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Vandal: 213.64.230.206

I dealt with a beginning spammer/vandal on several pages now, but they've just hit my user page too. Special:Contributions/213.64.230.206. - Jack McKalling (talk) 19:35, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

They are currently active, and one of their edits that is still the current revision, cannot be undone due to my correcting edit matching a blacklist filter (how could theirs have made it through then?!). -Jack McKalling (talk) 19:42, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Handled, not sure which filter you ran into though. –Sonicwave ^talk 19:59, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Nixinova: retiring my admin and bureaucrat perms

Since I have been virtually inactive over the past year with regard to my use of elevated rights, I've retired my administrator and bureaucrat roles on the wiki as I am no longer active enough to justify having them. There is now just one bureaucrat, so maybe someone should be promoted to fill my place  Nixinova   T   C   05:17, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

My activity has waned also but I still check in 3 or 4 times per week, mostly to reduce the backlog of pending deletions (and I've taken a big chunk out of it since I became an administrator here). On English Wikipedia, the only things a bureaucrat can do are promote editors to administrators or bureaucrats and rename accounts. Is the same is true here? I could take it on. I don't expect I'll be needing the 'crat abilities much, however.

I do think we need an administrator with expertise in Minecraft Dungeons. I've been active in that namespace, but only doing gnomish maintenance work like getting things into compliance with the style guide. I don't play the game so I don't know much about it. I play only Minecraft Bedrock Edition.

On the other hand, what harm does it do for you to keep the permissions, even if you're inactive? Amatulic (talk) 21:00, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Bureaucrats can also promote patrollers, bots and directors and delete individual revisions in accordance with the RevisionDelete policy. Neither of these should be much additional workload though, and SOAP members here can also handle RevDel requests. –Sonicwave ^talk 18:45, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

OK, it appears that I have the "bureaucrat" attribute now.

Hmm. I don't really feel any different. :) If anything needs doing, let me know. Amatulic (talk) 23:16, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Offensive vandalism on Splash page

User Maxieqwq made edits to the Splash page, specifically in the descriptions of some of the splashes about gender and allyship. Please block this user. That antibot (talk) 22:17, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

 Done --MarkusRost (talk) 22:43, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Continuous Blocking

To whom it may concern, I keep trying to upload my contribution to the wiki, but it keeps disallowing my contribution because of “Extra protection for frequent spam targets,” Can someone explain this to me? – Unsigned comment added by Susolotl (talk • contribs) at 22:51, 4 April 2023 (UTC). Sign comments with ~~~~

You are trying to edit Talk:Minecraft Wiki which has some extra protections as it's a common spam target. That page is also just for discussing changed to the main page. Additionally the content you are trying to add is referring to modded content, which doesn't get documented on this wiki. --MarkusRost (talk) 23:19, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Resource Pack article needs the last edit to be reverted

The font category on [1] has had the JSON tree describing custom fonts all messed up in the previous edit by User:ATizuHD. I attempted to undo the change since it was invasive, but it involved removing a section which was added (a redundant section), and I was flagged by the auto filter as a New Contributor as I don't often make edits here. I request that an admin revert the edit and fix the page. – Unsigned comment added by Dominexis (talk • contribs) at 01:27, 17 April 2023‎ (UTC). Sign comments with ~~~~

Add a page for the Minecraft Edu Edition "Ender Communicator"

This item is only found in Edu Edition, and only in the Hour of Code 2020 map, which is one of the demo lessons. It allows the player to travel between 2 locations. The Villager Town or the Illager Town. AviatorLawsome (talk) 11:42, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

It has already been confirmed to be a re-textured fishing rod, so it will not be added. BDJP ^(t|c) 12:10, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Update DidYouKnow

The "Did You Know" facts have not been updated for a while now. Would one of the admins like to sync it with the editcopy? Windwend (talk) 22:13, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

I'm happy to help, but I need to learn more. Is there some sort of vetting process to determine what goes into the editcopy? And is there an easy way to sync it other than copying and pasting? Amatulic (talk) 15:30, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't have access to the admin view so I don't know how it is done, sorry I can't help directly on this. But I'd imagine there is some kind of "sync with editcopy" button, similar to the "diff with editcopy" button that non-admins have access to. Maybe another admin would be able to teach you how to do it. Windwend (talk) 18:22, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

There isn't any way to sync it besides copy-paste (and looking at the "diff with editcopy" to see the changes), and no vetting process for the editcopy, although it looks like Windwend has been the only one updating it for the most part. –Sonicwave ^talk 19:28, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Who keeps reverting my edits on Mob?

I'm just fixing some typos and someone is reverting all of my changes.– Unsigned comment added by CeresTheDwarf (talk • contribs). Sign comments with ~~~~

These are your changes. The only typo fix I could find was your change from "behavior" to "behaviour"; however, per the spelling guidelines, this is actually incorrect. SLScool 15:01, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

In addition you've switched around some mobs from previous mob votes, introducing incorrect information on the page. Please do not reinstate these changes again. –Sonicwave ^talk 18:46, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

How is "behaviour" incorrect? it is an alternate spelling of behavior, not something that should be fixed. Also, the "introducing incorrect information on the page" thing is wrong, it is correct information.– Unsigned comment added by CeresTheDwarf (talk • contribs). Sign comments with ~~~~

Yes, "behaviour" is an alternate spelling of "behavior". However as documented at MCW:SPELLING this wiki uses American English for both consistency across articles as well as because that's the default in-game language used. -MarkusRost (talk) 10:20, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Sprites are all broken

I notice that all the sprites are not loading properly, including block sprites, entity sprites and so on. Does anyone know what has caused this, and how this may be fixed? Windwend (talk) 16:58, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Correction: Entity sprites seem to be working, but block sprites are not. Take this Silk Touch page for example. My hypothesis is that sprites do not work in wikitables only. But they work in the Blocks template page which is quite weird. Windwend (talk) 17:01, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Fandom pushed an update to fix sprites inside portable infoboxes today. This seems to have unintentionally broken all widgets complete. A high priority ticket has been filed. MarkusRost (talk) 17:13, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, can you paste a link to the ticket? Windwend (talk) 17:17, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

It's a ticket on Fandom's private Jira instance, so I can't link it. However it's a "P1: Critical" so a fix or at least revert is expected soon. MarkusRost (talk) 17:25, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

The fix for sprites inside portable infoboxes has been reverted, widgets and all other sprites are now working correctly again. MarkusRost (talk) 19:13, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

I cannot seem to edit the ‘Experience’, however was trying to add that the maximum levels you can get are 24791.

Achievement not supported in the dark mode

Hi, I don't visit this wiki, as I work on another wiki that I'm an admin at. But to report, as I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, I just notice it from my notification that lead me to this page (https://minewiki.pl/en:Special:Achievements#category=make-edits), and I'm like I can't read anything until I notice why, it not good in dark mode but yes in light mode. Can this be brought to the admin's attention to fix it?

Just thought to let you know about it. As I don't visit this wiki, but it came on my notification, why I'm here, apologise for it, as I'm not sure how it got on my notification, but I just had to let you know about the theme background issue.

As I will carry on working on the wiki I'm at now. Testing Testing.... XD 00:09, 10 July 2023 (UTC) AnimPerson1 (talk)

"Java Edition Classic" page was vandalized for advertisement

Hey guys, I noticed that someone has vandalized the Java Edition Classic page by adding an advertisement for their classes in Pune, India. I cannot undo this edit myself because I am a "new user", so someone else should undo it. Thanks - IProgramMC (talk) 11:16, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for giving notice about this. I've fixed it. For a next time though, know that this isn't an admin-exclusive action and should preferrably be posted on the MCW:CP. - Jack McKalling (talk) 11:30, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Although there is a difference between rollback and undo, both accomplish the same thing. Jack McKalling (talk) 11:32, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I was directed here though. I'll keep that in mind. IProgramMC (talk) 12:56, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Restore the deleted page

I am editing zh:Minecraft Wiki:沙盒/教程/End of light mob farms(Tutorials/End of light mob farms),and I need some content about "Slicing portal". But Tutorials/Slicing a portal was removed. Can you help me restore this page or the content of this page? Liaoxiangbin (talk) 05:30, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

@Liaoxiangbin: That page was deleted because it had no content, just a {{WIP}} tag and nothing else. Amatulic (talk) 17:13, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Jack o'lanterns Enchantment conflict of information

On the Jack o'lantarn page, under the Enchanting section, it states " Jack o'lanterns can be enchanted with curses using an anvil in all versions before 1.20.‌[Java Edition only] "
But Then lower down the page, in the History section on the table for Java Edition it says " Jack o'lanterns can no longer receive curse enchantments through an anvil. " for the 1.13 17w47a version.
Which should mean one of these statements is incorrect or incomplete. 100Temp (talk) 01:52, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

This is not something you need an admin for. Please check the instruction above, this is something for the MCW:CP. - Jack McKalling (talk) 11:46, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Add me, castpixel

Christina Antoinette Neofotistou

senior UI artist since november 2022 aka @castpixel on twitter, pixel artist

Made the "tron" high contrast theme for java Made a number of illustrations yet to be revealed – Unsigned comment added by CASTPIXEL (talk • contribs) at 00:44, 31 August 2023 (UTC). Sign comments with ~~~~

Welcome CASTPIXEL, I've verified your account with Adrian. I'll hereby ask for a profile page to be added for you. - Jack McKalling (talk) 07:52, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Vandalism by User:DressingBlessingDress

All of this user's edits have introduced broken links, formatting errors, and incorrect information. Most of the edits appear to haphazardly replace words with synonyms. Meeples10 (talk) 00:18, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

I just tried rewriting the contents. I'm sorry to cause troubles, could you tell me how to make proper edits?DressingBlessingDress (talk) 01:01, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Why are either of you still editing fandom? All the other editors moved to a new site - check out Minecraft Wiki:Moving from Fandom or https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/16r3y8x/the_minecraft_wiki_has_moved_from_fandom_to/ Hazentol (talk) 01:07, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

That should probably be made more obvious to people reading this wiki, maybe with a global page header. Meeples10 (talk • contribs) 05:05, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

I might expect the harmless formatting changes, and maybe a bit of the harmful changes, from the visual editor (only for the three edits with the "Visual edit" tag), which I won't blame DressingBlessingDress for. However, I agree with Meeple10's assessment that the edits are mostly harmful. For example, you generally shouldn't be capitalizing the names of items. You can check the capitalization section of the style guide for what should and should not be capitalized. You also shouldn't try to replace in-game names with synonyms. For example, in your edit to Java Edition 1.20, "corresponding" and "unique" might have been okay if those were the terms we used across the rest of the wiki, but "board," "peeled," and "flag" were not as they replaced the actual in-game names of "crafting table" and "slab," "stripped," and "sign," respectively.

As for linking to the forked wiki: that is not allowed per the Forking Policy established by Fandom. We had an announcement, and it ran for its full two weeks (plus 7 hours because I looked at the time stamps incorrectly, plus another minute because I was slow), but that's it. SLScool 06:32, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Approx 11 Vandalism/Spam pages need re-deletion due to database rollback

Due to the database rollback, 3 mainspace articles (containing only spam/vandalism) and 8 pages within Category:Pending speedy deletion need re-deletion.

Mainspace articles containing spam/vandalism:

• Minecraft beta 1.8
• Pyrozome
• Pyrosome

Category:Pending speedy deletion should contain 0 pages and files, and be completely empty. User pages that requested deletion should be deleted, due to author request.

There should be 11 entries in the deletion log within a few minutes of each other, showing all 11 of these pages being removed.

Delvin4519 (talk) 18:56, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

The first three aren't really spam/vandalism. The first would be fine if we normally had "Minecraft [stage] 1.x" as redirects, but we don't, so I'll delete it. The other two are spellings of the sea pickle's proper name ("sea pickle" is a nickname). However, to my knowledge, we do not normally have such things as redirects, and for that reason, I'll delete them.

I'll take a look at the speedy deletion category. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. SLScool 19:28, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

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Sure thing. SLScool 03:55, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

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