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Edit/toolbar buttons

When you get the chance, could you email the buttons to me. joebeaudoin@joebeaudoin.net. Thanks. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 13:08, 21 August 2006 (CDT)

Done --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 13:40, 21 August 2006 (CDT)

Buttons up. You may need to do a hard refresh to see them on the edit page, however. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 19:21, 21 August 2006 (CDT)

By the way...

Per Shane, we need an image for the future {{duncehat}} template. :-) Thanks! -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 14:21, 21 August 2006 (CDT)

By the way, thanks for the welcome. Thorn 13:36, 25 January 2007 (CST)

"Main Page"

I got the CSS and the new section all coded. All you need to do is copy the new code to the main page and it should work :-) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 16:22, 21 August 2006 (CDT)

External Images

Will be enabled on the next upload of the settings. I just set the setting so it should work once more. :) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 16:55, 21 August 2006 (CDT)

Things to do...

Ok, because ive been on vacation for a few days, ivre come back and a lots changed. If someone, Shane/Joe, could write here exactly what needs doing from me in some kind of a list that would be great. Ive also noticed a few bugs which id like to discuss too.

image for the {{duncehat}} template
smaller icons for the left hand navigation
~~edit icons~~
md:Battlestar_Wiki_Media:Site_images#Images_Needed
The little "user" icon next to your name.

Ping...

Pong! --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 12:13, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

Richard Dawkins takes on a jerk

Hey man. You must be a bit stressed with all this style updating and reformatting, so I thought I could help you relax. Check this out. Here we have Richard Dawkins take on an evangelical "Christian" who turns into a jerk really fast. I think Dawkins won the argument too, though it's rather grey. Now, I have to agree with you. Richard Dawkins is the MAN when it comes to science, and I'm glad you idolized him. I respect him quite a bit myself, and I appreciate his scientific commentary. Happy viewing! --Homeworld 15:31, 26 August 2006 (CDT)

Thats a clip taken from a TV program he did called The Root of All Evil? ^_^ Its not been repeated in the UK as far as I know but you could probably download it from somewhere, it was a great program. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 15:48, 26 August 2006 (CDT)

I'm interested to see the full program. That 6-minute clip piqued my interest. That site I got it from has bits and pieces from the show, and maybe the whole thing. I already watched another clip called "Teapot Atheists." Striking commentary. Dawkins says that everyone is an atheist since many no longer believe in the gods of Egypt or Rome or Sumer. By the way, I decided to read about James Randi (I already know about Gervais and Sagan). I must say, I respect anyone who can reveal that a "faith-healer" is a sham. I have no patience for people who sell their faith like that Popville guy did. Has the world no shame? I recently added an "Idols" section to my own userpage along with some video clips of them. Thanks for being the inspiration for that! ^_^ --Homeworld 16:09, 26 August 2006 (CDT)

Cause you told me....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MERCIFULL! --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 06:24, 27 August 2006 (CDT)

Thanks :) --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 07:07, 27 August 2006 (CDT)

Do'h

Hah. My bad. :-P --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 13:35, 3 September 2006 (CDT)

Whats your bad? --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 13:39, 3 September 2006 (CDT)

quote. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 14:20, 3 September 2006 (CDT)

Oh right ^_^ --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 16:02, 3 September 2006 (CDT)

Server thing?

Any word from the person you were in contact with regarding webhosting? Last Shane told me was that the person was on vacation, but should have returned by now, and I think you e-mailed him again, correct? -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 21:55, 11 September 2006 (CDT)

Update? --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 21:38, 8 October 2006 (CDT)

Customising MediaWiki

How is it done?!? This is the only Wiki(that i'v seen) with compleetly diferent colors and styell can some one tell me how it is don(you can put it on my talk page)?JosephK19 01:50, 30 September 2006 (CDT)

This wiki still has a theme in the usual wiki colours but a new desiend was created by some members of this wiki to give it a unique look and feel. The MediaWiki site has some great tips on how to do all this. --Mercifull (Talk/Contribs) 05:19, 30 September 2006 (CDT)

Thanks JosephK19 07:23, 30 September 2006 (CDT)

CNP vs virus

Hey. I reverted an edit you made on Atlantia (RDM). Just to let you know, the Cylons used backdoor programming to essentially command the CNP to turn off or seriously disable itself, leading to their victory. Viruses are an old tactic of theirs from the Cylon War, and are used if they can hack into a Colonial ship's computer network (as done in Scattered and Flight of the Phoenix). But the Cylons didn't primarily win with viruses, just the CNP. The talk page there, I think, says it all. --Spencerian 10:27, 6 October 2006 (CDT)

My RFA

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a tally of 7/0/0. I can't express how much it means to me to become an administrator. I'll work even more and harder to become useful for the community. If you need a helping hand, don't hesitate to contact me. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 20:36, 8 October 2006 (CDT)

No Need to Apologize!

I don't mind if you edit my userpage, especially for something as important as a red link fix. In fact, I actually had a message up for a while encouraging other users to edit my page, but it disappeared in a series of events I cannot fully comprehend or remember. But, point is, I really don't care if my userpage gets edited. Edit some more is you like! :) --Homeworld 20:50, 18 October 2006 (CDT)

iTune Screen Caps

Thanks for fixing them. I was going to go back and do that but lose my internet connection for the last hour or so. --FrankieG 19:51, 16 November 2006 (CST)

Your Last Box Thing

I really dig it. Any chance that you can point me to a link or something so I might have my own? (If you want to remain unique, though, I understand :D)--MikeDanger 21:02, 24 November 2006 (CST)

What do you mean my "last box thing"? Feel free to nick the code if you want thuogh, I probably nicked it form someone else too lol --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 05:26, 25 November 2006 (CST)

I believe he's referring to the last.fm box. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 05:36, 25 November 2006 (CST)

Oh right. Yeah sure then you can use it, its in the gallery on last.fm :D --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 06:32, 25 November 2006 (CST)

DS?

"I'm not having a go at all people that download, just the idiots who obviously dont read the descriptions properly, reviews etc. I thought everyone knew that the BSG episode was delayed until Sunday due to the Thanksgiving holiday?" - That you ;-) ? MatthewFenton 05:03, 27 November 2006 (CST)

Yep, are you the one who had a go at me back? lol --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 05:05, 27 November 2006 (CST)

Nope, hehe.. I didn't bother leaving a message there; I would of started bashing the idiots who download fakes and don't do there research :-P MatthewFenton 05:11, 27 November 2006 (CST)

Thanks.

I actually only capitalised the "b" becuase the person before had capitalised "Battlestar Galactica", and I followed the example. Whups.

Well, well, well...

..and here I was, thinking of how to redesign my user page. Guess I'll have to ~~steal~~borrow this design as well. :) --Spencerian 07:25, 1 December 2006 (CST)

Note to self

Pics courtosy of Gouugef. To be uploaded/used in articles

--Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 11:15, 17 December 2006 (CST)

Blog FTP

Check email. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 17:25, 20 December 2006 (CST)

Cheers Shane, might be a while before I can actually do anything useful though because my granddad is very ill right now :( --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 04:32, 21 December 2006 (CST)

Mathias

Yes, but we also e.g. use Felix Gaeta in cast lists from the very first episode ("33"), even though his first name was first used in "Final Cut". Ausir 05:31, 22 December 2006 (CST)

Site Images

Have three awaiting icons. :-) Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 16:14, 27 December 2006 (CST)

nice@!Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 10:09, 28 December 2006 (CST)

Block

Any insight into your recent preemptive block? I can't even access user IP's, so I wouldn't know where to start... --Steelviper 08:58, 10 January 2007 (CST)

On another wiki I visit has a massive spam attack by this ip advertising comerical spam from wikipost.info. I searched for the url of the spam it was advertising and saw that it was crawling several other wikis posting large amounts of spam (2mb of text on each page). I felt that this preemptive block was neccesary on this occation. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 09:27, 10 January 2007 (CST)

Gotcha! Hopefully that works. Since going to usernames I haven't tried an IP ban, but if they're consistent in the use of that IP your block should hold. Thanks for the info! --Steelviper 09:30, 10 January 2007 (CST)

I wouldn't normally block an IP address but the attacks seems to be coming from this specific one on a regular basis so thought I should block it just incase. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 09:36, 10 January 2007 (CST)

Jennifer Joseph rollback

We're not really sure if that's girl warrior #2 or not, yet. Looking at Jennifer Joseph's imdb profile, it's going to be hard to figure out which girl she was. I'm actually thinking now that she may have been one of the girls in the pressure suit scene. I'll keep on it, though. --Steelviper 08:04, 18 January 2007 (CST)

House

So far, i'm not seeing any of these fabled and promised house pictures of yours :p --Fordsierra4x4 20:55, 21 January 2007 (CST)

Lol ive got some old ones but ill take some new ones this week --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 03:47, 22 January 2007 (CST)

Reverted edit

I reverted your edit in Battlestar Wiki:Podcast Transcripts. You added Podcast:Rapture to the list of completed transcripts, but since it hasn't even been partially transcribed, it obviously doesn't belong there. Just so you know. --Catrope 10:43, 24 January 2007 (CST)

oops my bad. Wasn't paying attention. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 11:44, 24 January 2007 (CST)

Thanks

Just wanted to stop by and say thanks for reverting my error, I almost doubled back when I saw the page mentioned that "Our Enemies..." was an old title, but didn't have any other sources to sort out my confusion.--The One True Fred 07:58, 26 January 2007 (CST)

HD Stuffness

You might want to use your HDBits account - theres a mass prune of inactive accounts, and you have to at least log in every so often and browse to avoid it. Also, invites and signups are disabled for the forseeable future - use wisely...theres plenty of 720p stuff there ;) --Fordsierra4x4 19:15, 29 January 2007 (CST)

Problem is i got a lack of BB atm. Ill have to leave it running at my parents for a bit or summit. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 03:11, 30 January 2007 (CST)

Note to self...

thread
tut

See Shane re: access to localsettings.php for HB --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 07:13, 5 February 2007 (CST)

Andy Seklir

Thanks for creating that article. He's mentioned somewhat frequently in the podcasts, and was one of those names I had to keep finding the IMDB link to. I was first going to warn you about editing a podcast act that I'm still "in-progress" on, but that's an edit I'd suffer an edit conflict for anyway. I went ahead and moved the old imdb links in other podcasts to point to the one you created. --Steelviper 10:49, 5 February 2007 (CST)

Category Cloud

Sorry about not setting up my contact email address on moonfire.us, I apparently forgot to finish that last little step before the site went live. Oops. :) It works properly now if you have more questions. I already created an entry for the extension on the MediaWiki site, you can find the extension at Extension:CategoryCloud. It should be fairly clear on how to use it, but the basic is you create a category that is a parent to all the categories you want in the cloud. Then, point to that using:

<category-cloud category="MyTopLevelCategory"></category-cloud>

And from there, everything should work magically. If you have any questions, feel free try contact@moonfire.us, my ISP says it is working properly now (that I set it up).

DylanMoonfire 09:40, 6 February 2007 (CST)

Thanks i'll be able to play with this on the test wiki now --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 09:41, 6 February 2007 (CST)

Sweet! That looks like it's exactly what Merc was hunting for. Merc: Maybe a separate cloud for RDM vs TOS? Or were you thinking of including ALL cats? --Steelviper 09:59, 6 February 2007 (CST)

I'm going to play with it offline for a bit. Ive got a few modification I want to do to improve it. We might need to do a bit of work actually on the wiki to improve performance but this looks like the base of something I can really work on here :D --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 10:12, 6 February 2007 (CST)

BAH! Released under GNU which means Im not allowed to modify the code. Might have to give the guy another buzz about that. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 10:16, 6 February 2007 (CST)

GPL just means you need to post your changes to the plugin if you make any. I just like to see what people do to my code and sometimes I roll it back in into the primary branch. If it is a problem, I can switch to MIT license, which I'm considering. -- DylanMoonfire 10:49, 6 February 2007 (CST)

I personally don't see the problem here. If Mercifull decides to modify this thing and put it up on BSWiki, the GPL says he has to release his modified version under the GPL as well, meaning he has to publish the source code. Assuming Mercifull has no problem with that, he can just put it up at Extension:CategoryCloud and be done with it. Hell, he could even copy&paste the Extension:CategoryCloud page from MediaWiki. For more info on the GPL go here. (We're dealing with Freedom 3 here.) --Catrope 13:36, 6 February 2007 (CST)

Design

Is it ready to go live? I have to upgrade to 1.9.2. There is security risk... Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 00:29, 12 February 2007 (CST)

I need to make a few last minute changes and then Bsgbook can definitly go live. Ive been away for a few days but ill definitly get online tonight and sort it out with you. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 03:16, 12 February 2007 (CST)

Roger. I have work from noon EST to 11pm EST so I won't be around until 12am EST, but just give me the good ahead to transfer everything over. The only thing I won't be moving or installing right now is the cloud ext.. for now. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 08:49, 12 February 2007 (CST)

Yeah thats seems fine then. Ill finish up with the CSS I was working on and give you the a-ok to port it over. I was away this weekend so wasnt able to play with the cloud thingy anyway yet. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 08:54, 12 February 2007 (CST)

2 years...

This month the wiki been going. That means we need a logo with some party hats again and candles and guests.... Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 18:40, 17 February 2007 (CST)

Promo-Tag a good idea, hm?

Hey! :-) Sorry for not including the {{promo}} tag on the pics I uploaded yesterday and today. *hangs head in shame* When I came online this morning I checked if anyone had edited my last uploads in any way. As no-one had, I continued as the day before... She who can read shall be better off, hm? I'll try to keep in mind to include the promo-tag from now on. Sorry for the extra work. Greetings, --CC-Mel 08:17, 18 February 2007 (CST)

No problem :P --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 08:18, 18 February 2007 (CST)

Check gmail email

When u get back from work. :-) Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 11:54, 22 February 2007 (CST)

What happened to 12 Colonies Culture?

Why'd they get rid of the "Culture" article for the 12 Colonies? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by FulltimeDefendent (talk • contribs).

The series of articles pertaining to the The Twelve Colonies (RDM) is present. It's a part of that. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 05:19, 24 February 2007 (CST)

Unlike the Cylon Culture article it was felt that it offered no new content and just rehashed things that were already present in other articles. It was discussed on the talk page some time before deleting it --Serenity 06:37, 24 February 2007 (CST)