Count to a Million

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I wasnt gonna make it that big

[edwins94]

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I can't believe this is still here.

[Plotkin]

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the topic or your account?

[MsRowdyRedhead]

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good question...

[Chicken Lord]

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I just woke up..... 7:20 a.m. here.....

[Plotkin]

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blaws

[Chicken Lord]

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That must be your signature phrase: blaws

[Trijhak]

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I quit MLN about a month ago.

[Admiral-Ike]

Hi guys! I'm new here.

[The Truth]

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RANK 7!!!!!!!!!!!

[Trijhak]

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ASDFGHJKLasdfghjkl

[Chicken Lord]

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mmmmhmmmmmmm.......




INTERGALACTIC ELECTRIC AND SITH ALLIANCE

[mtmerrick]

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RANK 7!!!!!!!!!!!

congrats!

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[Trijhak]

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...

[mtmerrick]

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shortcuts: hit alt+s to submit/post or alt+p to preview

[Trijhak]

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A Clever trick for getting 1000s

[mtmerrick]

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Tridax Pods are sphere-shaped weapons that can contain a maximum of four Shadow Leeches at a time. These weapons are used by several Makuta, who can eject the Pods from their chests to release the contained Shadow Leeches, as a means of attack primarily against Av-Matoran. The pods were created by Makuta Mutran, based on an idea of Makuta Tridax.
The Tridax Pods that the Phantoka Makuta carried were destroyed during the Energy Storms.

Known Users
Antroz (formerly; deceased)
Vamprah (formerly; deceased)
Chirox (formerly; deceased)
Mutran (formerly; deceased)
Icarax (formerly; deceased)


Set Information
A Tridax Pod was included in each of the Phantoka Makuta sets, holding the set's four Shadow Leeches. It comprised of two transparent orange hard plastic pieces which clipped together to form a hollow sphere. It could be dropped by pushing on the back of the silver rib piece of the Makuta sets. When the pod hit the ground, the pieces would split apart, releasing the Shadow Leeches. The Tridax Pod was also included in the Spiriah combiner set, although it was non-canon.




 

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You have a tab opened on BS01, don't you?

[mtmerrick]

BIONICLEsector01, or BIONICLEsector01 Wiki is the largest and most accurate BIONICLE reference site and Wiki on the Internet.

History
The Beginning
The BS01 Wiki was created during sometime around the 13th of October 2005 by Crystal Matrix. In the beginning, the Wiki was absolutely barren, with nothing aside from the standard Wiki software additions. Shortly after, the site began its slow construction through the dedication of about half a dozen of members. The amount of members eventually grew dramatically, and the amount of work done also increased. By the time of February 2006, the Wiki already had almost every piece of information regarding the BIONICLE universe from 2001-2006. The works from these early editors would eventually set the base for the Wiki today.

The Golden Age
With the base of the Wiki completed, the Wiki had became a reliable sources which the BIONICLE fandom trusted on. More and more editors and viewers came, and the popularity of the Wiki grew. A tight and friendly community was created amongst the members. All was well.

The Departure of Crystal Matrix
On April 1st 2006, former owner and creator of BS01 suddenly announced his retirement from the BIONICLE fandom. The sudden announcement shocked the entire BIONICLE fandom, and many thought it was some sort of April Fools joke, which it wasn't. And as a result, The Kini of Crystal Matrix was set up in memory of the great Crystal Matrix, whose work had brought a complete encyclopedia of BIONICLE information to the entire world.

First Main Page Redesign Contest
The first Main Page Redesign Contest took place during the first Golden Age. The purpose of the contest was to allow members to design the main page for the Wiki, with the winning entry used for the main page. The contest was a somewhat welcomed one, and several designs were submitted. In the end, BS01 technician Epsilon won the contest with his "2001" theme main page, which was used until the second Main Page Redesign Contest.

The Great Downtime
Around June 2006, the two sites of BS01, along with then sister site BZPower, went down without warning. The communities of BZPower and BS01 were both surprised by this sudden downtime, and the BZPower admins rushed to solve the crisis. Both of the sites returned shortly, only to crash again. The process repeated itself many times until both sites stopped working entirely. After some troubleshooting by the BZPower administrators, it was decided that BS01 was overloading BZPower's server, and thus BS01 had to detach from BZPower's server and fend for itself. With no help or server available, BS01 was left to drift. At one point, fansite TBoM attempted to extend aid by hosting BS01 on their server, but the idea was never placed into action.

By early 2007, the situation looked hopeless. Desperate, an idea was formulated that BS01 will be combined with BZPower, wiping BS01 off existence and replacing the content as topics on BZPower managed by BZP's reference team. When the plan was announced to the Wiki Staff, most of the members disliked the idea, many strongly argued against it, and suggested the idea of donations. Furthermore, two members who heard of the details of the plan were petrified with horror at this plan, two members desperately argued and begged against the doomsday idea and suggested that they will help with the funds for a new server. Thankfully, Swert figured out that it wasn't necessary, and that the pair managed to persuade him. He scrapped the idea and shortly afterwards, Swert decided that it was time to buy a server himself, and thus BS01 was saved, temporarily.

The Erased
With the Wiki back up on a new server purchased by Swert, members of the BS01 and BZP community were rejoiced and rebuilding (adding all the information back from backups) took place rapidly. However, the celebrations and efforts did not last long. Less then a month after the purchase of the new server, BS01 was hit by swarms of downtimes once more. Very soon, the server was no longer capable of hosting BS01, and BS01 was forced to drift once more.

Yet another disaster struck the drifting site. Unlike the previous backup, the manual backup was not fully complete. With the technical failure of the software backup, all the edit histories, including the histories of the first pages and edits, and many pages were gone forever. The site drifted around the net for many months until finally, a few weeks after the second birthday of the Wiki, an anonymous buyer purchased a stable server for BS01. After more then a year of downtime, BS01 finally returned, and ready to provide the BIONICLE community with accurate information once more.

The Second Golden Age
The Wiki has come a long way. As information rolls in, it's completely perfect after a fortnight (exaggeration). The Wiki has had time to expand and grow, and new hubs have been created. The Second Golden Age had begun.

Second Main Page Redesign Contest
The second Main Page Redesign Contest was similar to the first Main Page Redesign Contest - where members designed and submitted designs for the main page, with the winning entry used. The contest received much more entries then the first contest, and the voting was a heated race. In the end, Bioran23's "Flabbergasting" design won the contest with a landslide victory.

The Skinning Age
BS01 then entered a unique age, where skins were finally installed on the Wiki. After hours of research, trial and error, and even a couple of minutes of crying and panic on the part of the owner, BS01 gained a brand new skin based on a test Swert made. It was called "Karda Nui." Later, based on the 2008 prank, two more skins were made, named "Empire" and "VS01." Later, as an introduction to 2009, another skin was created which features a background of Bara Magna. On January 1st 2009, a new skin was introduced. This was the "Reign of Shadow" skin, and it was previewed as far back as December 22nd. All six skins, as well as the classic "Monobook" skin, are available to use right now.

Skins made:

"Arena.09" - 2009 Theme by Swert and Lihyahm* preview
"Empire" - 2008 April Fools prank, by Swert and Bioran23 preview
"KardaNui" - 2008 Theme, by Lihyahm, by Swert and Bioran23 preview
"MonoBook" - Default, no generic theme, by Swert preview
"Reign of Shadow" - 2008 Ending theme, by Swert**preview
"VS01" - 2008 April Fools prank by Swert preview
"VoyaNui" - 2006 Theme by Shine and Swert preview
* Binkmeister did provide BS01 with the background, but he did not create it, therefore he is not listed here.
** SPIRIT did the initial stage of the logo.

The Community Age
As the Wiki continues to improve in terms of levels of organization and high quality content, several projects have been developed to encourage a sense of community and working together towards common goals. The largest and most successful of these initiatives was the Operation:Restore All Content, or O:RAC project. It identified pages that needed images, quotes, links, and pronunciations, among other things, and enlisted regular contributors to find them to bring the pages up to the Wiki's high quality standard. Although O:RAC is ongoing, it has effectively eliminated the Pages Requiring Attention section of the Wiki and is largely responsible for the Wiki's current splendor.

Another project which encourages a sense of community is the Event Log, which records the daily activities of the Wiki and major changes made to it on any given day. The Articles for Deletion and Articles for Creation have also greatly assisted in establishing a community atmosphere, allowing members to vote on the creation or deletion of articles based on the members' opinions of their relevance to the Wiki.

Staff History
Names in bold refer to current staff.

Administrators
(October 4, 2005 – April 1, 2006) Crystal Matrix [retired]
(April 1, 2006 – February 4, 2007) Pekel [retired]
(April 1, 2006 – present) Swert
General Managers
(February 4, 2007 – September 28, 2008; October 5, 2008 - January 18, 2009) Darnzerf [retired]
(December 1, 2007 - present) Electric Turahk
(April 2, 2008 – present) Erebus
Moderators
(October 4, 2005 – April 1, 2006) Pekel [promoted]
(October 4, 2005 – April 1, 2006) Swert [promoted]
(April 1, 2006 – February 4, 2007; March 14, 2007 – October 30, 2007; December 1, 2008 - February 2, 2009) Bionus [returned] [retired]
(April 1, 2006 – May 2007; October 13, 2007 – present) Bioran23
(April 1, 2006 – February 4, 2007; January 18, 2009 - February 2, 2009) Darnzerf [promoted] [returned] [retired]
(April 1, 2006 – December 3, 2007) Utopia [retired]
(May 6, 2006 – September 2, 2007) Bionicleman [retired]
(February 4, 2007 – April 2, 2008) Erebus [promoted]
(February 4, 2007 - March 4, 2007) Ikki [retired]
(April 23, 2007 – February 26, 2008) KoApp [retired]
(October 13, 2007 – December 1, 2007) Electric Turahk [promoted]
(October 13, 2007 – February 2, 2008) Gravitan [retired]
(October 13, 2007 – present) Gb1 [hiatus]
(October 13, 2007 – May 9, 2009) Lihyahm [retired] [advisor]
(October 13, 2007 – present) Shine
(December 16, 2007 - February 6, 2008) Syn [retired]
(December 21, 2007 - December 23, 2007; December 13, 2008 - present) Kraahlix [hiatus]
(February 2, 2008 - present) Cholie
(May 8, 2008 - present) Master of the Rahkshi [hiatus]
(September 15, 2008 - present) Dorek
(December 1, 2008 - June 19, 2009) Kayru [retired] [advisor]
(February 17, 2009 - present) KZN02
(February 17, 2009 - present) Triggy
(May 23, 2009 - present) Varaka
Trivia
The Matoran font in the default Monobook skin background are lyrics to the Pink Floyd song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." They were originally meant to be a tribute to Swert's late friend Puma, but evolved over time to represent more, including a stylish background.
The Matoran font in the "Empire" skin are the lyrics to the song "Rockstar" by the band Nickelback. The lyrics were altered to remove swearing to match the audience of BS01, but picked because of the Empire's theme.
The Matoran font in the "VS01" skin are also Pink Floyd lyrics, this time a combination of "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse," both from The Dark Side of the Moon.
The Matoran lettering in the "Arena.09" skin are the lyrics to the song "Indestructible", by American rock band Disturbed. They were chosen due to the theme of 2009.
There are currently 5,347 members.
There are currently 1,618 articles.
Members have made 412,182 edits to BIONICLEsector01 Wiki articles and user pages.
BIONICLEsector01 Wiki currently runs on MediaWiki Version 1.13.2.













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[Trijhak]

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And I believe you just made this one of the longest pages ever...

BIONICLEsector01, or BIONICLEsector01 Wiki is the largest and most accurate BIONICLE reference site and Wiki on the Internet.

History
The Beginning
The BS01 Wiki was created during sometime around the 13th of October 2005 by Crystal Matrix. In the beginning, the Wiki was absolutely barren, with nothing aside from the standard Wiki software additions. Shortly after, the site began its slow construction through the dedication of about half a dozen of members. The amount of members eventually grew dramatically, and the amount of work done also increased. By the time of February 2006, the Wiki already had almost every piece of information regarding the BIONICLE universe from 2001-2006. The works from these early editors would eventually set the base for the Wiki today.

The Golden Age
With the base of the Wiki completed, the Wiki had became a reliable sources which the BIONICLE fandom trusted on. More and more editors and viewers came, and the popularity of the Wiki grew. A tight and friendly community was created amongst the members. All was well.

The Departure of Crystal Matrix
On April 1st 2006, former owner and creator of BS01 suddenly announced his retirement from the BIONICLE fandom. The sudden announcement shocked the entire BIONICLE fandom, and many thought it was some sort of April Fools joke, which it wasn't. And as a result, The Kini of Crystal Matrix was set up in memory of the great Crystal Matrix, whose work had brought a complete encyclopedia of BIONICLE information to the entire world.

First Main Page Redesign Contest
The first Main Page Redesign Contest took place during the first Golden Age. The purpose of the contest was to allow members to design the main page for the Wiki, with the winning entry used for the main page. The contest was a somewhat welcomed one, and several designs were submitted. In the end, BS01 technician Epsilon won the contest with his "2001" theme main page, which was used until the second Main Page Redesign Contest.

The Great Downtime
Around June 2006, the two sites of BS01, along with then sister site BZPower, went down without warning. The communities of BZPower and BS01 were both surprised by this sudden downtime, and the BZPower admins rushed to solve the crisis. Both of the sites returned shortly, only to crash again. The process repeated itself many times until both sites stopped working entirely. After some troubleshooting by the BZPower administrators, it was decided that BS01 was overloading BZPower's server, and thus BS01 had to detach from BZPower's server and fend for itself. With no help or server available, BS01 was left to drift. At one point, fansite TBoM attempted to extend aid by hosting BS01 on their server, but the idea was never placed into action.

By early 2007, the situation looked hopeless. Desperate, an idea was formulated that BS01 will be combined with BZPower, wiping BS01 off existence and replacing the content as topics on BZPower managed by BZP's reference team. When the plan was announced to the Wiki Staff, most of the members disliked the idea, many strongly argued against it, and suggested the idea of donations. Furthermore, two members who heard of the details of the plan were petrified with horror at this plan, two members desperately argued and begged against the doomsday idea and suggested that they will help with the funds for a new server. Thankfully, Swert figured out that it wasn't necessary, and that the pair managed to persuade him. He scrapped the idea and shortly afterwards, Swert decided that it was time to buy a server himself, and thus BS01 was saved, temporarily.

The Erased
With the Wiki back up on a new server purchased by Swert, members of the BS01 and BZP community were rejoiced and rebuilding (adding all the information back from backups) took place rapidly. However, the celebrations and efforts did not last long. Less then a month after the purchase of the new server, BS01 was hit by swarms of downtimes once more. Very soon, the server was no longer capable of hosting BS01, and BS01 was forced to drift once more.

Yet another disaster struck the drifting site. Unlike the previous backup, the manual backup was not fully complete. With the technical failure of the software backup, all the edit histories, including the histories of the first pages and edits, and many pages were gone forever. The site drifted around the net for many months until finally, a few weeks after the second birthday of the Wiki, an anonymous buyer purchased a stable server for BS01. After more then a year of downtime, BS01 finally returned, and ready to provide the BIONICLE community with accurate information once more.

The Second Golden Age
The Wiki has come a long way. As information rolls in, it's completely perfect after a fortnight (exaggeration). The Wiki has had time to expand and grow, and new hubs have been created. The Second Golden Age had begun.

Second Main Page Redesign Contest
The second Main Page Redesign Contest was similar to the first Main Page Redesign Contest - where members designed and submitted designs for the main page, with the winning entry used. The contest received much more entries then the first contest, and the voting was a heated race. In the end, Bioran23's "Flabbergasting" design won the contest with a landslide victory.

The Skinning Age
BS01 then entered a unique age, where skins were finally installed on the Wiki. After hours of research, trial and error, and even a couple of minutes of crying and panic on the part of the owner, BS01 gained a brand new skin based on a test Swert made. It was called "Karda Nui." Later, based on the 2008 prank, two more skins were made, named "Empire" and "VS01." Later, as an introduction to 2009, another skin was created which features a background of Bara Magna. On January 1st 2009, a new skin was introduced. This was the "Reign of Shadow" skin, and it was previewed as far back as December 22nd. All six skins, as well as the classic "Monobook" skin, are available to use right now.

Skins made:

"Arena.09" - 2009 Theme by Swert and Lihyahm* preview
"Empire" - 2008 April Fools prank, by Swert and Bioran23 preview
"KardaNui" - 2008 Theme, by Lihyahm, by Swert and Bioran23 preview
"MonoBook" - Default, no generic theme, by Swert preview
"Reign of Shadow" - 2008 Ending theme, by Swert**preview
"VS01" - 2008 April Fools prank by Swert preview
"VoyaNui" - 2006 Theme by Shine and Swert preview
* Binkmeister did provide BS01 with the background, but he did not create it, therefore he is not listed here.
** SPIRIT did the initial stage of the logo.

The Community Age
As the Wiki continues to improve in terms of levels of organization and high quality content, several projects have been developed to encourage a sense of community and working together towards common goals. The largest and most successful of these initiatives was the Operation:Restore All Content, or O:RAC project. It identified pages that needed images, quotes, links, and pronunciations, among other things, and enlisted regular contributors to find them to bring the pages up to the Wiki's high quality standard. Although O:RAC is ongoing, it has effectively eliminated the Pages Requiring Attention section of the Wiki and is largely responsible for the Wiki's current splendor.

Another project which encourages a sense of community is the Event Log, which records the daily activities of the Wiki and major changes made to it on any given day. The Articles for Deletion and Articles for Creation have also greatly assisted in establishing a community atmosphere, allowing members to vote on the creation or deletion of articles based on the members' opinions of their relevance to the Wiki.

Staff History
Names in bold refer to current staff.

Administrators
(October 4, 2005 – April 1, 2006) Crystal Matrix [retired]
(April 1, 2006 – February 4, 2007) Pekel [retired]
(April 1, 2006 – present) Swert
General Managers
(February 4, 2007 – September 28, 2008; October 5, 2008 - January 18, 2009) Darnzerf [retired]
(December 1, 2007 - present) Electric Turahk
(April 2, 2008 – present) Erebus
Moderators
(October 4, 2005 – April 1, 2006) Pekel [promoted]
(October 4, 2005 – April 1, 2006) Swert [promoted]
(April 1, 2006 – February 4, 2007; March 14, 2007 – October 30, 2007; December 1, 2008 - February 2, 2009) Bionus [returned] [retired]
(April 1, 2006 – May 2007; October 13, 2007 – present) Bioran23
(April 1, 2006 – February 4, 2007; January 18, 2009 - February 2, 2009) Darnzerf [promoted] [returned] [retired]
(April 1, 2006 – December 3, 2007) Utopia [retired]
(May 6, 2006 – September 2, 2007) Bionicleman [retired]
(February 4, 2007 – April 2, 2008) Erebus [promoted]
(February 4, 2007 - March 4, 2007) Ikki [retired]
(April 23, 2007 – February 26, 2008) KoApp [retired]
(October 13, 2007 – December 1, 2007) Electric Turahk [promoted]
(October 13, 2007 – February 2, 2008) Gravitan [retired]
(October 13, 2007 – present) Gb1 [hiatus]
(October 13, 2007 – May 9, 2009) Lihyahm [retired] [advisor]
(October 13, 2007 – present) Shine
(December 16, 2007 - February 6, 2008) Syn [retired]
(December 21, 2007 - December 23, 2007; December 13, 2008 - present) Kraahlix [hiatus]
(February 2, 2008 - present) Cholie
(May 8, 2008 - present) Master of the Rahkshi [hiatus]
(September 15, 2008 - present) Dorek
(December 1, 2008 - June 19, 2009) Kayru [retired] [advisor]
(February 17, 2009 - present) KZN02
(February 17, 2009 - present) Triggy
(May 23, 2009 - present) Varaka
Trivia
The Matoran font in the default Monobook skin background are lyrics to the Pink Floyd song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." They were originally meant to be a tribute to Swert's late friend Puma, but evolved over time to represent more, including a stylish background.
The Matoran font in the "Empire" skin are the lyrics to the song "Rockstar" by the band Nickelback. The lyrics were altered to remove swearing to match the audience of BS01, but picked because of the Empire's theme.
The Matoran font in the "VS01" skin are also Pink Floyd lyrics, this time a combination of "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse," both from The Dark Side of the Moon.
The Matoran lettering in the "Arena.09" skin are the lyrics to the song "Indestructible", by American rock band Disturbed. They were chosen due to the theme of 2009.
There are currently 5,347 members.
There are currently 1,618 articles.
Members have made 412,182 edits to BIONICLEsector01 Wiki articles and user pages.
BIONICLEsector01 Wiki currently runs on MediaWiki Version 1.13.2.













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