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It surprises me that this Wiki has not been worked on in a while.--Dakkoth 13:05, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Main Page Update.

I have updated the navigation to the main page so rather than having one long column, it's divided in to two. I'd like to eventually see something that looks similar to Wookipedia--Dakkoth 13:36, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, its really unfortunate that Adam and I haven't had the time to devote to it recently. I'm currently increasing my web programming skills so that I can create some massive site-wide template changes, but that wont be for a few months.

I appreciate your initiative and look forward to the changes!Frellingfarhb0t 14:41, 27 December 2006 (EST)

I'm going to try and get a few articles updated each day. It would be very helpfull if we could get some infobox templates added for the characters and such, like they have for Wookiepedia.--Dakkoth 20:20, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I've added some for you: Template:Infobox_Actor Template:Infobox_Episode Template:Infobox_Character. Let me know (on my talk page) if you need any more, or any edits to these. --Splarka (talk) 23:36, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Splarka! This will help emmensely!--Dakkoth 12:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Farscape Encyclopedia to be mentioned in "The Wire Tap"

I have added mention of The Farscape Encyclopedia in "The Wire Tap" the official newsletter for STARFLEET International's USS Chicago chapter. I'm hoping that it will interest some of my friends there to come and help out with this wiki.--Dakkoth 15:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

New Additions

I've added the following main page features: Improvement Drive, Scaperpedian of The Month, and Friends of The Farscape Encyclopedia Project. As a place-holder, I put myself in the Scaperpedian of The Month slot since it looks like I'm the only one working on the site at the moment, but hopefully these added features will help draw in some new contributors.--Dakkoth 15:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Plagarism and Past Contributions

I am personally embarrassed to have to post this on the site, but it has recently come to my attention that there was some very blatant global plagarism on the last incarnation of the farscape-1.com site.

After contacting Karlsweb.com, (an accomplished and respected ezine and resource in the Farscape fan community), to ask for their support and possible contributions, the webmaster replied that he was hesitant to do so and cited, (previously unbeknownst to me), examples of plagarism.

One such example is as follows:


In the Karlsweb.com data base the entry looked like this:

Contraceptive Shield: Velorek placed this device in Moya to prevent pregnancy. Crais was working on an experiment to create a Peacekeeper Leviathan warship but Velorek felt this was wrong and he placed the shield to keep it from happening. Aeryn knew Velorek was up to something and blabbed to Crais who arrested Velorek and gave Aeryn her wish, a return to prowler duty. Several cycles later, D'Argo unintentionally removed the shield, allowing Moya to conceive Talyn. The Way We Weren’t; They’ve Got a Secret

Writen by PK Barb as found on www.karlsweb.com


The farscape-1.com entry looked like this:

Contraceptive Shield: Velorek placed this device in Moya to prevent pregnancy. Crais was working on an experiment to create a Peacekeeper Leviathan gunship but Velorek felt this was wrong and he made a contraceptive shield to keep it from happening. Several cycles later, D'Argo unintentionally removed the shield, allowing Moya to conceive Talyn.

written by Josh Weigelt



I submitted the following statement to karlsweb.com and I speak for Adam Garcia, and the rest of the regular farscape-1.com staff that karlsweb.com has our deepest apologies for our negligence in this matter. I only hope that we can repair these wrongs and move forward in a spirit of cooperation and honest common interest.



Wow.

I am literally stunned. I was not aware that such plagiarism had occurred. I know I speak for the rest of the crew at Farscape-1, when I offer my sincerest apologies for this, and assure you that such plagiarism and all plagiarism is not acceptable and will not be tolerated. I work academically and know the seriousness of this wrong. I don’t believe that Josh Weigelt works with us anymore, but I will be investigating any other contributions that might have been migrated over to the new site without knowledge of this plagiarism. I wish I had known about this sooner so that I could have addressed this with him. I do not believe there was a built-in system for monitoring changes in the database as there is now on the wikia site, so it’s possible that the signature is even bogus or left over from a previous edit. We will look into it to the best of our ability.


As it is, I will bring this up on the new site and post it as a warning. Please, let me know of the other articles that plagiarize you and your site and will make sure these are both deleted and rewritten, or will be properly credited with your permission on a case by case basis.


This being said, the nature of wikia projects is that anyone can contribute and edit, so if you ever catch anyone doing this in the future please put a markup in the page, change, delete or correctly cite your content, and email me personally.


Again, I apologize and hope that you can forgive our project the short-sightedness of some of our past contributors.


Yours truly,

Adam M. Roth

[frellingfahrb0t]


--FrellingFahrbot 13:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

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