User blog:Banarama/Changes Everywhere :O

this is a big fucking deal.

—joe biden


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Decisions
After a heated Community Vote, it was decided that would be enabled, Anonymous Editing would be enabled, and Article Comments would be disabled. There shall be a weeklong grace period before these changes are carried out in order to prepare, and a month after the changes are made (on December 14th, 2017) we may vote again to decide if any of the changes should be reverted, depending on popular opinion. While the first two proposals passed with strong majorities, disabling Article Comments was a very close call, so user-feedback is especially important in order to let Admins know what we can do to help. We want everyone to be satisfied, so we have several plans already (see Tech News) that should help assuage the concerns of the large minority which voted no. If you have more suggestions, by all means leave a comment. We’ve also included that Admins may disable Anonymous Editing at their discretion should it become unbearable, to appease the smaller, yet still sizable minority that opposed Anonymous Editing.

Tournament bonus rounds
The first bonus round has come and gone, matching all of the winners from the official tournament to see which would take the gold: ! After that, a second bonus round, matching up all of the contestants from both the second and the first Conception Tournaments together to juke it out to see which is truly the best. This secondary round is still in the Quarterfinals, so be sure to vote!


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Petition for blog policies
has recommended that policies be instituted to clean up off-topic, low-quality blogs and enforce a minimum standard for quality. Blogs are fairly visible on the Wikia, showing up in several feeds beyond ones personal blog tab, so cleaning them up could enhance the ’s professionalism (beyond the immediate benefit of having genuinely good blogs to read for once). You can weigh in and give your thoughts on the subject in this thread; your feedback could very well shape the resulting policies, if we decide to implement any.

Comment Policies to be suspended
Since are soon to be disabled, and Blog Comments are generally governed by the blog owners, the  shall be archived and taken out of practice. Should the aforementioned blog policies be instituted, then they would likely have a section specifically regarding blog comments (which will not be disabled).

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UserTags fixes
should be back on line without any bugs. However, we had to strip away some of the old functionality to make it work while FANDOM’s API was down, so currently some Tags are missing. That said, now that their API is back up, UserTags will go back to normal as soon as the JS is reviewed.

New Community Page icons — for Code Admins too!
As foretold last week, has now been ed to use cleaner code without any   statements. During this cleanup process, thanks partly to help by, we were able to add our custom icons to non-Bureaucrat users on the page as an added bonus!

Bots — Comment Cleanup
After the decision to close Article Comments, bots will soon begin mass purging of entire talk namespaces, thus removing the archived Comments in preparation for if/when Comments are enabled once more. After that, all article pages on the shall have a Talk Page created by bots.

Bots — Poll Templates
As soon as it is ready, bots will begin adding a template to the bottom of all , designed to allow viewers to vote in Polls about a given page (as an alternative to Comments). Should the author of a given Conception desire to remove the template, they may do so at their discretion.

Miscellaneous

 * The Opinion Polls section was removed in, since don’t work in  anyway.
 * was tweaked aesthetically in Monobook.
 * Several Monobook bugs were fixed.
 * Several were optimized.
 * was moved to a, Template:Community-corner. This will allow s to freely edit its contents.


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Featured Videos followup
Per the latest Community Vote regarding this topic, we have postponed our request for due to the conditions on which FANDOM set, stipulating that we can only receive videos in bulk. Should further signs be seen of the video quality improving generally, we will move forward with our request.

Meanwhile…
It was also decided that our Community would write some of the scripts for popular pages on our Wikia. Be sure to check out to see which pages we are looking to make scripts for (all of the top 3 and any of the top 10, Main Page excluded). If you are interested in submitting scripts for videos related to those pages, feel free to send those to !


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