Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20170108001556

Hi all, Atvelonis here. First update of the new year, wooo! We've been doing these every single weekend for coming on two years now (it will have been two years by late February). Time flies. Anyway, there's a fair bit to talk about this week, so let's get to it!

TES news

 * As reported by PC Gamer, it seems that datamining has given us some information on the island of Vvardenfell as it may appear in . This may be a hint from ZeniMax that Vvardenfell is an upcoming region for either a DLC or a future update for the game. You can read the original reddit post on this topic here.


 * As of last week, you can now play the Homestead update for Online on the Public Test Server. You can read the patch notes for this update here.


 * ZeniMax has also released the Crown Store showcase for January 4th, which includes, "...Redguard costumes from the 'Tailored in Tamriel' series, a lot of classy hair styles, and an adorable new pet." You can read about this more here.

Wiki news

 * As I'm sure some of you have already noticed, we finally reached 50,000 articles! The 50,000th page is Trilf, created by CarloV3r. Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to get us to where we are today.


 * I've reformatted the Member of the Month page to include a prettier table, as well as the Year, Date Nominated, and Nominator sections. Let me know if you have any feedback regarding the formatting of this page and I'll take it into consideration.

Moot
We had a short moot this time around. We decided to begin using the Clr template in Zenbook to prevent the latter template from being stretched, and we spoke about various ways to approach behavioral issues from users on the Discussions. However, the main focus of this week's moot was the MOTM system.

It was suggested that we restart the Member of the Month award, which was created as a way to honor incredibly helpful users for their work on the wiki. The award was stopped in late 2015 due to a lack of candidates, but as there is some interest in starting it up again, I figured I should ask the opinion of the community.

It has also occurred to me that Carlo, our newest administrator, would be ineligible to receive the award under the current guidelines, which disallow administrators from being nominated. As the award was retired while he was a regular user, he never had a chance to get it.

So, in addition to bringing MOTM back, do you think we should scrap the rule barring administrators from getting it? It was suggested at the moot that we keep the rule how it is, but simply make an exception for Carlo (similar to the requirements for administrator, which allow for a certain degree of lenience if the user excels in other categories). All other rules would still apply, so users cannot be nominated twice, need a certain number of contributions, and so on. Give your two cents below, please.

Do you think we should revive the Member of the Month award? Yes, but administrators should be allowed to receive it. Yes, but administrators should not be allowed to receive it. Yes, but administrators should not be allowed to receive it; we should make an exception for Carlo. No

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) 00:15, January 8, 2017 (UTC) 