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arkirus.fun deleted /Main_Page "Author request: content was: "<div class="iwc-homepage__container iwc-homepage__container--introduction" style="--background-color: #f8f9fa"><div class="iwc-homepage__content h-card"> <!--
{{alert|[https://events.indieweb.org/2026/04/iwc-2026-dusseldorf-demos-rA8lxDrmr3mV IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf demos livestream!]}} --> == What is the IndieWeb? == <span class="p-summary">The <a...", and the only contributor was "[[Special:Contributions/Aaronparecki.com|Aaronparecki.com]]" ([[User talk:Aaronparecki.com|talk]])"# arkirus.fun deleted /User:Arkirus.fun "content was: "Hey, I'm arki and all this space called arkirus is my home. My age and name are irrelevant {{Infobox person |name = "arki" |url = https://arkirus.fun |photo_url = https://arkirus.fun/_image?href=%2F_astro%2Favatar.D3dMboRD.png&w=2000&h=2000&f=webp |summary = I'm a researcher in computer science and physics; I love reading, and I enjoy philosophy and literature in g...", and the only contributor was "[[Special:Contributions/Arkirus.fun|Arkirus.fun]]" ([[User talk:Arkirus.fun|talk]])"
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rmendes.net created /Template:Rmendes.net (+140) "Created page with "<span class="h-card" style="white-space:nowrap">
{{sparkline|https://rmendes.net/images/rick.jpg}} [[User:Rmendes.net|Ricardo Mendes]]</span>"" (view diff)WinnerWind joined the channel
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WinnerWind What on earth happened to the main page on the indieweb wiki? a user named akirus.fun deleted the entire main page. should it be reverted?
# WinnerWind akirus.fun doesn't even load, is this a mallicious decision?
# WinnerWind nope, id ont have permission to revert or see the content before deleition ^_^`
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# WinnerWind OK, just noticed that every user has permission to delete every page. this looks like an oversight. after the main page is brought back maybe this should be changed?
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[capjamesg] I’ll see if I can revert this.
# [capjamesg] Thank you for flagging WinnerWind++
# [capjamesg] It looks like I can’t access the page either.
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# [capjamesg] I tried to look through the revision history manually but I couldn’t see anything.
# [capjamesg] [tantek] aaronpk Can you use https://indieweb.org/Special:Undelete to undelete “Main Page”?
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# [capjamesg] Never mind, I got the content from the commit before it was deleted (https://github.com/indieweb/wiki/blob/122344a8d4773ae8c5191086bf0b770f6c43dba6/data/M/Main%20Page.txt) and recovered the page 🙌
# [capjamesg] We should probably lock the home page though.
# [capjamesg] And ban http://akirus.fun.
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# WinnerWind [capjamesg]: it looked like a mistake to me to be honest
# WinnerWind they deleted their talk page almost a minute later. the home page deletion could be a mistake?
# WinnerWind but yes we should definitely lock the home page and other important pages with a wikipedia style user restriction system
# WinnerWind doesnt have to be as deep or detailed but as long as no one can delete the home page again lol
# WinnerWind oh no! did you copy paste the home page's content back? that resets the history on MediaWiki >_<
# WinnerWind shouldnt be that big of a deal though ^_^ glad it could be brought back
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# WinnerWind [capjamesg]: you need sysop permission on MediaWiki to revert pages or to view deleted pages' content, very weird rule indeed. deletion/moving is by default allowed for all users
# WinnerWind definitely an incident to set up user permissions for (sorry for repeating it so many times but this should be done asap imo)
# [capjamesg] I did copy the home page’s content back 😬 I figured that was better than having the home page blank with the person’s domain name (albeit their MediaWiki user profile, but still showing their domain) showing in the message that said the page was deleted.
# WinnerWind i guess that's true ^_^` oh well, it happens i guess. maybe later on a wiki admin could do some tricks to get the history back (not sure how well that'd go)
# [capjamesg] We have the full history backed up in GitHub, which is clunky, but we do have the data.
# [capjamesg] (https://github.com/indieweb/wiki for reference)
# WinnerWind tx!
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# thamara_k wow, this is kinda mad
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# thamara_k deletion for admin only makes sense imo
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tantek.com deleted /Main_Page "content was emergency restore"
# tantek.com restored /Special:Log/delete "undeleted "[[Main Page]]""
# tantek.com edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:Arkirus.fun]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled): deleted Main_Page" (view diff)
# tantek.com edited /Special:Log/rights () "changed group membership for User:Jamesg.blog from (none) to sysop, bureaucrat" (view diff)
# tantek.com created /shibboleth (+188) "prompted by [capjamesg], self-referential dfn and encouragment to check wikipedia" (view diff)
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[KevinMarks] how do I tell if I have admin?
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# [KevinMarks] it says autoconfirmed users
# [capjamesg] accepts the promotion!
# [capjamesg] [tantek]++ for restoring the page in full.
# [capjamesg] Also, I was just going to look up the person’s site again and they had a blog and they had sent me an email before.
# [capjamesg] It might lend credence to WinnerWind’s idea that it was a mistake, but I’m not sure how easy it is to confuse deleting a user page with the home page of the site.
# [capjamesg] Nevertheless, I’m glad things are all back up!
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# WinnerWind [capjamesg]: it's pretty easy, ive done this mistake on MediaWiki a few times before which is why i stopped using MediaWiki for personal wiki sites
# WinnerWind the deletion form is kind of confusing
# WinnerWind everything about MediaWiki is kind of confusing to be honest ^_^`
# WinnerWind i think the wikipedia style of deletion is good. deletion is a process that people can vote on and then things get deleted only if enough people vote AND an admin steps in to delete it
# WinnerWind if im not mistaken, isnt everyone autoconfirmed after 30 days?
# WinnerWind same with moving
# WinnerWind [tantek]: probably they decided to quit the indieweb but was still logged in, but before doing so they thought they might delete their user page, which makes sense tbh
# WinnerWind either that or weak indieauth
# WinnerWind slightly offtopic but their site was really cool before it went down. i actually remember seeing it in the wild once
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