Until confirmed by Catrope global login is somewhat working. I believe it’s have trouble moving the user accounts across. He will be looking into this. Otherwise everything else went fine this morning. To use the “global account” system you might have to totally clear your cookies from all the wikis so it works correctly.

We have decided to go ahead and update all the wikis to 1.13 before it’s scheduled release (which will be next month) in favor of being able to install an extension that will allow all of the language wikis to use one central login database.

This means there will be one “Shane” account that I could now use at en, de, zh, with only loging in once? Always tired of those creating mulipuple accounts? This is what this solves. Not only are we going to extend it just for the Battlestar Wiki, but it will extend to two other related sites. Battlestar Pegasus and Wiki Frakr!. Those will not be “active” until 1.13 is in official release status and depending on how well it works out, we will expand it’s usage to also the Eureka Wiki.

So that’s the deal. If you see any site problems in the next few hours, this is why.

Today we had a very successfully maintenance day on the wiki’s and the servers all at the same time. (Go figure…)

In any case, if you didn’t notice already, the servers never went down. That’s because the servers where not to go down, but the backend for us to access their support system was down. Go figure (as I said before.) So this is done.

After many many months of the Task Perl Bot not working, it now is working and will start automatically updating the open task list on the English wiki, thanks to our newest bot installed, Media Tag Bot (By Carnildo). I used the new perale backend code to re-code the Task Bot, and it worked fine. A few errors, but working those out with Carnildo.

The Media Tag Bot examines all recently updated media files and checks to see if they are tagged with the correct copyright tags. If not, it will notify the user and tag the media file according to the rules we have set forth in it’s logic based upon the set polices on the Media Wiki. This will help us make sure we are covered legally and have no issues in the future.

If you have any questions on what went on in the past 48 hours, just give us a shout out on the cheif’s board and we will get back to you!
So say bot us all!

Our data center is making upgrades to the infrastructure on May 10th, 2008. When the servers are down they estimate that it will be as long as eight hours our more. We hope it’s a lot less time. However, we have two servers on two different areas of their data center.

Since there is nothing we can do about this, please check the Case Orange blog, itself on another server, for updates. We are getting this message out now so you don’t think we have disappeared on you!

If you have any questions, post them here.

I am unsure how long the MySQL Database was down in the middle of the night, but it’s back up and running. I am looking into this since the MySQL server was running when I checked the services page.

All,

In the event that you may have noticed, our Athena database server was briefly down. That’s because I had to have it rebooted, though it had nothing to do with performance reasons: I accidentally shut down SSH and couldn’t get back in, so I had the Planet people reboot the server.

Hence the slight hiccup… which you probably didn’t notice.

I thought I would mention it anyway.

Back to burning the midnight oil…

After several failed attempts, we have now mastered the automation of the stats on the portal page (If you didn’t know it existed — it does over at http://www.battlestarwiki.org). The stats will run once a week. These numbers do not change often, but we like to keep people up to date for those who direct visitors to that page.

Wow. Myself and Joe are really impressed. If you find any problems with the blog, please report it here. 2.5 has a bundle of changes that might not work well with this theme — which we might update soon!  Props to the WordPress Team. The admin pages is where it really counts, and it’s just fantastic!

In technical terms, yes. We been working on a “Widescreen” version of the default skin for a few days now before the start of Season 4. The widescreen skin however will not be the default skin when viewing the site so you must be a registered user to set your preference in the preference options. There should be no problems for any sub-language. Click here to see a preview of the skin in action. Please report any problems to us here.

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!

Shane has updated all of Battlestar Wiki to MediaWiki 1.12.

There are a few minor snags, such as the portals that weren’t using the proper formatting and the reversion of the search engine to the MediaWiki default, but other than that the upgrade was smooth.

Of course, if any of you see anything peculiar, please feel free to report it.

So say we all!

I know I’ve talked about having a mirror of Battlestar Wiki before throughout the years, so it shouldn’t be surprising that I’ve brought up the issue again.

For those that don’t know what the frak I’m talking about, basically a “mirror” is a copy of a website that is hosted on another computer (typically named a “server”). This is opposed to a mirror that William Adama looks at when terminating the Adamastache.

The purpose of a mirror, outside of the Adamastache example, is to post a copy of the website that people can access in the event the main site should be temporarily unavailable. And since we’ve had that happen a bit in the past, and with the dawn of Season 4 nearly upon us, I’ve reopened investigating the use of a mirror as a sort of exit strategy. (Again, unlike Adama’s lack of one when dealing with the Cylons.)

In any event, I’ve talked about it over the years that we’ve been in operation and decided to take another crack at it. And this time, it seems to be going quite well, and thus I’m discussing it here.

Right now, the tentative mirror for the English Battlestar Wiki can be located here. Do note that it has no images in the articles yet, just text. I expect the images will be done tonight.

As of right now, I’m redirecting the “battlestarwiki.com” domain for the purposes of the mirror. That domain should be available and redirecting to the mirror site in 24 to 48 hours. The primary domain, “battlestarwiki.org”, will remain unaffected, as well as our “.net” domain that acts as a redirect to the .org.

Also, we’re currently only mirroring the English wiki and our media repository. Depending on how things go, the other language wikis will be mirrored as well.

So say we all!