Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20170813163425

Hi all, Atvelonis here with the weekly update. I hope everyone is doing well. We've got a fair bit to discuss in the update, as always, so let's get to it!

TES news

 * ZeniMax has released two new blogs detailing upcoming additions to in Update 15, as follows:
 * Horns of the Reach – Battlegrounds Update – Information about the new "Battlegrounds" game mode for . There will be two new games in the Grab Bag queue: Chaosball and the Arcane University.
 * Horns of the Reach – Base Game Update – General updates for all players, such as combat queues customization, a new permission in the guild ranking system, and the ability to improve equipped items.
 * The Horns of the Reach DLC to the game will be released on August 14th for PC/Mac players, and August 29th for those on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It will cost 1500 Crowns, or can be received for "free" with an active ESO Plus membership.
 * Bethesda announced the winners of the "Grand Melee" event for, also including the deck lists of each of the top eight players. You can check out the full blog here.
 * Not strictly related to, but AMD launched two of their high-end "Threadripper" CPUs on August 10th, the 1920X (12C/24T) and 1950X (16C/32T), to compete with Intel's i9 lineup. If you need a new high core count processor to edit a bunch of videos or something, these would be worth considering.

Wiki news

 * CarloV3r has posted a new Consensus Track thread proposing that we raise the edit requirements for staff positions for applicants in the future. The proposed changes would require 250 edits for chat moderators, 500 edits for  forum moderators , 2500 edits for  patrollers , and 5000 edits for  administrators . Please leave your thoughts on these ideas here.
 * Wikia has released a new staff blog about the upcoming merge between the Forums and Discussions, which you can check out here. They are confirming that complicated markup on the Forums will be preserved―assuming no staff member edits the post afterwards. However, we will not necessarily be able to use all current Forum markup on the Discussions due to its fundamentally different structure. I have requested that our wiki's Forum content not be moved to the Discussions until basic text formatting (bold, italics, etc.), thread highlights, and post topics ("tags") are added to the Discussions.
 * Wikia has also released two technical updates since last week, as follows:
 * Technical Update: August 7, 2017 – Wikia has switched the fully-automated bot accounts from Wikia and WikiaBot to Fandom and FandomBot, and is also working to fix Special:Export to include all requested information.
 * Technical Update: August 9, 2017 – They fixed a bug in the global navigation on Discussions where the wrong text was being displayed. They are also planning on updating the terminology of the post count on the header of Discussions to something more appropriate. I assume this means changing it from "Posts" to something else, as the former can be easily confused with "Pages" on the main wiki, at a glance.

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) 16:34, August 13, 2017 (UTC) 