For the last few days some of the Administrative team at the Battlestar Wiki have been making some changes to the design of the wiki. An example of the changes are currently available to see at the BS Wiki Hangarbay. Most of these changes effect the BsgBook skin, the default skin of the wiki, and not the BsgMonoBook skin.
Follows is a list of changes, some subtle some large that have been implemented onto the Hangarbay.

1. Favicon - The new one is smoother and clearer than the current one
2. User icon - I have changed it from the pixely white sillohette to a smooth Captain rank pip
3. Redirect image - The current one looks invisible on black but the new one works on both. See here and here.
4. Background - Added a picture of the computers from CIC and overlayed a slighty red cloud effect likes is use on some promotional material
5. Removed “Main Page” text - this uses a custom js script so will only work is javascript is disabled. I spend a long time last night trying to work out how to do it a better way. I will continue to look into this until its smoother and cleaner.
6. Battlestar Wiki title - This took me a stupidly long time to make, I wanted it to look as close as possible to the title shown on the TV shows but it was very hard work. This is attempt #1. If people like it then I will spend a few more hours on it getting it perfect.
7. Language logo - I put a flag next to the title because i thought this showed clearly which language edition you were on. Its probably more useful to define the difference been the english and media wikis but i guess it might be ok for all the others. Both the bswiki title and flag icon only show on the main page. They do not show on any other paged leaving maximum space on the screen for actual content.
8. Social bookmarks - They seem to be all the rage right now so I have added some of the more popular ones. This also took me an insanely long time to work out how to make it pick up the url that you were on but got it sorted in the end.All ext links on talk pages only, get the nofollow link.
9. Tabs - the tabs start directly in flush from the left of the content box
10. If logged out, your IP address will not show in the corner along with the associated IP user talk page
11. Flags appear inside of a “list look” in the “In other languages” area.

Items struck out have been implemented onto the main wiki already. See BW:AN for more details and to comment on the design changes.

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