Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20160814181917

"Vivec is a poet. Trust not the words of a poet, as he is born to seduce. Yet for poetry to sieze the heart, it must ring with the chimes of truth."

- Sotha Sil

Hi all, Atvelonis here. It's been another productive week, as usual, and we're still seeing new developments from Wikia, especially regarding Discussions. Let's get to it!

TES news

 * Much to our dismay, Pete Hines from Bethesda explained in an interview this week that we would not be receiving any news about TES VI until just before its release. Then again, this decision will make the game's unveiling even more spectacular.

Wiki news

 * Shockstorm just got back from Community Connect at Wikia's HQ in San Francisco, where he discussed various new features and matters of importance to the wiki such as Discussions, Search Engine Optimization, and Wikia's Fandom program, among other things. He wrote a very informative blog (which I highly recommend you read) about feedback and upcoming features here.


 * Flightmare recently added a link between every user's contributions on the wiki and their Discussions post history; this link, titled "Discussions posts," can be found on Special:Contributions and looks like this to regular users.


 * Wikia has added small icons to distinguish certain types of staff members from regular users on the wiki's Discussions forum. These appear next to the profile pictures of said staff members, and when rolled over they display the position the staff member in question holds.


 * A "Load more" button has been added to the web version of Discussions by Wikia, which looks like this. Previously, older posts were loaded automatically simply by scrolling down more.


 * After creating the administrator  timeline template, we worked on several more for the various other staff positions ( patrollers,  forum moderators , and  chat moderators ) as well as a larger timeline with every staff member combined.


 * We now have an official wiki Steam group for editors on the wiki. If you'd like to join, send me a request and I'll add you, assuming you're active on the wiki.

Moot
There was no moot this week, as has bee the case recently. If you have something you'd like to talk about, please sign up on the project page.

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) 18:19, August 14, 2016 (UTC) 