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[edit] Site Updates

20050529@02:56am CDT: Here's your new Passive Voice (passive) template:

This article is written in Passive Voice.
You can help The Great Machine by rewriting it with short, active, declarative statements to improve readability and flow..

Use it to encourage writers to be brief, direct and succinct. Why use three words when one will do? (ex: "the use of" vs "using", or "As of now" vs "now," or "presently," etc...) -- StarChild


20050528: After giving up on Croxis ever finishing his site logo, I decided to get rid of the temporary horridness that had infected the site (ok, so I made that too) and put up something that actually looks close to what we finally want. And in the process turned out something that was a whole lot better then I expected to get! So, in conclusion: new site logo, still might change though. --RC


20050526: Found bug in anti-bot system that allowed bots that did not post login information from our Special:Userlogin page to bypass anti-bot code. Bug fixed. Damnit! --RC


20050526: Coded advanced anti-bot image recognition script for the userlogin page. (Unfortunately a couple bots slipped in while I was testing it.) If any admins from other Wikis (running version 1.3.9) want to have this anti-bot script please contact me via e-mail and I will send you the info with instructions to install it. --Random Chaos 00:23, 26 May 2005 (CDT)


20050524: Due to continued vandalbot activity we have added a crude anti-bot image recongnition script to the userlogin page.


20050523: Changed Login to Edit requirement to True:

After 5 seperate vandalisms in a period of 12 hours, including 2 after I blocked the first, I have changed the localsettings.php to require the user to login to edit the site. Sorry if this inconveniences anyone. --Random Chaos 07:37, 23 May 2005 (CDT)


20050521: Added new template (delete):

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20050516: Added new template (bts):

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Use it when you are referring to relevant article content that occured outside of the show's "universe." That is, on-set jokes/gags, comments from the cast, and comments from the producers are all valid. Sanfam 18:50, 16 May 2005 (CDT)


20050512: Added new template (refine):

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Use it when an article needs grammatical and/or improvements and such, possibly minor content editing. It helps. Sanfam 14:55, 12 May 2005 (CDT)


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Use it when an article needs reformatting to match a standard. Check here for what ones are tagged with it. --Randomchaos 22:56, 24 Apr 2005 (CDT)


20050422: Added a new template (flow):

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Use it when an article severely needs rewriting. Check here for what ones are tagged with it. --Randomchaos 09:35, 22 Apr 2005 (CDT)


20050414: Added a new template (inacc):

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[edit] Misc. Information

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[edit] See Also

Admin Changelog - details on changes to core components of the site (stylesheets, extensions, database, wiki, etc)

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