BattleTechWiki:News Archive

• 02 April 2010 (Revanche)

The Awards Committee has released the newest Admin's Award: the Good Conduct Award.

Though we hope never to need it, this is to recognize an Editor who has responded to a personal attack with dignity, aplomb and the intent to solve the problem. This is an Admin's Award, so nominations must be made.

• 01 April 2010 (Nicjansma)

I've decided to retire my server, including BattleTechWiki. Please move all important files over to Wikipedia's BattleTech pages by the end of the month of April. Please discuss here.

• 30 March 2010 (Revanche)

The anticipated policy to re-vamp BTW's year pages has now been released. Please review it before making any changes. Code is provided. (See 2786 & 3053 for working examples.)

• 26 March 2010 (Revanche)

Please review the Canon Policy's new ruling against using meta-sources as references.

• 25 March 2010 (Revanche)

The community is working together to churn out new & updated policies (see the Chatterweb below). Please review the Notability policy's newest addition, regarding sub-stub pages.

• 12 March 2010 (Revanche)

The 10,000th article was created today by Mbear with Streak LRM-5.

• 02 March 2010 (Revanche)

The Awards Committee has released the newest Admin's Award: the Image Import Ribbon.

This colorful ribbon must be awarded by an Admin, but you can nominate someone by contacting any active Admin with the reason why you feel they deserve this. The nominee must have demonstrated dedication to improving the visual aspects of BattleTechWiki.

• 07 February 2010 (Nicjansma)

Reflecting on 2009, BattleTechWiki grew tremendously from the hard work of many editors, both old and new to the site. It's amazing how much great information is being added daily. I've handed out some Founder's Awards in appreciation. Thanks to everyone who is a part of our community!

• 02 February 2010 (Revanche)

The Awards Committee has released the newest Editor's Award: the Casual Edit Ribbon.

This award is given when any "Editor witnesses another Editor making a minor correction to any random article." Show your appreciation for the efforts of the other Editors here by granting this or any of the other myriad ribbons available.

• 24/25 January 2010 (Revanche)

The Assume Good Faith and Vandalism policies have just been released. All Editors are asked to review them, in order to ensure the high levels of civility we have come to enjoy remain in effect.

• 01 January 2010 (Revanche)

Happy New Year and New Decade! We're well into Sarna's seventeenth year and BattleTechWiki's fourth. Two important notes:

• Incredible job this last 12 months by Sarna's dedicated team of Editors, with more than a 48% increase in the number of articles since last January, averaging 8 new articles a day. The site is improving by leaps and bounds, thanks to your efforts.
  
• To celebrate the tremendous accomplishments of all the site's contributors, we're unveiling the BattleTechWiki Awards. Some will be granted sparingly by Nic, others will be handed out by the Admins, many are granted by other Editors and some are automatic. Please take a look, see what you'd like to grant to other Editors and ask me if you have any questions.

• 22 December 2009 (Revanche)

The Fan Fiction and Article categories have been cleaned up a bit, with their own tags. Now, its easier to find all of Sarna's fan-submitted fiction and articles, as well as being in line with the new Canon policy.

• 05 November 2009 (Frabby)

The important Policy:Canon for this wiki has been re-forged into what we hope to be its final version. Contributors are encouraged to familiarize themselves with our Canon Policy. As of yet, it appears to reflect the current consensus on the matter.
Similarly, the article on Canon has been rewritten from the ground up.

• 28 October 2009 (Revanche)

The re-release of the Star League housebook, the Federated Suns field manual and the Hot Spots, First Strike! and Fall of Terra scenario books does not fall under the moratorium policy. Feel free to use these sources in your editing immediately.

• 23 October 2009 (Revanche)

A new category, BattleTech Essays, makes its debut with BattleMech Roles. This new category will be built up with articles by community-recognized essays regarding issues focused on the games or fiction.

• 19 October 2009 (Revanche)

The source material Jihad Turning Points: Sian, Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, Handbook: Major Periphery States and Strategic Operations have now exited their respective moratorium periods and are available for article inclusion. Have at it, Editors!

• 21 July 2009 (Ebakunin)

The edit toolbar has a new look! If you have any questions or opinions you can write them here.

• 18 July 2009 (Revanche)

Project:Unfinished Book is preparing to launch. Visit the project's main page and take part in the discussion about which title will be targeted first.

• 08 July 2009 (Ebakunin)

The site administrators have graciously asked me to become an admin. I hope there is a health plan. My interest is in the technical workings of the site and in expanding the number of MechWarrior: Dark Age articles. Thanks a lot NicJansma, Revanche, Scaletail, and Frabby.

• 08 July 2009 (Revanche)

BattleTechWiki Editor Ebakunin has brought tree-making to the project. After viewing the template, swing by the article on Hohiro Kurita II to see an example of its use.

• 02 July 2009 (Revanche)

BattleTechWiki Editor Ebakunin has unveiled the new Yearlist template. Please take a look and add it to any Year articles you see currently unadorned with this helpful tool.

• 01 July 2009 (Revanche)

BattleTechWiki's founder, Nic Jansma, has upgraded the site to MediaWiki v1.15.0, which provides greater security and additional capabilities. If you find any issues, please report them here. Thank you, Nic.

• 31 May 2009 (Revanche)

"Congratulations" and "A Job Well Done" to the authors of the last 1600+ new articles. These articles added since January have increased Sarna's database by over 25%. Just incredible. Thank you, from your fellow editors and readers of BattleTechWiki.

• 15 February 2009 (Scaletail)

Project: Military Commands has been formed. This project's goal is to improve BTW's coverage of articles on military units, brigades, and formations. Please sign up if you're interested in helping us out with this type of article.

• 30 September 2008 (Scaletail)

A new wikia wiki has been started exclusively for fan-created BattleTech material. Go and check out the BattleTech Fanon Wiki*13 September 2008 (Scaletail)

A new policy has been created, asking editors to refrain from using sources that have been recently published. Please see Policy:Moratorium for details.

• 8 September 2008 (Frabby)

Greetings everybody! To my own lasting surprise, I have been promoted to Administrator status on this Wiki. My thanks go to NicJansma, Revanche and Scaletail!

I intend to keep working on this wiki just as I have, that is, improve articles and add bits and pieces everywhere with no clear preferences. That is also why I have avoided joining any project teams. Canon is the one issue of supreme importance to me, clouded and confused as the issue may be at this time.

• 24 August 2008 (Revanche)

A new section has been added to the Main Page: the Chatterweb. This will be a section where important discussions & calls for consensus will be highlighted. All active Editors are asked to both review the discussions on a regular basis and add links to areas they feel need to be brought to the attention of other Editors. Results will be archived on the Minor News page.

• 8 August 2008 (Revanche)

A new primary Category, Game Aids, has been created to track all articles re-creating tables used in the various games. Help BTW by writing and identifing previous articles that can be accessed directly thru this Main Page category.

• 1 August 2008 (Revanche)

Thanks to the efforts of Editor Ebakunin, Novel articles are now being built. Feel free to follow his example and create your own!

• 6 June 2008 (Workerbee)

WikiProject: Factions has been created to improve the coverage of all factions and faction events on BTW.

• 28 January 2008 (Scaletail)

WikiProject:Ground Units has been created to improve the coverage of vehicles and battle armor here on BattleTechWiki.

• 28 January 2008 (Scaletail)

All mainstream, canon Clan BattleMech articles have been created. By no means does this imply that work on BattleMech articles has been completed, so please visit Project BattleMechs to see how you can help.

• 19 December 2007 (Revanche)

Request For Comment, accessed from the top panel on the Main Page, has been introduced. Use this forum to introduce an issue when you seek community consensus.

• 6 December 2007 (Scaletail)

A discussion has been started on what is and is not notable enough to be included in BTW, and input is needed from all editors. This is incredibly important, because it will eventually determine what will and will not be allowed as content on this wiki, so please contribute to the discussion.

• 3 December 2007 (Scaletail)

Scaletail is now an admin/sysop. He, and all admins, can be reached by clicking on "Contact an Admin."

• 29 November 2007 (Nicjansma)

This wiki has been updated to MediaWiki v1.11.0. Please leave me a message if you encounter any problems

• 12 July 2007 (Scaletail)

After more than seven months of work, all mainstream, canon Inner Sphere BattleMechs now have their own article thanks to the Project BattleMechs team. Work on the Clan 'Mechs has already begun.

• 13 February 2007 (Revanche)

The Neveron Strategy category has been inaugurated with Kit's Slack Defense article.

• 31 January 2007 (Revanche)

The House Rules category has been opened, with customized ideas on how Land Tractors can increase the weight that can be pulled.

• 06 January 2007 (Revanche)

Scaletail has opened up the Mercenary Units 'faction' page, as a starting point for your mercenary reference needs.

• 29 November 2006 (Revanche)

Rommel twee jump-starts the new [[::Category:Fan Projects|Fan Projects]] category (found in the Other Items of Note here on the Main Page), with an article on Project: Dark Phoenix.

• 19 November 2006 (Revanche)

A 'Big Thanks' to Skuggi for the UserBars that various BTW staff will soon be sporting on their User Pages. They really are works of art. You can also grab one off his UserPage to tastefully advertise BTW on your favorite forums. Spread the word!

• 08 November 2006 (Revanche)

RogueBaron kicks off the new [[::Category:Fiction|Fan Fiction]] category of BTW with DragonQuest, a story of four brave Kuritan warriors in the Chaos March.

• 21 October 2006 (Revanche)

BattleTechWiki has reached the milestone of 3,000 articles, appropriately enough with an article on Jordan Weisman, co-creator of BattleTech. Great job, Editors!

• 03 October 2006 (Nicjansma)

Here's the new look of Sarna.net's BattleTechWiki. Thanks to the tremendous help of some of our visitors, as well as contributors from MechWikia, this wiki is starting to build some great content! Thanks everyone!

• 16 October 2006 (Revanche)

The Battle Armor, Conventional Fighter, Exoskeleton, Industrial 'Mech, Small Craft, Space Station, Structure, Support Vehicle and WarShip templates have been completed. Editors may now write new articles for these categories. Also, a template for submitting fiction stories has been created.

• 08 October 2006 (Revanche)

The Project:BattleMechs group has been formed. Join up as an Editor and help us organize our 'Mechs.

• 07 October 2006 (Revanche)

The DropShip template has been completed. Editors may now write new articles for this category.

• 14 September 2006 (Nicjansma)

Sarna.net is now a wiki, using MediaWiki software (the same thing that runs Wikipedia). I have converted all of the old static pages into a wiki format so that this site can grow as a community.

Anyone who has a small amount of time and desire can help keep BattleTech alive. Contributing is easy! Please read the Help page for more information, including wiki syntax. There is also a To-Do and Wishlist for ideas on how to expand.