Battlestar Wiki:Chiefs' noticeboard/Archive7: Difference between revisions

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Forum slowness

The Battlestar Forum is displaying some very weird (and most of all, slow). I can view the main page and the forums all right, but threads load extremely slowly. The wiki, however, is not slow. Very weird... --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 20:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

No kidding. I am talking with the CIO of Woopra to solve the problem. If not, I will disable it from loading. Shane (talk) 22:21, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Expelled

At the very best, advertising Ben Stein's film "Expelled" is insulting and tasteless. Do we have to run this ad? --Peter Farago 18:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I can block it. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 19:02, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I've blocked it. It should take a few hours to go into effect though... If you do happen to see it tomorrow, please let me know what the URL is so that I can block that too. (I've blocked any ad promoting expelledthemovie.com, although the people behind it might have come up with a different url so that it doesn't get blocked. I've seen that before... doesn't happen that often, though.) -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 19:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I guess that this means "Expelled" is expelled ;-) -- FrankieG 20:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Malay Wiki

Given Starkiller's steadfast and dedicated work, I think it's time to get a malay wiki off the ground. Thoughts? -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 16:58, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

He's been translating a lot of stuff lately, so provided he's got the necessities (like BW:SAC and friends) covered, I support creating a Malay wiki. On a technical note: the translated wikis we currently have use English names for the Portal and Quotes namespaces. It's possible (and actually quite easy) to translate those namespaces names as well. For the Malay wiki, we could do this right from the start, whereas for the other wikis, we could create aliases from "Quotes" to e.g. "Zitaten". --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 17:51, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

No objections here. :) Shane (talk) 19:03, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Fully Integrated even with the InterWiki bot. Shane (talk) 18:02, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

You didn't do the namespace thing (yet), though. --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 18:16, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I am waiting for translations. Will there be a way to mass move all the namespaces on the other wikis so I don't have to do manual moves? :) Shane (talk) 19:21, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

There's no moving involved at all. The namespace of a page is stored as a number in the database(0 though 15 for the standard namespaces, 100 and above for custom ones), and you're just changing the text associated to that number. It would be good to set up a namespace alias so de:Quotes:Foo would automatically go to de:Zitaten:Foo. --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 20:11, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

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 : Ok, I've blocked it. It should take a few hours to go into effect though... If you do happen to see it tomorrow, please let me know what the URL is so that I can block that too. (I've blocked any ad promoting expelledthemovie.com, although the people behind it might have come up with a different url so that it doesn't get blocked. I've seen that before... doesn't happen that often, though.) -- [[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> 19:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 ::I guess that this means "Expelled" is expelled ;-) -- [[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 20:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
+== Malay Wiki ==
+Given [[User:Starkiller|Starkiller]]'s steadfast and dedicated work, I think it's time to get a malay wiki off the ground. Thoughts? -- [[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> 16:58, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
+:He's been translating a lot of stuff lately, so provided he's got the necessities (like [[BW:SAC]] and friends) covered, I support creating a Malay wiki. On a technical note: the translated wikis we currently have use English names for the Portal and Quotes namespaces. It's possible (and actually quite easy) to translate those namespaces names as well. For the Malay wiki, we could do this right from the start, whereas for the other wikis, we could create aliases from "Quotes" to e.g. "Zitaten". --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 17:51, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
+::No objections here. :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 19:03, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
+::[[:ms:|Fully Integrated]] even with the InterWiki bot. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 18:02, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
+:::You [http://ms.battlestarwiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general|namespaces|namespacealiases didn't do] the namespace thing (yet), though. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 18:16, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
+::::I am waiting for translations. Will there be a way to mass move all the namespaces on the other wikis so I don't have to do manual moves?  :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 19:21, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
+:::::There's no moving involved at all. The namespace of a page is stored as a number in the database(0 though 15 for the standard namespaces, 100 and above for custom ones), and you're just changing the text associated to that number. It would be good to set up a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgNamespaceAliases namespace alias] so [[:de:Quotes:Foo]] would automatically go to [[:de:Zitaten:Foo]]. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 20:11, 15 April 2008 (UTC)