Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20170806051036

Hi all, Atvelonis here with this week's update. I hope everyone is doing well. We've got a reasonable amount to talk about this week, as usual, with topics related to the wiki itself as well as additions to the series.

TES news

 * ZeniMax has announced the contents of August's Crown Store Showcase for . This month's showcase includes additional costumes, housing, mounts, pets, and style parlor skins. They will also be retiring select items to make room for these new ones. For more information, read the full blog post here.
 * The company has also released a new "Meet the Character" blog, this time on Domihaus the Bloody-Horned, a minotaur chieftan. You can check out the original blog here.
 * Bethesda has announced a new "Rumble Gauntlet" event for, which will last from August 4th to August 7th at 6 AM EDT (US East Coast time). For details on prizes for this event, see here.
 * The list of the Top 100 players in The Elder Scrolls: Legends for July has also been released, which you can check out here.

Wiki news

 * The moot for August was held today. The next moot will be held on Saturday, September 2nd at 4:00pm EDT in the Chat. This time, we made four noteworthy (though still fairly minor) decisions.
 * We decided to start recording "N/A" in the "class" field for NPCs in Online, rather than leaving it blank, if the NPC simply does not have a class. If you are unsure if they have a class or not, add the Missing template to the field.
 * Popup will no longer be used in infoboxes to create a CSS tooltip for Location IDs (or anything else). The reasoning behind this change is that the template completely hides the content within it to mobile readers, who make up a significant portion of our traffic. If the ID stretches across multiple lines, use the  tag to decrease the font size, and if necessary, nowrap to keep each ID on one line.
 * For general cleanliness, we also chose to begin placing hatnotes (Main, Confuse, etc.) and other templates (Quote, etc.) on a new line after the end of the infobox. For example, you would no longer format it like this, but instead more spread out.
 * We also decided to create a "no-threadcrapping" rule on the Discussions, which discourages users from derailing threads on the basis that they don't like the topic. For example, complaining "Skyrim posts are so boring" on a Skyrim thread adds nothing to the conversation, and often leads to drama. Therefore, such behavior should be avoided whenever possible. If you believe a post breaks the rules, please report it to a staff member.
 * Wikia has released their newest technical update for August 2nd. They are currently working to repair the database download feature, which has recently not been giving access to all files on a wiki, and will release a fix next week for users being logged out when they restart their browsers.

That's about all I have for this week, folks. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend, and as always, happy editing! ―Atvelonis (talk) 05:10, August 6, 2017 (UTC) 