Gentle Giant

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'''Gentle Giant''' is a company which produces animated marquette statues from [[Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings]]. The release date for the first statues is set for Fall 2006.

==External links==
* [http://www.gentlegiantltd.com/ Official website]
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The '''Community Portal''' lists events related to Tolkien Gateway. For community discussion see [[Forum:Council]]

==Site Updates==
[[Image:Morgen Bell - The Palantir.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Palantir'' by [[Morgen Bell]]]]
* I'm proud to announce '''Tolkien Gateway''' has just passed 3,000 unique visitors in one day. We have all of the dedicated contributors to thank and at this point I think it's just a matter of time before people realize the potential of the site.
* Small skin changes. I've been playing around with the skin a lot of today so I'm sorry if anyone saw anything odd. I've added the A-Z links to the top center and removed them from the left where they were taking up way too much room. When we finalize some "Portal" pages such as the Gallery and maybe a Characters portal or something I'll throw those links on the left. Let me know what you guys think.
* thrasher7 has provided us with a new extension, the [[Special:Editcount/TopEditors]] extension which lists the top editors. Hopefully this will give us an extra incentive to keep editing. You can include your total edits in your user page by using <nowiki>{{Special:Editcount/Hyarion}}</nowiki> for example. Let the race to #1 begin!
* Kristine Kastle has written a [http://people.emich.edu/zgarrett/ColProject/3.html critique of Tolkien Gateway] for her class. We received 1.5 out of 4 rings.
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* The upgrade to 1.6.3 is now complete! [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Important_Release_Notes#MediaWiki_1.6.x New Features]. Please let me know if you see any bugs that I might have missed.
* We have planned to upgrade from MediaWiki 1.5.4 to 1.6.3 today. This includes an added feature which forces people who edit anonymously and have a link in their edit, to type a random word. This should prevent pretty much all the vandalisms. If you find anything wrong after the upgrade, please let us know.
* If you haven't noticed we have converted our [[Tolkien_Gateway_talk:Community_Portal|Community Portal discussion]] to a forum-like atmosphere over on the [[Forum:Council|Council forums]] (a link is also present on the left navigation).
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* Over 500 articles and a day later I've now completed the redirect pages. Searching or even making a [[Numenor]] link will redirect to the correct accented article.
* I'm still debating switching the main page to be simply a [http://tolkiengateway.net/search/ Search Page]. I like the idea of having a simplistic Google-like look, but I think the lack of news/information on the main page might not be liked. What do you guys think?
* I think I've decided to go through ''every'' article that has an accent and create a non-accented redirect to it. Search results do not display the correct results for something like "Numenor" since there are technically accents on the word. Creating the redirects will allow someone to search for "Numenor" and simply be redirected to the correct page. I've whined to the MediaWiki staff about creating an extension but it's just going to be too much work to do it like Google and even Wikipedia uses the redirect idea.
* Congratulations everyone, we have now surpassed 10,000 edits!
* I've altered the left navigation menu to display only alphabetical links. The old links were not fully completed even though the articles were written. I think this way people will be able to see how large our database is more efficiently. What do you guys think? Feel free to post on the discussion page.
* Unfortunately the last couple days we've had some MySQL issues which has caused some downtime. This is not viewed lightly and we've done everyting possible to prevent anymore downtime in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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* We have founded our own [http://tolkiennews.net Tolkien News] website.
* A [http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=dusk new skin] has been added. To switch to that skin permanently just go into your preferences once you are logged in.
* I've added [[Tolkien_Gateway:Council|a page for editors to discuss Tolkien Gateway]].
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* After a bit of downtime we now have successfully relocated to the new server.
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