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== Port wine finish ==
--[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 16:16, 7 September 2006 (CDT)


== Dutch Season 2 Airdates ==
I'm pretty sure that's what he said, unless you hear differently. It also seems to match the description of the Quinta Ruban (Port Cask Extra Matured), mentioned on the [[w:Glenmorangie|Wikipedia article]]. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:27, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
: Actually, it's [http://www.whiskymag.com/whisky/brand/glenmorangie/whisky582.html Glenmorangie Port Wood Finish]. :) -- [[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> 14:34, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
::I didn't even ''listen'' to the podcast yet (is ashamed), I just thought it made no sense at all and changed it to something phonetically close that did make sense (that's what I meant by "intuition" in my edit summary). I know I'm not supposed to do that, but it seemed like an obvious error to me and the podcast was in pre-verification stage. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:43, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
:::I don't see that as a problem. Don't sweat it. -- [[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> 16:50, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
::::Well you know, the [[BW:POD]] guideline state (and rightly so) that one should always listen to the podcast before offering "corrections", because RDM's sentences sometimes don't make that much sense. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:54, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::Catrope nailed it. All we should do as transcribers is write what he says. However, when it comes to links, I feel like it's ok to link to what he means (if it's obvious from the context what he's actually talking about). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:21, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::That's what we always do. I am wary of the dropped words like [this] in [[Podcast:The Ties That Bind]]. They're mostly unnecessary and not used in any of the other podcasts. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 20:24, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


Thanks for the compliment regarding my English, Catrope!(And yes, I'm Dutch as well) I come by here occassionally, though not much recently, since I seem to have trouble getting the images on the website to appear correctly (they're all replaced by the 'No hotlinking' icon for some odd reason [http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/8991/bsgwikiproblemnx3.jpg (see here)]. Do you have similar problems?
== SSH ==


I noticed you're Dutch too, so that's why I was wondering.. [[User:Jarnomiedema|Jarno Miedema]] 18:41, 4 January 2007 (CET)
I did give you access to SSH so you could run the update php file right? [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 21:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
:Yeah, BSGWiki SSH is working fine for me, it's Wikimedia. A bug was discovered in Debian's openssl package which caused the SSH key generator to generate too predictable keys (they're supposed to be random), so my RSA key to Wikimedia SVN was disabled. That's why I created a new one and that's also why I haven't put 1.13 online yet as I can't access SVN until my new key is processed.
:There's also a problem with the SVN program on the servers: it's not linked to neon (whatever that is), so it can't download anything through HTTP. That's not much of a problem right now, though, as I'll just update on my machine and upload, but it's something you should know if you ever decide to play around with SVN on the server. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 21:13, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
::We are using redhat, and yes.. I got SVN runing on here with no problems on svn.frakmedia.net :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 03:24, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
:::Do you mean the SVN server or client? Either way, I get a "host not found" for svn.frakmedia.net --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
::::Server. your right. :P I have it under apollo. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 11:38, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::It turns out I don't have write access to the hb directory, it's all 755 bsgwiki/bsgwiki in there. Could you run <code>chmod -R g+w hb</code> so the hb directory and everything inside it is writable by the bsgwiki group? --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 11:46, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::Will do. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 12:43, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::Joe beat me to it. :P [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 12:45, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::::Thanks, uploading now. 60 MB of small files will take some time, though. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 12:48, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::::Yeah... since your overseas it will take just a little bit longer. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 12:49, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::::::I ran the update on HB for 1.13. I'll await some tests :D [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 15:17, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
:::Bots dir done. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 20:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC)


== Netherlands Flag ==
== Clear to Commit ==


Should have told me. :-) Uploading.. i'll let you know when it's up. :-) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 16:49, 21 January 2007 (CST)
You are clear to upgrade all wikis to 1.13, Saturday 31st anytime after 0500 hours. Wikis should be backed up by 0500. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 00:32, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
:Uploaded... {{flag|NL}}. :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 16:59, 21 January 2007 (CST)
:Good. However, I'll be on an island on Saturday. Is it OK if I do it on another day, like tomorrow (=Thursday), Friday or Monday? Also, 0500 in which timezone? --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
:I rather run a MYSQL backup before we do anything. I will be back after noon my timezone EDT. I'll run a backup. In theory it can be done anytime. Saturday was the day the backup happens automaticly after the episode airs. But it shouldn't take the long for updating. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 10:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
::Alright. Drop me a note when you've done the backup. Your noon is my 6PM, so I should be able to respond quickly unless you catch me during dinner. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 10:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
:::Reason why we are doing a single auth database is so we can use it on all the FrakMedia wikis. :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 10:33, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
::::Theoretically, you ''could'' (ab)use one of the existing databases for that. My update.php addition was reverted, BTW, because it tried to add the CentralAuth to ''all'' databases instead of just one. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 10:50, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::Ok. I ran a backup of all the databases. I have created a database called "auth_wiki" same username. I will send you the password email. I am importing the SQL file into that database. I got it directly from the SVN. Anything else? [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 11:30, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::BTW, update.php should drop the tables that are decrepited. It's made the EN database weird since it's been around forever and doesn't match up well with newer database looks. I don't want to manually do it since I have no idea what tables are still being used. :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 16:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::::You can see which tables are old [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_layout here]. update.php doesn't DROP them because wikis generally don't have DROP permissions. Thanks for the password, I'll get on it tomorrow. First I gotta watch [[Sine Qua Non]] with a couple of friends tonight :P --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 17:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::::Then you should have --drop-table I'll give the database user drop permissions. :D [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 18:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::::::Sine Qua Non was cool, but I'm kind of tired now (it's 11 PM), so I'm gonna go get some sleep. I'll probably do the upgrade tomorrow afternoon (morning in the US). Seeing as quite a few edits were made and probably will be made today, you probably wanna run another backup tonight (your 11PM-ish, that is). --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 21:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::::::I will run it right before I goto bed, which will be my 1am EDT. BTW -- Sleep is for the weak! :D [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 22:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::::::Heading to bed. It's running so it should be done by the time you read this next. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 04:13, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
:::Seems to only have one error: [[Special:MergeAccount]]. Is php missing something? [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 11:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
::::Err, what the hell? You did the upgrade? I know I didn't do anything... Anyway, it says "no wiki for bsgwiki_de", maybe something's wrong with your CentralAuth configuration? --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 11:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
::::Yeah. LOL! I did it at 6:30am EDT. You can take a look @ the CentralAuth stuff. I done all I can do. :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 11:59, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::I will. I have real-life stuff to do, though, so I can't guarantee I'll do it this afternoon (CEST), or even today. If not today, I'll definitely do it tomorrow, though. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 12:06, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::rgr. I tried bring "URLBot" over to DE as a test, and it didn't work so I think that's where the error lies. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 12:07, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::It did work, just that you have to say "Keep logged in." The only other thing not working is SystemMessages and the Chinese Wiki is on the fritiz again. :P [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 12:40, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::::I noticed the [[Special:Allmessages]] error too, looks like a PHP error. Unfortunately, I don't have enough rights. I need write rights on /home/bsgwiki (owned by the bsgwiki group, which I'm a member of, so <code>chmod -R g+w /home/bsgwiki</code> should do it) and read access to /var/log/httpd to find out what's causing the blank page at [[Special:Allmessages]]. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:49, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
::::I did the chmod. The log files for the wiki URL are in /home/bsgwiki/logs :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 17:04, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
::::Yep. Was a PHP error. I had to incress the memory usage from 20mb to 30mb in the LocalSettings.php file. :X [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 20:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::Good. Now I have a MySQL problem: I can log into MySQL with 'auth_wiki' and the password you gave me, but I don't have access to any database at all, not even 'auth_wiki'... --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 20:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::hah. ok. Log on with the bsgwiki_admin username & password. I found out when doing it has to use that one. So whatever. "auth_wiki" is still the DB name which will be bsgwiki_auth as soon as we clear this up. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 21:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::If you have a chance, log into the Forums and visit the IRC page (http://www.battlestarforum.com/irc.php). We can talk via that way. I am ^BuGs^ on IRC so we don't have to do this cross-talk page talk :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 21:06, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


== Transcription ==
== AntiSpoof Extension ==
Thanks for your efforts on the "Rapture" podcast transcription. I've been swamped at work, and things are likely to continue to be rough for another week or two. I've been dreading the backlog on the podcasts, but it's nice to see progress being made. I'll try to break away if I get a chance to do some transcription or maybe verification, but I wanted to thank you for helping ease my mind. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:53, 30 January 2007 (CST)
:Do you want me to help out with transcription  of Act 4 of "Rapture", or just start verifying on act 1? With the "week off" we don't have a big rush either way so I thought I'd give you the option. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:27, 5 February 2007 (CST)
::The week off is a relief (BTW, do you have any idea why there's just a week missing at a seemingly random point? The same occurred between [[Hero]] and [[Unfinished Business]]). I'm on Rapture's Act 3 right now, I think I can get it done fairly quickly, but if you want to start verifying from the Teaser, be my guest. When I'm done with Rapture, I'll start verifying TaB as well. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 13:58, 5 February 2007 (CST)
:::LOL! It's only seemingly random to those outside the US. This break was a result of the show potentially conflicting with the Super Bowl (American football). There will be another break for an awards show coming up (Oscars? Emmy's? Something some show like  that). The "Hero"/"Unfinished Business" gap was an American holiday (Thanksgiving) which historically has relatively low ratings due to people shopping, going to family gatherings, and watching (yet more) American football. I'll try to start verifying "Rapture" today, then. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:17, 5 February 2007 (CST)
::::Wait a minute, SciFi doesn't air sports, does it? Or do they just postpone the show because they fear low ratings? They do cancel stuff for soccer matches over here (NL), but only on the channel that actually airs the match. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 14:25, 5 February 2007 (CST)
::::BTW, I added <nowiki><!-- ? --></nowiki> at some places in the transcript, those are the places where I wasn't sure whether my interpretation was correct. Try searching the textarea for it, if your browser can do that. (Firefox 2.0 can, 1.5 can't, and I don't know about IE). --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 14:28, 5 February 2007 (CST)
:::::Correct, SciFi doesn't air sports (unless you count wrestling, which is more like "athletic drama" really). It's postponing the show in fear of low ratings. The shows that pre-empt BSG are usually shows that air on the major broadcast networks (as opposed to a "cable" channel) and are shows that historically dominate all demographics for their time slot. Advertisers are unlikely to be willing to fork out much money in the face of such competition (and in fact may be spending their money ON those competing shows). Thanks for the heads up. I just upgraded to FF2.0, so I finally can search the text of the edit are reliably (the "highlight" function worked some in 1.5, but nowhere near as well as the search in 2.0). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:33, 5 February 2007 (CST)


== Edit Conflict ==
I know you mentioned it earlier, but if you wanted to add the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof AntiSpoof] extension, feel free to. I'm not sure where to apply the SQL patch on this one, now that we're running the CentralAuth extension. -- [[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> 05:06, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Just got bit by an edit conflict on "Taking a Break". If you can hold off on edits on acts that I'm actively working on we're less likely to run into conflicts again. I think I recaptured all your changes, but you might want to double-check. Sorry about that. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:01, 31 January 2007 (CST)
:Sorry, my bad. I saw two uglies in there (the Lee link and a link to Samuel Ander (misspelled)) and fixed them, not thinking that you may have been editing too. You put it back correctly BTW. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 01:05, 1 February 2007 (CST)


== Fixs ==
== global_group_permissions and global_user_groups ==


Fixed a few things. Nice work! :-)! [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 09:58, 15 February 2007 (CST)
I can't figure it out. So.. what I need entered is myself and Joe to have the same permissions as we have now on the EN wiki entered. Yourself added to the global Sysop and Stward List. Check this post out: http://www.battlestarforum.com/showpost.php?p=5683&postcount=8
:Yeah, I noticed. I did the Major/Minor thing in a hurry, so I wasn't really paying attention. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 10:07, 15 February 2007 (CST)
You should have access to read it. :) For phpymyadmin you should be able to select loggin is as "bsgwiki_admin" in the upper right, but it's the default "server". [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 06:19, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


== Podcast:The Woman King ==
== CentralAuth and globalgroup-permissions ==
I'll be lucky if I get Act 3 completed tomorrow, and I'm unlikely to contribute anything this weekend. If you're interested, I could use a hand getting act 4 done (if we're shooting to complete before the next episode airs). As long as we use the "section" edit buttons (the edit button for the particular act break) we shouldn't run into edit conflicts. No pressure, but otherwise I'll likely end up finishing it up early next week (and getting a later start on the next podcast). Thanks (either way). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:37, 15 February 2007 (CST)
:Unfortunately, I will be away for the weekend as well. It's Thursday evening over here, which means I literally don't have any time to help you out. I myself will start on A Day in the Life after the weekend, then proceed to verifying TaB, and only after that I'll transcribe the remainder of TWK. This weird order is caused by my idea that TWK is the least pivotal episode of these three. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 15:42, 15 February 2007 (CST)


== Episode cites ==
I got CentralAuth working, but GlobalGroupPermissions is a nightmare to set up... how do you get it working?? All help will be '''much''' appreciated. Thanks, AC --[[User:Sunstar NW XP|Sunstar NW XP]] 21:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)


Please remember to put quotation marks around episode titles when you use them within a sentence. Leaving them away is only done when citing a ''single'' episode in parentheses. Even when listing several episodes that way, quotation marks are used to separate them. Just saying because I saw that a few times now, though it's not such a big issue on talk pages --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 17:00, 24 February 2007 (CST)
== German BSG Wiki ==
:Yeah, I saw your corrections. I'll keep it in mind. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 05:38, 25 February 2007 (CST)


== Troyian User Page  ==
Hi


*Sure, you have my permission! -- [[User:Troyian|Troyian]] 05:20, 25 February 2007 (CST)
I need a little help with the edit counter on my profile; the german version of the "Family tree" templates and maybe more
::I'll get right to it. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 05:39, 25 February 2007 (CST)
Can you help me? --[[User:Enabran|Enabran]] 20:08, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
*Just so you know, I've added descriptions of Caprica, Aerelon, Gemenon, Tauron and Virgon to my user page. If you want to archive the previous version of my user page, go right ahead. -- [[User:Troyian|Troyian]] 15:09, 27 February 2007 (CST)
:Catrope has not been around for a long time. :( I'll check it out though. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 05:16, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
::It's done. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 15:22, 27 February 2007 (CST)
 
==Copy/Paste==
It's called a copy and paste frakup from :D --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 04:08, 28 February 2007 (CST)
:What exactly are you talking about here? --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 04:18, 28 February 2007 (CST)
::My mistake with the "last aired episode" template :D --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 09:18, 28 February 2007 (CST)
 
==You asked for it...==
...and now its here. Auto updating article counts on the [http://www.battlestarwiki.org front page]. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 09:11, 28 February 2007 (CST)
 
== Sysop on HB ==
 
So you can test your stuff. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 00:10, 11 March 2007 (CST)
:Thanks. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:50, 11 March 2007 (CDT)
 
 
==Crew info box changes==
thanks for helping out with the infobox changes but can you remember to categorise everyhitng correctly. ensure that people are in a crew cat as well as crew (rdm) for example. Also check if they are writers or producers as there are cats for those too --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 09:04, 20 April 2007 (CDT)
:Will do, thanks for the heads up. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 09:06, 20 April 2007 (CDT)
 
== My RFA ==
 
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| Thank you for participating in my [[BW:RFA|RfA]], which passed with a tally of '''7/0/0'''. Thank you very much for your support. I'll continue to keep up the good work, and if I can help you with anything, don't hesitate to contact me. [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 15:59, 21 April 2007 (CDT)
|}
:No problem, you deserve adminship. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:05, 21 April 2007 (CDT)
 
== Recent Rollback on [[Hera Agathon]] ==
 
I rolled back your changes in the article. [[BW:SAC]] is very clear on this. Use last names only for all characters in their bios, but use first names when dealing with characters with the same last name. The article's subject gets preference in terms of the last name of the article and uses the subject's first name when her mother is referenced simultaneously to avoid confusion. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 08:53, 24 April 2007 (CDT)
:Didn't know it was in BW:SAC, just sounded silly to call a child by their last name. Anyway, if you had looked closer at my edit, you would have seen Agathon->Hera wasn't the only thing, I also cleaned up some other minor things. It would've been better to manually change back Hera --> Agathon and leave my other fixes in place, rather than just reverting my entire edit. Not that I mind very much, I already added those fixes back in, but it is an annoyance. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:57, 24 April 2007 (CDT)
 
:Sure. Sorry, the rollback power is a blunt stick with not a lot of discrimination, but I should have tried the Undo. :) --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 10:53, 24 April 2007 (CDT)
::I know, laziness is very tempting ;). --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 13:01, 24 April 2007 (CDT)
 
== Verified through 27 ==
I've verified through your current progress on the frak party. I'm pretty sure Mrs. Ron (Terry Dresbach) is there, having transcribed her a couple times in the past, but I could be wrong. It doesn't significantly change the meaning, one way or the other. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:14, 1 May 2007 (CDT)
:I also thought for a moment that I heard her, but I wasn't sure. The tendency of RDM repeating what she says does make it more likely. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 11:27, 1 May 2007 (CDT)
:And I'd almost forget: thanks for the verification and kudos for the speed ;) --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 11:29, 1 May 2007 (CDT)
 
== Starboard flight pod ==
 
I too am convinced that it was just an usual procedure in light of the previous quarantine orders. And I wrote as much at [[flight pod]]. There is nothing to indicate, that the whole pod is operation just because of that (like a lot of people seem prone to assume). I didn't want to include that on the museum page again, but you managed to get across in very few words :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 15:01, 22 May 2007 (CDT)
:I guess I learned by watching the [[User:Spencerian|concision fairy]] ;) --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 15:04, 22 May 2007 (CDT)
::What?! Huh? My ears, wings and hatchet are burning.... --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 15:13, 22 May 2007 (CDT)
 
== I like the switch better.... ==
 
Less templates. :-) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 10:29, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
:The new solution makes sure everyone can set autoborders, rather than just the people who can edit [[Template:Flag]] (which should really be protected). --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 10:31, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
::Maybe, but if we had a template check... every page would be looking for it and it become a "requested template" under Wanted Pages. We are trying to reduce that list.. not expand it. :-) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 10:33, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
:::[[Template:Country alias]] is on top of [[Special:Wantedpages]] with 152 links, all resulting from pages using the {Cast,Crew,User} Data template while not specifying a nationality. Also, does it really matter? --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 10:39, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
::::That will be fixed soon... :-D [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 10:40, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
:Job queue is over 15k. I am running it right now. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 10:51, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
::I saw the fix. What exactly is the job queue and what does it mean that it's over 15K? Also, in which way will hundreds of pages checking for [[Template:Country flag autoborder US]] and find it nonexistent hurt the system? --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 11:05, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
:::Fixed! YAY! :-D [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 11:57, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
::::Am I the only one that think flag borders look ugly? --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 12:16, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
:I do not like them either... naybe not "white". Maybe another color.. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 12:29, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
::Hmm, whatever you did to [[Template:Border]] just now messed up the borders for {{flag|BE}} again. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 12:51, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
 
Shane, could you elaborate more on why you prefer the #switch over the templates? AFAIK, doing an #ifexists on a page doesn't get it into [[Special:Wantedpages]]. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 12:34, 23 May 2007 (CDT)
:How do i turn off flag borders for me then? I dont think they look right and dont fit well with the rest of the wiki design. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 02:58, 25 May 2007 (CDT)

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Port wine finish[edit]

I'm pretty sure that's what he said, unless you hear differently. It also seems to match the description of the Quinta Ruban (Port Cask Extra Matured), mentioned on the Wikipedia article. --Steelviper 14:27, 11 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Actually, it's Glenmorangie Port Wood Finish. :) -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 14:34, 11 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I didn't even listen to the podcast yet (is ashamed), I just thought it made no sense at all and changed it to something phonetically close that did make sense (that's what I meant by "intuition" in my edit summary). I know I'm not supposed to do that, but it seemed like an obvious error to me and the podcast was in pre-verification stage. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 16:43, 11 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I don't see that as a problem. Don't sweat it. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 16:50, 11 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Well you know, the BW:POD guideline state (and rightly so) that one should always listen to the podcast before offering "corrections", because RDM's sentences sometimes don't make that much sense. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 16:54, 11 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Catrope nailed it. All we should do as transcribers is write what he says. However, when it comes to links, I feel like it's ok to link to what he means (if it's obvious from the context what he's actually talking about). --Steelviper 19:21, 11 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
That's what we always do. I am wary of the dropped words like [this] in Podcast:The Ties That Bind. They're mostly unnecessary and not used in any of the other podcasts. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 20:24, 11 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

SSH[edit]

I did give you access to SSH so you could run the update php file right? Shane (talk) 21:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, BSGWiki SSH is working fine for me, it's Wikimedia. A bug was discovered in Debian's openssl package which caused the SSH key generator to generate too predictable keys (they're supposed to be random), so my RSA key to Wikimedia SVN was disabled. That's why I created a new one and that's also why I haven't put 1.13 online yet as I can't access SVN until my new key is processed.
There's also a problem with the SVN program on the servers: it's not linked to neon (whatever that is), so it can't download anything through HTTP. That's not much of a problem right now, though, as I'll just update on my machine and upload, but it's something you should know if you ever decide to play around with SVN on the server. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 21:13, 13 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
We are using redhat, and yes.. I got SVN runing on here with no problems on svn.frakmedia.net :) Shane (talk) 03:24, 14 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Do you mean the SVN server or client? Either way, I get a "host not found" for svn.frakmedia.net --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 08:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Server. your right. :P I have it under apollo. Shane (talk) 11:38, 14 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
It turns out I don't have write access to the hb directory, it's all 755 bsgwiki/bsgwiki in there. Could you run chmod -R g+w hb so the hb directory and everything inside it is writable by the bsgwiki group? --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 11:46, 14 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Will do. Shane (talk) 12:43, 14 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Joe beat me to it. :P Shane (talk) 12:45, 14 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, uploading now. 60 MB of small files will take some time, though. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 12:48, 14 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Yeah... since your overseas it will take just a little bit longer. Shane (talk) 12:49, 14 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I ran the update on HB for 1.13. I'll await some tests :D Shane (talk) 15:17, 14 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Bots dir done. Shane (talk) 20:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Clear to Commit[edit]

You are clear to upgrade all wikis to 1.13, Saturday 31st anytime after 0500 hours. Wikis should be backed up by 0500. Shane (talk) 00:32, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Good. However, I'll be on an island on Saturday. Is it OK if I do it on another day, like tomorrow (=Thursday), Friday or Monday? Also, 0500 in which timezone? --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 08:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I rather run a MYSQL backup before we do anything. I will be back after noon my timezone EDT. I'll run a backup. In theory it can be done anytime. Saturday was the day the backup happens automaticly after the episode airs. But it shouldn't take the long for updating. Shane (talk) 10:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Alright. Drop me a note when you've done the backup. Your noon is my 6PM, so I should be able to respond quickly unless you catch me during dinner. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 10:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Reason why we are doing a single auth database is so we can use it on all the FrakMedia wikis. :) Shane (talk) 10:33, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Theoretically, you could (ab)use one of the existing databases for that. My update.php addition was reverted, BTW, because it tried to add the CentralAuth to all databases instead of just one. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 10:50, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Ok. I ran a backup of all the databases. I have created a database called "auth_wiki" same username. I will send you the password email. I am importing the SQL file into that database. I got it directly from the SVN. Anything else? Shane (talk) 11:30, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
BTW, update.php should drop the tables that are decrepited. It's made the EN database weird since it's been around forever and doesn't match up well with newer database looks. I don't want to manually do it since I have no idea what tables are still being used. :) Shane (talk) 16:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
You can see which tables are old here. update.php doesn't DROP them because wikis generally don't have DROP permissions. Thanks for the password, I'll get on it tomorrow. First I gotta watch Sine Qua Non with a couple of friends tonight :P --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 17:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Then you should have --drop-table I'll give the database user drop permissions. :D Shane (talk) 18:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Sine Qua Non was cool, but I'm kind of tired now (it's 11 PM), so I'm gonna go get some sleep. I'll probably do the upgrade tomorrow afternoon (morning in the US). Seeing as quite a few edits were made and probably will be made today, you probably wanna run another backup tonight (your 11PM-ish, that is). --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 21:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I will run it right before I goto bed, which will be my 1am EDT. BTW -- Sleep is for the weak! :D Shane (talk) 22:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Heading to bed. It's running so it should be done by the time you read this next. Shane (talk) 04:13, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Seems to only have one error: Special:MergeAccount. Is php missing something? Shane (talk) 11:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Err, what the hell? You did the upgrade? I know I didn't do anything... Anyway, it says "no wiki for bsgwiki_de", maybe something's wrong with your CentralAuth configuration? --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 11:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Yeah. LOL! I did it at 6:30am EDT. You can take a look @ the CentralAuth stuff. I done all I can do. :) Shane (talk) 11:59, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I will. I have real-life stuff to do, though, so I can't guarantee I'll do it this afternoon (CEST), or even today. If not today, I'll definitely do it tomorrow, though. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 12:06, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
rgr. I tried bring "URLBot" over to DE as a test, and it didn't work so I think that's where the error lies. Shane (talk) 12:07, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
It did work, just that you have to say "Keep logged in." The only other thing not working is SystemMessages and the Chinese Wiki is on the fritiz again. :P Shane (talk) 12:40, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I noticed the Special:Allmessages error too, looks like a PHP error. Unfortunately, I don't have enough rights. I need write rights on /home/bsgwiki (owned by the bsgwiki group, which I'm a member of, so chmod -R g+w /home/bsgwiki should do it) and read access to /var/log/httpd to find out what's causing the blank page at Special:Allmessages. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 16:49, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I did the chmod. The log files for the wiki URL are in /home/bsgwiki/logs :) Shane (talk) 17:04, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Yep. Was a PHP error. I had to incress the memory usage from 20mb to 30mb in the LocalSettings.php file. :X Shane (talk) 20:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Good. Now I have a MySQL problem: I can log into MySQL with 'auth_wiki' and the password you gave me, but I don't have access to any database at all, not even 'auth_wiki'... --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 20:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
hah. ok. Log on with the bsgwiki_admin username & password. I found out when doing it has to use that one. So whatever. "auth_wiki" is still the DB name which will be bsgwiki_auth as soon as we clear this up. Shane (talk) 21:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
If you have a chance, log into the Forums and visit the IRC page (http://www.battlestarforum.com/irc.php). We can talk via that way. I am ^BuGs^ on IRC so we don't have to do this cross-talk page talk :) Shane (talk) 21:06, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

AntiSpoof Extension[edit]

I know you mentioned it earlier, but if you wanted to add the AntiSpoof extension, feel free to. I'm not sure where to apply the SQL patch on this one, now that we're running the CentralAuth extension. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 05:06, 31 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

global_group_permissions and global_user_groups[edit]

I can't figure it out. So.. what I need entered is myself and Joe to have the same permissions as we have now on the EN wiki entered. Yourself added to the global Sysop and Stward List. Check this post out: http://www.battlestarforum.com/showpost.php?p=5683&postcount=8 You should have access to read it. :) For phpymyadmin you should be able to select loggin is as "bsgwiki_admin" in the upper right, but it's the default "server". Shane (talk) 06:19, 31 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

CentralAuth and globalgroup-permissions[edit]

I got CentralAuth working, but GlobalGroupPermissions is a nightmare to set up... how do you get it working?? All help will be much appreciated. Thanks, AC --Sunstar NW XP 21:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

German BSG Wiki[edit]

Hi

I need a little help with the edit counter on my profile; the german version of the "Family tree" templates and maybe more Can you help me? --Enabran 20:08, 12 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Catrope has not been around for a long time. :( I'll check it out though. Shane (talk) 05:16, 13 December 2009 (UTC)Reply