It took two days, but I have transfered all files from the current apollo to the new server. I have asked Joe to start the DNS change. Hopefully everything should be good when changing over. I expect a few problems based on permissions, but that’s about it. Nothing we can’t handle.

For those of you questioning why things are slow—for instance, why you’re receiving delayed updates and (for you new users) registration information—here’s why.

We have been visited by between 20k-30k people on both Saturday and Sunday. At least the Wiki has. The Forum has definitely increased in activity, and our IRC chat on Friday night (which started at 9 P.M. ET, went well into 2 AM ET on Saturday morning!).

Just to give you an idea of how this compares, the weekend of the Season 4 premiere (”[[He That Believeth In Me]]”) saw 20k unique visitors come to the Battlestar Wiki. Now, the mid-season finale, “[[Revelations]]”, actually saw an increase in on those numbers. The difference, according to Quantcast (which directly measures visits), being about 1 to 2 thousand additional viewers.

The chart below, which you can see for yourself here, is reproduced below since I don’t want to be embarrassed a year from now when the chart gets updated and the old data pushed aside. The peaks, as you can imagine, correlate to when the episode was aired in the USA. (As you can see, the trough was Memorial Day weekend.)

Now remember when I said “30k”? Well, having recently loaded Google Analytics code into the Wiki’s template (the gizmo that generates the look of the website, otherwise known as the “front end”), they claim we have received 30k visitors. A difference of 10k from Quantcast.

I can’t compare HTBIM to Revelations traffic here, since the Google Analytics code was loaded just a week and a half ago, but here’s the chart from the “Revelations” weekend. (The popup denotes the Saturday following “Revelations”.)

An update on our earlier notice… The site’s been updated to MediaWiki 1.12 and all the kinks that arose from the upgrade, all of them being minor, have been knocked out.

And the Wiki appears to load faster, to boot. So that’s always good!

So say we all!

So this morning I discovered that our Apache server crashed, because of the new SVN server Shane had installed.

I apologize for the downtime that this caused. We’ll look into why it crashed after the Eastern weekend.

Again, have a safe and happy Easter everyone!

The dry run beta of BattlestarPegasus.com has launched.

Please visit the site by going here.

Right now, I’m working on many of the wizard-like submission features which will make contributing to the site easier than contributing to Battlestar Wiki. However, my time is shrinking, given that I am now editing manager for the startup comic book company I work for. Which means that my weekend is dedicated toward reading comic books, going over artwork, etc. (More on that later.)

In the meantime, feel free to start throwing content on the website, because there’s not much there now. Don’t worry so much about neatness or breaking some rule, as the beautiful thing about the website is that editors can go through and fix things.

Also, any suggestions, comments, criticisms, and concerns can be left at the BSP.com forum.

One of Frak Media’s on-off projects is to create a repository for fan fiction, theories, and other interpretations to the Battlestar Galactica series.

I’m pleased to announce that this is being worked on as we speak in the form of BattlestarPegasus.com. While the public beta is not yet launched, I’d like to give people a sneak peek on the work that’s been done on it so far. The screenshots in question are for the main page (still a work in progress) and a page covering the publication of an online e-zine, The Galactican.

The PDF function seen below will also be used for scripts and other lost Battlestar Galactica treasures! Cool, eh?

Even with that in mind, we are looking for people who want to submit content to the new site when it launches Friday, January 18. So if you’re interested in submitting content for the beta launch, please contact me via e-mail or submit your content through the Battlestar Forum’s special Battlestar Pegasus board.

Just to let everyone know, the wikis will be slow for a bit because Shane and I are doing some maintenance and Frak Media! work. It’s minor stuff, really, but it’s also stuff that’s gotta be done.

Since Tuesday isn’t a high-traffic day for us, and the fact that we both have this day available to us, we seized the moment. Go figure.

Thanks to the work of [[User:Catrope]], he’s managed to modify my own work into an extension so that it can be used on any MediaWiki-run site. In all honesty, it’s quite better than the hodgepodge of code I threw together.

The extension is here.

For technical support, Catrope will be able to help you, as he is lead developer for that extension!

So code we all!

BattlestarPegasus.com will be retooled to boast the following features:

• A wiki that permits various interpretations on the series.
• A reference library of material from behind the scenes of the show, including many never before seen scripts. (These will be released gradually, at a rate of 1 or 2 per month.)
• News feeds from various genre sites which have news on BSG.
• Free website hosting for Battlestar Galactica sites.

We are also looking for content: articles, fan fiction, fan art — actually, anything fan created, really.

So if you’re interested in supplying information and your works to BattlestarPeagsus.com, please send them to Joe Beaudoin at joe(DOT)beaudoin(AT)gmail(DOT)com.

So say we all!

Ah, yes, the whole “nearing numbers” game. Whaa! Whaa!

The Wiki Frakr, our evil twin in the mirror universe which doesn’t take its content all that seriously, is at 90 articles.

If you haven’t checked it out, and find Battlestar Wiki just a tad to serious for your liking, then you want to check out the Wiki Frakr! Yah.

We’re looking for humorous contributors to make fun of the series. (The only “serious” thing about the Wiki Frakr is that we don’t mock the actors, cast, or crew or real life events. After all, it’s just a frakkin’ television show.)

If you want to know how Frakr’d up that wiki is, Galactica 1980 is seen as the greatest show on Earth. Better than Rebo and Zooty, or Barnum and Bailey.

Now that’s what were talking about!

Wiki Frakr, the humorous version of the Battlestar Wiki, has launched.

We are looking for people who are wanting to write funny encyclopedia articles and episode guides to all the Battlestar Galactica series.

Right now, Wiki Frakr is undergoing beta testing, therefore many of the policies and aesthetic appearance will be worked on. In fact, the visual appearance for the site is different! We’re trying something new, perhaps something that can be later adapted by the BSG Wiki herself, whether simply as a new skin or even a future default skin!

So it is under construction, but you can contribute to it and help in its construction!

Do note that Wiki Frakr, unlike Battlestar Wiki, does accept fan fiction, as so long as it is funny and related to Battlestar!

Let the humor go forth!

Several months ago, when we split up the server and reformed the machines, we created a non-profit production organization that would develop and maintain SciFi related-information content driven sites. With that we created the group called “FrakMedia Productions“. Please read more on the official announcement.