User blog:Ursuul/It goin’ down

I am back to posting WUs my lads with a smexy new pfp too, & this week has been especially roller-coaster-y. It started with an initial victory regarding & a successful, but then it finished off with a boatload of complications with FANDOM JavaScript Reviewers (see Tech) & an impending legal issue with FANDOM’s legal team (which may be covered in more detail next week). All told? Best be headed to your local, because it goin’ down >:)


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Sandbox outcomes
This latest was one of our most successful ones yet, with a great many attendees and many issues hashed out. Overall, the four goals we affirmed to focus on were: Many thanks to, , , and everyone else who attended the Sandbox for putting forth these suggestions! We hope everyone enjoyed their time with us last weekend, and that many folks come to the next Sandbox!
 * To create a designated discussion for the entire community to weigh in on the topic of Article Comments, which can be seen here; please share your thoughts!
 * To include an auto-populated list of high quality conceptions (made up of Conception Tournament winners) in the TopNav. It can be viewed in the “Popular” section under “Fanon”.
 * While installing this, a list of active users was also added to the “Community” tab.
 * In order to have more tournament winners, we need more tournaments! A new Conception Tournament is being considered, show your support in the comments if you’d like another.
 * To focus more on moving low-quality conceptions to the.
 * To provide more guides for new arrivals to point them to the areas of the Wiki where they can help the most.

New Medalist & EotM
has been hard at work improving images across the site as well as cleaning up pages generally. Although he may not receive EotM after having already been one so recently, his efforts will not go unrewarded, and a Medal to congratulate him has been attributed to him for his efforts. Thanks Electro! Flowing from that, an EotM will still be chosen within a day or so, hopefully on the 1st, so be on the lookout for our next great contributor! And a reminder: some exceptional contributors receive rewards, but all contributors are always appreciated, keep on editing so that the can continue to be a better and better place!


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Bots
Due to the technical nature of this change, the changes to policy regarding bots is included in the Technical Tab; click (or scroll) to check it out.

Promotions

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 * Switched from to.

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The End™ is Nigh
We have finally gotten around to renaming our to use standard naming practices. However, doing so required that a great many Wikis across FANDOM be edited by in order to ensure that the imports continued to work after the renames, resulting in dozens of files for FANDOM Staff to review. Understandably annoyed, they looked deeper at some of our JS practices, and have since disabled for all Wikis except this one, and this means that we currently cannot add more Challonge.com iFrames to tournament threads (such as Thread:147575) and that no other Wikis can use existing iFrames at all. Now, before you panic and impeach Ursuul, you should know that a) it would have happened at some point anyway, and b) that FANDOM only disabled it so that they could deliberate to decide if such iFrames should be allowed generally. Ursuul has already interceded to ask that they allow them and has argued our case, which at least one FANDOM Staff member generally agrees with already, it is simply a matter of waiting to find out what FANDOM decides to do. If they decide iFrames are alright, then we can go back to adding more tournaments safe in the knowledge that they won’t be disturbed again. However, there is a slim but present chance that FANDOM may decide such iFrames are a security risk and therefore remove our iFrames entirely, breaking old tournament threads and making new ones harder to keep track of. It is an undesirable eventuality to be sure, but as stated, this situation would have happened naturally either way.

Bot Flags
FANDOM Staff have modified the  to allow them to grant Bot rights without needing to rely on FANDOM Staff to manually apply said rights. This, in addition to the default right of Bureaucrats to demote Bots once they have been flagged, means that the promotion and demotion of Bots are now wholly within the purview of. Feedback on any of the above bullet points is appreciated as always; these standards are already in effect, with serving as the main policy page for Bots.
 * So what changes?
 * Permanent Bot flags can now be applied much faster if needed, simply ask a Senior Administrator.
 * Senior Administrators can temporarily give Bot flags to main accounts to execute bot functions faster.
 * This will happen quite frequently.
 * Senior Administrators who choose to do this will no longer qualify for new edit-based, since this can rapidly inflate their edit counts. Existing Rewards will not be removed.
 * and Administrators can request that their main accounts be temporarily flagged as a bot for individual, quick projects. Doing so also disqualifies them from new edit-based Rewards as with Senior Administrators.
 * If there is a serious need, other Staff members can also take advantage of this with the same consequences, albeit in exceptional circumstances only. Non-Staff can never have their main accounts flagged as Bots.

Two new gagdets
To give every user group a Tools, has added a Gadget for Code Administrators and one for normal users. If you wish, enable them in your and be sure to provide feedback.

Miscellaneous

 * As a result of the aforementioned renames, our JavaScript is much more efficient now that it does not rely on forks most of the time.
 * was tweaked to replace the defunct Chat Logs link.
 * was tweaked by FANDOM Staff to use more efficient processes.
 * Our  was tweaked to ensure that Staff Message Walls are not removed when they are acting as bots.
 * Several MediaWiki messages had their edit histories cleaned.
 * es were tweaked.
 * was uninstalled.
 * was uninstalled.
 * The “article” space of Wiki-pages have had several aesthetic tweaks, namely to image animations, interlanguage links, and tables of contents.


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