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- Mercifull
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- Serenity
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Request For Article Deletion

Hello, I hope this is the correct page to ask for such things. I have done a lot of editing on the BSG: Deadlock articles and I have taken note that there was a duplicate article created (possibly my mistake) Please can I request that this (assault raptor) article be deleted? The duplicate for this article is here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fisher 2000 (talk • contribs).

No worries! The duplicate has been deleted. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 03:05, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

lost access to my old account

hello! this is User:DrWho42 from a new account. my old account used an old university email which i no longer have access to. if possible, i would like to regain access in preparation for the new series (love sam esmail and mr. robot!).-DoctorWho42 (talk) 02:03, 5 January 2020 (PST)

Send me an email at webmaster@battlestarwiki.org with your new email address. I should be able to update your account and send you a password reset link. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 18:40, 5 January 2020 (PST)

Improperly Archived Talk Pages

I'm seeing a lot of archived pages in the Talk namespace with "/Archive 1" appended to their names, where the corresponding unprefixed Talk page does not exist. It looks like someone mass-archived talk pages and neglected to create new talk pages or an archive index. I suggest that we move these pages back to their unprefixed titles, with a bot or mass edit tool if possible. --April Arcus (talk) 19:59, 12 April 2020 (PDT)

This was caused by the initial deployment of the StructuredDiscussions extension. It should've provided a link the "archive" from the main "talk" page, but it didn't deploy that. I'm seeing about a means to rectify that. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 14:17, 13 April 2020 (PDT)

👍 --April Arcus (talk) 16:57, 13 April 2020 (PDT)

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 Senior chiefs are, in Wikipedia's terminology, bureaucrats who have the ability to make other users into chiefs. They also have the ability to check user and other advance functions not under the purview of the chiefs.
 Currently senior chiefs are:
-*[[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]]
+* Active
-*[[User:Shane|Shane]]
+** [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]]
-*[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]]
+* Inactive
+** [[User:Shane|Shane]]
+** [[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]]
+** [[User:NCommander|NCommander]] (Technical Issues Only)
 ===Chiefs===
 Chiefs are administrators who have access to move, delete and restore pages as well as blocking malicious users. The current chiefs are:
 * Active
+**[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] (established by Joe Baudoin since August 17, 2012)
+**[[User:Enabran|Enabran]]
+**[[User:LIMAFOX76|LIMAFOX76]]
+**[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]]
+**[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]]
+* Inactive
+**[[User:CalculatinAvatar|CalculatinAvatar]]
 **[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]
-**[[User:Gougef|Gougef]]
+**[[User:Day|Day]]
-**[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]
 **[[User:Serenity|Serenity]]
 **[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]]
-* Inactive
+**[[User:Gougef|Gougef]]
-**[[User:CalculatinAvatar|CalculatinAvatar]]
+**[[User:Jonathan|Jonathan]] (PR Coordinator)
-**[[User:Day|Day]]
+**[[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] (Primary Wiki Frakr! Contact)
-**[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]]
 **[[User:Talos|Talos]]
-**[[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] (Primary Wiki Frakr! Contact)
 See [[Battlestar Wiki:Administrators|list of all chiefs on Battlestar Wiki]]
-== Javascript Reported Vandals ==
+= Discussions =
-''No recent reports.''
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-== Extension updates ==
-We may want to go through and update the MediaWiki extensions soon. In the meantime, I was thinking of seeing what other extensions people thought might be useful... -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 21:54, 10 January 2008 (CST)
-:Upgrading extensions is a good idea. You should probably hold off on it for another week or so, though, as lots of extensions are currently being fixed to load messages only when necessary, which is anticipated to cause a noticeable performance gain. An extensive list of extensions can be found [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix here]. Extensions that are used on Wikimedia wikis are listed [[w:Special:Version|here]]. I'm listing a bunch of extensions in the next section, replies about specific extensions should go there. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 05:40, 11 January 2008 (CST)
-:: Good to hear! I wasn't planning on undertaking the task immediately anyway, but I'll definitely hold off now, more than likely until the BSP.com beta on the 18th... and speaking of, it would benefit from the updates as well.
-:: A bit off topic, any idea when MW 1.12 will be released? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 15:56, 11 January 2008 (CST)
-:::Brion said he'd do his usual code review party (him reviewing all recent revisions and fixing or reverting those he doesn't like) next week. This probably means 1.12-rc1 will be released around the end of next week, and 1.12.0 a couple of days later. <small>Disclaimer: these dates are ''estimates'', provided not by Brion but by ''me''. The only thing I ''know'' is that Brion said he'd start reviewing stuff next week.</small> --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 03:32, 19 January 2008 (CST)
-::::Cool. On that same issue, anything new regarding the new bot API? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 12:32, 21 January 2008 (CST)
-:::::Lots of new stuff. The API can now move, (un)delete, protect and rollback pages, and (un)block users, and pretty much all of that is my code. These features are disabled by default, but will need to be enabled in order for my move-revert bot to work. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 14:58, 21 January 2008 (CST)
-::::::Nice. Will these be functional in 1.12? Also, any word on that whole extension optimization project? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 11:40, 22 January 2008 (CST)
-:::::::Pretty much everything the UI can do will also be possible though the API as of 1.12, with the exceptions of editing/creating pages and uploading images. The extension optimization project is pretty much complete, but I don't know whether it depends on code new to 1.12. To be sure (and for efficiency reasons), you might wanna hold off on upgrading extensions until you upgrade to 1.12. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 12:56, 22 January 2008 (CST)
-== Proposed extensions ==
-*<s>[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser CheckUser] allows privileged users to get a list of all IPs a user has used, and the other way around. This makes it easy to check for sockpuppetry (multiple users on one IP). We could adopt a protocol similar to Wikipedia's in which only a few users (Senior Chiefs in our case) can perform CheckUser checks, and others can request them through [[BW:CHECKUSER]].</s> Already installed, albeit an ancient version that doesn't [[Special:Version|list itself]].
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Oversight Oversight] allows privileged users to hide old revisions that may contain copyrighted or otherwise illegal content, so they're invisible to everyone save other privileged users. There is a branch implementing this natively, but I don't know whether it will be merged before the 1.12 release (I'm asking around, though).
-*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EasyTimeline EasyTimeline] can create graphical timelines from wikitext. This could be a nice addition to the timeline articles.
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Countdown Countdown] could replace [[Template:Countdown]]'s functionality.
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof AntiSpoof] prevents malicious users from registering as, say, "Ƈatrope", and impersonating me.
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist SpamBlacklist] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Username_Blacklist Username Blacklist] could be used for fighting spam, but we don't really have much of a spam problem (yet?).
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EditWarning EditWarning] displays a notice on top of the edit page if someone else is also editing that page.
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FireStats FireStats] generates all kinds of statistics information.
-:: We've already got CheckUser. We don't use it much, though. Still, it can stand to be upgraded, no doubt. The others will probably help... and I would really like it if the EditWarning extension would lock out other edits as well, so we can get rid of the need to lock down articles before new episodes air. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 16:00, 11 January 2008 (CST)
-:::EditWarning, Countdown and maybe EasyTimeline would be useful. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:12, 11 January 2008 (CST)
-::::EditWarning doesn't lock out other edits. Imagine someone opening an edit tab and closing it again (dunno if EditWarning detects that, don't think so) and EditWarning blocking the article for another hour or so. Still, there's always the edit conflict detection stuff, so someone stubbornly editing despite a message screaming "SOMEONE ELSE IS EDITING THIS PAGE" isn't screwed immediately. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 15:21, 13 January 2008 (CST)
-I was also thinking of this [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SelectCategory Select Category] extension, which shall permit people to choose categories, so people can easily categorize articles. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 01:11, 12 January 2008 (CST)
-:Nice ideas, but I don't like to introduce extensions that make modifications to the databases since it would have to be done on every one. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 01:24, 12 January 2008 (CST)
-::SelectCategory would also be nice. And why is adding a DB table so bad? You can combine all those CREATE TABLE statements into one .sql file and import them from the command line (or through PHPMyAdmin). Shouldn't take too much time. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 15:21, 13 January 2008 (CST)
-:::Shane's concern, if I'm reading him correctly, is more to how such extensions would react to our set up, since we're not running one instance per language version, but rather one instance for all the wikis. On the other hand, we can back up everything (which we do anyway) and, should something get screwed up, just uninstall the extension and restore from the backups. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 22:26, 13 January 2008 (CST)
-::::We're running one set of PHP files for all languages, then? Wikipedia does that too. Although screwing up stuff with CREATE TABLE statements is unlikely, you probably wanna do it just to be safe. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 14 January 2008 (CST)
-::::::Still different databases. The only wiki that has it's own set of files of the Hanger Bay, but I am about to trash that since we don't do anymore work over there, unless it's a serious change. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 16:53, 15 January 2008 (CST)
-:::::::Yeah, different databases, so that means running seven identical queries on seven different databases. Shouldn't cause too much trouble. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 07:55, 16 January 2008 (CST)
-Maybe we should vote on this matter some time in the near future? --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 12:57, 22 January 2008 (CST)
-== [[User:Centurion]], [[User:Centurian]] (and [[User:Chicken]]) ==
-After running a check user on [[User:Centurion]] and [[User:Centurian]], I've discovered that they were created at the same IP address, which is in the checkuser log. The only reason I ran the checkuser is because the two names were created within six minutes of one another.
-Upon running the check user, I've discovered that someone at the IP address also created [[User:Chicken]] on January 17th.
-Anyway, I've contacted the users in question and notified them of the possible sockpuppet issue. (They may be on a shared IP for all I know.) Still, keep an eye out for anything. Just FYI. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 12:22, 21 January 2008 (CST)
-:Copy. Very little difference on those names. :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 12:55, 21 January 2008 (CST)
-:Problem resolved. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 13:19, 21 January 2008 (CST)
-:: Excellent. :) -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 14:11, 21 January 2008 (CST)
-== Absence of Mercifull ==
-Guys, I've tried to contact [[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] but have not received a response to my e-mails. In my talks with Shane, he tells that he hasn't talked to him either, so I am going to put him on [[BW:LOA|leave]], unless anyone has any objection or new information. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 05:49, 27 January 2008 (CST)
-:Yeah, I wondered what's up with him :s -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 05:51, 27 January 2008 (CST)
-:Concur. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 13:37, 27 January 2008 (CST)
-Update. Shane's heard from him. He's been very busy and was recently promoted at his job. :) -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 23:37, 29 January 2008 (CST)
+== Request For Article Deletion ==
+Hello, I hope this is the correct page to ask for such things. I have done a lot of editing on the BSG: Deadlock articles and I have taken note that there was a duplicate article created (possibly my mistake) Please can I request that [[Assault Raptor|this]] (assault raptor) article be deleted? The duplicate for this article is [[Assault Raptor (Deadlock)|here]]. {{unsigned|Fisher 2000}}
-:Given how busy I've been while at a ''lack'' of work since October, I can understand... --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 16:20, 30 January 2008 (CST)
+: No worries! The duplicate has been deleted. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 03:05, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
-== Memcached, APC, and performance optimization in general ==
+== lost access to my old account ==
+hello! this is [[User:DrWho42]] from a new account. my old account used an old university email which i no longer have access to. if possible, i would like to regain access in preparation for the new series (love sam esmail and ''mr. robot''!).-[[User:DoctorWho42|DoctorWho42]] ([[User talk:DoctorWho42|talk]]) 02:03, 5 January 2020 (PST)
+: Send me an email at webmaster@battlestarwiki.org with your new email address. I should be able to update your account and send you a password reset link. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 18:40, 5 January 2020 (PST)
-We [[User talk:Steelviper/Archive3#Server stuff|discussed this]] a while ago, and it was more or less concluded that we should try APC. I also mentioned memcached, which caches various stuff, and is also required for the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamRegex SpamRegex] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RegexBlock RegexBlock] extensions, [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRateLimits rate limiting] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgAccountCreationThrottle account creation throttling]. What's the current status on this? Has anyone tried either of these yet? --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 09:13, 1 February 2008 (CST)
+== Improperly Archived Talk Pages ==
+I'm seeing a lot of archived pages in the Talk namespace with "/Archive 1" appended to their names, where the corresponding unprefixed Talk page does not exist. It looks like someone mass-archived talk pages and neglected to create new talk pages or an archive index. I suggest that we move these pages back to their unprefixed titles, with a bot or mass edit tool if possible. --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] ([[User talk:April Arcus|talk]]) 19:59, 12 April 2020 (PDT)
+: This was caused by the initial deployment of the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StructuredDiscussions StructuredDiscussions extension]. It should've provided a link the "archive" from the main "talk" page, but it didn't deploy that. I'm seeing about a means to rectify that. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 14:17, 13 April 2020 (PDT)
+:: 👍 --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] ([[User talk:April Arcus|talk]]) 16:57, 13 April 2020 (PDT)