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== Request ==


==Congratulations!==
Hello.


Just wanted to congratulate you on becoming an administrator. You deserve it, man! --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 23:55, 8 October 2006 (CDT)
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.
:Gratz --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 02:31, 9 October 2006 (CDT)


[[Image:mopboy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]
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.  


==Help==
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.
Hey, Shane, I was wondering if you could help me out with something. I want to put a link to the silly pages category on my user page, but whenever I try it just puts my user page into the Category rather than linking to the category. --[[User:BklynBruzer|BklynBruzer]] 18:09, 26 October 2006 (CDT)


== PHP Error ==
Thank you.


See the admin noticeboard for information on an error I keep having today. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 19:39, 3 November 2006 (EST)
[[User:Alvine|Alvine]]


== Regarding the questions section ==
== Issues with Wiki Frakr ==


"Questions - yet again, this section is for questions -- not possible answers to questions!"
Hi Shane! Happy holidays to you and yours, I hope all is well ...


It just doesn't make any sense. A questions section without answers has no real purpose. I've seen speculative material posted over and over again at that section. Some questions are pertinent, but there are others which can be easily answered and shouldn't be there.
When I attempt to save an edit on Wiki Frakr I get the following:


==Hangarbay==
<pre>
Hi shane, Ive got ftp access ok but the hb is a bit fubared so i cant make any changes because i cant then see what it look like on screen? --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 04:17, 20 November 2006 (CST)
Detected bug in an extension! Hook ReCaptcha::confirmEdit failed to return a value; should return true to continue hook processing or false to abort.
:Just wondered if you had a chance to look at that yet. Theres also a few other things I need to discuss when you are free. cheers --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 06:17, 24 November 2006 (CST)
::Also, i'd like to work on the blog design if youd' like to email me those details too? I know you and Joe are really busy atm and things are moving slow but perhaps if you let a few more of us have access to things we can keep everything up to date and swish. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 03:58, 27 November 2006 (CST)


== XHTML ==
Backtrace:
I ran the validator on Religion and fixed all the [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.battlestarwiki.org%2Fwiki%2FReligion_in_the_Twelve_Colonies&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline errors] that it pointed out except for the ones that were generated by the ad stuff. I thought I'd leave that to you (or Joe) since I don't know where that is stored and don't want to break the ads. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:33, 8 December 2006 (CST)


== Monobook skin ==
#0 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(758): wfRunHooks('EditFilter', Array)
The bsg monobook (white) skin is significantly different today. The "Edit" buttons are way over on the left and huge. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:29, 29 December 2006 (CST)
#1 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(2259): EditPage->internalAttemptSave(false, false)
: That's because we've upgraded to 1.9alpha. There's a new class for the edit buttons that Shane needs to add into the stylesheet. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 07:45, 29 December 2006 (CST)
#2 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(463): EditPage->attemptSave()
::Ahhh. I switched to Bsgbook in the interim, but I've found I've grown used to the white background. I'm pleased that the site is "skin friendly" enough to be so interchangable now (as you know that wasn't always the case). Thanks for getting everything back up and running. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:48, 29 December 2006 (CST)
#3 /home/frakr/w/includes/EditPage.php(348): EditPage->edit()
:::Fixed (after a hard refresh). Thanks Shane! --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:54, 29 December 2006 (CST)
#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}
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== Season 1 Guide ==
Thanks. [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 04:51, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
:Ah shit. ok. I'm on the case. :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 05:01, 19 December 2009 (UTC)


I am curious about your revert on [[Portal:Battlestar Galactica (RDM)/Episode Guide/Season 1 Guide]] - why do you want an extra header there, but nowhere else? (PS: Thanks for the welcome) --[[User:Manscher|Manscher]] 09:27, 30 December 2006 (CST)
== Colors and First letter of title in uppercase ==
:Because if you are scrolling down, you might get the line mess up. I never got around to adding the header once more, because I think I just forgot where the mid-point was. lol. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 09:32, 30 December 2006 (CST)


==Hangarbay signup==
Hi Shane.<br/>Just two questions for the moment.
Got this error when trying to register...
* 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. --[[User:LIMAFOX76|LIMAFOX76]] 16:22, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


<nowiki> Database error
: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...
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
:@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)


    (SQL query hidden)
== The Matrix Wiki Skin ==


from within function "User::addToDatabase". MySQL returned error "1054: Unknown column 'user_newpass_time' in 'field list' (localhost)".</nowiki> 
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.


-- [[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 10:17, 31 December 2006 (CST)
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.


:Do'h! I know the problem! [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 23:09, 31 December 2006 (CST)
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.


::Still getting an error when trying to sign up. Is it fixed yet? --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 03:47, 4 January 2007 (CST)
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)


==Buttons missing==
== Userpage Design. ==
All the buttons from the "edit" page are missing... Any ideas? --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 03:05, 2 January 2007 (CST)


==Turkish Wiki==
I too copied your userpage design. I hope its fine. Just letting you know. [[User:CylonU87|CylonU87]] 11:13, 12 August 2011 (EDT)
Hi there Shane, I am willing to contribute if we can organise Turkish Battlestar Fans, i am starting the [[Turkish Battlestar Wiki Project]] page if it's ok. --[[User:Redlinetheturk|Redlinetheturk]] 07:22, 4 January 2007 (CST)

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)