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Founder Userbar Bestowed

Nic, I hope you don't think this is too ostentatious, but I commissioned Skuggi at cbt.com to create some userbars for us. The idea came to me as I worked on the BTW policies today and I realized you had a position that is equivalent to Jimbo Wales' at Wikipedia. So, I asked him to make a custom one for you. Its the only one with stars on it, and all of the userbars make use of BTW's logo (the IS Map with the name across it). I still have to write up the position articles for most of the positions (advocate, moderator, arbiter, administrator), but I figured those people, when they are assigned, should 'wear' their userbars at the top of their userpages, for quicker identification. The Project team members and lead (for example Project:BattleMechs) will put them where ever on their pages they prefer. I was hoping you'd post your's at the top of your Userpage. Anyway, onto the ceremony..."[drumroll]...I bestow the following unique userbar upon BattleTechWiki's founder, Nic Jansma: BTW Founder.jpg

"Congratulations and thanks, Nic." --Revanche (admin) 02:07, 20 November 2006 (CST)

This is awesome looking! I've added it now. Thanks Skuggi and Revanche! — The preceding unsigned comment was posted by Nicjansma (talk • contribs) .


Clan Bloodnames

I see you have "Clan Bloodnames" on your list of things to do. I have a list of Bloodnames so long it scares me to know I took the time to compile it. If you let me know what you want to do with it, I'll give what I got. Scaletail 16:08, 23 December 2006 (CST)

That'd be great to see what you have. We currently have Clan Bloodnames but I don't know if it's accurate or complete. Nicjansma 11:39, 24 December 2006 (CST)


Old Virtual World page?

Don't mean to bother you, but I noticed on the orphaned pages list, there is an article that has links to the Virtual World website. Are you planning on adding it to the main links page, or should it be flagged for deletion? There's no pages that link to it, and I'm thinking the information could just be added to the links page. Anyway, just thought I'd ask. --~Malithion~ 19:22, 7 January 2007 (CST)

I currently have a link to it on the left bar (shown on every page). My goal is to spruce the content up for all the links on the left bar soon. Nicjansma 23:36, 17 January 2007 (CST)


Nofollow tag

Nic, I was just reading up on Wikipedia's nofollow tag policy [1]. It seems to me that, even if spammers still 'hide' links on BTW, it will make their short-term victory meaningless, if we can employ a similar capability here. Is this possible? --Revanche (admin) 18:36, 28 January 2007 (CST)

I oppose this move. Reasons being:
  • It takes several hours for a spammed link to populate a search engine, even the most aggressive of them won't do it more often than that. Search engines that aggressive don't deserve to be accurate anyway, IMO. (Bandwidth wasting, good-for-nothin'…)
  • We are not large enough to make this a necessity; manual weeding out of the problem has thus far been sufficient.
  • Google, the première search engine, has recently upgraded its linkfarm detection system (which was already pretty damn good). Meaning that less than 30% of the search engine market is susceptible to this form of 'attack'.
With all this in mind, there is one final point I'd like you to consider:
  • This could potentially hurt the site rankings of some niche fan sites in the BattleTech community.
--Xoid 01:35, 29 January 2007 (CST)
While I applaud Wikipedia for their nofollow tags, I agree with Xoid here that it may be appropriate for us to not use it. I think we're pretty quick in removing spam. Nicjansma 14:54, 3 February 2007 (CST)


Navigation popups

Nic, I've found using this tool over at Wikipedia has really helped me when it came to vandal patrols, and in just general navigation ("Do I want to load the next page? Well, let's have a peak."). Its completely optional for use by the editors, but having it available would be nice. Would you please take a look at it and see about turning on its fuctionality here? I also recommend the FAQ for what is involved in installing it here. Thanks. --Revanche (admin) 00:28, 29 January 2007 (CST)

I realize its been only five days, but is this being considered? --Revanche (admin) 11:26, 3 February 2007 (CST)
This extension looks pretty cool. I've enabled user javascript and content. Looks like you'll need to add this to your User:<name>/sarna.js (i.e. User:Nicjansma/sarna.js). I'm going to monitor how the server load is with this, I don't think it'll cause too many problems but it is pre-loading many more pages than you normally would:
// [[User:<you>/sarna.js]]

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' 
             + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/popups.js' 
             + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');

— The preceding unsigned comment was posted by Nicjansma (talk • contribs) .

Thanks, Nic. Look forward to messin' around with it. I really came to miss it when hoping between wikipedia and here. Thanks! --Revanche (admin) 15:44, 3 February 2007 (CST)
Nic, are you getting more than just the 'option' links? Those pop up quite quickly, but I'm not seeing the preview. --Revanche (admin) 16:03, 3 February 2007 (CST) Nevermind, all is swell.
Just saw this on one of the popups: "Preview failed :-( Is the query.php extension installed?" --Revanche (talk|contribs) 23:14, 4 February 2007 (CST)

Another request

Interwiki linking, please. To wikipedia, preferably with the w: prefix, if at all possible. --Xoid 04:52, 2 February 2007 (CST)

Edit: maybe meta: and mw: too? Considering the amount of links there will be to their help pages (at least until ours are done), facilitating that would make me a happy man. --Xoid 04:54, 2 February 2007 (CST)

Concur. I would help save from importation of general wiki usage pages. --Revanche (admin) 11:26, 3 February 2007 (CST)
I've added these three requests: w:, meta:, mw:. Nicjansma 14:55, 3 February 2007 (CST)
It seems the second two aren't working, I'll determine why shortly. Nicjansma 14:55, 3 February 2007 (CST)
Even without these two working, yer still a legend mate! By god is it ever good to have everything we need at our fingertips so incredibly quickly. --Xoid 18:08, 3 February 2007 (CST)
And you got 'em fixed while I was writing that. XD Good show! --Xoid 18:08, 3 February 2007 (CST)

BattleTech 3056 MUSE

Nic, I'd like to bring your attention to this discussion Xoid & I are having regarding the source of some pre-BTW Sarna articles, specifically regarding the reference to BattleTech 3056 MUSE. Could you please weigh in. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 11:43, 4 February 2007 (CST)

Wiki on PC

As the only known admin here to have actually installed the wiki software (no slight to Xoid), I thought you might know if it can be installed in a working manner on a PC, so that just one editor can make use of its features. I've a subject matter that I'd like to track via a wiki and I vaguely remember you stating you have your own personal one. Thanks! --Revanche (talk|contribs) 21:33, 8 February 2007 (CST)

Okay, I found Wiki On a Stick and its...okay. However, if you have any guidance on installing wiki directly onto a computer, I'd prefer to do that. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 20:47, 12 February 2007 (CST)
I've been using another install of MediaWiki on this same server for personal purposes for about a year now. I love it. I use it several times a week, and it's very easy to maintain. Here's an article on Lifehacker about how to install apache and stuff on a Windows PC if you're interested. I also remember some hosting companies out there offering free personal wikis that you can get to. MediaWiki might be a bit overkill, but I think it's great and easy to use since I'm using it here on Sarna too :) I also have internet access on my cellphone so I can get to my wiki from anywhere. It's behind a SSL connection, and I have the only login and no one else can create logins, so it's pretty secure. Anyways, let me know if you have more questions! Nicjansma 18:38, 13 February 2007 (CST)
Lifehacker is a great place to start. Great, clear directions. Thanks a lot! That worked well. I had looked at some of the other wiki types, but I wanted to stay with MediaWiki, also. Why waste what I've learned here. Nic, are you willing to provide some advice? I've followed the instructions that the Live to Geek column suggested, all the way through accessing the home server, but I can't seem to access it through my router. In fact, by following the directions, I get my router's admin page, as all it does is ask for my router password. I have the WAMP server up and running, and I can easily access the wiki directly (only thru my PC), but not thru the router. Any advice? (I realize your's is hosted on your server, but I'd prefer not to have to host it on my ISP.) --Revanche (talk|contribs) 22:16, 13 February 2007 (CST)
Most likely your router has an option set to configure your router externally through the web port. What router do you have? It may be an option such as 'Remote Web Administration' or something. I would recommend disabling that. Otherwise, you could set up apache on a different port (8080?) and then port forward 8080 to your computer inside your network from the router's configuration. Nicjansma 02:34, 14 February 2007 (CST)
I have a Linksys WRT300N, brand new this weekend, as the last wireless one conked out. I turned off the remote access; now it doesn't allow me access to the router admin (which is good). I tried to get Linksys support on this, but they didn't even know what a wiki was, so weren't much help. I think I should go to Single Port Forwarding and set up an application ('Wiki') on Externet and Internet ports of 80 (and enabled), but still not having any joy. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 08:34, 14 February 2007 (CST)
Ok...not sure what changed. Maybe it just had to propogate, but now I can access the WAMP5 server page and then the wiki. Most every other link on there is inaccessable to the outside (which is obviously good), but I can 'see' the 'phpinfo( )' info link. Should I press the issue and try and get the wiki to load itself directly (I like being able to access it thru the server)? --Revanche (talk|contribs) 23:18, 14 February 2007 (CST)
Well, I appear to be able to access the wiki just fine now. However, I'm trying to build infoboxes such as we have here. On #mediawiki chat, they helped me identify that I needed CSS styles for class="infobox". However, I copied the commons.css from here and I didn't get the result I was looking for. The template outputs the data without a box and its placed on the left. IOW, its not an infobox. Do i need to add some code or build a referencing template, perhaps? --Revanche (talk|contribs) 20:37, 15 February 2007 (CST)
If you are using a default installation of MediaWiki, you won't have a Common.css. I know you said you added it, but did you mean just the page, or did you also include the necessary hooks to include it in a page? --Xoid 00:44, 17 February 2007 (CST)
<Darth>I find your lack of faith… disturbing.</Darth> --Xoid 00:44, 17 February 2007 (CST)

Contributions

Eh, it's not like I did any real work. Just background linking and categorizing. I still fail to have the energy to actually look most things up, but I will get there... soon... I promise.... --Scaletail

I know that a lot of pages were auto-generated, including the planetary database. What would it take to edit that database to update it for 3067, and even 3130? Scaletail 12:15, 2 April 2007 (CDT)
Well, the problem is I don't have the databse for 3067 and 3130 :) If you know of a data file (CSV, text file, something) that has owners for those years I'll happily update everythin! Nicjansma 13:50, 2 April 2007 (CDT)
I was kind of alluding to the fact that I would do it (at least for 3067... I'm not paying $40 + S&H or whatever it is for the poster-sized map that is the only complete map for 3130 I've seen). I'm utterly clueless as to what you would need to update it easily, so what would be the best way? Scaletail 12:01, 9 April 2007 (CDT)

Inner Sphere Mechs are Done

I sent this to all the BattleTechWiki:Project BattleMechs members and figured you might also want to know about it. It might be a good thing to put up on the news page.

After working on this for around seven months I am proud to announce that all of the mainstream Inner Sphere 'Mechs that have a TRO entry are finished. I know as the game goes on this will be a continuing process but now we are oficially ahead of the curve on the Inner Sphere 'Mechs and Im sure the Clan 'Mechs wont take too long. The Solaris VII 'Mechs are a creature unto themselves and once I actually buy Map Pack Solaris VII I will start working on those as I have already scanned images for them. I would like to congratulate the whole team. Without everyone here we woudlnt have ever gotten this far. So dont be suprised if you also get this on each of your discussion pages.CJKeys 01:00, 19 May 2007 (CDT)

Awesome, good job! Feel free to edit the News Page yourself! 71.227.199.20 19:24, 8 July 2007 (CDT)

Blue Diamond and Menkent

In my updating of Terra, I discovered that Blue Diamond and Menkent have apparently been mixed up somehow (they're both Lyran planets, but Blue Diamond is near the Falcon border, while Menkent is close to the Chaos March). Is there an easy way to fix that? --Scaletail 15:59, 7 July 2007 (CDT)

It would appear that Fletcher and Fletcher (FWL) have suffered the same fate. --Scaletail 16:12, 7 July 2007 (CDT)
Hmm, strange. I don't see any problem with just switching the text for each. 71.227.199.20 19:25, 8 July 2007 (CDT)
In essence, the titles were swapped out. It may work for the Fletchers (it would take to much to think that hard at the moment). The problem with that idea for the Lyran ones is that planets that are close to Menkent (like Terra) link to Blue Diamond and vice versa. I could just switch the text for them, but then Terra would still link to Blue Diamond (mistakenly believing that it is within two jumps) and the Blue Diamond article would now reflect its actual position near the Falcon border. It wouldn't be a ridiculous amount of work to correct every page that links to it, but I am a bit concerned because this might happen again, so i was hoping that there would be an easier way to do it. Scaletail 12:25, 9 July 2007 (CDT)

Uhm, How do i contribute?

Uhm, How do i contribute?

Ive looked around the wiki, and its pretty impressive, lots of info. but most of em are "Battletech Classic" you guys arent focusing on "Dark Age" stuff?

If i could, can i contribute some simple "Dark Age" Articles and stuff?

And maybe Update some of the Mechs Listed?(pictures of variants etc)

by the way, the maps featured in Planets (Wouldn it be better called "Systems And Planets"? you know, being many planets and moons and stuff in a Solar System and all) stoped in the year 3062, are the cartographers planning on expanding the timeline towards the "Dark Age" era?

and int the features maps, Systems without a jumproute(line going to and from them) how do they interact with the rest of the systems besides them? are there simply no way to jump into the system, or did they purposely not anyone jump to the planets( my lack of basic inner-sphere politics in these parts hinder my understanding ).

my e-mail is agus101186@yahoo.co.uk

i hope i can contribute to such a great place for Mechwarrior and Battletech Information.

Welcome! I'm pretty new to this Wiki (but not to Wikipedia), and what I've been doing is just finding areas where I know something that hasn't been documented and then adding that information to the wiki. Overall, as you use the site, you'll start searching around and find some things that are incomplete or poorly documented. You should just get in there and get your hands dirty. :) All of my experience with BTech predates the Clans, so that's where I have the most impact.
Welcome aboard and just start checking out what you want to look at and go from there. Good luck! Bdevoe 13:00, 1 August 2007 (CDT)

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