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Wiki speed?
Is it just me, or is the Wiki faster now that we've upgraded to MW 1.12? -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 02:32, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- Not just you. I noticed it. I was watiing for a normal user to notice. :) But oh well. Shane (T - C - E) 04:30, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- What, I'm not normal enough for you? :P -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 04:38, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- I think we'll get an answer to that next week, when the S4 premiere has aired. We also have memcached now, which'll help improve performance too. What's the status on APC? --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 11:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- For the record, this 'normal user' has certainly noticed the faster wiki. :) Veepz 16:09, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- I usually try to be an optimist, but I'm afraid we're going to get crushed. Hopefully we'll be able to at least hold up enough to enable viewing with the first episode page locked. --Steelviper 16:27, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- Well, if we lock down the articles before airing, we should do well. The only reason we crashed last time was because some schmuck with the initials of Joe Beaudoin had neglected to lock editing on the "Razor" page... Frakwit. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 16:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- It is pretty zippy. Nice work. We'll still be slow, but would it help if we don't allow editing at all anywhere in the wiki during the air times (as opposed to only the episode pages)? And thanks for your check-in, Veepz.--Spencerian 22:09, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- It's really the major articles that cause the problem... basically, when ten or more people try to submit edits AND people start calling up information from that same article, the mysql pipeline gets clogged because the server is trying to determine if there are edit conflicts, generate diffs, and all that behind-the-scenes work. Like last time, many people tried to edit and submit edits to the "Razor" article, and because of my failure to lock it down, the webserver grinded to a halt. It was only after I locked the article, the article on Cain, Kendra, and other related stuff that the site was usable again. (And note that the Forum worked very smoothly during this as well.) So... if it gets really bad even after w lock all the major articles, then we lock everything down. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 00:59, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
- It is pretty zippy. Nice work. We'll still be slow, but would it help if we don't allow editing at all anywhere in the wiki during the air times (as opposed to only the episode pages)? And thanks for your check-in, Veepz.--Spencerian 22:09, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- Well, if we lock down the articles before airing, we should do well. The only reason we crashed last time was because some schmuck with the initials of Joe Beaudoin had neglected to lock editing on the "Razor" page... Frakwit. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 16:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- I usually try to be an optimist, but I'm afraid we're going to get crushed. Hopefully we'll be able to at least hold up enough to enable viewing with the first episode page locked. --Steelviper 16:27, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Spoiler Policy
It looks like this needs to be updated for the Caprica series being green-lighted. Should all Caprica articles be considered spoilers? Shane (talk) 00:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- Typically, what we have here is minor plot information... not really a spoiler. Spoilers should really be identified on a case-by-case basis, at least for now. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 01:07, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
"He That Believeth In Me"
I'm done with the "He That Believeth In Me" stuff for now... I've locked all the major articles, so we shouldn't have major performance issues, and worked on some major updates. Except now I'm tired, and I want to get some shut eye, so fill in the blanks guys. (Obviously, the last 15 minutes of the show -- basically the last two acts -- are verboten. Not that it'll matter much in 8 hours, but let's cover our butts till then.) The man with the mushy brain bids you good night (and early morning). -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 08:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Humor in Battlestar Galactica
Seeing since we have articles as Philosophy in Battlestar Galactica or Sexuality in Battlestar Galactica, I was wondering if such an article would be worthy of survival. Although I'm sure there's a matter of interpretation concerning various jokes, sight gags, etc., and it would be harder to pin down, I still think it's possibly to create a nonbias article on Humor from either three series (and spin-off material). Thoughts?--DrWho42 14:43, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- I'd be interested in seeing such a thing, particularly for the new series, since the series doesn't afford itself too much in the way of humor. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 15:49, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- Concur. There's something to be gleaned with such an article, although one may have to be careful in sourcing the jokes to specific references, homages and the like. In fact, while doing this article you might want to consider how it impacts the lesser viewed References in the Re-imagined Series, as there are jokes there that are also homages but many items that may or may not necessarily be funny. Thus, overlap. --Spencerian 16:04, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- I actually think there is plenty of funny or also lightweight stuff in the show, even if it's just a line or two in a scene. So listing all of them could make for a somewhat lengthy article. -- Serenity 16:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Stream == Aired? == Non-spolier?
Just a quick thought, maybe not, but should the first airing of this stream count as the episode being seen or should being "aired" be the TV broadcast version only? in terms of marking pages. I just throw this little kink in our system now. :) Shane (talk) 17:19, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- I think we should just define a spoiler as content that is not yet aired on TV, just to keep our sanities intact. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 17:23, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Quiznos Expense Account
For those of you that opened up a Quiznos' expense account for the, uhm, Battlestar Wiki, I'd like to thank you! You've definitely made my day! (And, yes, I'll post the contents of the wonderful card that users 96, 351, and 541 came up with!) Thank you! :D -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 21:23, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Hangar Bay
What ever happened to the Hangar Bay? All links there redirect to the English wiki and http://hb.battlestarwiki.org/ redirects to the main portal. --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 15:07, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- I think I deleted the sub-domain.. surpriselly, we still have files over there. Wonder if we should bring it back to life. Shane (talk) 15:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah, bring it back, because we can work on some skin ideas over there. (The Colonial Paper thing, alternate color schemes, as well as a cleaner "print preview" version.) I'd recommend that you nuke whatever's there now and start clean. For instance, the MW software on the HB probably dates back to MW 1.5 or 1.7. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 18:41, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Wiki Status
So it seems to me that the Wiki's been working like a champ. Never crashed, apparently. It seems to be somewhat slow at times, but far better than the "Razor" airing, I thought. Anyway, what do you guys think about things? -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 18:44, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- It crashed for about 1 mintue because of a server fault, but it came right back. And it wasn't from the wiki. It was from me. :D Slow... yes. Online.. yes. editable... yes. Shane (talk) 19:01, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Ah, well, then we only have to worry about Shane now... Great. j/k -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 19:09, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Aside from the slowness, there were a few instances of unresponsiveness. That is, it didn't load at all. But that was some hours after the episode aired. All in all, not bad, though I didn't see how it fared directly during the airing.-- Serenity 19:20, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- That I can say... I was editing without any problems. I think the double airing really spread out the load of the server. Shane (talk) 20:21, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Dang it, I warned him on Friday not to crash the server! :) In seriousness, the wiki's been doing great! --Spencerian 23:31, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah, I noticed that bit of unresponsiveness too, which is saying enough about its timing (it was 4 AM here when HTBIM aired, and I didn't notice anything weird until like 4 PM). What I'm interested in most right now is the effectiveness of the BW:AIRLOCKs; do we have any data on how many people viewed locked articles or tried to click edit links on them? --Catrope(Talk to me or e-mail me) 10:55, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- I prefer the articles being locked for another reason. It's less work to write an article properly from the ground up, than going through a badly written one or a mismatch of various points and correcting that. Be that turning disjointed pieces into a coherent text, fixing typos and grammar, or just adhering to our style guidelines. I know that doesn't sound very nice and goes somewhat against the principles of a wiki, in that everyone can make edits, but it's also a good thing when an article has one voice and seems like it was written by one person. -- Serenity 11:06, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- It was definitely a matter of survival in the past. While me might try to phase in unlocking some of the pertinent articles, we should do it slowly, in phases, in the coming weeks. The last one to go should be the episode guide. I'd be tickled to have the option of having it unlocked during airing, but not at the cost of crashing the server. Perhaps we should brainstorm some strategies of how we can harness the flood of input without everything being so disjointed. Maybe hold off on having the summary written by everybody, but allow different people to get their observations in (in separate areas) in a way that avoids edit conflicts. Then, after the episode is aired people can assemble the summary. --Steelviper 11:38, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- That I can say... I was editing without any problems. I think the double airing really spread out the load of the server. Shane (talk) 20:21, 5 April 2008 (UTC)