributions. To do this, add the following:

{{Special:Contributions/Psl85|''[Number of recent contributions here]''}}

Also, as for your signature, I can read it just fine, although you may want to further distinguish the colors of the background from the text. I certainly wouldn't call it "ugly."-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 14:17, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

This is a long-standing and known issue. The solution to this is simply to not include {{Special:Contributions}} into any page. If you encounter a page that includes it, please notify the admins so they can remove it or comment it out. | violine1101^(Talk) 14:29, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

The issue think I is problematic, and I want to have a template of most recent contributions on my page, the transclusion works, but I appear logged out when I try to save the edit and seeing the error message for "the edit could not be saved due to a technical error" and appear logged out. I did NOT like the error.  Psl85  T  C  17:36, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Yes, the same issue happend to me about a year ago. I did notify Curse but it has not been fixed since. | violine1101^(Talk) 17:41, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

I did notify Curse staff again, and they're looking into it. | violine1101^(Talk) 18:16, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

You might want to enter {{Special:Contributions/Psl85|limit=...}} (with |limit= as the parameter) or {{LoadPage|Special:Contributions/Psl85}} and see if that works. – ItsPlantseed ⟨₰|₢⟩ 18:12, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

I tried it, but the system will log me out again. If I get logged out, needs I to click "Log In" at the top, go to Gamepedia Portal and then click "Log In" and then will I get back to the Minecraft Wikipedia logged in. The issue is terrible, I DO NOT like it. -- Psl85  Talk  Contribs  19:11, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

As pointed out above, the transclusion of this special page is just not intended (as of yet, until fixed by gamepedia). The suggestions for using it are to be taken "if it works for you". If it doesn't, please use an alternative to showing contributions like this and just be patient as you look out for gamepedia fixing the issue. There is nothing else we can do right now I'm afraid. – Jack McKalling [ ] 19:16, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Template:Delete

Hi! I need to upload an image and add it to the template:Delete page, but the page is protected, I cannot make it, and an admin needs to do it for me, and I need also make some larger changes to the template, please can the protection level be lowered from "sysop" to "autoconfirmed" so I can upload a trash bin image from Wiki Pedia and use it on the delete template and make some layout changes to the template? After I are done can the protection level be raised to "sysop" again. Please can this be done? -- psl85 ☎ Talk 18:38, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

 Oppose. There are still unresolved discussions about those templates going on, which need concensus before the templates should be modified. Please refer to for instance, this discussion about deleting redirects and its main WIP project here. After that discussion, the {{delete}} and {{speedy delete}} templates may need to be radically revisited. – Jack McKalling [ ] 18:56, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Instead of lowering the protection so you can edit it, normally what is done is the changes are proposed on a talk page and an admin will add them once approved. So start a conversation there about what layout changes you wish to make, preferably by adding a mockup, and if there is a concensus someone will update it. –KnightMiner · (t) 19:27, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

On the other hand, "sysop" seems to be an unnecessarily high protection level. Permanent protection at an "autoconfirmed" level is sufficient enough for now. With that said, could an admin please lower it? MarcelTheHippie (talk • contribs • logs • block log) 🐷🥕☮️ 01:05, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, although we wouldn't usually temporarily lower the protection of a page just so that one person can edit it, we may should consider lowering the edit protection of {{delete}} to autoconfirmed. Years ago, a ton of registered users vandalized the template - but I highly doubt it would still happen now.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 14:00, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

If it's lowered, editors other than Psl85 will easily be able to improve the template as they see fit in the future without having to seek administrative attention. Since there don't seem to be any objections, I think permanent autoconfirmed protection can go ahead. MarcelTheHippie (talk • contribs • logs • block log) 🐷🥕☮️ 00:50, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Ok, but I would only have a image added to the template, such as a trash bin or something, is the image ok? If the page is getting vandalized, please increase protection level to sysop. psl85 (talk • contribs) 04:19, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

@Psl85: Are there any other changes you'd like to make to the template? MarcelTheHippie (talk • contribs • logs • block log) 🐷🥕☮️ 21:53, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Vandalizing IP not blocked yet

The IP 70.132.3.138 (talk • contribs • logs • block log) has been vandalizing 8 pages spread over the last month, and all their edits have been reverted except for Special:Diff/1215079 and Special:Diff/1215714, which weren't vandalism. But shouldn't they get blocked by now? – Jack McKalling [ ] 08:23, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

The reverted edits look more playful than malicious, and the IP has no talk page so they haven't even been given a warning yet. Plus, it's not like they're vandalizing multiple times a day: It's once every few days, and they have made a couple of good edits. I don't think the admins are going to block anybody like this (especially an IP that might be shared with other users) without at least a few warnings. – Auldrick (talk · contribs) 13:20, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Okay but then what about these cases of vandalism of page Drowned: 114.36.64.144 (talk • contribs • logs • block log), 36.228.235.226 (talk • contribs • logs • block log) and 118.163.53.25 (talk • contribs • logs • block log). Although the latter again only has made one edit, but I'm mentioning for completeness. In total they've made 17 consequtive edits, which someone rewound in the following edit. – Jack McKalling [ ] 20:10, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

blocked -Xbony2 (GRASP) (FTB Wiki Admin) (talk) 20:53, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! – Jack McKalling [ ] 20:55, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

I notice this IP user 81.183.6.189 (talk • contribs • logs • block log) has been blocked before for 3 days due to vandalism, but has again done more of it today on two pages (both edits already dealt with), the day their block expired. Should they be blocked for longer? – Jack McKalling [ ] 14:13, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Not blocking yet because they seem to have stopped. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 14:15, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

I'm a bit borderline about that one. Mainly because the type of vandalism is not really a huge deal, just very small number changes and not, e.g. blanking whole pages and replacing them with gibberish. Also, they seem to have stopped now after just making 2 edits. I personally would block them for a week or so if they continue. However, if another admin or GRASP thinks that they should go ahead and be blocked, I hold no objections whatsoever.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 14:17, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Another IP has been repeatedly vandalising (let me reuse this section again). IP user 145.236.181.95 (talk • contribs • logs • block log) has been excessively adding non-blocks and removed content to the blast resistance table, which obviously doesn't belong there. They've been blocked before for 3 days like a week ago, so they've not learned from their mistake. This is the exact same thing that IP user 84.1.185.73 (talk • contribs • logs • block log) used to be doing around 24/25 july this year, which was also blocked for it but for a week. The latter IP has not come back to doing it, though I'm not sure it's a different person. – Jack McKalling [ ] 10:47, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! --Angrydog001 (talk) 10:58, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Blocked 145.236.181.95 (talk • contribs • logs • block log) for a week   MarkusRost (talk) 11:58, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Missing CSS

I seem to be missing a few CSS classes, and nothing I try – except going incognito – will fix this. This is what Special:RecentChanges looks like to me: [1]. Please help. – Nixinova  03:25, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Also the "Preview", "edit", and "changes" buttons don't appear when editing. – Nixinova  05:37, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Try clearing your cookies of this page. It may work. skylord_wars (talk) 06:09, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Yes! Thank you. – Nixinova  08:03, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Way to bulk upload several alticles/images?

Is it possible to upload several articles and images at once? If possible, how do I achieve that? --Alswo9628(4) — ko.Admin (talk) 01:49, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

There is no way (afaik) to mass-upload images, and I'm not sure what you mean by "upload several articles". – Nixinova  04:32, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

You can mass upload images by dragging them in to the big blue "drop files here" box when editing, or by pressing the upload icon in the toolbar. Admins can mass create articles from other wikis with the import function. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 10:16, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Editing page errors

All JavaScript won't work when I'm editing a page. Does not happen when viewing source of page or adding new section. Errors in console:

Exception in module-execute in module ext.visualEditor.targetLoader:
ReferenceError: locat1on is not defined ReferenceError: locat1on is not defined
    at eval (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:567:477)
    at eval (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:564:6402)
    at new Uri (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:564:6588)
    at eval (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:589:2644)
    at mw.loader.implement.visualeditor-loaderror-message (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:593:622)
    at Object.<anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:161)
    at fire (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:45)
    at Object.add [as done] (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:45)
    at Object.always (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:46)
    at runScript (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:160)
Exception in module-execute in module ext.echo.init:
ReferenceError: locat1on is not defined ReferenceError: locat1on is not defined
    at eval (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:567:477)
    at eval (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:564:6402)
    at new Uri (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:564:6588)
    at load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.MsUpload|ext.echo.init|oojs-ui-core%2Coojs-ui-widgets|oojs-ui.styles.icons-editing-advanced&skin=hydra&version=05rfiks:126
    at load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.MsUpload|ext.echo.init|oojs-ui-core%2Coojs-ui-widgets|oojs-ui.styles.icons-editing-advanced&skin=hydra&version=05rfiks:129
    at Object.<anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:161)
    at fire (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:45)
    at Object.add [as done] (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:45)
    at Object.always (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:46)
    at runScript (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:160)
Exception in module-execute in module ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init:
ReferenceError: locat1on is not defined ReferenceError: locat1on is not defined
    at eval (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:567:477)
    at eval (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:564:6402)
    at new Uri (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:564:6588)
    at eval (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:574:794)
    at mw.loader.implement.css (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:589:220)
    at Object.<anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:161)
    at fire (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:45)
    at Object.add [as done] (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:45)
    at Object.always (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:46)
    at runScript (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:160)
Uncaught ReferenceError: locat1on is not defined
   at Object.getParamValue (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:24:58)
   at HTMLDocument.eval (eval at <anonymous> (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:4), <anonymous>:499:564)
   at fire (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:45)
   at Object.fireWith [as resolveWith] (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:46)
   at Function.ready (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:49)
   at HTMLDocument.completed (load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=hydra&version=1rkfg73:49)

Nevermind, just by clearing cookies fixed it – ITechieGamer^tce 07:34, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

despawning mechanics edit

I was adding a little part to the page spawn in the section about +128 blocks away despawning, but a filter prevented me to make the edit, and I can't even write my text here. what am I supposed to do now? --Mortealre (talk) 22:41, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Mortealre - thanks for reporting. I went ahead and added that to the Spawn page (and given you the credit =)), modifying a few grammatical/spelling errors and slightly rewording a sentence or two. I've been looking at the abuse filter rule 6 (the rule that your edit was caught in), and I'm not sure what word you added that triggered it. Somebody who's more advanced with abuse filter coding probably knows though, and this may be worth investigating. Anyways, once you've made 10 edits to this wiki you shouldn't be affected by that filter as well as most other filters.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 23:39, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

"Happen is" was the phrase setting off the filter; its processing ignores whitespace. I think that's been an issue before as well, though it doesn't come up much. -- Orthotope^talk 00:07, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

That one is hard to filter properly, because we cannot tell in prior, if they deliberately inserted spaces to write the filtered word, or just happen to put these two legitimate words together in a sentence. You can't filter out all the false positives from a filter, it'd be an endless fight to pluck all possible loopholes. But excluding this word combination from the filter could work until someone else finds another false positive... – Jack McKalling [ ] 11:00, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

thank you, I didn't think you could see my edit. --Mortealre (talk) 11:17, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Normal users aren't able to see edits that were caught in the abuse filter, but administrators can. And as for the filter itself, there are two sections that words can be put into: a section where it disallows the words regardless of whitespace and special characters, and a section where it only disallows the word if there is no whitespace or special characters. We might should try moving the word to the second section, as "happen is" does seem like it would occur quite commonly.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 12:26, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

 Moved the trigger word to the second section mentioned, see below.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 22:07, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Cannot post a link to a video for "an unwanted word" in the URL

I tried to add a link to a Youtube video whose ID accidentally contains a combination of three letters that has been interpreted as a bad word by an automated filter. This filter doesn`t distinguish between intentional swearing and immutable letter combinations. I think this means that there is a huge amount of webpages that are unavailable to link in this wiki because of this issue; it is very easy for a combination of 3 letters like this to be accidentally formed. 139.47.29.138 23:12, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Maybe we should remove the word that disallowed the edit (the F word but without the U) altogether from the disallowed words, as I don't think it would really be used that often for vandalism. I've also thought about restricting the filter as a whole to only non-talk namespaces. This would result in a lot of talk namespace vandalism/spam, though. A better idea may be to have a list of words that are only disallowed in non-talk namespaces, and a separate list for ones that are disallowed in all namespaces.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 23:25, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

 Support the suggestion about removing the word from the filter. I don't know much about the filter so I can't tell about your other options. If removing this word suddenly opens up more spam, it can still be looked into again. – Jack McKalling [ ] 08:35, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Removed it from the abuse filter completely, as I've actually seen quite a few more false positives than this (particularly because of YouTube) when looking at the abuse log for the filter. I've also changed a few other things, including now the "happen is" phrase (see above) should be able to be implemented by any user with no problems.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 22:06, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Simple edit - unable to submit

Trying to submit an additional detail to the Tutorials/Flying technologies:

Server safe engines

Often due to the lag on multiplayer servers, slime engines can bug allowing the player to fall through the flyer. This can be solved by isolating the passenger from the engine with two additional slime blocks.–Preceding unsigned comment was added by Yoma (talk • contribs) at 9:19, 05 August 2018 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Hi Yoma, I've taken a look at the edit that was caught in the filter, and it does seem to be helpful, so I've added it to the article. The filter rule that your edit was caught in does seem to hit a lot of false positives. Local admins can't do anything about it, as it's a global rule, but I've notified Gamepedia Staff about how often false positives occur. Once you've made several edits, you shouldn't have to worry about most of the abuse filters anymore. Thanks for reporting!-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 12:56, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Page Move Requests

The following pages cannot be moved by standard users to match their new 1.13 names due to move protection:

• Milk (to Milk Bucket)
• Nether Brick (to Nether Bricks) (It has also been suggested that Nether Brick (item) be moved to Nether Brick after this move takes place)
• Redstone (to Redstone Dust)

Would an admin be able to complete these moves? --Bg samm (talk) 10:42, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

I would move these, but the thing is, these are not the names in the Bedrock Edition and Legacy Console Edition. Therefore, the only edition in which the new names are the actual names is Java Edition, so moving these could be controversial. You may be interested to see Talk:Monster Spawner#Recent Move suggestion for a similar discussion.-- Madminecrafter12^{Talk to me} 15:17, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

How to upload new achievements list images?

I wonder how can I upload the new achievements list images. I found a website but it is a image include a lot achievement images. --Hbpencil235

Solved. Sorry for my careless. --Hbpencil235

Account moving

Hey, is there any way to remove/access my account? Because of the Curse account migration to Twitch, I can't seem to be able to access it anymore. Please help. Pixel5958 (talk) 03:53, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi! It is not possible to completely remove accounts, it's only possible to rename it so that it is anonymized. Here's a help article about this: gphelp:Account deletion.
However, it's also possible to merge your old account into your new one. If you're interested in that, please follow the instructions in this help article: gphelp:User merge. | violine1101^(Talk) 09:52, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Cannot link mi gamepedia account to my email

Last night I created my Gamepedia account. Now I was trying to change my preferences, but I cannot, supposedly because I haven't confirmed an e-mail. All notices and help pages I have been linked say that e-mail settings are in the user preferences page, however this isn't true for me. Is this an error or am I dumb? GammaMicroscopii (talk) 16:48, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Your Gamepedia account is using your Email form your Twitch account. I need to change your Email on Twitch.   MarkusRost (talk) 17:04, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Special:WikiPoints page is broken

Each leaderboard page -except the first- is cut at the end. Yesterday night I was in a position number that had a 9 in the second-to-last digit, so I couldn't see myself because tables are cut at the end. Some pages have more than 15 places out of 100 missing. GammaMicroscopii (talk) 16:57, 11 August 2018 (UTC)