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*24 December 2016: ''''Mechy Christmas''' ([[User:Frabby|Frabby]])
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*11 June 2017: '''CGL BattleTech Forum back online''' ([[User:Frabby|Frabby]])
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: So it's holiday season again. Without much ado, we wish everyone a Merry Christmas!
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: After a two week hiatus, the official BattleTech web presence and especially the [[BattleTech Forum]] is back online. The last three days of postings prior to the outage have apparently been lost. The [[BattleCorps]] site remains offline.
  
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*26 October 2016: '''20,000th article''' ([[User:Frabby|Frabby]])
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*22 May 2017: '''2016 Founder's Awards''' ([[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]])
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: Today, the 20,000th article was created on Sarna. This marks Sarna (and BattleTech) as one of the biggest fan wiki projects out there.<br />Numbers are arbitrary as articles are continuously created and occasionally also deleted (and aren't numbered), but at this time, the honor of being the 20,000th article goes to the article about the DropShip ''[[Gorgon Gal]]''.
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: The BattleTechWiki Founders Awards are here! [[BattleTechWiki:2016_Founder%27s_Awards|2016 Founders Awards]].
  
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*7 October 2016: '''Assistant LD Ben Rome steps down''' ([[User:Frabby|Frabby]])v
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*03 May 2017: '''Spambot alert''' ([[User:Frabby|Frabby]])
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: Long-time Assistant [[BattleTech Line Developer]] [[Ben H. Rome]] announced on his homepage that as of 7 October 2016 he was no longer Assistant Line Developer, and not working for BattleTech or CGL anymore. Raised to the position by his gaming friend and then-Line Developer [[Herb Beas]] (who left the LD position in 2013), he had himself declined the LD position and had been hinting for some time already that he might retire. Ben Rome's work includes the acclaimed ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]'' and ''[[Combat Manual: Kurita]]'' and is held in particularly high esteem by the fan base, who had nothing but praise and good wishes for him and expressed regret at his decision to leave BattleTech.
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: A slew of spambots has managed to register accounts, and is using these to create gibberish articles. Users are encouraged to immediately introduce themselves on their user page and/or talk page when setting up a new user account, to avoid being lumped in with the spambot accounts and being summarily blocked or deleted with extreme prejudice.
  
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*25 May 2016: '''2015 Founder's Awards''' ([[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]])
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*18 January 2017: '''Server Maintenance''' ([[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]])
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: Please congratulate the winners of the [[BattleTechWiki:2015_Founder%27s_Awards|2015 Founders Awards]], giving recognition to all of the amazing community members and their contributions over the last year.
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: I'm currently experimenting with some performance tuning of the server.  If you see any issues with images breaking, or other parts of the site not working, please let me know.  ([[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]])
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*15 January 2017: '''Server Maintenance''' ([[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]])
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: At approximately 7am EST 15 January 2017, the sarna.net server will be undergoing maintenance and a migration to new hardware.  Please expect some downtime.  MediaWiki will also be upgraded, so there may be some things temporarily broken.  If you encounter any issues, please [[User:Nicjansma|let me know]] or tweet at [https://twitter.com/SarnaNet @SarnaNet]
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: 10pm EST: Server maintenance is complete.  Apologies for any downtime today.  Please let me know if you encounter issues. ([[User:Nicjansma|Nicjansma]])
  
 
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Revision as of 01:52, 12 July 2017

  • 11 June 2017: CGL BattleTech Forum back online (Frabby)
After a two week hiatus, the official BattleTech web presence and especially the BattleTech Forum is back online. The last three days of postings prior to the outage have apparently been lost. The BattleCorps site remains offline.
  • 22 May 2017: 2016 Founder's Awards (Nicjansma)
The BattleTechWiki Founders Awards are here! 2016 Founders Awards.
  • 03 May 2017: Spambot alert (Frabby)
A slew of spambots has managed to register accounts, and is using these to create gibberish articles. Users are encouraged to immediately introduce themselves on their user page and/or talk page when setting up a new user account, to avoid being lumped in with the spambot accounts and being summarily blocked or deleted with extreme prejudice.
  • 18 January 2017: Server Maintenance (Nicjansma)
I'm currently experimenting with some performance tuning of the server. If you see any issues with images breaking, or other parts of the site not working, please let me know. (Nicjansma)
  • 15 January 2017: Server Maintenance (Nicjansma)
At approximately 7am EST 15 January 2017, the sarna.net server will be undergoing maintenance and a migration to new hardware. Please expect some downtime. MediaWiki will also be upgraded, so there may be some things temporarily broken. If you encounter any issues, please let me know or tweet at @SarnaNet
10pm EST: Server maintenance is complete. Apologies for any downtime today. Please let me know if you encounter issues. (Nicjansma)

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