Battlestar Wiki:Chiefs' noticeboard

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This noticeboard is a location to discuss and coordinate administrative tasks for the Battlestar Wiki.

It is my hope that this place can serve as a location for administrators to coordinate their efforts on the maintenance tasks of the Wiki (it's not ALL fun and games), as well as a spot for our contributors to be able to bring things to the attention of the admins if something needs to be done. Need a protected page edited? An article or picture deleted? Admins will watchlist this page so that your request won't get lost in the shuffle.

These are the archives:

• Archive 1:

General, David Larson Screen Capture, Home, Part II, Toaster revision, Billy, Spam Alert, SPAMER ALERT, Constant Vigilance, Amazon referral links, Spoiler policy, Another spammer, IRC Channel Open, Jon Doe

• Archive 2:

Battle Template, Inadvertent Deletions, Unlock the BW:SC Archives, Request that User "Shane" be given a warning ban, Vandel, Report on Vandalism by User:Mickey McGizzle, Shane's RFC and the Think Tank, Problem with mail validation, VandalBot Feature, July 8 Vandalism, Adminoticeboard, Possible Vandalism, Vandel, Search

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Current Administrators

Bureaucrats

Bureaucrats are administrators who have the ability to make other users into administrators. Currently only Joe Beaudoin has this status.

Sysops

Sysops are administrators who have access to move, delete and restore pages as well as blocking malicious users. The current administrators are:

• CalculatinAvatar
• Day
• Joe Beaudoin Jr.
• Mercifull
• Peter Farago
• Spencerian
• Steelviper

See list of all admins on Battlestar Wiki

How do you sign up to be a mirror?

Hey all, I'm the webmaster of bsgtns.com and one of the owners of MediaBlvd. We think this is a pretty cool thing that you have here, and would like to offer up some server space for a mirror. MB has 6 high end servers, and good deals on bandwidth. I might be missing how to go about that, as I'm fairly new to this space. I did want to say that I really like the concept though, and I spent several hours going thru the Wiki yesterday, and liked what I saw enough to want to be involved-- NetRanger

talk to joe. I think usually the mirror deals with running the software of mediawiki and one site having access to the other and vice-versa. Joe is currently sick. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 19:12, 31 July 2006 (CDT)

BW:MIR is the basic requirements. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 19:18, 31 July 2006 (CDT)

AFAIK basicly a Mirror has the exact same content except when you go to edit, it takes you to the real BSWiki site? --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 04:24, 1 August 2006 (CDT)

Yep. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 09:41, 1 August 2006 (CDT)

Where to file feature request on MediaWiki

Moved to User talk:Shane

Help for Wiki Review Article

Admins can help in the circus I created named State of the Wiki II. I protected the article so that we can corral the talk page commentary to correct the agregious formatting, bias, lack of bias, and all other ills. This is arguably the worst article I've ever made. --Spencerian 22:17, 14 August 2006 (CDT)

Mark as Read

Did there used to be a buttton thart did this on my Watchlist? Often, I'll read a diff, rather than the actual article, but I would like it unbolded all the same. I could've sworn there used to be a button that said "Mark all articles as Visited" or something like that. Am I losing my mind, or did a recent update take that away or... what? --Day ^{(Talk - Admin - SotS)} 23:47, 14 August 2006 (CDT)

Is it possible to change the CSS so that links which have been clicked on are an ever so slightly different colour like before? --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 02:58, 22 August 2006 (CDT)

Updated in CSS. Just waiting to be uploaded :-) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 03:05, 22 August 2006 (CDT)

Login Problems

Hello, since the update to the new MediaWiki-Software and the move to the new URL I (and probably everyone else) cannot login to the German BSW anymore. It tells me there is no user Astfgl but the Userpage still exists. Do I have to recreate my account? If so, will my current userstats be lost? (I'm afraid they already are.) -- Astfgl 03:20, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

I can re-do the stats. I just need you to register. Can you contact me over Gtalk? I need to talk with you also about something. I sent you an email with my email address through the BSG wiki system. In any case, go ahead and REGSITER your name over there excatly with the same settings here, username, etc, and I will run the script that will re-link you to your edit count. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 03:24, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

I once read, im sure, that it was possible to consolidate all the logins and passwords for all the wikis so that people dont have to re-register to each one. Surely this is a feature that would be of huge benefit to us?--Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 04:38, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

I could copy the "database" row from here to the german to save time, but this is where it gets tricky is the stats. Stats will not auto update. Though it's users. I guess it can't be that hard to count how many users there are and manually update the stat. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 04:45, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

OK, I re-registered. I don't have GTalk (don't even really know what that is, something like ICQ?) but there are other ways to contact me on my userpage. -- Astfgl 05:12, 23 August 2006 (CDT)