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Welcome! Use this page to discuss general topics with NetHackWiki members. If you want to discuss a topic that is specifically about [[NetHack]], please consider discussing it at [[Forum:Watercooler|the forum]]. Purely technical issues (bugs, feature requests, etc.) may be reported at [[NetHackWiki:Technical issues|Technical issues]].
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Welcome! Use this page to discuss general topics with NetHackWiki members. If you want to discuss a topic that is specifically about [[NetHack]], please consider discussing it at [[Forum:Watercooler|the forum]]. Purely technical issues (bugs, feature requests, etc.) may be reported at [[NetHackWiki:Technical issues|Technical issues]].
  
Another way to contact NetHackWiki is to leave comments on the talk pages of individual users.
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Another way to contact users on NetHackWiki is to leave comments on their individual talk pages.
  
Other NetHack communities include:
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Other ''NetHack'' communities include:
 
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack rec.games.roguelike.nethack] - the newsgroup, see [[rgrn]]
 
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack rec.games.roguelike.nethack] - the newsgroup, see [[rgrn]]
 
* [irc://irc.libera.chat/nethack #nethack] and [irc://irc.libera.chat/nethackwiki #nethackwiki] on irc.libera.chat - see [[Libera]]
 
* [irc://irc.libera.chat/nethack #nethack] and [irc://irc.libera.chat/nethackwiki #nethackwiki] on irc.libera.chat - see [[Libera]]
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== Identification section ==
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Should pages for items include an "Identification" section?
 
Should pages for items include an "Identification" section?
  
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Actually, quick correction, I didn't add an "Identification" section to [[ring of conflict]], I merely moved identification advice from the pre-existing "Strategy" section. --[[User:Aximili|Aximili]] ([[User talk:Aximili|talk]]) 17:05, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
 
Actually, quick correction, I didn't add an "Identification" section to [[ring of conflict]], I merely moved identification advice from the pre-existing "Strategy" section. --[[User:Aximili|Aximili]] ([[User talk:Aximili|talk]]) 17:05, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
  
:I think I moved it back precisely ''because'' it just sounded like an extended strategy section more than anything. I'm not at all against the inclusion of separate sections for identification - rather, it's more that I interpret it as a section specifically for stuff like price-ID, autoidentifying, things of that nature. Informal identification CAN be and basically is part of that on paper, but with the ring of conflict, my rationale (which I'dve gladly explained had I been asked directly) was that it's also a vital part of any strategy around it, "it" being "not finding the thing and immediately dying from wear-testing it", such that it was worth noting first in that section. I'm more than willing to rewrite it more to accommodate, and I actually made a couple of edits in that direction - the larger question is more ''how'' to approach that than anything else. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 23:28, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
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:I think I moved it back precisely ''because'' it just sounded like an extended strategy section more than anything. I'm not at all against the inclusion of separate sections for identification - rather, it's more that I interpret it as a section specifically for stuff like price-ID, auto-identifying, things of that nature. Informal identification CAN be and basically is part of that on paper, but with the ring of conflict, my rationale (which I'dve gladly explained had I been asked directly) was that it's also a vital part of any strategy around it, "it" being "not finding the thing and immediately dying from wear-testing it", such that it was worth noting first in that section. I'm more than willing to rewrite it more to accommodate, and I actually made a couple of edits in that direction - the larger question is more ''how'' to approach that than anything else. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 23:28, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
  
 
::Makes sense, if I add new identification sections in the future I might try considering that distinction as well --[[User:Aximili|Aximili]] ([[User talk:Aximili|talk]]) 23:23, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
 
::Makes sense, if I add new identification sections in the future I might try considering that distinction as well --[[User:Aximili|Aximili]] ([[User talk:Aximili|talk]]) 23:23, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
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--[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 12:26, 24 June 2024 (UTC) [Original Message: 06:53, 21 June 2024 (UTC)]
 
--[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 12:26, 24 June 2024 (UTC) [Original Message: 06:53, 21 June 2024 (UTC)]
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:Alright, that's all the interwiki stuff addressed for the moment - I'll wait a month or so before moving forward in the event Furey decides to become active again. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 17:44, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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::No response from him and it's Sept. 1 - moving forward as planned, doing another scan and then marking these as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 04:10, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
  
 
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::Verified. Looks good to me. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 02:59, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 
::Verified. Looks good to me. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 02:59, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 
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:Addressed - Bulbapedia is untouched per related discussions regarding Pokemon in the 'p' section. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 08:14, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
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::No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 15:33, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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::No response for all of August - verified against the list and marking as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 11:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 16:05, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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::No response for all of August - verified against the list and marking as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 11:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 16:27, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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::No response for all of August - verified against the list and marking as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 11:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
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===Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'f'===
 
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:Addressed. I'm inclined to delete fr.be and fr.org, since neither of the URLs specified are operational anymore and give me a DNS error - I've found an alternative wiki for freebsd and updated accordingly. Separately, I'm also thinking we restore finalfantasy as an entry after you verify all of this: there is an independent wiki, but it's heavily lacking in info and the <s>Wikia</s> Fandom™ Wiki is much more complete, since it benefited from having a p. solid userbase in the times before the <s>Wikia</s> Fandom™ farm of wikis went bad. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 09:15, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
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::No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
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===Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'g'===
 
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| gta || http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/$1 || 1 || operational || we have 1 <nowiki>[[gta:xxx]]</nowiki> link!
 
| gta || http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/$1 || 1 || operational || we have 1 <nowiki>[[gta:xxx]]</nowiki> link!
 
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 09:20, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
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::No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 08:44, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
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::No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
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===Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'i'===
  
 
Round 9. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'i', except for these 3:
 
Round 9. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'i', except for these 3:
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| inferno || http://inferno.wikia.com/wiki/$1 || unsearchable || operational || -
 
| inferno || http://inferno.wikia.com/wiki/$1 || unsearchable || operational || -
 
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 09:21, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
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::No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
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::Verified. Looks good to me. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 12:02, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 
::Verified. Looks good to me. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 12:02, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 
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:Addressed, with a note that I plan to re-establish the lotr entry using [https://tolkiengateway.net/ Tolkien Gateway] as an alternative to <s>Wikia</s> Fandom™, and add a new entry "lspace" for [https://wiki.lspace.org/Main_Page the Discworld & Terry Pratchett wiki] as well. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 09:43, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
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::No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
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| mw || http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/$1 || unsearchable, 5+ known uses || operational || we have 5+ <nowiki>[[mw:xxx]]</nowiki> links!
 
| mw || http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/$1 || unsearchable, 5+ known uses || operational || we have 5+ <nowiki>[[mw:xxx]]</nowiki> links!
 
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 17:30, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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::No response for all of August - verified against the list and marking as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 11:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 03:36, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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:: Reviewed. Looks good to me. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 03:46, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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===Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'p'===
 
===Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'p'===
 
 
Round 16. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'p', except for these 5:
 
Round 16. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'p', except for these 5:
 
* pc, peace, php, pokemon, pokémon
 
* pc, peace, php, pokemon, pokémon
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| pokémon || http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/$1 || unsearchable || operational || special char in prefix
 
| pokémon || http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/$1 || unsearchable || operational || special char in prefix
 
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 07:35, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
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::Reviewed. Looks good to me. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 00:26, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
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| roguebasin || https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=$1 || unsearchable, 10+ known uses || operational || we have 10+ <nowiki>[[roguebasin:xxx]]</nowiki> links!
 
| roguebasin || https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=$1 || unsearchable, 10+ known uses || operational || we have 10+ <nowiki>[[roguebasin:xxx]]</nowiki> links!
 
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 17:30, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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::No response for all of August - verified against the list and marking as resolved. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 11:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
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| students || http://students.wikia.com/wiki/$1 || unsearchable || operational || -
 
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:Addressed - calling audible and keeping starwars since we have the entire Jedi patch and its contents. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 17:42, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 03:07, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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::What about: tricities, turismo, turrikwiki, tvtropes, twiki, twistedwiki? [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 03:17, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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:::...bleah, I tunnel-visioned on everything above the "keep" entries - should be good now. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 03:34, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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::::Reviewed. Looks good to me. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 04:19, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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:Addressed with the exception of Uncyclopedia - ''perhaps'' we could put that to use since it's mentioned in relation to the game's introduction if I recall correctly (doing an ASCII rendition of the character discovering the dungeon). --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 03:05, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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::How about "utopia" though? [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 03:12, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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:::Oh, I just flat out missed that one, resolved it now - I'm tempted to think we can ditch "university" as well, since the results from just searching the word doesn't go beyond a single page, but I'm fine tabling that until the other letters are dealt with. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 03:16, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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::::Reviewed. Looks good to me. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 03:20, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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:Addressed. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 21:18, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
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::Verified. Looks good to me. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 21:27, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
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:In regards to specifically Zeldawiki, I think that one is likely to be worth keeping because we do have at least a few Zelda-inspired monsters, possibly among other stuff (see [[garo]], which also need a presentability pass but there you go). The rest of the "delete" table can go without contest. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 16:15, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
 
:In regards to specifically Zeldawiki, I think that one is likely to be worth keeping because we do have at least a few Zelda-inspired monsters, possibly among other stuff (see [[garo]], which also need a presentability pass but there you go). The rest of the "delete" table can go without contest. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 16:15, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
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::I am fine with keeping Zeldawiki and others at your discretion. Just make notes like the above, delete the others, mark issue resolved. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 18:03, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
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::Regarding Zeldawiki, the current interwiki link (zeldawiki.org) goes to the Fandom wiki. I think it might be better to link to the independent wiki, which is at https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Main_Page. From what I recall, I think it's the same wiki team, who moved away from Fandom? --[[User:ScienceBall|ScienceBall]] ([[User talk:ScienceBall|talk]]) 11:05, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
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:::Correct. My idea was to maintain links to independent non-<s>Wikia</s> Fandom™ wikis and edit or establish relevant interwiki entries accordingly while deleting the other unused ones - so far ZeldaWiki and Bulbapedia come to mind as "obvious" candidates. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 11:13, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
  
::I am fine with keeping Zeldawiki and others at your discretion. Just make notes like the above, delete the others, mark issue resolved. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 18:03, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
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:Addressed pending a judgment on zeldapendium - it's a German wiki on ''The Legend of Zelda'' that's distinct from ZeldaWiki but still part of the NIWA (independent alliance of Nintendo wikis), so I'm trying to figure out what that's about - the rest's been dealt with. --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 21:19, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
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::For the purposes of Phase 1, just keep zeldapendium. If it gets deleted or changed 5 minutes after this issue is resolved that's up to not-me.
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::Verified. Looks good to me. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 21:24, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
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| Wikihack || http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/NetHackWiki:$1 || unsearchable, 2+ known uses || operational || we have 2+ <nowiki>[[Wikihack:xxx]]</nowiki> links!
 
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:: Verified. Looks good to me. [[User:Furey|Furey]] ([[User talk:Furey|talk]]) 21:22, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
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::::I think this should work out, though if it does come to that I might consider having a disallow after enough warnings in a given span of time, if at all possible - I doubt it'll be as much of a solve as needed at that juncture but it's a line of thought worth considering imo (if it's even possible with the filter). --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 10:15, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 
::::I think this should work out, though if it does come to that I might consider having a disallow after enough warnings in a given span of time, if at all possible - I doubt it'll be as much of a solve as needed at that juncture but it's a line of thought worth considering imo (if it's even possible with the filter). --[[User:Umbire the Phantom|Umbire the Phantom]] ([[User talk:Umbire the Phantom|talk]]) 10:15, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
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== Proposal to eliminate bare filename redirectors such as <nowiki>[[Dungeon.h]]</nowiki> , <nowiki>[[attrib.c]]</nowiki>, and <nowiki>[[Arch.des]]</nowiki> ==
 
== Proposal to eliminate bare filename redirectors such as <nowiki>[[Dungeon.h]]</nowiki> , <nowiki>[[attrib.c]]</nowiki>, and <nowiki>[[Arch.des]]</nowiki> ==
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These redirectors are leftovers from an earlier age where we had only one source version, 3.4.3. (And even then, we had more than one source version, because we had variant sources such as SLASH'EM).
 
These redirectors are leftovers from an earlier age where we had only one source version, 3.4.3. (And even then, we had more than one source version, because we had variant sources such as SLASH'EM).
  

Latest revision as of 11:52, 1 September 2024

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Contents

Identification section

Should pages for items include an "Identification" section?

I tend to add an explicit "Identification" section to item pages with advice for identification. However the "Identification" section I added for ring of conflict was removed, and all the relevant info was moved to "Strategy", so clearly not all of you feel the same way about this.

I think identification of items is separate from the strategy for using a particular item. A player benefits from identifying every item, even items with no strategic use, if for no other reason than to feel better about throwing them away. It also makes sense for identification to be described before strategy because a player will have to identify items before using them reliably.

Well, that's my take. Anybody else?

--Aximili (talk) 17:02, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Actually, quick correction, I didn't add an "Identification" section to ring of conflict, I merely moved identification advice from the pre-existing "Strategy" section. --Aximili (talk) 17:05, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

I think I moved it back precisely because it just sounded like an extended strategy section more than anything. I'm not at all against the inclusion of separate sections for identification - rather, it's more that I interpret it as a section specifically for stuff like price-ID, auto-identifying, things of that nature. Informal identification CAN be and basically is part of that on paper, but with the ring of conflict, my rationale (which I'dve gladly explained had I been asked directly) was that it's also a vital part of any strategy around it, "it" being "not finding the thing and immediately dying from wear-testing it", such that it was worth noting first in that section. I'm more than willing to rewrite it more to accommodate, and I actually made a couple of edits in that direction - the larger question is more how to approach that than anything else. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 23:28, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
Makes sense, if I add new identification sections in the future I might try considering that distinction as well --Aximili (talk) 23:23, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

"What links here" link availability?

Hi. For things like fixing [this redirect] so that it does follow wiki style while not creating double redirects, and for multiple other uses, it would be very nice to have readily available (preferably via a left-hand-side menu link, under Tools) the standard wiki "what links here" special page (and the rest of the special pages, for that matter). Is there some setting I need to change for this, or is this something needing correcting by admins? Thanks! -Actual-nh (talk) 18:05, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

New NetHack tiles, can someone help with screenshots?

Hello. I just created a new set (2 sets actually) of tiles based on the default and Oryx tilesets. I called them Kinghack, they are located in the Pictographic Tiles section of the Tiles page. https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Tileset Can someone add them to the NetHack tileset screenshots (Where one can see the different tilesets in different areas of the game, wall testing, monsters, objects, etc). Or tell me how to add them to that site? http://bilious.alt.org/~paxed/nethack/nhsshot/

Thank you.--Kingeorg (talk) 00:18, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

GetIndie.wiki listing?

Would it be appropriate to submit the wiki to GetIndie.Wiki? It's a browser extension that redirects users from Fandom wikis to alternate better maintained wikis. It appears to use a manual list, and has a form for submitting suggestions. Sgeo (talk) 18:58, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

I don't see why not. It doesn't cost us anything and it might be helpful to a few new people who end up on Fandom without realizing that the community moved. The old Fandom wiki is still high-ranking on searches: "Amulet of Yendor" on Google gives the old Fandom wiki page as the top result, for example. Cathartes (talk) 21:35, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
I submitted a request to add NetHackWiki to the extension. Cathartes (talk) 22:52, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

"Large edits by new user" abuse filter is harmful

Special:AbuseFilter/10 implemented by User:Paxed currently denies all edits greater than 200 bytes in non-(talk,user talk) namespaces by new users. This was instituted in response to some page-blanking vandalism a couple of months ago. I think this is a bad idea. Imagine being a new user, and you spent a good amount of time writing some content, only to have the filter deny your edit, and there's nothing you can do about it--you lose all your work! This is an extremely bad welcome for new users.

Furthermore, it is not very useful against vandalism. Sure, it works against one specific type, but a motivated vandal can easily make <200-byte edits that still need to be reverted. There are multiple experienced users who monitor Special:RecentChanges (and #nethackwiki on IRC) on a daily basis; they can easily revert any vandalism that happens. Also, we hardly ever get any vandalism anyway.

I would suggest that a more effective way to deter vandalism is via a rate limit on edits from new users (e.g. 10 per hour per account). This will prevent a vandal from making too many edits before an admin comes to block them, while still allowing practically all good-faith new users to edit unimpeded, and having an easy remedy in case it actually is triggered by a good-faith user (just wait a bit before saving). And the probability of a rate limit being triggered scales inversely with the amount of effort involved in an edit (since it takes *time* to make a large good edit), so the amount of effort lost is less even if it is triggered. Cathartes (talk) 06:31, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Have to agree here - I've been somewhat vocal about how much of an annoyance a few of these filters are, but I think this one in particular is an active detriment. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 14:13, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
I honestly had the same thought. I just disabled the filter for now; it might be useful in a more targeted form (e.g. disallow new users from removing >5000 characters in a single edit, no limit on adding), but I don't think it's critical. -Ion frigate (talk) 14:39, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Absolutely correct. Although misbehaved people present a problem in any place, a wiki has the tools for reverting evil changes easily, immediately after being discovered. The filter, as implemented by Mister Paxed, User:Paxed, provokes more harm than gives help. It has NO PREVIOUS WARNING, and makes a new contributor lose his work. Including me, an experienced player of Nethack and some of its varieties, but new in the Nethack Wiki. Cssdixieland (talk) 17:58, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
It's gone now. I can't speak for the other admins, but for my own part I have no intention of bringing it back. -Ion frigate (talk) 23:40, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Ascensions per version or variety in Junethack 2023

This text is a comment about the results of Junethack, not a notification related to NetHack Wiki.

The Junethack competition of 2023 has finished. This is the proportion of ascensions for each of the versions or varieties played. Eight servers have participated: one of Nethack Alt Org, one of Nethack 4, three of Gnollhack, and three of Hardfought. Hardfought servers also have few other versions available, such as NetHack version 1.3d, but they have not been included in Junethack. The list is ordered by the proportion of ascensions obtained.

Version or.............Ascensions...............Total games played......Per cent of ascensions
variety................of the hero..............in Junethack 2023.......per version or variety

NetHack 3.4.3...........23..............................575................................4
NotDNetHack..............8..............................211................................3.79
GnollHack................3...............................92................................3.26
DNetHack.................7..............................248................................2.82
SlashTHEM................2...............................99................................2.02
AceHack..................3..............................174................................1.72
NetHack4.................9..............................588................................1.53
NetHack 3.6.7...........51.............................3936................................1.3
NetHack Fourk............1...............................84................................1.19
NetHack 3.7.0...........25.............................3333................................0.75
XNetHack.................3..............................501................................0.6
EvilHack.................4..............................742................................0.54
Slash'EM.................1..............................221................................0.45
DynaHack.................1..............................358................................0.28
HackEM...................2..............................837................................0.24
GruntHack................1..............................470................................0.21
UnNetHack................2.............................1245................................0.16
NetHack 1.3d.............0...............................61................................0
SporkHack................0...............................77................................0
FIQHack..................0..............................196................................0
SpliceHack...............0.............................1630................................0

Average: 7 ascensions and 747 games per version or variety, less than 1 per cent ascended. On average, one ascension out of more than a hundred games, the others are not ascended. Dungeon games are amongst the most difficult, but they are also amongst the most addictive. A combination that seems to suggest a certain... 'masochism' amongst dungeon enthusiasts.

The table given above is reasonably well aligned on our screen, but maybe not so well on other screens, or printers, as it depends on the spacing and the character font used by each machine. If the automatic formatting executed by the wiki look gibberish, as I am afraid that it look, please look at the source by activating 'Edit'.

The table shows only the proportion of ascensions in Junethack 2023, not in other competitions, and not in the total number of games played throughout the years. It is also known in Statistical Science that samples with small numbers tend to be less reliable than samples with big numbers, therefore the table should not be taken as an absolute indication of play difficulty, especially for versions or varieties in which the number of games played, or of ascensions, has been small.

Let alone should the table be seen as indication of play 'enjoyability', a very subjective perception that varies greatly from an individual player to another. The style of a player may be rapid, playing our dungeon game almost as he would play a 'point and shoot' arcade game. The style of another player may be slow, playing almost as he would play a classic game of Chess, thinking every action and considering possibilities at every few turns. Or at every turn, in particularly difficult situations.

Turn-based dungeon games are unique in accommodating to both kinds of players, rapid and slow. One is the 'action' player who goes for muscular Barbarians attacking in melée, at close quarters. The other is the reflexive player who prefers brainy Wizards casting magical spells. In between we have Walkyrie, Ranger, Knight, Samurai, Monk, and the other rôles. Every player has some choice for him.

Of 1630 games played in SpliceHack, not even one has been ascended. FIQHack, SporkHack and NetHack version 1.3d have not been ascended either, but they have been played less than 200 times each (196, 77 and 61 times), not 1630 times. At the opposite extreme we have NetHack version 3.4.3 heading the ranking with NotDNetHack and GnollHack, each with an impressive ascension rate of between three and four per cent. Four per cent exactly, in the case of NetHack version 3.4.3.

Some other factors may account for such disparities in results, from four per cent to virtually zero ascensions. NetHack version 3.4.3 was for many years the only official version available, meaning that plenty of detail in game mechanics is known to a vast number of players. Once the Dev Team decided to take action and release NetHack versions 3.6.x (NetHack version 3.5 never was official), a number of dungeon devotees started to migrate to them, but version 3.4.3 is still very well known.

However, that explanation does not account for NotDNetHack, which is not so well known. Let alone for GnollHack, which is, besides, a recent arrival on the field and known only to a select minority of dungeon enthusiasts. GnollHack can be played off-line in classic or modern mode (permanent death or not), casual or serious commit (preserving older sessions or not), with seven levels of difficulty (damage inflicted to the hero or by the hero to monsters), but in Junethack it is assumed that all the 92 GnollHack participating games have been played in standard configuration. Then, it is difficult to think of what has made GnollHack so successful in the number of ascensions. I have myself played GnollHack a few times and I am playing it at present. It is interesting in the unique features that do not exist in any other variety, but it is not 'excessively' easy. My hero has died a few times already, and in the others I have made him exit the dungeon from first depth, with the remaining pets beside.

It may be that the exclusive features of GnollHack (including even music and speech sounds with the recorded voices of actors when playing off-line) make GnollHack singularly attractive, therefore its players pay more attention and make fewer mistakes. However, that is only a hypothesis. The true cause may be a different one, yet to be discovered.

Sources:

https://junethack.net/activity

https://junethack.net/post_tournament_statistics

A more readable presentation of the statistical table given above can be read at the GnollHack Forum:

https://community.soundmindgames.com/threads/ascensions-per-version-or-variety-in-junethack-2023.75/#post-366

Cssdixieland (talk) 02:34, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Can I edit Template:Languages and Template:Languages/Lang ?

I want to use the new LinklessExists template in Languages/Lang. I don't anticipate changing Template:Languages but asking for that file too just in case.

Benefit: eliminates about 1400 redlinks from https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:WantedPages (out of about 5600 total).

Risk: might break the languages box if I do wrong. However, I'm good at rolling back, if needed.

Furey (talk) 02:23, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Do it! If anything is broken, you can always revert. You might also be able to test it in preview before you break anything by using the template in itself in a <noinclude></noinclude> section. After you edit the template, go to a few pages that use it and purge the cache (append ?action=purge to the URL) to force the page to be immediately regenerated with the updated template, and check that it's not broken. Cathartes (talk) 02:00, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
Okay great! Gonna clear my plate and do this in about a day. Furey (talk) 03:35, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
First attempt failed. The language box came up blank. Reverted after six minutes. Gonna study harder and try again on another day. (Also I am timing these attempts when there are no active translator editors working.) Furey (talk) 16:08, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Interwiki entry requests

Grouping all interwiki entry-related requests here for user and admin convenience.

To give further context: below is a series of interwiki links that were slated to be dealt with after the move to MediaWiki, but it fell to the wayside for more than a decade before another user decided to draw attention to the matter. Below is a series of lists meant to expedite the process and finish what was meant to be done back in 2011.

--Umbire the Phantom (talk) 12:26, 24 June 2024 (UTC) [Original Message: 06:53, 21 June 2024 (UTC)]

Alright, that's all the interwiki stuff addressed for the moment - I'll wait a month or so before moving forward in the event Furey decides to become active again. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 17:44, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
No response from him and it's Sept. 1 - moving forward as planned, doing another scan and then marking these as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 04:10, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'a'

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Interwiki

I recently found 3 links in NetHackWiki:policy pointing to an ad farm for Vietnamese casinos and sports gambling. They were interwiki links, and the domain had transferred to a cybersquatter.

We have 581 interwiki entries. The table has been dormant since the move from Wikia (look at the log). We can safely delete a large number of these, preventing future problems.

Round 1. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'a', except for these 6:

  • a-levels, annotation, answers, anthropology, apple, architecture

These 6 are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[apple:" or "apple:" so I have to look at hits for "apple" and there are too many of them. So punt those for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
abbenormal http://www.ourpla.net/cgi-bin/pikie.cgi?$1 0 operational -
abitur http://abi_wiki.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 "Not a valid community" -
abiwiki http://abi_wiki.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 "Not a valid community" -
absurdopedia http://absurdopedia.net/wiki/$1 0 operational russian
academicjobs http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
acadwiki http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/autocad/wiki/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
accountingwiki http://accounting.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
acronym http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=$1 0 operational -
activeworlds http://activeworlds.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
activism http://activism.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
advogato http://www.advogato.org/$1 0 redirects to an archive.org capture from 2017 -
agohwiki http://agoh.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
aiwiki http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ailab/aiwiki/aiw.cgi?$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
alaska http://Alaska.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
alife http://news.alife.org/wiki/index.php?$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
altereco http://altereco.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 "Not a valid community" -
althistory http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
altscience http://altscience.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
amazone http://Amazone.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational portuguese
americanfederationofmusicians http://afm.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 "Not a valid community" -
ancientcoins http://ancientcoins.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
ancientworld http://AncientWorld.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational russian
andstuff http://andstuff.org/wiki.php?$1 0 redirects to a blog -
anime http://anime.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
annotationwiki http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?wikiid=368&doc=$1 0 This domain is available for sale! -
aocfinland http://www.aocfinland.net/wiki/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
appropedia http://www.appropedia.org/$1 0 operational -
ar.hassa http://ar.Hassa.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
arbeitslos http://Arbeitslos.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational german
arcapedia http://www.sasoriza.us/a/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
archaeology http://archaeology.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
argentumonline http://ao2.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
armchair http://armchairgm.wikia.com/$1 0 operational -
armchairgm http://armchairgm.wikia.com/$1 0 operational -
armoriale http://armoriale.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
artemisfowl http://ArtemisFowl.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operatonal -
arxiv http://www.arxiv.org/abs/$1 0 lands on empty page -
asheron http://ac.wikkii.net/wiki/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
ashleesimpson http://ashleesimpson.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
asimov http://asimov.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
aspienetwiki http://aspie.mela.de/Wiki/index.php?title=$1 0 The requested URL was not found on this server. -
astronomy http://astronomy.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
asylum http://Asylum.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
australiawiki http://australia.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
avegost http://avegost.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -

Keep these for now

unsearchable means: "foo" gives too many hits to look through. i cannot search for "foo:" or "[[foo:"

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
a-levels http://a-levels.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable "There is currently no text in this page." -
annotation http://bayle.stanford.edu/crit/nph-med.cgi/$1 unsearchable DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
answers http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
anthropology http://Anthropology.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
apple http://techessentials.org/apple/$1 unsearchable Opaque site, definitely not a wiki -
architecture http://Architecture.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -

Furey (talk) 06:56, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 02:49, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
Verified. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 02:59, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'b'

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Interwiki

Round 2. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'b', except for this 1:

  • box

These 1 is probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[box:" or "box:" so I have to look at hits for "box" and there are too many of them. So punt this for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Furey (talk) 12:14, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Safe to delete (b)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
babylon5 http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
babysign http://BabySign.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
bahrain http://bahrain.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
baltimore http://baltimore.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
bangalore http://Bangalore.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
battlestarwiki http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
beijing http://beijing.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
bemi http://bemi.free.fr/vikio/index.php?$1 0 Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'bemi'@'172.20.245.52' (using password: YES) in /mnt/105/sda/1/a/bemi/vikio/index.php on line 302 -
benefitswiki http://www.benefitslink.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?$1 0 410 - Page No Longer Available -
berlin http://Berlin.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational german
bestpractices http://BestPractices.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
beyondvoting http://beyondvoting.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
bloggingwiki http://blogging.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
blogsome http://blogsome.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
boppard http://boppard.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
boston http://Boston.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
brasilwiki http://rio.ifi.unizh.ch/brasilienwiki/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
bridgeswiki http://c2.com/w2/bridges/$1 0 The requested URL was not found on this server. -
bswiki http://en.bswiki.com/index.php/$1 0 This domain is available for sale! -
bulbapedia http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/$1 0 operational -
businessowns http://business_owns.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
bydgoszcz http://bydgoszcz.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational polish

Keep these for now (b)

unsearchable means: "foo" gives too many hits to look through. i cannot search for "foo:" or "[[foo:".

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
box http://userboxes.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
Addressed - Bulbapedia is untouched per related discussions regarding Pokemon in the 'p' section. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 08:14, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'c'

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Interwiki

Round 3. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'c', except for these 9:

  • cache, cities, clubpenguin, cm, commons, community, consciousness, cpp, creatures

Most of these are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[cache:" or "cache:" so I have to look at hits for "cache" and there are too many of them. So punt these for now.

"clubpenguin" has an actual use: I found an article with a [[clubpenguin:xxx]] reference. So for now, leave it alone.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Furey (talk) 14:41, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Safe to delete (c)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
c2find http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FindPage&value=$1 0 operational -
calgary http://calgary.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
camarilarequiem http://camarilarequiem.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
camcorder http://Camcorder.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
cancerhelp http://cancer.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
cantonese http://cantonese.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational chinese
castlemarrach http://Marrach.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
casualty http://casualty.shoutwiki.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
celebrity http://celebrity.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
cellphones http://cell.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
censorship http://censorship.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
charlesmunch http://charlesmunch.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
chdk http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
chej http://esperanto.blahus.cz/cxej/vikio/index.php/$1 0 The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. -
chw http://chw.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
ciscavate http://ciscavate.org/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
cliki http://ww.telent.net/cliki/$1 0 Page not found -
cmwiki http://www.ourpla.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1 0 No page found -
codersbase http://www.codersbase.com/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
collegehockey http://chw.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
comedy http://comedy.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
commdesign http://commdesign.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
computervision http://computervision.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
concordwiki http://Concord.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
conferencewiki http://conferences.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
conlang http://conlang.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
connectivity http://connectivity.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
conworld http://conworld.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
corpknowpedia http://corpknowpedia.org/wiki/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
craftedbycarol http://www.CraftedByCarol.com/wiki/$1 0 Not Found [CFN #0005] -
creationmatters http://www.ourpla.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1 0 No page found -
cyclisme http://cyclisme.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -

Keep these for now (c)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
cache http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:$1 unsearchable operational -
cities http://cities.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
clubpenguin http://clubpenguinwiki.info/wiki/$1 1 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN we have a [[clubpenguin:xxx]] link!
cm http://cm.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
community http://community.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
consciousness http://teadvus.inspiral.org/ unsearchable DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN note the lack of $1
cpp http://cpp.wikia.com/ unsearchable operational note the lack of $1
creatures http://creatures.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 15:33, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
No response for all of August - verified against the list and marking as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 11:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'd'

Round 4. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'd', except for these 7:

  • delphi, dictionary, diy, dnd, documentation, doom, désencyclopédie

Most of these are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[delphi:" or "delphi:" so I have to look at hits for "delphi" and there are too many of them. So punt these for now.

"dnd" has 2 actual uses: articles with [[dnd:xxx]] references. So for now, leave it alone.

"désencyclopédie" has non-ASCII characters so I do not trust mediawiki search and interwiki prefix matching to work the same way.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Furey (talk) 17:45, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Safe to delete (d)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
datamining http://datamining.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
datsun510 http://Datsun510.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
dc database http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
dcanimated http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
dcdatabase http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
debatewiki http://debate.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
dejanews http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=$1 0 operational -
demokraatia http://wiki.demokraatia.ee/ 0 Best Text Blast Service note the lack of $1
desencyclopedie http://desencyclopedie.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
detroit http://detroit.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
deviousmud http://deviousmud.shoutwiki.com/wiki/$1 0 No such wiki -
dfw http://dfw.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
diablowiki http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
discgolf http://discgolf.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
disinfopedia http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
disney http://Disney.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
diveintoosx http://diveintoosx.org/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
dns http://dns.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
docbook http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/$1 0 operational -
doctorwho http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
doi http://dx.doi.org/$1 0 operational -
dolphinwiki http://www.object-arts.com/wiki/html/Dolphin/$1 0 ERR_TIMED_OUT -
doom_wiki http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
downsyndrome http://downsyndrome.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
dpl http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=$1 0 410 Gone -
drumcorpswiki http://www.drumcorpswiki.com/index.php/$1 0 operational -
dvdlab http://dvdlab.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
dwjwiki http://www.suberic.net/cgi-bin/dwj/wiki.cgi?$1 0 operational -
dyslexia http://dyslexia.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
dystopia http://dystopia.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -

Keep these for now (d)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
delphi http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
dictionary http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Database=*&Form=Dict1&Strategy=*&Query=$1 unsearchable operational -
diy http://diy.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
dnd http://dandwiki.com/wiki/$1 2 operational we have 2 [[dnd:xxx]] links!
documentation http://documentation.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
doom http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
désencyclopédie http://desencyclopedie.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0? Not a valid community -
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 16:05, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
No response for all of August - verified against the list and marking as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 11:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'e'

Round 5. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'e', except for these 6:

  • ec^ei, ed, emacswiki, en.cpp, events, eĉei

Most of these exceptions are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[ed:" or "ed:" so I have to look at hits for "ed" and there are too many of them. So punt these for now.

"emacswiki" has 2 actual uses: articles with [[emacswiki:xxx]] references. So for now, leave it alone.

"eĉei" has non-ASCII characters so I do not trust mediawiki search and interwiki prefix matching to work the same way.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Furey (talk) 22:20, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Safe to delete (e)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
eagleparty http://eagleparty.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
eaglesfans http://eaglesfans.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
eberron http://Eberron.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
ecei http://www.ikso.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1 0 Not Found -
echei http://www.ikso.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1 0 Not Found -
ecoreality http://www.EcoReality.org/wiki/$1 0 Under Construction -
ecovillage http://ecovillage.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
ecxei http://www.ikso.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1 0 Not Found -
education http://education.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
efnetceewiki http://purl.net/wiki/c/$1 0 Page not found on this site. -
efnetcppwiki http://purl.net/wiki/cpp/$1 0 Page not found on this site. -
efnetpythonwiki http://purl.net/wiki/python/$1 0 Page not found on this site. -
efnetxmlwiki http://purl.net/wiki/xml/$1 0 An error has been encountered in accessing this page. -
efrat http://Efrat.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
eisenbahn http://eisenbahn.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational german
elderscrollscs http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/$1 0 This wiki is currently down for backend maintenance. -
elibre http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/$1 0 operational spanish
eljwiki http://elj.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/$1 0 An error has been encountered in accessing this page. -
emailwiki http://Email.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
en.anime http://anime.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
en.hassa http://en.Hassa.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
en.linuxwikia http://en.Linux.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
en.linuxwikicity http://en.Linux.wikicities.com/wiki/$1 0 fandom.com (main page) -
en.miqra http://en.miqra.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
en.phpbb http://en.phpbb.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
en.tibia http://en.tibia.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
en.townn-titles http://en.townn-titles.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
enciclopedialibre http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/$1 0 operational spanish
enmusic http://en.music.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
eokulturcentro http://esperanto.toulouse.free.fr/wakka.php?wiki=$1 0 blank page -
esclarion http://es.clarion.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
esperanto http://esperanto.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
essences http://Essences.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
everquest2 http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
evolutionarybusiness http://EvolutionaryBusiness.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
evowiki http://www.evowiki.org/index.php/$1 0 File not found. -
expressways http://expressways.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -

Keep these for now (e)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
ec^ei http://www.ikso.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1 unsearchable Not Found special char in prefix
ed http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/$1 unsearchable DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
emacswiki http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1 2 operational we have 2 [[emacswiki:xxx]] links!
en.cpp http://en.cpp.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
events http://Events.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
eĉei http://www.ikso.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1 unsearchable Not Found special char in prefix
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 16:27, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
No response for all of August - verified against the list and marking as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 11:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'f'

Round 6. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'f', except for these 5:

  • fiction, fr.be, fr.org, freebsd, future

Most of these exceptions are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[fiction:" or "fiction:" so I have to look at hits for "fiction" and there are too many of them. So punt these for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Furey (talk) 12:03, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Safe to delete (f)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
facialcleansingproducts http://facialcleansingproducts.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
fadingsuns http://FadingSuns.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
familyguy http://FamilyGuy.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
fastribe http://fsatribe.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
featuregarden http://FeatureGarden.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
fet http://www.egnu.org/thelema/index.php/$1 0 Not Found -
feuilleton http://feuilleton.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
fi.marveldatabase http://fi.marveldatabase.com/$1 0 operational finnish
filmwiki http://film.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational german
finalempire http://final-empire.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1 0 Could not create /home/groups/f/fi/final-empire/wiki: No such file or directory -
finalfantasy http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
fineart http://Fineart.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
firefly http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
firstwiki http://firstwiki.org/index.php/$1 0 operational -
fisherymanagement http://fisherymanagement.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
flink http://flink.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational norwegian
foldoc http://foldoc.org/?$1 0 operational -
footy http://footy.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
foundationgame http://foundation.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
foxwiki http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~$1 0 The FoxPro Wiki is down, on purpose -
fr.miqra http://fr.miqra.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
freebasic http://FreeBASIC.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
freebsdman http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?apropos=1&query=$1 0 operational -
fruawiki http://frua.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
fundraising http://Fundraising.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
furry http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -

Keep these for now (f)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
fiction http://fiction.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
fr.be http://fr.wikinations.be/$1 unsearchable operational -
fr.org http://fr.wikinations.org/$1 unsearchable DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
freebsd http://freebsd.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
future http://future.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
Addressed. I'm inclined to delete fr.be and fr.org, since neither of the URLs specified are operational anymore and give me a DNS error - I've found an alternative wiki for freebsd and updated accordingly. Separately, I'm also thinking we restore finalfantasy as an entry after you verify all of this: there is an independent wiki, but it's heavily lacking in info and the Wikia Fandom™ Wiki is much more complete, since it benefited from having a p. solid userbase in the times before the Wikia Fandom™ farm of wikis went bad. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 09:15, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'g'

Round 7. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'g', except for these 6:

  • gameinfo, games, gentoo-wiki, google, grammar, gta

Most of these exceptions are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[games:" or "games:" so I have to look at hits for "games" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

"gameinfo" and "gta" have known live uses. "gameinfo" is complicated and I am working on a task for that. So keep these for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (g)

Prefix URL Uses Site statu Comments
gamefaqs http://GameFAQs.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
gamemaker http://gamemaker.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
gamewiki http://gamewiki.org/wiki/index.php/$1 0 Connection timed out -
garoumush http://GarouMUSH.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
gausswiki http://gauss.ffii.org/$1 0 Not Found -
geck http://geck.bethsoft.com/index.php/$1 0 This wiki is currently down for backend maintenance. -
gej http://www.esperanto.de/cgi-bin/aktivikio/wiki.pl?$1 0 Server Error 404 Page Not Found -
genealogy http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
gknowledge http://gknowledge.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
globalization http://globalization.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
globalvoices http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/dyn/globalvoices/wiki/$1 0 404 Page Cannot Be Found -
gmailwiki http://www.gmailwiki.com/index.php/$1 0 404 Not Found -
googlegroups http://groups.google.com/groups?q=$1 0 operational -
googlewiki http://google.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
gotamac http://www.got-a-mac.org/$1 0 operational swedish
granada http://granada.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
grapeswiki http://grapes.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
greencheese http://www.greencheese.org/$1 0 (sketchy site with a popup asking me to install a browser extension) -
grixml http://grixml.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
guilds http://guilds.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
guildwiki http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
gw2w http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
gww http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -

Keep these for now (g)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
gameinfo http://gameinfo.wikia.com/wiki/$1 several Not a valid community we have several [[gameinfo:xxx]] links!
games http://games.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
gentoo-wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/$1 unsearchable 404 Not Found -
google http://www.google.com/search?q=$1 unsearchable operational how ironic
grammar http://grammar.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
gta http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/$1 1 operational we have 1 [[gta:xxx]] link!
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 09:20, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'h'

Round 8. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'h', except for this 1:

  • homepage

This exception is probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[homepage:" or "homepage:" so I have to look at hits for "homepage" and there are too many of them. So keep this for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (h)

Prefix URL Uses Site statu Comments
hammondwiki http://www.dairiki.org/HammondWiki/$1 0 operational -
haribeau http://wiki.haribeau.de/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1 0 Your server is running PHP version 5.6.40-nmm8 but WordPress 6.3.4 requires at least 7.0.0. -
he.miqra http://he.miqra.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
helpwiki http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:$1 0 This wiki has joined forces with another wiki on the Fandom network. The wiki has been archived and we ask that readers and editors move to the now combined wiki. -
hembygd http://Hembygd.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
heraldry http://Heraldry.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
herzkinderwiki http://www.herzkinderinfo.de/Mediawiki/index.php/$1 0 Charities where You Can Sponsor a Child -
hewikisource http://he.wikisource.org/wiki/$1 0 operational hebrew
highlandgames http://highlandgames.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
historywiki http://History.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
homeschooling http://homeschooling.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
hongkong http://hongkong.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
horrorfilms http://Horrormovies.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
hrwiki http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/$1 0 operational -
htmlwiki http://HTML.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
hundewiki http://hunde.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational german
hypertexttheory http://Hypertext.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -

Keep this for now (h)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
homepage http://www.wikia.com/$1 unsearchable operational -
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 08:44, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'i'

Round 9. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'i', except for these 3:

  • ib, india, inferno

Most of these exceptions are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[ib:" or "ib:" so I have to look at hits for "ib" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (i)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
iaudio http://iaudio.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
iawiki http://www.IAwiki.net/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
idokorea http://IdoKorea.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational korea
imdb http://us.imdb.com/Title?$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
incubator http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
industrialengineering http://IndustrialEngineering.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
infosecpedia http://www.infosecpedia.org/pedia/index.php/$1 0 Connection timed out Error code 522 -
insurancewiki http://insurance.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
inteq http://inteq.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational portuguese
internationalbaccalaureate http://ib.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
internshipswiki http://internships.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
intuite http://intuite.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational french
inuyasha http://InuYasha.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
inventions http://inventions.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
investments http://investments.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
investwiki http://investwiki.ru/wiki/index.php?title=$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
ipodwiki http://ipod.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
issuepedia http://www.issuepedia.org/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
italia http://Italia.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -

Keep these for now (i)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
ib http://ib.frath.net/w/$1 unsearchable operational -
india http://india.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
inferno http://inferno.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 09:21, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete all interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'j'

Round 10. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'j'.

There are no exceptions.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (j)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
japanwiki http://japan.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
jargonfile http://sunir.org/apps/meta.pl?wiki=JargonFile&redirect=$1 0 Internal Server Error -
jefo http://www.esperanto-jeunes.org/vikio/index.php?$1 0 browser hang -
jerseycity http://jc.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
jiniwiki http://www.cdegroot.com/cgi-bin/jini?$1 0 404 Page not found -
joinme http://JoinMe.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
journalism http://journalism.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
jspwiki http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
judaism http://Judaism.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
judgedredd http://JudgeDredd.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -

Keep nothing (j)

There are no interwiki entries to keep starting with lowercase 'j'.

Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 14:05, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Verified. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 14:18, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete all interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'k'

Round 11. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'k'.

There are no exceptions.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (k)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
kabbalah http://Kabbalah.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
keene http://keene.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
keiki http://kei.ki/en/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
kerala Not a valid community 0 Not a valid community -
kerimwiki http://wiki.oxus.net/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
kmwiki http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
knowhow http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~paquetse/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
korea http://korea.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
kulturwiki http://feuilleton.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -

Keep nothing (k)

There are no interwiki entries to keep starting with lowercase 'k'.

Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 11:17, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Verified. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 12:02, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'l'

Round 12. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'l', except for these 2:

  • legal, logic

Most of these exceptions are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[legal:" or "legal:" so I have to look at hits for "legal" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (l)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
l5r http://l5r.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
laff http://laff.tixen.net/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
lambengolmor http://lambengolmor.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
lanifexwiki http://opt.lanifex.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1 0 (sketchy site with a popup asking me to install a browser extension) (specially deleted already.) use protection if you visit this url.
lasvegas http://lasvegas.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
lasvegaswiki http://wiki.gmnow.com/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
lawandorder http://LawandOrder.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
liberaltalk http://LiberalTalkRadio.com/$1 0 The domain name liberaltalkradio.com is for sale! -
libertarian http://libertarian.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
libraries http://libraries.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
linuxstudiowiki http://linuxstudio.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
linuxwiki http://linuxwiki.de/$1 0 operational german
linuxwikia http://Linux.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
linuxwikicity http://Linux.wikicities.com/wiki/$1 0 main page of fandom.com -
litcrit http://litcrit.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
lojban http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=$1 0 operational -
lomac http://lomac.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
losangeles http://losangeles.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
lostsoulswiki http://lostsouls.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
lotr http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
lqwiki http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
lucid http://Lucid.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
lug http://lug.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
lugkr http://lug-kr.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/lugwiki.pl?$1 0 Could not create /home/groups/l/lu/lug-kr/wiki: No such file or directory -
luxembourg http://luxembourg.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
lyricwiki http://lyrics.wikia.com/$1 0 Not a valid community -

Keep these for now (l)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
legal http://legal.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
logic http://logic.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
Addressed, with a note that I plan to re-establish the lotr entry using Tolkien Gateway as an alternative to Wikia Fandom™, and add a new entry "lspace" for the Discworld & Terry Pratchett wiki as well. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 09:43, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
No response in more than 2 weeks - verified against the list and marking this as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 10:34, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete many interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'm'

Round 13. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'm', except for these 17:

  • m, mac, mail, manual, matrix, me, meatball, mediawikiwiki, mediazilla, medicine, memoryalpha, metawiki, metawikimedia, metawikipedia, military, money, mw

Many of these exceptions are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[m:" or "m:" so I have to look at hits for "m" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (m)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
manga http://en.manga.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
mariowiki http://www.mariowiki.com/$1 0 operational -
marvel database http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
marveldatabase http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
mathsongswiki http://SeedWiki.com/page.cfm?wikiid=237&doc=$1 0 seedwiki.com This domain is available for sale! -
metareciclagem http://www.metareciclagem.com.br/wiki/index.php/$1 0 Error establishing a database connection -
metaweb http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=$1 0 404. That’s an error. -
metodolcient http://metodolcient.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
mexique http://mexique.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
minneapolis http://minneapolis.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
miqra http://miqra.wikia.com/ 0 Not a valid community note the lack of $1
mittelalter http://Mittelalter.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational german
moinmoin http://purl.net/wiki/moin/$1 0 operational -
morrowind http://morrowind.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
motorsport http://motorsport.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
mozcom http://mozilla.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
mozillawiki http://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php/$1 0 operational -
mozillazinekb http://kb.mozillazine.org/$1 0 operational -
moztwwiki http://wiki.moztw.org/index.php/$1 0 operational chinese
mozwiki http://mozwiki.moznetwork.org/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
musicplayerdaemon http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
muweb http://www.dunstable.com/scripts/MuWebWeb?$1 0 dunstable.com This domain is available for sale! -

Keep these for now (m)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
m http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
mac http://mac.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
mail http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/$1 unsearchable Not Found -
manual http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$1 unsearchable operational -
matrix http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
me http://me.wikicities.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable main page of fandom.com -
meatball https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/mb.pl?$1 unsearchable, 4+ known uses operational we have 4+ [[meatball:xxx]] links!
mediawikiwiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/$1 7 operational we have 7+ [[mediawikiwiki:xxx]] links!
mediazilla https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/$1 2 operational we have 2 [[mediazilla:xxx]] links!
medicine http://medicine.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
memoryalpha http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/$1 1 ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED we have 1 [[memoryalpha:xxx]] link!
metawiki http://sunir.org/apps/meta.pl?$1 1 Internal Server Error we have 1 [[metawiki:xxx]] link!
metawikimedia http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1 4 operational we have 4 [[metawikimedia:xxx]] links!
metawikipedia http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1 5 operational we have 5 [[metawikipedia:xxx]] links!
military http://military.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
money http://money.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
mw http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/$1 unsearchable, 5+ known uses operational we have 5+ [[mw:xxx]] links!
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 17:30, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
No response for all of August - verified against the list and marking as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 11:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete all interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'n'

Round 14. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'n'.

There are no exceptions.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (n)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
nagasaki http://Nagasaki.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
nashville http://nashville.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
nationalparks http://nationalparks.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
neopets http://guilds.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
netvillage http://www.netbros.com/?$1 0 ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR -
networking http://networking.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
neverend http://Neverend.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
neworleans http://neworleans.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
newyork http://newyork.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
nickelodeon http://Nickelodeon.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
nintendo http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
nl.phpbb http://nl.phpbb.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
nn.miqra http://nn.miqra.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
novelas http://novelas.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
novellas http://novelas.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
nswiki http://www.nswiki.net/index.php?title=$1 0 Buy this domain -

Keep nothing (n)

There are no interwiki entries to keep starting with lowercase 'n'.

Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 13:58, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Verified. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 14:13, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'o'

Round 15. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'o', except for this 1:

  • oracle

This exception is probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[oracle:" or "oracle:" so I have to look at hits for "oracle" and there are too many of them. So keep this for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (o)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
oeis http://www.research.att.com/cgi-bin/access.cgi/as/njas/sequences/eisA.cgi?Anum=$1 0 Page Not Found -
olpc http://wiki.laptop.org/go/$1 0 operational -
onderwijs http://onderwijs.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational dutch
openfacts http://openfacts.berlios.de/index.phtml?title=$1 0 Internal Server Error -
openwiki http://openwiki.com/?$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
opera7wiki http://nontroppo.org/wiki/$1 0 (sketchy site with a popup asking me to install a browser extension) (expedited deletion requested) use protection if you visit this site.
operabrowser http://Operabrowser.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
orgpatterns http://www.bell-labs.com/cgi-user/OrgPatterns/OrgPatterns?$1 0 404 Page not found -
orsonwelles http://welles.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
osi reference model http://wiki.tigma.ee/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
owiki http://owiki.de/index.php?title=$1 0 german

Keep this for now (o)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
oracle http://oracle.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 03:36, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Reviewed. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 03:46, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'p'

Round 16. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'p', except for these 5:

  • pc, peace, php, pokemon, pokémon

Most of these are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[pc:" or "pc:" so I have to look at hits for "pc" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

"pokémon" has non-ASCII characters so I do not trust mediawiki search and interwiki prefix matching to work the same way.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (p)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
pagan http://pagan.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
pakistan http://pakistan.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
palkbay http://palkbay.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
pangalacticorg http://www.pangalactic.org/Wiki/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
panzer_general http://pg2.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
parenting http://parenting.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
patwiki http://gauss.ffii.org/$1 0 operational -
pdamaps http://pdamaps.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
pearpc http://pearpc.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
peize http://peize.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational dutch
personals http://personals.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
personaltelco http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/$1 0 operational -
peteashdown http://vote.peteashdown.org/wiki/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
pg2 http://pg2.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
philadelphiawiki http://philadelphia.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
philippines http://philippines.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
phpbb http://phpbb.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
phpwiki http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php?$1 0 An error has been encountered in accessing this page. -
piki http://pikminwiki.com/$1 0 operational -
pikie http://pikie.darktech.org/cgi/pikie?$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
pikifan http://fanon.pikminwiki.com/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
pl.cpp http://pl.cpp.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational polish
plotwiki http://www.gaiacast.com/wiki/index.php/$1 0 404 -
pmeg http://www.bertilow.com/pmeg/$1.php 0 operational esperanto
pmid https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/$1?dopt=Abstract 0 operational -
pmwiki http://wiki.porplemontage.com/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
pnw http://pnw.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
pnwcommunity http://pnw.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
poetrywiki http://poetry.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
poewiki http://poewiki.org/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
poker http://poker.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
polaqu http://polaqu.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
powerrangers http://PowerRangers.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
ppr http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?$1 0 operational -
protoscience http://Protoscience.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
prowrestling http://ProWrestling.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
psychographic http://Psychographic.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
pt.linuxwikia http://pt.Linux.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
pt.linuxwikicity http://pt.Linux.wikicities.com/wiki/$1 0 main page of fandom.com -
pt.tibia http://pt.tibia.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational portuguese
purlnet http://purl.oclc.org/NET/$1 0 operational -
pythoninfo http://wiki.python.org/moin/$1 0 operational -
pythonwiki http://www.pythonwiki.de/$1 0 NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
pywiki http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?$1 0 Not Found -

Keep these for now (p)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
pc http://pc.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
peace http://peace.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
php http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.$1.php unsearchable, 1+ known uses operational we have 1+ [[php:xxx]] links!
pokemon http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
pokémon http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational special char in prefix
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 07:35, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
Reviewed. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 00:26, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'q'

Round 17. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'q', except for this 1:

  • query

This is probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[query:" or "query:" so I have to look at hits for "query" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (q)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
quitsmoking http://quitsmoking.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
quiz http://quiz.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -

Keep this for now (q)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
query http://re.search.wikia.com/search.html#$1 unsearchable NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID -
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 12:51, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Verified. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 12:55, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'r'

Round 18. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'r', except for these 4:

  • religion, religion-wiki, reviews, roguebasin

Most of these are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[religion:" or "religion:" so I have to look at hits for "religion" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (r)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
radioscanning http://radioscanning.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
raec http://www.raec.clacso.edu.ar:8080/raec/Members/raecpedia/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
realestate http://realestate.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
reallifesoap http://rls.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
republiconline http://RepublicOnline.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
revo http://purl.org/NET/voko/revo/art/$1.html 0 operational esperanto
rfc https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc$1 0 operational -
roadcycling http://RoadCycling.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
robotbattle http://RobotBattle.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
rollercoastertycoon http://rct.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
romhack http://romhack.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
royalisme http://Royalisme.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
rpg http://rpg.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
ru.townn-titles http://ru.townn-titles.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational russian
runescape http://RuneScape.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
russianworld http://russianworld.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -

Keep these for now (r)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
religion http://religion-wiki.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
religion-wiki http://religion-wiki.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
reviews http://reviews.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
roguebasin https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=$1 unsearchable, 10+ known uses operational we have 10+ [[roguebasin:xxx]] links!
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 17:30, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
No response for all of August - verified against the list and marking as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 11:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 's'

Round 19. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 's', except for these 6:

  • s, search, seeds, software, startup, students

Most of these are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[search:" or "search:" so I have to look at hits for "search" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

"s" has at least one use.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (s)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
s23wiki http://is-root.de/wiki/index.php/$1 0 Buy this domain. -
sageswiki http://sages.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
sagewiki http://sage.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
salmesykkel http://salmesykkel.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
samplitude http://Samplitude.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
sandiego http://sandiego.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
sanfranciscowiki http://sanfrancisco.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
sca21 http://sca21.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
schoolcomputing http://SchoolComputing.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
schools http://schools.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
scoop http://scoop.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
scouting http://scouting.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
scoutpedia http://www.scoutpedia.info/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
scratchpad http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
scriptingwiki http://scripting.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
seapig http://www.seapig.org/$1 0 Save Money on Shared or Dedicated Hosting -
seattlewiki http://seattle.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
seattlewireless http://seattlewireless.net/?$1 0 404. That’s an error. -
seldonshand http://seldonhand.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
semweb http://semweb.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
senseislibrary http://senseis.xmp.net/?$1 0 operational -
sgcommand http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
sgwireless http://sgwireless.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
shakti http://cgi.algonet.se/htbin/cgiwrap/pgd/ShaktiWiki/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
shoppingwiki http://shopping.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
simpsons http://simpsons.shoutwiki.com/wiki/$1 0 No such wiki -
sims http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
sitelibrary http://libraries.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
skypeme skype:$1?chat 0 (url not tested) -
slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=$1 0 operational -
slektami http://slektami.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
smarteam http://cm.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
smikipedia http://www.smikipedia.org/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
smw http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
socialism http://socialism.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
sockwiki http://wiki.socklabs.com/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
solarconquest http://SolarConquest.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
sosdancn http://wiki.sosdancn.org/index.php?title=$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/$1 0 operational -
sourcewatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=$1 0 operational -
spankart http://spankingartwiki.animeotk.com/wiki/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
sport http://armchairgm.wikia.com/$1 0 operational -
sports http://armchairgm.wikia.com/$1 0 operational -
squeak http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/$1 0 operational -
srpstvo http://Srpstvo.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
ssb http://www.ssbwiki.com/$1 0 operational -
stargate http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
startrekwiki http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
starwars http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 fully operational -
storypedia http://Storypedia.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
stpete http://stpete.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
strategywiki http://strategywiki.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
strikiwiki http://ch.twi.tudelft.nl/~mostert/striki/teststriki.pl?$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
suceavacounty http://Suceava.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
suisse http://suisse.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
sunrisesunset http://sunrisesunset.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
superstar http://superstar.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational czech
susning http://www.susning.nu/$1 0 ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED -
svgwiki http://wiki.svg.org/$1 0 Not Found -
svtwiki http://SVT.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
swtrain http://train.spottingworld.com/$1 0 operational -

Keep these for now (s)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
s http://www.shoutwiki.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable, 1+ known uses operational we have 1+ [[s:xxx]] links!
search http://search.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
seeds http://www.IslandSeeds.org/wiki/$1 unsearchable DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
software http://software.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
startup http://startup.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
students http://students.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
Addressed - calling audible and keeping starwars since we have the entire Jedi patch and its contents. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 17:42, 6 August 2024 (UTC)


No response for all of August - verified against the list and marking as resolved. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 11:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 't'

Round 20. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 't', except for these 3:

  • town-titles, townn-titles, translation

Most of these are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[translation:" or "translation:" so I have to look at hits for "translation" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

"town-titles" and "townn-titles" have special characters so I do not trust mediawiki search and interwiki prefix matching to work the same way.

"tvtropes" was special. I found 4 uses of [[tvtropes:xxx]]. However, 2 of them did not work, because tvtropes re-organized their articles; and were not fixable, because our interwiki link points to the Main section of tvtropes and they moved their article on NetHack to the VideoGame section. And then I saw that our article on tvtropes had obsolete information, so I updated that article, added references, and so on. At the end of my editing session, there were 0 uses of [[tvtropes:xxx]], so you can delete the interwiki link now. tvtropes certainly has a way of engaging people for longer than they planned.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (t)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
tablature http://tablature.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
talisman http://talismanonlinewiki.com/wiki/$1 0 Top Live Casino already done, expedited deletion
tardis http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
tavi http://tavi.sourceforge.net/$1 0 An error has been encountered in accessing this page. -
techcompare http://TechCompare.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
tejo http://www.tejo.org/vikio/$1 0 operational esperanto
terrorwiki http://www.liberalsagainstterrorism.com/wiki/index.php/$1 0 How To Grow Your Small Business Into a Large Business -
tesoltaiwan http://www.tesol-taiwan.org/wiki/index.php/$1 0 no wiki, redirects to its main page -
thelemapedia http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/$1 0 operational -
theopedia http://www.theopedia.com/$1 0 Not found -
theowiki http://www.theowiki.com/index.php/$1 0 ERR_CONNECTION_RESET -
thinkwiki http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
tianjin http://Tianjin.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
tmbw http://www.tmbw.net/wiki/$1 0 operational -
tmnet http://www.technomanifestos.net/?$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
tmwiki http://www.EasyTopicMaps.com/?page=$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
toronto http://toronto.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
tourism http://tourism.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
trains http://trains.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
transformers http://tfwiki.net/wiki/$1 0 operational -
transhumanism http://transhumanism.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
tricities http://huntricitiesde.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
turismo http://www.tejo.org/turismo/$1 0 operational esperanto
turriwiki http://wiki.finfur.net/index.php/$1 0 Fatal exception of type MWException -
tvtropes http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/$1 0 operational our interwiki link points to Main and their NetHack article is no longer in Main, so we no longer use any tvtropes:xxx interwiki links
twiki http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/$1 0 operational -
twistedwiki http://purl.net/wiki/twisted/$1 0 404 Page not found on this site. -

Keep these for now (t)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
town-titles http://townn-titles.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational russian
townn-titles http://townn-titles.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational russian
translation http://translation.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 03:07, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
What about: tricities, turismo, turrikwiki, tvtropes, twiki, twistedwiki? Furey (talk) 03:17, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
...bleah, I tunnel-visioned on everything above the "keep" entries - should be good now. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 03:34, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Reviewed. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 04:19, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'u'

Round 21. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'u', except for this 1:

  • university

This is probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[university:" or "university:" so I have to look at hits for "university" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (u)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
uea http://www.tejo.org/uea/$1 0 operational esperanto
ufology http://ufology.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
ukrailways http://ukrailways.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
ukroads http://ukroads.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
uncyclopedia http://www.uncyclopedia.org/wiki/$1 0 File not found (404 error) uncyclopedia moved. I changed all 1 uses of [[uncyclopedia:xxx]] to use direct https to current location.
universitywikinodewiki http://universitywikinodewiki.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
unreal http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
ursine http://ursine.ca/$1 0 Not Found -
usej http://www.tejo.org/usej/$1 0 operational esperanto
utopia http://Utopia.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -

Keep this for now (u)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
university http://universitywikinodewiki.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
Addressed with the exception of Uncyclopedia - perhaps we could put that to use since it's mentioned in relation to the game's introduction if I recall correctly (doing an ASCII rendition of the character discovering the dungeon). --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 03:05, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Fine to give Uncyclopedia a pass for now.
How about "utopia" though? Furey (talk) 03:12, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Oh, I just flat out missed that one, resolved it now - I'm tempted to think we can ditch "university" as well, since the results from just searching the word doesn't go beyond a single page, but I'm fine tabling that until the other letters are dealt with. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 03:16, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Reviewed. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 03:20, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete all interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'v'

Round 22. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'v'.

There are no exceptions.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (v)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
vancouver http://vancouver.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
vanishedlibrary http://VanishedLibrary.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
vegas http://lasvegas.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
villagearts http://www.Village-Arts.org/wiki/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
vinismo http://vinismo.com/en/$1 0 ERR_TIMED_OUT -
virtualpets http://VirtualPets.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
virus http://virus.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
visualworks http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/VisualWorks/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
vlaamseklantenbrussel http://vlaamseklantenbrussel.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational dutch
voterice http://voterice.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -

Keep nothing (v)

There are no interwiki entries to keep starting with lowercase 'v'.

Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 16:16, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Still need to delete: vancouver, vanishedlibrary Furey (talk) 19:54, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Thought I'd gotten them with the rest - cleared out now. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 20:07, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Verified. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 20:10, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete most interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'w'

Round 23. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'w', except for these 12:

  • w, why, wiki, wikia, wikibooks, wikicities, wikimedia, wikinfo, wikipedia, wikt, wiktionary, worlds

Some of these are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[w:" or "w:" so I have to look at hits for "w" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (w)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
w:c:academicjobs http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
w:c:wowwiki http://www.wowwiki.com/$1 0 operational -
warpedview http://www.warpedview.com/mediawiki/index.php/$1 0 DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN -
warzone2100 http://warzone2100.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
webdevwikinl http://www.promo-it.nl/WebDevWiki/index.php?page=$1 0 De website die u probeert te vinden is niet bereikbaar dutch
webisodes http://www.webisodes.org/$1 0 HTTP Status: 404 (not found) -
webseitzwiki http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
westport http://Westport.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
whitewolf http://whiteWolf.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikiablog http://blogs.wikia.com/$1 0 operational -
wikiaentertainment http://entertainment.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikiagaming http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikiahelp http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:$1 0 operational -
wikianswers http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
wikible http://www.wikible.org/en/$1 0 (sketchy site with a popup asking me to install a browser extension) (expedited deletion requested) use protection if you visit this site.
wikicomedy http://comedy.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikif1 http://www.wikif1.org/$1 0 ERR_TIMED_OUT -
wikifur http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikihelp http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:$1 0 operational -
wikihow http://www.wikihow.com/$1 0 operational -
wikiindex http://wikiindex.com/$1 0 504 Gateway Time-out -
wikimac http://mac.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikimon http://wikimon.net/$1 0 operational -
wikimoon http://wikimoon.org/index.php?title=$1 0 operational -
wikinews http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikiquote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikirps http://www.wikirps.org/wiki/$1 0 Page Not Found -
wikiscum http://scum.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikisource http://wikisource.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikispecies http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikitravel http://wikitravel.org/en/$1 0 operational -
wikiversity http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/$1 0 operational -
wikivoyage http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/$1 0 operational -
wikiworld http://WikiWorld.com/wiki/index.php/$1 0 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'Namespace' (T_NAMESPACE), expecting identifier (T_STRING) in /var/www/vhosts/wikiworld.com/httpdocs/wiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 46 -
windsurfing http://windsurfing.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
wlp http://wlp.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
wlug http://www.wlug.org.nz/$1 0 operational -
wnc http://wnc.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
worldcitizen http://worldcitizen.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
wowwiki http://www.wowwiki.com/$1 0 operational -

Keep these for now (w)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
w http://community.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable, 6+ known uses operational we have 6+ [[w:xxx]] links!
why http://clublet.com/c/c/why?$1 unsearchable (domain for sale) -
wiki http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?$1 unsearchable operational -
wikia http://www.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable main page of fandom.com -
wikibooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/$1 3 operational we have 3 [[wikibooks:xxx]] links!
wikicities http://www.wikia.com/wiki/$1 1 main page of fandom.com we have 1 [[wikicities:xxx]] links!
wikimedia http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
wikinfo http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/$1 2 wikinfo exists but rearranged site we have 2 [[wikinfo:xxx]] links!
wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1 unsearchable, many operational we have many [[wikipedia:xxx]] links!
wikt http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/$1 1 operational we have 1 [[wikt:xxx]] links!
wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/$1 3 operational we have 3 [[wiktionary:xxx]] links!
worlds http://worlds.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable Not a valid community -
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 21:18, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Verified. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 21:27, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete many interwiki entries starting with lowercase 'x', 'y', or 'z'

Round 24. I would like to request that an admin delete all interwiki entries starting with 'x', 'y', or 'z', except for these 5:

  • x-files, zh.anime, zh.mac, zh.wikimac, zzz wiki

These 5 prefixes have special characters so I do not trust mediawiki search and interwiki prefix matching to work the same way.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (x), (y), and (z)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
xao http://XAO.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
ypsieyeball http://sknkwrks.dyndns.org:1957/writewiki/wiki.pl?$1 0 ERR_TIMED_OUT -
zeldapendium http://www.zeldapendium.de/wiki/$1 0 operational german
zeldawiki http://zeldawiki.org/$1 0 operational -
zemirot http://zemirotdatabase.org/view_song.php?title=$1 0 operational -
zhmusic http://zh.music.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 operational chinese
zwiki http://zwiki.org/$1 0 zwiki.org link broken #6 -

Keep these for now (x), (y), and (z)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
x-files http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational -
zh.anime http://zh.anime.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational chinese
zh.mac http://zh.mac.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational chinese
zh.wikimac http://zh.mac.wikia.com/wiki/$1 unsearchable operational chinese
zzz wiki http://wiki.zzz.ee/index.php/$1 unsearchable ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED -
In regards to specifically Zeldawiki, I think that one is likely to be worth keeping because we do have at least a few Zelda-inspired monsters, possibly among other stuff (see garo, which also need a presentability pass but there you go). The rest of the "delete" table can go without contest. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 16:15, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
I am fine with keeping Zeldawiki and others at your discretion. Just make notes like the above, delete the others, mark issue resolved. Furey (talk) 18:03, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Regarding Zeldawiki, the current interwiki link (zeldawiki.org) goes to the Fandom wiki. I think it might be better to link to the independent wiki, which is at https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Main_Page. From what I recall, I think it's the same wiki team, who moved away from Fandom? --ScienceBall (talk) 11:05, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Correct. My idea was to maintain links to independent non-Wikia Fandom™ wikis and edit or establish relevant interwiki entries accordingly while deleting the other unused ones - so far ZeldaWiki and Bulbapedia come to mind as "obvious" candidates. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 11:13, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Addressed pending a judgment on zeldapendium - it's a German wiki on The Legend of Zelda that's distinct from ZeldaWiki but still part of the NIWA (independent alliance of Nintendo wikis), so I'm trying to figure out what that's about - the rest's been dealt with. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 21:19, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
For the purposes of Phase 1, just keep zeldapendium. If it gets deleted or changed 5 minutes after this issue is resolved that's up to not-me.
Verified. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 21:24, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

Request for an admin to delete many interwiki entries starting with other first characters

Round 25. This is the final round.

I would like to request that an admin delete many interwiki entries starting with other first characters except for these 2:

  • Cache, Wikihack

Some of these are probably not used, but https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Special:Search does not let me search for "[[Cache:" or "Cache:" so I have to look at hits for "Cache" and there are too many of them. So keep these for now.

Q: what if we delete an entry someone is using?

A: the link will show up in https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=5000&offset=0 . Just look for Furey:xyzzy and see how it got into the table. Basically, an interwiki reference without a table entry becomes a redlink and goes into WantedPages.

Safe to delete (other first character)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
3dgame http://3dgame.wikia.com/wiki/$1 0 Not a valid community -
AwarenessWiki http://taoriver.net/aware/$1 0 ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE -
Legowiki http://www.object-arts.com/wiki/html/Lego-Robotics/$1 0 ERR_TIMED_OUT -

Keep these for now (other first character)

Prefix URL Uses Site status Comments
Cache http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:$1 unsearchable operational -
Wikihack http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/NetHackWiki:$1 unsearchable, 2+ known uses operational we have 2+ [[Wikihack:xxx]] links!
Addressed. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 21:21, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Verified. Looks good to me. Furey (talk) 21:22, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

This issue has been resolved.

"Disallow empty edit summary" abuse filter

I think it is generally useful to encourage users to use edit summaries, because it helps people looking at page history determine what was done and why. We have Special:AbuseFilter/9, which disallows empty edit summaries except on users' own pages. However, this edit filter might hinder new users trying to ask questions. I propose that it should not trigger on talk namespaces, along with the Forum namespace, because users who are just trying to ask questions often make their first edits there. Edits on these pages are obviously discussion, and having to add "reply" in the edit summary after a section name seems redundant.

I think this could be implemented by adding a condition & !(((page_namespace % 2) == 1) | (page_namespace == 110)) to the edit filter (though somebody else should review this for correctness). All talk namespaces are odd-numbered, and 110 is the Forum namespace.

This page, as a discussion page that is not in a talk namespace, would not be exempt after the proposed change, but it is mostly used by experienced editors. It could still be added as a special case though (maybe using page_title == "Community Portal"?). Cathartes (talk) 04:10, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Seconding this with mod hat off (the filter is not something I had a hand in and have no experience with editing). --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 04:12, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
I vote yes, on this or any variation of the design that Cathartes wants to do. Furey (talk) 04:26, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
I personally have thought of just turning that damn filter to warn, rather than disallow, though I can see the argument that even a warning might discourage newer users. IMO a simpler version of what Cathartes wants to do would be to only apply the filter to places where it's needed, rather than try to carve out a list of exceptions. Offhand, I don't think we need that filter anywhere but the main namespace and maybe places like Template and Source. -Ion frigate (talk) 06:56, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Enabling it only in the main namespace and Template sounds good to me. I think using warn instead of disallow is also acceptable since I think some new/infrequent editors can't figure out why their edits are disallowed before giving up. Cathartes (talk) 00:07, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Okay, I did both - set it to trigger only in main, Template, Source, and Category, and set it to warn. If we get too many mainspace edits without summaries, we might want to put it back to disallow, but let's try the more permissive version for now. -Ion frigate (talk) 10:13, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
I think this should work out, though if it does come to that I might consider having a disallow after enough warnings in a given span of time, if at all possible - I doubt it'll be as much of a solve as needed at that juncture but it's a line of thought worth considering imo (if it's even possible with the filter). --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 10:15, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

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Regarding source references and hosting source code

Retyped from scratch because I managed to Thanos several hundred tabs...

So a discussion about how to format source references prompted me to ponder about the current state of the wiki with regards to handling sources in general: Much of the structures set in place a decade or so back were created with the assumption that the latest stable version would be 3.4.3 for the foreseeable future, which is very evidently not the case, and the source reference templates are just one among many. While most of the current active editing base - which, it bears mentioning, is much different from that of the aforementioned era - is generally diligent about specifying versions when writing source references, it's clear that some level of overhaul is overdue, both in regard to how they are written and structured on a base and across the board with how the wiki is set up to work. With 3.7 to be released at some unknown point in the future, I think it's best we get ahead of that now, especially when we're still several versions behind on both uploading and annotating, and in general have many sorely out-of-date articles for vanilla NetHack (to say nothing of the variant workload).

Far as formatting references to source code, I think "formalizing" reference styles like {{refsrc|src/allmain.c|123|nethack=3.4.3}}{{refsrc|src/allmain.c|123|nethack=3.6.7}} and [[Source:Version/folder/file]] (not exactly those styles, but the general patterns displayed) may be a good start. In terms of specifically the source code hosted here, we also need to finish out the source listing for previous versions deal with the mixed syntax highlight problem: the feature is a small extension intended to automatically hilite source lines with GeSHi, but the feature does not seem to work on current MediaWiki software. Interestingly, as some edits I've made here and there seem to indicate, removing the magic word this was intended to work with makes linking to specific lines on source code articles functional. With that in mind, I feel like it might be a good idea to remove that from all the surce code articles in question, but it's absolutely worth discussing how to most constructively handle all of the above and more here, as well as perhaps on the Style Guide talk page. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 10:17, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

My view, in one sentence: Every reference to source code must explicitly specify a version number.
Lots more here: User:Furey/References to source code
I've been fixing markup in the Source:NetHack 3.4.3 articles. They have a lot of references to [[foo.h]] and [[foo.c]] articles, and those basename articles quietly changed from 3.4.3 to 3.6.1 in December 2015, and that is completely wrong for 3.4.3 documentation.
Each time I commit an article in Source:NetHack 3.4.3, nearly every article gets added to https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Category:Pages_with_syntax_highlighting_errors. It's as if something in the GeSHi processing just chokes on nearly every article.
Not only does the syntax highlighting fail, but we lost line number anchors as well. I would really like those line number anchors, more than I would like syntax highlighting, if I had to choose between them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140403230634/https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Source:NetHack_3.4.3/src/allmain.c shows that syntax highlighting did work in 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20220810194631/https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Source:NetHack_3.4.3/src/allmain.c shows no syntax highlighting in 2022. https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Source:NetHack_3.4.3/src/allmain.c&action=history shows the last change was in 2013. So it was something in the GeSHi processing that changed, not something in the article.
It would be good for Paxed to look into this, very interested in their knowledge and opinion.
Furey (talk) 11:14, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Edited to add: I spent more time on https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Source:NetHack_3.4.3/*
https://web.archive.org/web/20181003031605/http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Source:NetHack_3.4.3/src/engrave.c is the latest capture with syntax coloring
https://web.archive.org/web/20190407192043/https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Source:NetHack_3.4.3/src/spell.c is the earlist capture without syntax coloring
so something changed between october 3, 2018 and april 7, 2019.
Furey (talk) 11:56, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Proposal to eliminate bare filename redirectors such as [[Dungeon.h]] , [[attrib.c]], and [[Arch.des]]

These redirectors are leftovers from an earlier age where we had only one source version, 3.4.3. (And even then, we had more than one source version, because we had variant sources such as SLASH'EM).

These files, by their nature, must redirect to only one version of NetHack: either 3.4.3 or 3.6.1. For many callers, the redirection goes to the wrong file. Right now, I'm fixing all the callers that produce actual wrong results, changing the caller to get right results.

After that, there will be a few callers left where the redirector happens to give them the nethack version they want. I propose to change those too, so that the caller specifies the nethack version the caller wants, not leaving it to chance. Experience since the importation of 3.6.0 shows the current approach produces an epic number of incorrect references. And it will get worse the day 3.7.0 releases.

And then I propose deleting all the redirectors with names like [[Dungeon.h]] and [[attrib.c].

The modern way to write a source reference is with refsrc, including a nethack=3.4.3 or nethack=3.6.7 parameter. You can also write refsrc with ref=no parameter to generate an inline link.

For now, there are some such as [[Monst.c]] that I may have to punt on. But I will get as much as I can.

This is a piece of a larger discussion on NetHackWiki talk:Style guide#Futureproofing_and_source_references. I am making this small proposal standalone to get started.

Thoughts and votes? Furey (talk) 21:28, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

I definitely agree those should be removed from source references, but I propose that rather than be deleted, they be made into (short) articles describing what the file in question actually does. I'm not talking a full explication/annotation, just short little blurbs like "monst.c is the file that lists every monster along with common properties such as level, AC, and attacks" or "mon.c is a file that defines many monster behaviors, such as what items they will eat or what they will drop upon death". Basically, I think this is a more achievable (and version-agnostic) form of the long-stalled annotation project.
We could also provide links to different versions of the source files on these pages, a process that should be easy to semi-automate with a template. -Ion frigate (talk) 10:51, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
I can undelete pages accordingly if need be, but this seems like a fine enough idea - I don't want it to be too short, though, just meaty enough that it can serve as a source-diving aid of sorts without getting too into the weeds. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 11:58, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Huh. This sounds like a good idea. They would be little disambiguation articles, with links at the bottom for 3.4.3, 3.6.7, 3.7-dev, and even for variant source code. They wouldn't have line numbers or functions. And if someone writes [[src/mon.c]] in a talk page, then the page won't get stale when a new version comes out, people who read source code can figure out that a comment from 2013 was talking about to the 3.4.3 version, especially if there is a link somewhere to a quickie list of release dates. Furey (talk) 12:10, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

This is more complicated than I thought. For example, NetHackWiki has 14 files and 15 redirects for the source file "dogmove.c". I would like to digest the current scheme before making proposals and carrying out sweeps. Interested editors are invited to read and comment on User:Furey/How many copies of dogmove.c?.

Meanwhile, I withdraw this proposal. I'll come back with rewritten proposals if I can get some consensus on my "how many copies" page. I am still fixing pages that link to wrong source versions.

Furey (talk) 03:15, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

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