User blog:Banarama/Big Sandbox, Big Election, Big News!

As you can see, I am back making Wiki Updates! There's tons to cover this week as far as events and tech news goes — the 6DIIep restyling project is close to completion, and there's plenty to discuss theme-wise! We also had an April Fool's joke this year, mainly due to me and the rise of that malignant and deluded Archprophet, who thought he could SIMPLY RISE TO POWER and EXPEL ME AND MY BOT WHILE CAUSING WIKI-WIDE CHAOS AND IGNORING URSUUL, ZATHSU, ME, PATRIK, DRONEDES…

Erm, anyway, there's tons of news … dig in!


 * -|Changelog News=

Arras Updates continue
Arras is still going strong and updating. Under the management of CX  who has been letting people be chaotic with developer tools  , it's had a constant steady stream liner of awesome updates. This week we get new Classes and it's not very classy to get killed by them, the ability to shoot backwards using nonexistent barrels places where there are no barrels (what?), buffs and nerfs guns , and a punderful April Fools' joke on the part of the dev! Arras is looking good and alive again.

IT'S ALIVE! ALIVE!

No, not even the news can be excluded from my bad puns.

Changelog excerpt
Unknown date (unmentioned)
 * Removed Master.

PATCH 2018.04.01.01
 * Added Master.

PATCH 2018.03.31.02
 * Added back pushing for same team.
 * Limited drone repel distance.

PATCH 2018.03.31.01
 * Prevented drones from pushing.
 * Engineer's oldest turret will now disappear when there are more than six turrets.

PATCH 2018.03.30.01
 * Added reverse mouse and reverse tank keys.
 * Various nerfs and buffs.

PATCH 2018.03.29.02
 * Added Auto-Cruiser, upgraded from Cruiser.
 * Added Surfer, upgraded from Tri-Angle.
 * Added Crop Duster, upgraded from Minigun.

PATCH 2018.03.29.01
 * Nerfed Dual damage slightly.


 * -|Event News=

3rd Conception Tournament
The voting for the 3rd Conception Tournament advances further rapidly! In the Game Modes Category, conception  triumphed over  conception  (technically a collab, but you get the idea — Tidal is sweeping this tourney xD)  and other contenders. Congrats, Tidal! And so close to our runner-up, Tidal again! Don’t forget to vote in the Game Mechanics category! Who knows, maybe it won't be Tidal … congrats to him again anyway!

Senior Administrator nomination
Even more discussion continues to take place on this thread. There is still much time to decide who shall become the next. Please get involved — this is crucial to the future of our wiki.

Wiki Sandbox Recap
The recent was a success, as many topics were successfully discussed and much has been set for the future. While many of the resolutions are covered in greater detail in the other tabs, here's the official summary:
 * Resolutions
 * Lock Board:Off-Topic so that only Admins may add new game threads
 * Ditch ✅
 * Sentinels get rights to edit thread messages w/ restrictions
 * Arras & Fanon get one row each, categories will be improved.
 * General topics discussed
 * The closure of Message Walls.
 * The future of Talk Pages.
 * The deficiency of s.
 * The task ahead of us involving cleaning Forum for merge to Discussions.
 * The quality of the.
 * Staff Review — pushed to next month.

Spotlight!
Our wiki is due for a Community Spotlight this month! This means it will be featured in the Fan Feed at the bottom of all pages across FANDOM, hopefully encouraging more readers and editors to come over. Look alive, lads! :P


 * -|Policy News=

New Game Policies
Per the, a lock will soon be placed on Board:Off-Topic so that only Admins will be able to create threads there. This is to stop the sudden influx of games this wiki is having. If you have any problems with this change, please raise them in the comments.

New Sentinel Rights
Per the, s will soon get the right to edit messages on threads, albeit with restrictions. This is due to that when cleaning up pages and moving them to the User namespace, many links to these concepts are in threads. Currently Sentinels cannot edit thread messages, which creates a problem of red links. If you have any problems with this change, please raise them in the comments.

Promotions

 * has finished his & has been promoted to . Congrats to him!


 * -|Tech News=

New Tables
Thanks to, tables have received a major restyling making them attractive, legible, and consistent with our theme and Diep.io! This is only one of many such efforts recently, as can be seen below; however, it's definitely one of the most notable, and we hope it brightens up the wiki's articles even more! An example can be seen at ZathsuBossNav.

R.I.P. User Talk Pages
Per Sandbox discussion raised by, has been uninstalled, essentially archiving User Talk Pages due to their inactivity in the past and general lack of interest in talk pages. Unused talk pages have been deleted, whereas the rest have been archived in.

Cleanup on aisle F
has replaced c with f to correspond to the recent rename of the  namespace to , fixing links across the wiki. With these fixes, the rename is finally complete and our readers and editors can enjoy a simpler, better namespace title.

Gadgets
has updated this wiki's themes, making them compatible with the recent additions made by so that they can continue to be used in the future. Enjoy the newly expanded themes!

Miscellaneous
Although the largest of these theme additions was documented above, there were an entire bevy of these styling improvements in the past week. To list them all: Okay, that was a lot of styling…but there's still a bit more to come! Expect some of our theme's finishing touches to come in the next update! :O
 * Main page headers and the Editor of the Month module have been tweaked
 * The  module has been themed
 * Bloglists and  have gotten newly themed hover styles
 * The toolbar and WikiaNotifications at the bottom have been tweaked slightly
 * The archived thread warning was recently themed
 * Threads have received even more minor improvements
 * The link color in certain areas such as Notice Templates has been slightly changed

A New Icon?
For a brief period of time, this wiki's Favicon was changed to a Trapper Dominator by as a test. While it was eventually undone, it does raise the question — should we change it permanently? Doing so would firmly establish the Trapper Dominator as our icon, something that we have already been trending towards such as with our Monobook logo and our new Editor of the Month image. The old icon was established by community vote, but as times change new discussion is encouraged. Leave your feedback in the polls and comments about whether we should stick with the Defender, switch to the Trapper Dominator for consistency and branding, or change to something completely different!


 * -|Opinion Polls=