BattleTechWiki:News Archive

• 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.