GateWorld
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GateWorld (also: GateWorld.net) is a popular reference, news and fan website on the various Stargate series, including Stargate (movie), Stargate SG-1, and Stargate Atlantis. GateWorld is currently the largest Stargate community site on the web and today includes an Omnipedia, Forum, articles, reviews as well as a large episode guide, with transcripts and pictures. The site also features up-to-date news.
The GateWorld forum currently has in excess of 23,000 members as of November 2006, The exact number can be seen online at GateWorld. The total number of threads as of the November 15th 2006 was 32,527, although as expected with such a big forum that would increase with an average number of 672 posts each day. As of November 15th, GateWorld Forums have 23,585 members that has increased from the already high amount of 10,000 in November 2005.
The most members ever online was on August 21st, 2006 at 12:27 AM GMT, with a recorded count of 1,803 guests and members viewing the forum 
. The current record occurred when the news of Stargate SG-1 cancellation broke. This number increases at various stages at an ever-increasing rate of that logged above. The record number of users usually hits a high when/or both Stargate SG1 and/or Atlantis airs a new season or finishes its current running season. This will prompt a mass influx of members who join and post on the forums, sharing their views and thoughts for the franchise.
On September 6th 2006, the Gateworld forum passed the 2,000,000 millon post mark [1], just 9 months after announcing the passing of the 1,000,000 post mark [2].
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[edit] History
GateWorld started on October 22, 1999 and has changed addresses and servers many times since then. The site was developed by Darren Sumner to be an online community for the show Stargate SG-1, similar to Web sites for other science fiction shows. The site was formerly known as STARGUIDE. Though the site focused on Stargate other parts of the site were devoted to other sci-fi series in the form of episode guides. It was during this time that STARGUIDE was given the name GateWorld.
Over time the site continued to enlist more members in the Forum. Although the focus lay on the episode guides, it also started to include a large encyclopedia, news, reviews and a store. Now, even the cast and producers of Stargate have contributed to the site with extensive multimedia interviews, blogs, spoilers, and even live chats.
In 2004 Sumner was even invited to tour through the sets of Stargate Atlantis and to interview the members of the series' crew. Since then he and partner David Read make an annual pilgrimage to Vancouver, where the franchise is filmed, to visit the studio and interview the casts and crews of both shows for the Web site.
[edit] GateWorld 2.0
In the forum, assistant editor David Read announced that they would be completely redesigning the main site. Darren Sumner announced that the new design would be released in the summer 2006 and that they would try for it to be in time for the 14th July 2006 premiere of Stargate SG1 Season 10 and Stargate Atlantis Season 3 on the Sci-Fi Channel.
Despite missing their original target dates, the webmasters working on the project completed and uploaded GateWorld 2.0 during broadcast of Stargate SG1s milestone 200th episode. The 2.0 design is another Gilles Nuytens original. The forum is still to be re-designed but members will not lose their post count.
During the build up to the launch, GateWorld revealed a small version of the new logo on the DVD Sweepstakes they ran but a much larger version of the logo was revealed shortly afterwards by a forum member, much to the dislike of Darren Sumner.
GateWorld 2.0 brings with it many new unseen/unread interviews with cast and crew members, plus a new Stargate Games section and more. The new main site design has currently not affected the forum or the network sites for other shows such as Battlestar Galactica, Lost and Smallville - although fans expect that GateWorld will eventually make the changes to those as well to keep the entire network fresh and modern.
[edit] SaveStargateSG1
With the cancellation, Gateworld announced it's support for SaveStargateSG1 [3] [4], a fan run campaign to get international networks and executives to show support for Stargate SG-1 and to help get it on the air. The site contains contact details for both domestic and international and non english speaking nations to show their support for Stargate and to help get the show back on the air with Season 11. The site is not only in english for those from the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom but available in languages that fans from France, Russia, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Italy and Holland so it provides a large group of global fans to to connect and learn about how to help in the hopes of getting it renewed.
