User blog:TheGoldenPatrik1/Fanon Article Standards!?

In case you're wondering, I'm part of the news team now. :)

Anyways, let's get down to da nooose...


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Fanon Tournament Tank Winner
After a round of voting, conception the  won the Tank category in the Fanon Conception Tournament. Congratulations Ursuul! If you haven’t already, be sure to participate in the next round, Polygons.

Sandbox Last Saturday
On Saturday, users gathered for the monthly sandbox. It was a productive time in which all had a fair say in examining various proposals. Check out the Wiki Policy tab for more information, and be sure to try to attend the next Sandbox on Friday, October 27th, 8 AM - 10 AM Eastern Time (UTC 12:00 — 14:00).

Category Cleanup still pending
Since little effort seems to have been put forth in general, it’s been decided that we’d sweeten the pot; the most helpful user in this project will receive a for their efforts. See the Event News Tab on this WU for details on how to help.

Main Page rename
Currently, the name page is called Diepio Wikia, and resides within the Main namespace. Considering that the page title will always display as “Home,” it is being considered that the Main Page be renamed one last time, as. Moving it into the Project namespace would give the Main Page a sense of neutrality; it would belong neither to the Canon nor Fanon namespaces, but would represent all. Provided that it can continue to display properly in the, this change will go through sometime in the following week.


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Fanon Article Regulations
One of the Sandbox decisions was to institute regulations regarding fanon articles. Articles that do not meet these standards will be moved to the User namespace.
 * All fanon articles must meet the following standards:
 * Needs an infobox OR two images.
 * Needs at least three inline links (navbox links do not count).
 * Needs at least 3 sections.
 * All redlinks are prohibited in both articles and navboxes, unless the article will be made within 24 hours.
 * At some point in time, a default page will be installed by Administrators. When creating a page in the Concept, Tale of Diep, or OP Concept, a default fanon page complete with all necessary sections and the Author template will pop up when opening the editor, helping conceptors to easily create high-quality pages.

Former Staff to Fallen Staff
In order to be more diep.io-related, will be Former Staff no longer — instead, they will be called Fallen Staff, a change petitioned by  and approved in the latest Sandbox.

Community Page alteration
Another Sandbox decision was to change the Community Page. The change would replace “Meet the Moderators” with “Meet the Staff,” while “Meet the Admins” would be replaced by “Meet the Leaders,” provided that such a thing is permissible by FANDOM Staff.

Promotions

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Note: The will be fixed as soon as the JS is Reviewed.
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BlogLink
After a number of unexpected bugs and uncaught errors rendered it unusable on several wikis, the script appears to be once again operational. Though the recent updates will have no noticeable effects here on the English Diep.io wiki, other language Diep.io wikis will now be able to use the script as intended.

Era Icons
The use of era icons will now universally extend to both the Oasis and Monobook skins courtesy of, a newly-optimized implementation of the old era icons snippet this wiki has used in the past. Thanks must be extended to for writing the initial base code that brought this script to fruition.

ICTDL & Challonge Tournament iFrames
Additionally, the script has been optimized and debugged to ensure it does not indirectly influence page load times by endlessly running on incorrect pages. Furthermore, the script as been slightly modified to reduce the need for redundant copy/pasted code, thus making the addition of new   entries easier and faster.

Blogs
Pages in the undefined and User Blog s have been given a CSS makeover in order to make them look more like their Oasis counterparts, with clean separations between blogs and an icon with a link to the blog comment section. An example is m.

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While last week was uninstalled sitewide, it has been reinstalled for Monobook only, as Monobook users are much less likely to be confused by seemingly conflicting UserTags and user rights. was used to ensure that they wrap nicely onto multiple lines when necessary, depending on screen width, and that the are now vertically centered. An example is.

Monobook Main Page
Thanks to the previous CSS future-proofing done several weeks ago, the [ Monobook Main Page ] only needed a few lines worth of CSS in order to make it equal in quality to the Oasis Main Page. As soon as the Fanon Category cleanup is finished, the can be updated as well, so that the main page is up to par across all three skins; Mercury, Oasis, & Monobook.

Pull request
A submitted by Ursuul to the  housed on GitHub has been approved by Staff and will be live (across the entirety of the FANDOm network) on Tuesday. The “comments” section link affixed to the right of blog entries on m Blog Listing Page will now point to the proper URL fragment when the page is viewed in the Monobook skin.


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