User blog:Ursuul/:)

HEY LADS! I’m excited the share the news with you, mainly because the project I’ve been working on the past week is about done & is now live across the site! Also, the Spanish Diep.io Wikia will likely be enabling Discussions soon, which means that they would join the Community App with us & the Chinese & Russian Diep.io Wikias! Also also also, corn pudding tastes great :)


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The Second Conception Tournament back on!
Due to delays caused by a glitch with the Forums, the Second Conception Tournament’s fifth category, Game Mechanics, had to go on hold for about a week. Now that the technical difficulties have ceased, it can continue to march onward as we enter the second half of the categories in the tournament. Cast your votes here!

Base Stats cleanup
BaseStats/doc has been slightly rewritten; BaseStats should not list changes compared to a basic tank anymore, instead it should list changes compared to its predecessors. If necessary, multiple uses of BaseStats should be used to reflect changes based on upgrades from different classes. If you would like to help the wiki and prove your worth as an editor, help make sure that every tank article has the correct BaseStat template values. In addition, is currently rewriting BaseStats.

Halloween theme pending
has stated that he would begin designing a Halloween theme for the. This theme will likely become a gadget when it’s finished, and when Halloween rolls around it may temporarily be used across the site. If you have suggestions for the aesthetics, let him know. It goes without saying that any other s interested are welcome to help out directly.

New Galleries
The “new” image galleries FANDOM developed are currently able to be enabled via WikiFeatures. In the past, [ several ] [ Administrators ] have used their rights to enable it without consulting anyone about it, which then had to be [ reverted ] both times due to bugs, but now the time has come where we may discuss enabling it as a community. While the current galleries have served us well, and even though the new galleries were broken when they were enabled without proper preparation, they can be made to look good if done correctly; here is an example. That said, it is unknown how much work (if any) would be required to properly utilize the new galleries, and at the end of the day, the community may simply prefer the old galleries; that is 100% acceptable. This is merely a proposal, so please voice your opinion on the change in the comments (there shall be an Opinion Poll as well, but comments are greatly preferred). If necessary, a community vote may be considered for the topic.


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New EotM
After tough deliberation between several candidates, was selected to succeed  as EotM for October! Electro has contributed a great deal of information and time to improving our strategy sections, in addition to disseminating information from the and the Diep Colony Discord server. For his efforts to improve canon pages and to work with our Staff to improve his editing, he has surely earned his title of Editor of the Month. Congrats to him and a big thank you to all those who have also contributed well, but did not make EotM.

User Rights Blogs
In the near future, and other  will be making blogs giving tips on how to functionally and correctly use certain user rights. These blogs will by no means have the authority of the, but will, nonetheless, be a useful guide to new staffers.

Promotions

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 * — Rejoined as an  for.


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Minor chat tweaks (god help us all)
In the past, trying to get any script to work consistently in chat has been a series of nightmares interspersed with months of desperately trying to stay awake for fear of the nightmare resuming. Despite this, and despite the 100% expected multitude of headaches which ensued, the following MediaWiki files have been successfully tweaked without too many issues:
 * JS:, , and
 * was uninstalled temporarily; it shall be restored soon!
 * were trimmed down.
 * Two configurations were moved from to their respective dependency files.
 * CSS:
 * Outmoded styles from Tonn Lenk’s days were removed.
 * Preparatory styles for the below changes were ported to a centralized stylesheet.

New user-group icons for chat & elsewhere
Currently, the two most-commonly-used icons are the following:     https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/1/12/Badge-Admin.svg   /  /  /  https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/5/50/Badge-DiscussionsModerator.svg

Those two are from a set of seven default FANDOM icons, but some show up very rarely. You may recognize some of them below:

Global Icons  FANDOM https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/0/06/Badge-Staff.svg  Helpers https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/c/c8/Badge-Helper.svg   VSTF https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/6/63/Badge-VSTF.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width/36   http://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/diepio/images/0/0a/GDM.svg

Local Icons  Content Moderators https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/e/ef/Badge-ContentModerator.svg  Administrators https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/1/12/Badge-Admin.svg  DiscMod / ChatMod https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/5/50/Badge-DiscussionsModerator.svg

Global icons can be left alone, but it has been pointed out that the very last icon is insufficient; it covers four different ranks (s, s, s, and ), each with very different powers, and so the plan is for four new icons to be created for each group. But that’s not all; the Senior Admin group shall also receive a new icon, and bots too. They are as follows:

s https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ursuul/images/4/47/Community_Administrator.svg  https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ursuul/images/3/35/Bot.svg   https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ursuul/images/4/4e/Senior_Administrator.svg

s https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ursuul/images/d/da/Sentinel.svg   s https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ursuul/images/2/2f/Moderator.svg     https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ursuul/images/b/be/Intern.svg

These new icons will go into use immediately. It is hoped that they shall be satisfactory to everyone, but nevertheless, suggestions and recommendations for changes to any of the six icons above are 100% welcome in the comment section below.
 * Note: s have not been given a icon, just as Code Administrators do not have colors in chat. This is intentional, as Code Administrators do not have the ability to Moderate chat, nor can icons for them be put into use outside of chat. Thus, instead of Code Administrators getting a icon, a secret seventh icon was added, tied to another group >:)

Miscellaneous

 * Former Staff styles, current Staff styles, and styles for the above chat change were all moved from their original [ files ] to (not to be confused with, which is ).
 * It is being considered that the above icons replace SIcon.
 * The creation of new Fanon Infoboxes is expected to take place this week.
 * The following on-hold changes have not been forgotten, and will happen eventually:
 * Main page rename.
 * merge from DCoW.
 * DCoW closure.
 * Merge completion celebration.


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