Talk:Main Page/Archive6

Archive 1 (May 2nd, 2005 to May 25th, 2006):

I know, I'm just focusing on other things..., Suggestions, Style Conventions, Quote-o-Matic, NPOV?, Fan Fiction, IRC Channel?, How BSG Wiki Compares to Other Wikis, Logo, Quotes link, Article count, Punctuation, Update the spoiler section, Navigation, Main Page Re-org, IMDB Links, Indexing on THE, "Wikipedia", URL Reffer Error, Last.fm now playing image, XHTML, The Community & The Fan Stuff, New Main Page Design, Main Page Same Across different lanauges, BSG Wiki Logo Image location

Archive 2 (May 31st, 2006 to August 5th, 2006):

Friends..., Did you know..., Region 4 Season 2 DVD new Slimline Set, 1900x1200 Res, Proposal to Open Wiki to Unregistered Users, If there was..., Style Sheet Completed, Your Screen Resolution, Quotes, Link to chainki.org Battlestar Galactica pages, Season 3 Teaser, IE v. Firefox, Airdates, CSS with Images

Battlestar Wiki "referenced"

A "little bird" tipped me of to a Scientific American blog entry that referenced Battlestar Wiki. It's kind of dangerous doing a direct link to wiki-content like that, but it's neat that we're being linked to. --Steelviper 07:57, 7 August 2006 (CDT)

For those curious, User:Gmusser is the author of the blog entry. (This can be deduced from the link and the author's name.) --CalculatinAvatar^(C-T) 23:28, 7 August 2006 (CDT)

Question: Should we be annoyed that someone used BattlestarWiki material in their magazine like that, or does it not matter because they're things he contributed to, or what?--The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 23:35, 7 August 2006 (CDT)

It doesn't strike me as a bad thing. Of course, I didn't check to see if the very similar wording was originally contributed by him; I'd imagine it was, so it'd be all positive. To work in a nitpick, so far as I can tell, it's not in the magazine, just online in their blog. --CalculatinAvatar^(C-T) 04:41, 8 August 2006 (CDT)

External images not working amnymore

See my user page. All external images are no just showing as links --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 08:54, 7 August 2006 (CDT)

That sounds like it's probably a Mediawiki setting that can be toggled. --Steelviper 09:02, 7 August 2006 (CDT)

Yeah, it happened to me, as well; I tend to assume the same thing about the cause. --CalculatinAvatar^(C-T) 23:13, 7 August 2006 (CDT)

Ive also noticed some odd things like the <nowki> tags and stuff arnt working properly, take a look at the box on the edit page where you can click the special characters and also the summaries on the recent edits. Has the wiki software been updated in the last few days to maybe have caused these little glitches? --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 16:40, 10 August 2006 (CDT)

I attempted to invoke {{tl}} once or twice in edit summaries if that's what you mean, but I was forgetting that templates are not supposed to work in edit summaries. (It would do unfortunate things to upload summaries, for one thing.) --CalculatinAvatar^(C-T) 17:29, 10 August 2006 (CDT)

No this is something thats happened very recently. Edit this page and look at the bottom of the page. The code to add to your edits now is wrapped with <nowiki></nowiki> when it shoudl'nt parse that only the actual code in between. Its hard to explain but i think its related to the images not showing up Something has changed in the last week to make this all happen. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 02:56, 11 August 2006 (CDT)

I'll look into this... it's probably a setting issue since I upgraded the Wiki software to MediaWiki 1.7.1. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 09:55, 11 August 2006 (CDT)

Something else ive noticed. When you search for an article that has no page yet. Eg http://www.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Wooyay it automaticly takes you to the edit page http://www.battlestarwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Wooyay&action=edit --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 05:30, 13 August 2006 (CDT)

Actually, that was a change I made... I was trying to see something. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 18:31, 13 August 2006 (CDT)

I should have mentioned this but I noticed that if I hit ENTER key intead of clicking SEARCH, it gives the same behavior that Mercifull reports. (Maybe I shouldn't do that??).--FrankieG 19:05, 13 August 2006 (CDT)

QotD

The quote is in need of an update. Would anybody be willing to do the honors? --Kevin W. 16:33, 13 August 2006 (CDT)

Often I have to do a Crtl-F5 in IE on one of my computers to get it to refresh the QotD. --FrankieG 18:15, 13 August 2006 (CDT)

Depends on where you live also. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 18:18, 13 August 2006 (CDT)

First person...

To get http://media.battlestarwiki.org/ active on their computer gets a cookie. :) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 04:36, 14 August 2006 (CDT)

I win. Got it working 04:04, 18 August 2006 (CDT) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 04:04, 18 August 2006 (CDT)

I'm sorry, but I stole your cookie. Now I need some milk... :-) -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 18:33, 20 August 2006 (CDT)

New Season 3 Teaser

During the SG-1 200th episode. Did someone capture this?! There was some shots that were not in the ... well original one. :-D --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 19:23, 18 August 2006 (CDT)

I will DVR the 1:00AM repeat. Thanks for the heads ups. --FrankieG 19:30, 18 August 2006 (CDT)

it's a SciFi and Monk night. :-) (almost got the subdomains working with joe cept I have to do some reading so rewriting rules) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 19:36, 18 August 2006 (CDT)

This is the special. Not the episode it self, but I would get the show also. :) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 19:43, 18 August 2006 (CDT)

For some unexplicable reason, I didn't check the guide, like I always do on friday, when I got home or I would have been watching it (the special). I always DVR the 'Gates. --FrankieG 19:54, 18 August 2006 (CDT)

Did a quick writeup for the one on SG1-200 here.--FrankieG 20:54, 18 August 2006 (CDT)

I Tivo'ed it on the first wave, some shots of Gatea, more Tigh (He's the "narrator") a great shot of Boomer (After entering the prison), Six. It was great, I haven't watched it again since I recorded it, but I will in a while (obviousley). --Sauron18 21:48, 18 August 2006 (CDT)

Is this it? http://www.lucylawless.info/battlestar-galactica/episodetrailers.html --DrBat 19:12, 19 August 2006 (CDT)

No, that is the Eureka teaser, which some of shots are in the this new one. --FrankieG 19:34, 19 August 2006 (CDT)

"Media" Uploading

Now active. You can head over the the Media Wiki, sign up (with your same name), and start uploading. You won't be able to link the images to any articles pages just yet, but you can tag the image and upload them correctly for now. :) Enjoy! :) (Anyone have any ideas for a Main Page design?) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 20:21, 20 August 2006 (CDT)

I was thinking of a smaller version of the Main Page design we have now. That would be fine by me. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 21:02, 20 August 2006 (CDT)

Techincal

Typo under Sister Projects. --FrankieG 09:30, 22 August 2006 (CDT)

I would have fixed it but I (being DUH!) couldn't figure out how to get to the page. When I click on the icon button beside "Sister" it stays on the home page. --FrankieG 11:25, 22 August 2006 (CDT)

doh. my fault. I'll change it in the BW:MAIN project so it won't happen again :-) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 11:30, 22 August 2006 (CDT)

Fix is up on main page. Battlestar Wiki: 1 Confusing Navigation: 0. --Steelviper 12:10, 22 August 2006 (CDT)

Search Box

Merc and others have been suggestion to me that we move the search box after the "navigation" box. Just wanted to get some option before I made such a move. Let me know. :-) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 12:18, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

I'd lean towards "movin' on up". It's on my screen at 1280x1024, but I can imagine it'd easily fall off smaller resolutions, and it's pretty useful for getting around (especially once you're used to shortcuts, etc.) I'm really enjoying the bsgMonoBook, by the way! I'm less enthused about the color scheme than I am the fact that we've got a choice now. If you don't like it, you can always run your own skin (now). --Steelviper 12:22, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

Support as per discussion on gtalk. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 13:03, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

Good idea. --FrankieG 16:00, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

Yeah, move it up, please. Just had the same idea. --Pedda 16:26, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

k. It will likly happen later tonight when go gets to do a nother update of the files. :) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 16:27, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

Styles: Font style in edit box

I'm used to the fixed-width typeface in the editing box. Is this a new characteristic of the three skin options? I like the CSS for the most part, but it would be better to see text with a fixed width option more characteristic of wikis. Also, the Preview header text "This is only a preview; changes have not yet been saved!" shown in a article edit mode with the default BSG skin is so dark in my Firefox browser as to be unreadable. --Spencerian 16:37, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

Characterostic - Yes. I can change to what font. I am starting to hate the font in here myself because I can't see the wiki code very well. So give me a font and I will change it. Preview text - Sending to Joe for an upload. Minor mistake on my part. Anything else? --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 16:47, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

Will be back to the font that it was before on next update. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 17:34, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

Airdates

Holy cow! Being informative is good, but the Airdates section is continuing to grow unchecked. Any suggestions as to how we could slim down the look on the mainpage, but still have it be easy to access for people to find their respective airdates? --Steelviper 11:00, 25 August 2006 (CDT)

I know this might sound biased, but one idea is to just list the US, Canada and UK airdates on the main page, then list all the other country airdates on a subpage in a fashion similar to what we do with the Main Page news. Since most of our audience is going to be from those countries anyway, we may as well focus on them.-- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 11:52, 25 August 2006 (CDT)

I too was wary of bias. However, realistically we can't fit everybody's airdates on the main page. I'd like to have that info here, but it's not our primary mission (we're not tvguide.com). I concur that we should select a cutoff for main page airdates and then store the rest on a separate page. Maybe a one-link depth (clicking the "airdates" icon would take you to the "All airdates" article, of which the "US/UK/CAN" is just one of the child templates. This would require a change to the main page (pointing to the new US/UK/CAN template), the creation of the US/UK/CAN template, and a massive redesign of Mainpage/airdates to accomodate the new "global airdate" scheme (as well as including a display/edit of the US/UK/CAN template). That'd be my best guess. --Steelviper 12:03, 25 August 2006 (CDT)