Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20160821215818

Hi all, Atvelonis here. It's been another wonderful week, and there is a lot to talk about this week, especially in terms of updates from Wikia. Let's get to it!

Wiki news

 * CarloV3r, one of our forum moderators, recently applied for the position of  patroller . Please vote on whether or not Carlo should gain this position here.


 * Madman97 released a new interview this week, with CarloV3r and AgentOfMara, some of our most prolific uploaders in recent days. You can read it here.


 * We added a project page recording the recipients of the Akatosh Badge, a prestigious award received after contributing to the wiki for 365 consecutive days. So far, only 10 users have gotten this badge—I encourage each of you to be the 11th!


 * Also, ~*LilithRayn*~, one of our forum moderators, got her name changed to Zhavorsa, just in case anyone gets confused by this.

Wikia updates

 * The Discussions post count of every user is now displayed underneath their edit count on their profile. Clicking their Discussions post count takes you to their Discussions profile. Currently, Forum posts are still counted as edits, and deleted posts are ignored in the Discussions counter.
 * This was timed rather inconveniently, as we very recently added a script linking the contributions of Discussions users via their desktop profiles. This script will be removed soon due to Wikia's update.


 * The Discussions got an update this week, at least for iOS. It is now formatted slightly differently. The tabs to organize posts by time and popularity have been moved (you must press a button in the top-right corner to get to them), and the design of posts has been updated to be a little sleeker-looking.


 * Wikia updated their footer, present at the bottom of every page, to be significantly larger and more... gray. I personally find it relatively obtrusive, but that might just be me. I encourage you to give feedback to Wikia about this feature here.


 * A few weeks ago I mentioned the implementation of what Wikia called the "Contributor Flow Dialog," intended to encourage new users to join the community. However, a very small percentage of users clicked on it, so it has since been removed.


 * I'm also fairly certain the size of link previews on Discussions changed. If I remember correctly, they are now half the vertical size they used to be.

Moot
There was no moot this week, as has been the case recently. If you have something you'd like to present, don't hesitate to sign up on the project page when you get the chance.

That's all I have for this week, folks. I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend, and as always, happy editing! —Atvelonis (talk) 21:58, August 21, 2016 (UTC) 