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== minor edit in character name ==
== Request ==
According to Fulvio Cecere himself and IMDb his character name was Alastair Thorne (with an A) not Alistair Thorne. I've changed it throughout the "Alastair Thorne" page (as well as on Fulvio's BS Wiki page which I updated from a stub) but I can't change it in the title/fileneme (so now on Fulvio's page it's pointing at an empty page until you change). Thanx. --[[User:MAD|MAD]] 07:38, 25 January 2007 (CST)


== Ads at Hangarbay? ==
Hello.  
If you get a chance, I'd like to get the ads going at the hangarbay. I'm willing to do the gruntwork, but I'm not sure how it's accomplished. I found the adbrite javascript here at en, but it appears to be buried in javascript and I can't find a wiki page that it runs off of. I'd like to try adorning the hangarbay with all the different possible ad locations and orientations. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:17, 8 January 2007 (CST)
:Do you have FTP access? I belive it requires editing of the CSS. I could be wrong however so just have to wait for Shane to reply. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 05:38, 11 January 2007 (CST)
::FTP is needed. The files to be needed to change are the skin templates. I have an <code>Adbrite.php</code> file created, but I need the new zone codes and need to add the switches in for the size of the ad. I'll do that this evening and then send you guys FTP access for the HB. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 06:23, 11 January 2007 (CST)


==JavaScript question==
I come to you because I need your help. I started to update the french part of the wiki, to translate various pages from the english one, to import templates the french wiki didn't use yet etc etc. I noticed you were looking for somebody to manage the french wiki. I do not exactly know what it'd be about, but let's say I'm quite interested in this.
Hi Shane. Thanks again for the userpage template. Now for my question ... I have a simple JavaScript to display a random quote, it's [[User:JubalHarshaw/bsgbook.js/quotes.js|here]]. Is there any way I can use it on my userpage, have my userpage "call" out to it and display the output (the quote) ?  Thanks for any explanation and assistance you can give me. [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 10:18, 11 January 2007 (CST)
:[[User:JubalHarshaw/bsgbook.js]] - needs to be created and then you gotta install some hooks. Check out my [[User:Shane/bsgbook.js|javascript]] files for some insight. default.js and tabs.js are your best bet. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 13:47, 11 January 2007 (CST)
Thanks for the pointers. My programming skill is minimal, so it'll probably take me awhile to figure out. It was just something for my own amusement anyway. Cheers. [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 07:51, 12 January 2007 (CST)
:Fixed. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 12:32, 20 January 2007 (CST)


== Thanks for the warm welcome ==
The reason of my message is simple. I updated the Episode List (not the template, only the wikipage) and had to do some modifications, involving accents, missing or useless capital letters, and special letters. I think i'm done, however these modifications broke several links to episode pages.


Just wanted to say thanks for the warm welcome ;) Though i really must say i envy you for that monitor of yours ;) --[[User:Destotelhorus|Destotelhorus]] 01:04, 13 January 2007 (CST)
I know it is possible to hide them on screen, but that would not be quite clean, that's why I tried to rename the pages who needed it... unsuccessfully, since I'm not allowed to do it. Could you please grant me the correct permissions, so that I could rename the pages with a correct typography ? Afterwoods, when there is no more broken links on the "episode list" wiki page, I shall update de "episode list" template page, and the episode infoboxes.


== RFB templates ==
Thank you.


[[Battlestar Wiki:Requests for bureaucratship/Spencerian|We're going to need]] those rfb header and footer templates for successful and unsuccessful requests... heh. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 20:07, 13 January 2007 (CST)
[[User:Alvine|Alvine]]
:Roger that. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 20:08, 13 January 2007 (CST)


== Toolbar ==
== Issues with Wiki Frakr ==


[[Image:Toolbar issue.jpg|thumb]] A toolbar placement issue... nothing major, though. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 21:10, 14 January 2007 (CST)
Hi Shane! Happy holidays to you and yours, I hope all is well ...
:IE? [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 21:11, 14 January 2007 (CST)
::Firefox 1.5. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 21:19, 14 January 2007 (CST)
:::I'm on 2.0. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 - Build ID: 2006120418. Weird. Why can't the browsers just get [[Wikipedia:Peace|along]]?[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 21:23, 14 January 2007 (CST)


==Battlestar Wiki:Template List/XML Templates/Instructions==
When I attempt to save an edit on Wiki Frakr I get the following:
[[Battlestar Wiki:Template List/XML Templates/Instructions]] - Are you still working on this document? --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 05:13, 18 January 2007 (CST)
:Yes. But we can remove it from "Currently Editing" [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 11:27, 18 January 2007 (CST)


== Oh, that's YOU ==
<pre>
Detected bug in an extension! Hook ReCaptcha::confirmEdit failed to return a value; should return true to continue hook processing or false to abort.


After I welcomed the second user account this morning, I realized you were making test accounts for your bots. My bad. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 09:40, 21 January 2007 (CST)
Backtrace:
:The second one I am going to delete from the Database. but if you can change [[User:InterBot|this bots]] user rights to: sysop and bot, that would be great. :-) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 09:44, 21 January 2007 (CST)
::Done. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 09:48, 21 January 2007 (CST)


== Bug in image system ==
#0 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(758): wfRunHooks('EditFilter', Array)
#1 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(2259): EditPage->internalAttemptSave(false, false)
#2 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(463): EditPage->attemptSave()
#3 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(348): EditPage->edit()
#4 /home/frakr/w/includes/Wiki.php(490): EditPage->submit()
#5 /home/frakr/w/includes/Wiki.php(59): MediaWiki->performAction(Object(OutputPage), Object(Article), Object(Title), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))
#6 /home/frakr/w/index.php(92): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(Article), Object(OutputPage), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))
#7 {main}
</pre>


I'm not sure if you know of this but I've discovered a bug in your image system, go to: [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Spain.svg] - notice it has the BSMW info etc? Then go to: (''removed link... cauing problems'') (purge) then view the image info page again, the BSMW box has gone? [[User:MatthewFenton|MatthewFenton]] 15:01, 21 January 2007 (CST)
Thanks. [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 04:51, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
:That's for sure a media wiki error. Werid. :-P [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 15:03, 21 January 2007 (CST)
:Ah shit. ok. I'm on the case. :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 05:01, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
::Ah, I see (btw.. it was purely accidental I discovered the bug, was attempting to get the page to update information just in case your wondering :-)) [[User:MatthewFenton|MatthewFenton]] 15:05, 21 January 2007 (CST)
:::It should have done it right away. It's not on english so it gets it directly on the database of the media. :-) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 15:09, 21 January 2007 (CST)
:::: I see, the problem I had was it was showing an outdated file size, just noticed you removed the link as well, sorry if I've caused you any big problems :-( [[User:MatthewFenton|MatthewFenton]] 17:53, 21 January 2007 (CST)
:::::I was trying to re-generate the flag and I was having troubles. no biggie.... not like the snow that is on my car right now. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 17:55, 21 January 2007 (CST)
::::::Snow is awesome and I envy you for having it there. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 18:54, 21 January 2007 (CST)
:::::::In Virgina?? I moved to this state to get away from the Snow. Not be in it. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 18:57, 21 January 2007 (CST)
::::::::If you intentionally tried to get away from snow, I have no recourse but to call you weird. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 19:48, 21 January 2007 (CST)


== Airing ==
== Colors and First letter of title in uppercase ==


Oh I see, I'm getting confused with how time works in USA - tired as well I guess 3am here :-P [[User:MatthewFenton|MatthewFenton]] 20:56, 21 January 2007 (CST)
Hi Shane.<br/>Just two questions for the moment.
:Aye. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 20:58, 21 January 2007 (CST)
* Can you give me all the hexa code for the colors you use for the wiki?
:: I'm getting sooooo jittery here, the wait is painful, /me needs his fix of BSG.. [[User:MatthewFenton|MatthewFenton]] 21:02, 21 January 2007 (CST)
* Is it possible to disable or to show me the way to disable the automatic uppercase of the first letter of each word on the article title please?
:::I have to watch American Football.... right now it's recording on my DVR... [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 21:04, 21 January 2007 (CST)
Thank you very much. --[[User:LIMAFOX76|LIMAFOX76]] 16:22, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
::::Does anyone know if it aired in HD in the us or only in standard def? Either way i needs it lol --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 03:50, 22 January 2007 (CST)
::::: Sci Fi apparently only air in standard definition, excellent episode though :-)! [[User:MatthewFenton|MatthewFenton]] 03:52, 22 January 2007 (CST)
==Email==
Hah, this is embarassing, but how do we access our admin emails? --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 05:30, 2 February 2007 (CST)
:You were not around... so I set yours up as a forward to your gmail account. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 08:01, 2 February 2007 (CST)
::I haven't received anything in my old Yahoo account or my new bswiki account this morning (I just changed my wiki email to that address), nor is there anything from its mailing list. 'Sup? --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 08:09, 2 February 2007 (CST)
:::Werid. Let me re-send it out. It was early in the morning.. lol. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 08:10, 2 February 2007 (CST)
:::Yep. I added and extra '''s''' at the end. I resent it. :-) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 08:12, 2 February 2007 (CST)
::::Already thought it was just me and that I or my spamfilter accidentally deleted it... --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:13, 2 February 2007 (CST)
:::::I got mine ^_^ --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 08:21, 2 February 2007 (CST)
::::::Okay, thanks Shane, I got it. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 09:19, 2 February 2007 (CST)


==Login feature==
:Hi, Shane, thanks for [[Battlestar_Wiki:Chiefs'_noticeboard/Archive8#Capitalized_Headlines|fixing this]] for the German version (it works); sorry I didn't notice earlier, since I wasn't active for a while. Perhaps it would be a good idea to drop this transformation alltogether...
[http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3097 This] looks VERY interesting Shane. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 09:20, 2 February 2007 (CST)
:@LIMAFOX: You can create a personal stylesheet in your profile which applies this change. (for German, it looked ''very'' wrong because this language has quite elaborate rules about uppercase first letters; but I didn't intend to discuss anglo-saxon habits). --[[User:Bruno-the-questionable|Tobias]] 19:32, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


==Fix template==
== The Matrix Wiki Skin ==
Shane, can you pretty please fix the Star and Crew templates please. the Character box seemed to work fine by lightening the name but the others arnt quite right. If you could look into it, that would be great. cheers. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 07:57, 14 February 2007 (CST)
 
:It takes a while for most of them because of the [[Special:Statistics|job queue]]. The first one of each one is done. You did everything correctly. If you are taking about the "large" text, <code>font-size: larger</code> is what needs to be removed. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 08:02, 14 February 2007 (CST)
Hi, I've recently joined Wikia and started adding to the [http://matrix.wikia.com Matrix wiki], where I noticed that you'd [http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#CSS.2FStyle_Design posted] to the main talk page about a new style design.
 
The skin at the moment is terrible, but as I've only ever really had experience altering the content of articles in wikis I have no starting point to alter it (the internal help is pretty limited at the moment too). I'm familiar with CSS and web design etc. so if you point me in the right direction I should be able to improve it, but if you're still willing to help with the style that would be more awesome still.
 
I'm not thinking anything too fancy, just a plain black background, green text and so on, but with an animated gif of the falling matrix code on either side of the page to really make a good impression.
 
Please reply either here or on my [http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Xensyria talk page there] if you've got the time. Cheers --[[user:xensyria|xensyria]] 17:09, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
 
== Userpage Design. ==
 
I too copied your userpage design. I hope its fine. Just letting you know. [[User:CylonU87|CylonU87]] 11:13, 12 August 2011 (EDT)

Latest revision as of 15:13, 12 August 2011

Message to all
Please note: This user has a photographic memory. Anything this user sees is quickly memorized.


Request

Hello.

I come to you because I need your help. I started to update the french part of the wiki, to translate various pages from the english one, to import templates the french wiki didn't use yet etc etc. I noticed you were looking for somebody to manage the french wiki. I do not exactly know what it'd be about, but let's say I'm quite interested in this.

The reason of my message is simple. I updated the Episode List (not the template, only the wikipage) and had to do some modifications, involving accents, missing or useless capital letters, and special letters. I think i'm done, however these modifications broke several links to episode pages.

I know it is possible to hide them on screen, but that would not be quite clean, that's why I tried to rename the pages who needed it... unsuccessfully, since I'm not allowed to do it. Could you please grant me the correct permissions, so that I could rename the pages with a correct typography ? Afterwoods, when there is no more broken links on the "episode list" wiki page, I shall update de "episode list" template page, and the episode infoboxes.

Thank you.

Alvine

Issues with Wiki Frakr

Hi Shane! Happy holidays to you and yours, I hope all is well ...

When I attempt to save an edit on Wiki Frakr I get the following:

Detected bug in an extension! Hook ReCaptcha::confirmEdit failed to return a value; should return true to continue hook processing or false to abort.

Backtrace:

#0 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(758): wfRunHooks('EditFilter', Array)
#1 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(2259): EditPage->internalAttemptSave(false, false)
#2 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(463): EditPage->attemptSave()
#3 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(348): EditPage->edit()
#4 /home/frakr/w/includes/Wiki.php(490): EditPage->submit()
#5 /home/frakr/w/includes/Wiki.php(59): MediaWiki->performAction(Object(OutputPage), Object(Article), Object(Title), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))
#6 /home/frakr/w/index.php(92): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(Article), Object(OutputPage), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))
#7 {main}

Thanks. JubalHarshaw 04:51, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Ah shit. ok. I'm on the case. :) Shane (talk) 05:01, 19 December 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Colors and First letter of title in uppercase

Hi Shane.
Just two questions for the moment.

  • Can you give me all the hexa code for the colors you use for the wiki?
  • Is it possible to disable or to show me the way to disable the automatic uppercase of the first letter of each word on the article title please?

Thank you very much. --LIMAFOX76 16:22, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Shane, thanks for fixing this for the German version (it works); sorry I didn't notice earlier, since I wasn't active for a while. Perhaps it would be a good idea to drop this transformation alltogether...
@LIMAFOX: You can create a personal stylesheet in your profile which applies this change. (for German, it looked very wrong because this language has quite elaborate rules about uppercase first letters; but I didn't intend to discuss anglo-saxon habits). --Tobias 19:32, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

The Matrix Wiki Skin

Hi, I've recently joined Wikia and started adding to the Matrix wiki, where I noticed that you'd posted to the main talk page about a new style design.

The skin at the moment is terrible, but as I've only ever really had experience altering the content of articles in wikis I have no starting point to alter it (the internal help is pretty limited at the moment too). I'm familiar with CSS and web design etc. so if you point me in the right direction I should be able to improve it, but if you're still willing to help with the style that would be more awesome still.

I'm not thinking anything too fancy, just a plain black background, green text and so on, but with an animated gif of the falling matrix code on either side of the page to really make a good impression.

Please reply either here or on my talk page there if you've got the time. Cheers --xensyria 17:09, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Userpage Design.

I too copied your userpage design. I hope its fine. Just letting you know. CylonU87 11:13, 12 August 2011 (EDT)