User blog:Zathsu/Natural November Nonsense :3

So quite a bit has happened, and even more is coming. Make sure to stay up to date on all kinds of things, as voting for a lot of wiki stuff has still been going on. But yes, it is also November now and I tried to do some alliteration with the title. All in all, there's more than meets the eye sinking below it... or something.


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Sandbox
The October 27th went well and multiple topics were discussed (see the Policy News tab for information on what was decided). The next Sandbox is set for Saturday, November 25, 10 AM through 12 AM (noon) Eastern Time (UTC 14:100 through 16:00). Be sure to attend!

Fanon Tournament conclusion
After many rounds of competitive voting, many defeats, and many triumphs, the ‘official’ Fanon Tournament is complete. The latest round’s victor was, a between , , and. Don’t clap just yet though, as more may be on the horizon.

New blog series coming soon
While it does not yet have a name, it will be a series of blogs for each, detailing best practices, expectations, and advice on how to be a good Staff member. There shall also be a blog for Interns, to serve as a guide for how best to use one’s given rights to help the enough that permanent Staff rights are merited. The first blog will be written by, but succeeding blogs can be the work of other individual Staff members or of a team; feel free to use the News Team spaces to collaborate if you are on Staff. The first will be issued sometime this week hopefully, so keep your eye out.

Merge Rewards & Era Page
It is necessary that our Administrator team meet to discuss which users should be given which, in regards to how much they helped during the Merge process. After that is done, and after all of the Medals have appropriate images, they shall be handed out to their recipients and a celebration of sorts will follow. A new name for the past is needed, along with an appropriate page, but that will be decided afterward. Recommendations for the name are welcome in the comments, but as with the past five Eras, the name will need to be decided via community vote.

Call to action
needs to be completed, so help on that page would be appreciated. In addition, our own History Pages still need cleanup, so anyone knowledgeable of the times being depicted is more than welcome to add to.


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Vote Time
As you may already know, we are currently voting about whether to enable/disable a few. As has been covered here, there are many benefits to enabling, enabling Anonymous Editing, and disabling Article (not blog). Namely aesthetically pleasing and more efficient / professional-looking image display that is good for (helps us show up in Google), in addition to more editors without the increased risk of vandalism, and a transition from unregulated Comment sections to high-traffic, regulated features such as  &.

Former Staff Fallen Staff, everywhere a Staff
Also per the October 27th, ‘Former Staff’ will be reverted back to ‘Fallen Staff,’ as no one was present to voice complaints at (nor did they leave any ahead of time on the Sandbox talk page) and those Former Staff and current Staff who were present showed general support. The change has already been carried out, but will not take effect until UserTags gets fixed by FANDOM Staff. Continued discussion about the change can take place here.

New BlogNav Infobox
Henceforth, and other official blog series will be connected together using the BlogNav Infobox. It is designed to provide a means of navigating each blog that displays well on  devices, as all Wiki Updates are optimized to do. Each “theme” displays a different configuration with different links, basically like a multitude of Navboxes. Wiki Updates will now have one theme each month, so the four (or five in this case) blogs will all share the November version of BlogNav which will contain links to all of the other November Wiki Updates, linking them together, along with a theme-specific visual courtesy of. Blog series themes by comparison, will link to each blog in the series or topic. While all official blogs must now have this Infobox, users are more than welcome to request a theme for their own personal blog series, as long as there are at least three blogs in the series planned. You can then provide your own image-visual as long as it uses a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Official blogs are required to have Community App links, but unofficial blog series are not required to have them.

Promotions

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UserTags error
As noted in the previous tab, UserTags is not working properly, so please ignore it for the time being since it will display incorrect Tags. This is due to the   being broken currently, which the  rely upon in order to function. FANDOM Staff are aware of the issue and will have it fixed soon.

UserTags CSS rewrite
has rewritten the portion of  in order to remove all instances of , improving the code’s efficiency and neatness in Oasis. In Monobook, tweaks have been made to ensure that the Tags look identical to those in Oasis and to ensure that they can wrap onto multiple lines on narrower screens where necessary. , a stylesheet also by Ursuul, is now available on the for anyone who wishes to use a similar UserTags style while keeping their CSS efficient. These changes in general are part of a long term project to clean up and our code; the next stylesheet to be cleaned up is.

Monobook Project page
When time allows, a  page will eventually be set aside to detail some of the functionality of the Monobook skin in comparison to the. This is being done due to the lack of knowledge about Monobook and how it works comparative to Oasis, while FANDOM has refused to maintain help pages explaining it and the MediaWiki Foundation help page is quite bare-bones. It is unlikely that similar pages would be made for Oasis or, since there are already plenty of help pages for Oasis and most people know how it works, while the Mercury skin has plenty of help pages on the , the home of Vanguard. That said, may receive a page if and when both the iOS and Android Apps for the Diep.io Wikia are out.


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No word from FANDOM
We have had no response from the FANDOM Video Team about our Featured Video request, even though other inquiries have been responded to on-time. Nevertheless, this tab will be present in each Wiki Update to keep everyone informed about the proceedings as they happen, until the Video is either completely done nothing more remains to be said, or until our request is rejected.


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