Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20170122031921

Hi all, Atvelonis here. It's been another relatively standard week here at the wiki, with some notable developments from both Bethesda, Wikia, and Ayrenn KINMUNE. Let's get to it!

TES news

 * Bethesda has announced the return of the Chaos Arena in ; in fact, it will come back every month, starting now. You can watch the full talk with Pete Hines and Paul Dennen here. I've also heard some rumblings about Android support, but I wasn't able to find a source to verify this (perhaps it's in that video I linked). We can only hope!


 * ZeniMax has confirmed the launch dates of the "Homestead" update for . Although PC players already have access to the new content via the Public Test Server, it will be fully released on PC/Mac on February 6th, and for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on February 21st. You can read the original blog post here.

Wiki news

 * Wikia has released so many staff blogs lately that I can hardly keep track of them anymore. This one is technically a Forum post, but it looks like Wikia has unveiled some interesting new tools for the staff on Discussions. As you can read in the announcement thread on Community Central, mods and admins can now see statistics on user activity, user reports (and if the posts that were reported ended up being approved or deleted), and moderator activity. We have the option of looking at statistics in the past 30 or 90 days. Currently, it is only accessible on the desktop version of the Discussions. Regardless, this should be extremely useful for the whole process of staff management in the future.


 * Additionally, they have released three blogs about advertisements, as part of a series. By the way, it's technically against Wikia's Terms of Use to use an adblocker on their site, but I don't think most users really listen to this. Anyway, I'll link each of the blogs right here for your convenience:
 * Making Ads Better: The Basics (Part 1)
 * Making Ads Better: What We've Done So Far (Part 2)
 * Making Ads Better: How We're Going to Do It (Part 3)


 * I fixed User-Time the other day, so with some minor tweaks, it should work fine on your profiles now. You can see how to format it on your userpage in the template documentation. I'm also planning on creating a userbox in the near future, to accompany it.


 * We had KINMUNE fix a few thousand links related to Character Classes the other day. If anyone has a task for the bot, be sure to let Flightmare know as soon as possible. We can't guarantee that she (KINMUNE) is up to everything just yet, but she's being worked on all the time. By the way, Flight's also working on something that I think a lot of you will be pretty impressed by; stay tuned for more info.


 * One last thing: staff, remember to check the Slack from time to time! Leave me a message if you've forgotten how/where to access it, but it's important to take a look at it when possible.

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) 03:19, January 22, 2017 (UTC) 