Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20171009043200

Hi all, Atvelonis here. As promised, here is the actual update for this week, and it's only one day late! There's actually quite a bit this time around too, so please let me know if I missed anything.

TES news

 * October's Crown Store showcase for has been released. It includes additional housing, mounts, personalities, pets, and more. You can check out the showcase here.
 * ZeniMax also posted the newest NPC in the "Meet the Character" series for The Elder Scrolls Online: Proctor Luciana Pullo, which can be read in full here.
 * Dire Wolf Digital noted in a recent update that players of will now be receiving bonuses every day they log into the game.
 * The "Rumble Gauntlet" event for The Elder Scrolls: Legends began on October 7th and will continue until the 9th. For more information, see here.
 * The Creation Club for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition has gone live as of October 3rd, allowing players to buy mods through "credits" on the platform. We'll see how that goes.
 * Although we acknowledge that these mods are officially sanctioned by Bethesda, the wiki does not recognize them as canon, and as such they should not be referenced in articles.
 * This isn't strictly related to, but if you're on PC and desperately need a new processor to play or something, Intel released their eighth-generation "Coffee Lake" CPUs on the 5th and plan on releasing more processors in the second half of the year.

Wiki news

 * The moot for October was held on the 7th and had a pretty good turnout. If you want the original text of the meeting, check out KINMUNE's chatlog here (20:08). For future reference, the next moot will be held on Saturday, November 4th at 4:00 PM EDT in the Chat. If you have something you'd like to present, please sign up beforehand on the project page.
 * We decided to make the ID field on location infoboxes full-width to prevent overflow. You can see this new style in action on pages like Rosentia Gallenus's House.
 * It was decided that we would confine all Creation Club content to a single page, rather than documenting separate articles for each mod. If you see any such modded content added elsewhere on the wiki, please remove it.
 * The lack of neutrality in the "Personality" section of many character articles was brought up as a reason for possibly removing the section altogether on articles. In the end, we decided to keep the section for characters whose articles actually benefit it, and summarize this more briefly in the lead for less important pages. All such information must be cited from in-game dialogue, books, and/or other related materials.
 * We had a discussion about potentially making the wiki's Discord channel an official part of the wiki in order to supplement/replace the Chat. Although the server will remain open and active, we ultimately decided against making it fully official.
 * It was suggested that we continue the monthly off-topic post on Discussions in future months, but the final say on this subject was ultimately deferred to the moderators.
 * Lastly, we unanimously agreed to change the way and  books are referenced. The new format would cite the relevant chapter instead of the page number, because the latter varies somewhat depending on the format and edition of the books.

Wikia news

 * Wikia announced in a staff blog on the 3rd that they were launching a general "Wikia app" for iOS and Android which should allow you to track news and editorial content from various wikis all in one place. For more information, see here.
 * The new ad layout change, part of the "Wiki Modernization" plan, is now fully live across the site. This has allowed Wikia to decrease the number of ads by about 30% in total, which should improve loading times by a decent margin. Check out the full blog here.
 * There have also been two new technical updates since last week's update. Here is a brief summary of what was changed:
 * Technical Update: October 2, 2017 – A bug where ads would cause the toolbar to become hidden has been squashed. Wikia will also be retiring the "Last logged in" feature on Special:ListUsers due to its notorious lack of reliability.
 * Technical Update: October 4, 2017 – An issue with coloration on the Theme Designer has been corrected, as well as various smaller changes on the site.

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) 04:32, October 9, 2017 (UTC) 