User blog:TheGoldenPatrik1/A New Age Has Begun

Hey lads, the past week has seen the biggest change to the wiki since Diep.io was created. Diep2.io is out and it has a world of implications. On the practical side, it means that we have a ton of work to do: pages, templates, images, categories, and so much more!

But it means a lot more than that. It means that we have a purpose. It means that a new era has begun. Where will it take us? Only time will tell, but I'm sure that it will lead this wiki to even great heights.


 * -|Wiki Event News=

Diep2.io and a new age
As stated here, is now online. Based off Diep.io, it incorporates numerous changes and additions, such as new polygons, tanks, and stats! So what does this mean for the Wikia as a whole? It means that we have a new purpose, that we have work to do, that the Wikia will enter a new period of expansion, and that your help is needed! Around 100 pages need creation, templates need to be designed, images need to be procured, categories need to be established, content needs to be added, and so much more! Diep2.io changes rapidly, so you may want to join the Diep2-dev server for the latest information straight from the developer. We will also need dedicated users to write Changelog news for, so let an admin know if you’re on the Discord and are willing to write out the changes each week!

Tale of Diep, OP Concept, Concept namespaces to be combined into Fanon
The OP Concept namespace will be removed soon, since almost all of its pages would be moved to the  under the current  anyway, making it obsolete. Per an agreement with (the “owner” of ToD) and other Conceptors, the Tale of Diep namespace will have its contents merged with the  namespace (which will be renamed to  ). Due to the amount of focus on Diep2, it is not likely to be finished until next year.

Status update on the Interlang project
Started about a year ago by Ursuul, only 10 of the original 118 pages need cleanup, and most pages are now using the ed interlanguage link format. This was a massive, long-term project that we are nearly done with, and we aim to get it finally completed by its one-year anniversary. These links have massive benefits for our non-English readers by sending them to content in their language, and benefit multilingual readers of other Wikias who can use the links on non-English Wikias to come to the English Wikia to read what is usually more “complete” content. Beyond simple navigation, these links establish a given page’s in all languages, meaning that our content is even more likely to show up in search engines like Google or Bing when readers look for Diep.io content, hugely boosting our viewership.

Next steps
Is this the end? Not quite. Currently, the Vietnamese Diep.io Wikia has been bustling with activity and the Romanian Diep.io Wikia was just founded (see Policy News), while the project itself has been evolving to include new tools as well as incorporating, , and pages as well. The initial project only covers content pages, but there are always more pages (such as ) to add to the interlanguage network as we move forward, meaning that there will always be more maintenance work to be done even after the project is complete in order to keep up with ever-evolving Wikias. If anyone would like to help with this titanic project that helps all Diep.io Wikias, speak to and join in the labor!


 * -|Wiki Policy News=

WikiFeatures revisited
Last month the community voted to approve proposals to change three WikiFeatures, including the opportunity to revote on those changes if certain conditions were met on December 14th, this Thursday. Here are the conditions the community voted for last month: Now is the time to make your voice heard. If you want to reverse any of the changes made in last month’s decision, the comments section is where you can let that be known. We will not vote again over a single person, there needs to be enough people to make a vote worthwhile.
 * New Image Galleries — Revote if there is high user-demand to turn them back off OR if severe technical difficulties arose (they did not).
 * Anonymous Editing — Revote if there is a high user-demand to turn it back off AND it was not preemptively disabled by (it was not).
 * Article Comments — Revote if there is high user-demand to restore them AND three s (or above) elect to heavily patrol them in the event of their restoration.

Blog Policies compromise
A compromise has been reached regarding the petition for stricter Blog Policies; they are no longer as strict as originally intended. The resultant policies can be seen, effective immediately. Old blogs that do not meet these policies will be moved to user-space, new blogs that do not meet these policies will be deleted.

Another Merge!
Calm down, don’t get nervous. There is a very small Wikia named the Diep2.io Wiki; we already have all of its contents, save for a few snippets of text and an image, meaning a merge could be completed almost as soon as both Wikias agreed to it (comment your support/opposition below). For some reason, that Wikia has higher SEO for Diep2 than us, so redirecting it to this Wikia would bolster our search engine results while that Wikia would get all of our page contents about Diep2.io; everyone wins.

Note about creating Diep2.io pages
If you wish to contribute to the wiki via making Diep2.io pages, be sure to use the About template to provide disambiguation and the 2 template to link to other Diep2.io pages. Also, make sure that all pages follow the and general layout of existing Diep pages.

New Romanian Diep.io Wikia
Founded by, the Romanian Diep.io Wikia is up and ready for content. If anyone speaks Romanian, by all means go and join in the labor!

Official end of Unification Era
The is officially over and a Project page for it has been created. If you think you have something worthwhile to add, by all means edit it so that we have a complete and definitive history of this sixth Era of the wiki.

Demotions

 * after End.


 * -|Tech News=

New templates
has created a template for Diep2.io pages (2). Be sure to use this whenever linking to Diep2 pages. Also, since the Tale of Diep and Concept namespaces will be merged in a Fanon namepsace, D and C will be tweaked accordingly.

Continued BaseStats rewrite
has continued with the rewrite of BaseStats, making it collapsible to take up less room.

Temporary gadgets bug
A few days ago, were down, but this problem is now fixed and Gadgets are working fine. Unfortunately, this problem has happened twice now, but hopefully it will not continue.

Fanon Polls template update
Due to the amount of activity going on lately, and especially with the upcoming centralization of Fanon namespaces, the plans to apply a Polls template to all conceptions has unfortunately been swept under the rug. The opposition voters this was offered to as a compromise did not especially desire it, so the project has been set aside until after all conceptions have been centralized in the Fanon namespace.


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