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Military Ranks

Just a few concluding remarks I don't blame you for what you did, where I in your position I would have done the same thing. The reason I didn't respond to Serenity's first post was because until yesterday I had been unable to figure out how. As far as fear of retribution, I've never really been involved with a wiki before so I wasn't really sure what to expect and was kind of intimidated. I appreciate you're addressing my issues. Not only did it help me understand why things were happening the way they were, but it also made me feel like my input was welcome and that was all I was asking for. I am anxious to see any clarification you can offer in the weeks ahead because I find this a rather fascinating topic.

Thanks again for the clarification. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Grandmaester314 (talk • contribs).

BG S4.1 in Latin America

In Latin America, Season Four of Battlestar Galactica airs on Saturdays and Sundays on Space.

Dynamic Page List

Hi, I just checked all feature about BW and I didn't see the Dynamic Page List feature. Do you plan one day to install it because it's very useful?--LIMAFOX76 20:32, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps. I'll talk with Shane about this. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 21:08, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Examples

Here are some examples I made for the Stargate Wiki FR:

• To see minor characters:
  • Automatic generation of a line with five stamps using DPL with entry of the series, the season, and the first article sorted.
  • Automatic generation of minor characters for the first page with automatic sort by last name
  • Automatic creation of minor character stamps page links with automatic image update and automatic update of the first and the last character name of this page.
• To see objects:
  • Automatic generation of a line. All you juste have to do is to put the correct category.
  • Autogeneration of a page with the famous lines.
• To resume objects in a bottom navigation bar:
  • Nav bar automaticaly updated (put the right category)

All you have to do with this kind or templates is to put the right category and DPL (with a purge) will do the rest. The main purpose of DPL is to avoid editing when the database can do the stuff for you. You don't have to edit an article or a template to update with new article of the same category. --LIMAFOX76 08:28, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

What about RFA and RFB for French BW ?

Hi Joe,

I'm on the verge to edit the policy for the french version of Request for Admninship and Request for Bureaucratship. I need your help for this two policies.

1. Do I just translate the English version with the same vote system than the main site?
2. Do I have to do it in another way?
3. Is the principle of request the same than the main site?

Thanks for answering.--LIMAFOX76 11:25, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

If you have any suggestions as to improve the policies in question, then that would work well. Until the French wiki has more contributors, I don't think the RFA and RFB are really going to work all that well, and so administrators are promoted on a case-by-case basis as determined by you, me, and Shane. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 13:10, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Until I design or translate all the templates needed and the main page, I think there will not be a lot of contributors. The main problem is the lack of French and French-speaking people who speak English fluently. French people are not very confortable with English, so it's very difficult for them to contribute unless they have seen the show and are fans. With your agreement, I will just create one page for RFA and RFB with the statement you said above (Shane, you and me).
FYI, all the episodes of the Re-Imagined Series have been aired in France, and have been released in DVD format (I just saw the Season 4 Part 2 Set yesterday in a supermarket) . --LIMAFOX76 14:22, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Understandable. And, yes, this works for me. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank you for all of your hard work! It is certainly appreciated! :D -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 15:21, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for encouraging. ;-) -- LIMAFOX76 17:50, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Wiki Store (FR) and iTunes (FR)

Hi again,

I can see on the Support section of the sidebar many links to affiliates (like Amazon and iTunes). Can I (or not) create similar links to french Amazon and iTunes store with french official stuff from Battlestar Galactica Franchise? --LIMAFOX76 18:06, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

I'll have to look into it. So don't worry about it for now. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 19:18, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

OK. --LIMAFOX76 20:15, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

German Battlestarwiki

For days, I have been trying to access the german Battlestarwiki - without success. Is it offline? Under maintenance?--Dvd-junkie 17:01, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm checking into it. I'll let you know when it's back online. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 17:05, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

It's back up. ;-) -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 18:22, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you!--Dvd-junkie 18:59, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

• Hello. I cannot look at articles with galleries. E.G. if I open http://de.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Pegasus_%28RDM%29 i cannot see the article. If I kill the gallery everything is alright. Whats the problem? --Enabran 16:26, 23 April 2011 (EDT)

• • I'm looking into this right now and will get back to you. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 16:29, 23 April 2011 (EDT)

• • Ok, it's working now. There was a conflict with one of the extensions and MW 1.16. I've disabled it. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 17:14, 23 April 2011 (EDT)

Happy holidays

Hi Joe! Just wanted to say hi and happy holidays to you and yours. I am well, hope you are too. JubalHarshaw 04:43, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi Jeremy! Happy Holidays! I am doing well, and I'm glad to see that you are too! :) -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 17:57, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Hah, I feel bad now.

Since I've joined here, the only thing I've been doing is tinkering with the Glare page. Now I feel bad that's all I've been doing. =/ I gotta help out for the reals, so do any pages need serious revision/are missing a lot of crap that I can help out with? --NeutraVega 19:40, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi there! :D Sorry for the long delay in replying, but we had the database locked and the site moved to new servers, thus the delay. Anyway, we could use the most help on the Caprica pilot page and subjects relating to Caprica. So if you'd like to start there, that'd be great. :) -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 16:27, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Advertising and problem on media repository

Hi Joe and Happy New Year,
As I already said to Shan, I can see that you succeed to bring back the wiki. Congratulations. I have two point to ask.

1. I made a donation for the wiki to avoid advertising but I still have them on the screen, why? Thank you for your answer.
2. On the media repository, I tried to upload an image. It is actually somewhere in the directory but the sofware is unable to create a thumbnail. It says that it cannot find the "convert" file on the server. So for now, it's impossible to add new images on the media repository.

Thanks for your answer. --LIMAFOX76 15:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Happy New Year to you too! :D

Anyway, I went ahead and upgraded your account to sponsor status, so you shouldn't see the ads. If you do, try logging in and out again. If that doesn't work, a hard refresh should clear the cache. As for the convert issue, I'll have Shane look into it. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 15:55, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I've no ads anymore. --LIMAFOX76 15:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Awesome! :D -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 16:33, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Fixed the issue with the media repository as well. Cheers. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 21:16, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

InterBot and BS Pegasus

Hi Joe.
1. It seems that InterBot doesn't work because the interwiki link I made on the pages I created aren't duplicated on the other wikis.
2. I don't have access to BS Pegasus either. It says it's forbidden. Is there any problem since the server transfer or something?
Thanks for your answer. --LIMAFOX76 21:41, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi,
Still doesn't work for both points. Do you have any answer for that please? Thanks. --LIMAFOX76 14:23, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I've been pretty busy. (Barely have had time to really work on the wiki, other than to greet the newcomers.) To answer your questions:

1. Shane needs to reprogram the InterBot. He hasn't had time to do that as he's been working on projects for Best Buy.

2. The BS Pegasus site is down. No ETA on when that'll be back up as it isn't priority. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 01:35, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Calendar dates on auction items

Hi Joe,

I expanded the Colonial calendar#Different Dating Methods section with information from a couple of auction items and noticed in the process that you wrote at least some of the blog entries at battlestarprops.com. Do you recall seeing any calendar items I haven't mentioned yet, and if so, could you point me to their pictures? It would also be nice to see a higher resolution scan of Socrata's medal of valor document, if one is available.

Regards,

-- Graf Iblis 19:55, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

I honestly never really paid all that much attention to the dating thing, since it was all made up anyway. (Star Trek's "stardate" system is a very good example of this, actually. It isn't until they did TNG that they really put thought into it.) There is very little consistency behind the dating on any of the paperwork; in television production, much of it is thrown together—some of it even at the very last minute—even taking into account the quality of BSG's paperwork being higher than other genre television series. It isn't until Caprica that they really tried to address the issue of the Colonial dating method, because it's simply not natural not to have characters not say "Hey Lacy, meet me for lunch on Saturday."

As for photos of the stuff, the Propworx archive has photos of everything that's been auctioned through Propworx. I also know of a few fans who have won many paperwork documents from the BSG auctions (both live and via eBay) that have taken the time to scan them, but most of their work is on private boards and some prop replication communities. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 02:34, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. The scans on that site have a much higher resolution and I already found a couple of items with supposed dates. I would like to document them in the article primarily to establish that there was no real system in the re-imagined series as opposed to Caprica. Such random alphanumerics also suggest to the reader that the dates in Adama's dossier need not be correct necessarily (e.g. the year 20000+). -- Graf Iblis 18:16, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

"pos" extended parser function

Hi Joe,
I would like to ask if it is possible to add the "pos" Parser Function into the wiki, this will allow to do some research more easily (for example to do an action on pages with a certain text and not on the others). Thanks for your answer. --LIMAFOX76 12:57, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Do you have a link so I can check this out? I take it this is an extension to MW. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 13:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Check this link to see. --LIMAFOX76 18:20, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

It's now installed. I'd be interested to see how you use this. Cheers! -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 20:19, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

One example for the moment:

• The Modèle:Apparitions Télésuite template using fr:Modèle:Apparition. I use the pos to show the number of apparitions only on the Apparition page (condition) :
  • When you see it inside the episode: Télésuite, 1re nuit#Apparition des personnages
  • When you see it inside the characters apparition page: Liste des apparitions des personnages par épisode. --LIMAFOX76 20:31, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

HTML activation

Hi Joe,
I think the wiki has not the HTML function activated because I tried to import some Wikipedia template to adapt them to the wiki and those have htlm writing inside and it doesn't work. So, please, is it possible to activate html editing in the french wiki?
Thanks a lot. --LIMAFOX76 11:34, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Which templates are affected? -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 16:39, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

This one for example. --LIMAFOX76 16:47, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Why not just use the wikicode table syntax? -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 17:06, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

I tried it but there is an issue when you use a template using parser function inside another template using parser functions. It doesn't recognise at all a link (an image for an example) created by the template inside, it separates the link like a colspan. At least, is it possible to activate only the <td><hr><tr> tags? --LIMAFOX76 13:21, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

OK, I should get to activating those HTML tags sometime tonight. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 17:44, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

SVG generation

Hi Joe,
I hope you're fine, I've seen a little problem with the SVG generator. It doesn't work properly. Here is the message I get :

Erreur lors de la création de la miniature : /usr/bin/rsvg: not found

I think it's a missing file forgot during the transfer last december. Thank you for your answer. --LIMAFOX76 08:21, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

It's that rsvg isn't presently installed on the new server. I'll send in a support request. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 18:39, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Joe,
Still doesn't work, sorry. --LIMAFOX76 16:36, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, that's because I was sidetracked and neglected sending that support request. I've sent it in and hope to hear from someone in the next 48 hours. Sorry about that. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 19:34, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

OK, they've installed it. All should be good now. :) -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 00:29, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

YES, it's working. Thanks. --LIMAFOX76 10:09, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Joe, I think I've a bit too quick to say Hurra. There is still a problem. There is no generation of image but instead of, we have the name of the file. See fr:Modèle:Drapeau or fr:Michael Rymer for example. --LIMAFOX76 14:11, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Looking into it now... -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 21:13, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

I'd have to track down the exact error, since our server host doesn't supply tech support for MediaWiki (understandably so) an Shane is busy with projects. Of course, I have no time to do it right not until mid-October because I am committed to other projects right now. Would it be possible to use PNGs for the flags until we can get the SVG issue ironed out? -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 01:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

removal of my question

Hi !

Yes, it was a real question : how could the pegasus avoid further contamination by the Cylon virus. Is this answered in future episodes ?

Why did you simply remove my question ?

Regards,

 Nixab (new fan and new contributor here).

I think it's a valid question, Joe, so I noted that the answer is in Razor and spelled it out in the Answered Questions from Season 2. -- Noneofyourbusiness 03:25, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough, and I agree. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 05:11, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Jupiter-class battlestar issue

I have a problem with your edit of my edit on the Jupiter class battlestar Galactica. The book I refered to is canon since it was written by the science advisor to BSG and sactioned by SyFy and Ron Moore. If yoiu prefer your wiki not to contain official information then that is fine and I will not bother to add any other information to your site. I will rely solely on official material such as this book. Cancel my membersip please. Good Bye. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lonewriter (talk • contribs).

Please refer to Acceptable Sources, which list the sources of what makes something canon. Just because there is an error in a book sanctioned by Syfy Channel, does not mean it is automatically canon. As I've only started reading the book, I've already noticed errors (mostly with spelling, such as Cally's name), that raises a few doubts in my mind when it comes to how thoroughly the book was copyedited.

As I believe I had explained, the episode that the writers of the book refer to ("Pegasus") does not make mention of Galactica's class. At all. So, they made a mistake, or improperly cited the source. (Now, if it came from the script for that episode, I can see that. We've used scripts as sources before.)

Now, if Ron Moore or David Eick were to come out and say "well, they're right, Galactica is a Jupiter class" then we will certainly note that, and cite that it came from them. Furthermore, maybe I wasn't clear, but I'm not saying that we should throw out the reference at all, but it needs to be pointed out that the way the information is present is in direct contradiction to what viewers saw on screen.

Believe me, were this information aired in "Pegasus" fans would have eaten that up, just like they (we) ate up the whole Mercury class reference that Adama made before Cain boarded the ship. :)

Now, as to your immature comment, it does suggest that you probably wouldn't be a good editor here, because you don't seem to understand how to critically analyze information, or the necessity of viewing all information with a critical eye. That's fine. There are people who simply don't have that ability. There's nothing wrong with that. Also, you don't have to use the site, at all. I hate to be disingenuous and brusque, but if you're going to use appeals to emotion instead of actually bothering to do the research (which I, and many, many fans have done over the past five-plus years) then you're welcome to leave and never look back.

However, let me be particularly clear when I say this: what I have done is pointed out this error, which you've brought to our attention, so thank you for that. Now, if you want to act like a prima donna and storm off in a huff, then that's your call. You're more than welcome to stay, or you are more than welcome to leave. Ball is in your court. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 02:58, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

William Adama edits

I seem to find the spoiler tag formatting (I edit on wikipedia but we have nothing similar there) so I'm just going to be as vague as I can be and hope you understand. While reading over the spoilered info on William Adama's page that you recently added I realized that you have a character connection slightly off. If you check my edit history, you'll see I made a similar change on a related page. Hope that's enough for you to see what I meant (since I can't edit the Old Man's page). Millahnna 23:00, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I got what you meant! I'll make the correction now! Thanks! -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 02:41, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Duram's files at Propworx

Hi Joe,

Have you preserved alternate photographs of Duram's files which are now on eBay? The available photo makes Clarice's file halfway legible, but I'm curious what's in Amanda's and other files. I'm not planning on buying them though, since I'm only interested in the information, not in provenance. Even so, thanks for participating in the auctions — the photos have provided so much useful information that would've normally disappeared with the shows. -- Graf Iblis 22:10, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

I'd have to ask Jarrod, since he's the one who oversees the Caprica auction stuff out in LA. (I'm not in LA, so I don't have easy access to this stuff myself.) -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 23:00, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Reference in Template

What does putting the ref in break? I don't see anything unusual except that the 33 has to be bracketed to be a link. -- Noneofyourbusiness 22:47, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Issue is that the brackets are printed out, and they really shouldn't be. I guess I'll have to modify the infobox template to deal with that. Basically a separate field that is only for references, like "|seenref=". -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 00:42, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Re-imagined Series definition: Battlestar Group ^{(TRS: "Water")}. It also doubles as an acronym for the television series itself.

Commander William Adama's nickname, used by officers aboard Galactica ^(TRS: "33")