User blog:Ursuul/File Transfer tmrw (not clickb8) (4real dis tiem)

Alright lads, lots of stuff went down last week (Sandbox & EotM & Gadgets oh my), so let us not waste any time, & geeeeeeeeeeeeeeet rooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooight into the nooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!


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File Transfer expected tomorrow
has let the Diep.io Wikia Staff know that the File Transfer is planned this Wednesday. While the articles (and page histories) may potentially be brought over simultaneously with the Files, it is possible that while the Files come tomorrow the pages may be coming later. Fingers crossed that another delay does not occur.
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Next Wiki Sandbox date & time
Just a reminder that the next Sandbox is scheduled for Saturday, September 16th, from 12 PM to 2 PM EST (UTC 16:00 — 18:00). The last Sandbox was one of the biggest we’ve ever had, and was a lot of fun, so try to show up to this one!

New Header Graphic
, having won the popular vote and the clearance of the majority of the standing Administrators, has won the Header Graphic Contest and had his image used on our Wiki. Congratulations to Bana, and thanks to all who participated in the contest!

New Editor of the Month
For his consistently high quality contributions to both articles and to the area,  has been nominated as the new Editor of the Month for August! Congratulations Patrik, and a thank you to everyone who contributed positively, yet did not make EotM. All improvements to the Wiki are appreciated.
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Admin & Senior Moderator repurposing
For those who attended the latest Sandbox, this should be well known. While nothing official is being released at present, because we do not yet know if the proposal is possible, full details (and a community discussion/vote) may be released in the future if it turns out to be doable, so it may be a good idea to keep an eye out for a highlighted thread. Beyond that, if anyone wishes to know more details about what was proposed, then they may read this Chat Log of the latest Sandbox.

Template Categorization Policy
The Style Guide was updated to include a small section on templates. The Style Guide is expected to be overhauled and expanded in time, but for now the policy is simple; all new templates must be categorized. If they are not, they will be deleted without warning and will not be restored. Users may recreate them and start over, but they will be continually deleted until they are created with proper categories. If anyone has questions or requires assistance in categorizing their templates properly, Administrators are available to help on request.

Promotions & Demotions

 * — Demoted to regular user for inactivity.
 * — Promoted to Intern.
 * — Promoted to Senior Moderator.
 * — Demoted to Sentinel due to inactivity.
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Gadgets Feature being considered
The Gadgets extension allows Administrators to create opt in scripts, stylesheets, and extensions (gadgets) that users can enable or disable in Special:Preferences. Currently, one such gadget that might be created is the Staff.css stylesheet, currently visible only to Diep.io Wikia Staff, which has unique styling applied to Staff members who desire it (fonts, animations, colors, et cetera). Turning it into a gadget would allow non-Staff users to opt-in to viewing this stylesheet, and it would allow Staff members who do not wish to view it to opt out.This is just one use of gadgets; many other tools can be made available to editors in this fashion (as seen in the image above and here), the question is whether it should be enabled. Administrators on this Wiki may do so, so if anyone wants it, be sure to vote for it in the Opinion Polls and comment section. It goes without saying that non-Admin coders would be allowed to submit gadgets for their peers to use.

New JS & CSS Pages
Thanks to helpful users from Discord, the following pages were found: While there are currently no immediate plans to begin utilizing these files, they represent a more simplistic and efficient way to serve CSS and JavaScript to specific groups of users. Autoconfirmed users could be given a few additional editing tools that new users or readers would not need, Administrators could be given more advanced scripts available only to them, allowing our Staff to more efficiently improve the Wiki, and bots could be made even more powerful. However, none of that will be as useful as what cleaning up Common.js will be. Currently, in order to keep certain powerful tools out of non-Admin hands, import checks are run to see if a user belongs in a given group before loading a script. This is very inefficient, both because it takes Staff longer to load their tools and because it increases loading times for everyone else. By moving the imports into these files, there will be no checks; load times will decrease for normal users, and Staff will automatically have their tools work at top speed.
 * MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css
 * MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.js
 * MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css
 * MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js
 * MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.css
 * MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.js
 * MediaWiki:Group-bot.css
 * MediaWiki:Group-bot.js

BlogLink Renovations
For those who do not know, BlogLink is a script which adds links to a user’s personal blog, Contributions, and on our Wiki only, to a user’s Psuedo Talk Page. These links appear in the user dropdown where one’s profile, message wall, and preferences are also located. In order to make the script more versatile, has been attempting to build in a check so that it will only load the Pseudo Talk Page links on Wikis with PseudoTalkPages installed, and only load the link to a user’s personal blog on Wikis with Blogs enabled in WikiFeatures (contribs link is always loaded). During this process some bugs (usually duplicate links) may be encountered; do not be alarmed if you discover any. They are being worked on, and all will be back to normal soon.
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