Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20160306040141

"In Mundus, conflict and disparity are what bring change, and change is the most sacred of the Eleven Forces. Change is the force without focus or origin."

- Oegnithr, Taheritae, Psijic Order

It's been a very busy week. I think you guys are aware of most of what's happened—mostly to do with staff changes and cacti—but I'm here to fill you in on the bits you've missed. So on with the update!


 * Unfortunately, we've had quite a few resignations this week. Cheatcodechamp and Emperor Jarjarkine posted their resignations from bureaucrat  and  administrator  respectively on Tuesday. CCC and Jarjar were both fantastic members of the community and it's sad to see them go, but hopefully they'll come back soon. I know everyone will be waiting.


 * AzuraKnight, one of our forum moderators, has also stepped down due to his position on the wiki becoming too draining. I think we can all agree that Azura did his job fantastically and we'll miss him as well, but like CCC and Jarjar if he wants to return he's always welcome.


 * Some other staff changes. The results from the patroller re-evaluations are in, as follows:
 * Bronkiin – Full support. Will remain a patroller.
 * The Cast Master – Full support. Will remain a patroller.
 * The Rim of the Sky – Mixed reactions. Will remain a patroller for the time being, but patroller status will be dependent on patroller activity in the near future.
 * Starkiller – Lack of support. Will not remain a patroller.


 * We also started up the chat moderator re-evaluations today. So please vote on whether or not these users should remain in their positions based on their activity levels and how they are handling the position.


 * The next re-evaluations, this time for bots  (we currently have six bots), will happen a few days from now. We decided against doing re-evals for administrators and forum moderators due to the high number of resignations from those groups already.


 * On a happier note we have two new forum moderator applications! So please vote here on whether or not Ottoman Hold and Blutbad should become forum mods.


 * Our new Featured Article is Orsinium! Thanks especially to The Rim of the Sky for building this one up. Currently there are a few redlinks on the article, but we agreed that these would be fixed momentarily, and all other aspects of the article are excellent.


 * Speaking of featured articles, they are now featured more prominently on the Main Page! We have added a box under the news tabber for Featured Article and Featured Image.


 * Also, here's a reminder to all of you to browse the new discussions feature. Help us answer questions and interact with a whole new part of the community! Most of the traffic here is from mobile but it works on desktop too.

Moot
It wasn't a particularly busy moot today, but we did touch on a couple of topics all the same:
 * It was suggested that we add an alternative size option for character images, so that they could be uploaded at either 600x1000 pixels or 648x1080 pixels. However, this did not pass as the quality increase was not large enough to warrant inconsistencies.


 * It was also suggested that due to having the featured image on the main page we change it once a month instead of once a week. However, due to the limited number of responses at the moot it was decided to present this topic again at a later time.

So that's all for this week folks. We've had a whole lot of staff changes, but we'll find a way forward anyway, as we have in the past. Now I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and have fun editing! —Atvelonis (talk) 04:01, March 6, 2016 (UTC) 