Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20180522023203

Hi all, Atvelonis here. Sorry for the slightly late update, but I was too lazy to publish it on ti―uhh... I mean I wanted to line it up perfectly with the release of on PC/Mac! Yeah, that's it.

TES news

 * As I mentioned above, the biggest news of the week is The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset 's release on PC/Mac today, May 21st (it will be coming to consoles on June 5th). As the game's second "chapter" after, it offers a plethora of new quests to complete, locations to explore, characters to talk to, creatures to kill, and much more. Additionally, Update 18 can be downloaded by all players. There's actually way too much in the chapter and update for me to discuss in this blog post, so if you want more information, please read the wiki's official news blog on the expansion.
 * From May 14th until early this morning, owners of ESO Morrowind could receive a free vvardvark pet simply by logging in, which you can read about here. If you missed this promotion, fear not: ZeniMax does this sort of thing pretty frequently, so stay tuned for future events.
 * As of today, PC/Mac players should be able to receive Twitch drops by watching streams of The Elder Scrolls Online. The drops you get will be Crown Crates, which are loot boxes containing in-game cosmetics, mounts, and various items. Pretty cool! Check out the announcement blog to learn more.
 * Bethesda also published a blog by Joe Rybicki giving players an introductory guide to Summerset discussing places of interest, native fauna, and notable personages, which you can read here.
 * As usual, Dire Wolf Digital has been sending a ton of interesting news blogs about our way. Here are this week's posts:
 * Game Update 72.3: Patch Notes – May 15, 2018 – 15 May 2018
 * Building on a Theme: Telvanni Ambition – 15 May 2018
 * Chaos Arena: May 18 - 21 – 17 May 2018

Wiki news

 * After a brief discussion, the staff have asked Wikia to begin serving the wiki's articles through the HTTPS protocol, as opposed to HTTP. This is a technical security update that should offer you better protection from anyone trying to eavesdrop on the content shared between your computer and Wikia's server. If you experience any bugs related to this, please report them to Wikia here.
 * This is old news, but the Consensus Track thread on the OOG template has still not been closed. It was revived the other day because of similar discussions happening elsewhere in the TES community. Please give any final input you have on the proposal here as soon as you can.
 * We get hundreds or sometimes thousands of edits every week, and I think it's always good to take note of the content additions made by the wiki's editors; here are a few of the week's top contributors:
 * Blademaster Jauffre – and Online dialogue
 * FrisyN – Online and Summerset locations and characters
 * Nehpys – quests and locations
 * Rozty – Skyrim dialogue
 * TinyClayMan – Online locations and books

Wikia news

 * Big news: Wikia has announced that they are officially ending support for the Monobook skin sitewide on May 25th due to technical limitations caused by the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation. For those of you who only use Oasis, Monobook is the skin that Wikipedia uses and has typically been an optional alternative for those who prefer that layout. Wikia could have continued supporting both Oasis and Monobook while remaining in compliance with the GDPR, but they deemed the upkeep costs for this too high. Fortunately, we will not be greatly affected by this change, as most of our content is designed with Oasis in mind. However, wikis such as Uncyclopedia will probably be hit pretty hard. If you would like to have access to something resembling Monobook for personal use, check out the PseudoMonobook script written by Speedit.
 * Wikia has published one staff blog this week titled "Navigation Galleries and Main Pages," which discusses the importance of having some sort of gallery on a wiki's front page, like the one we have (by the way, ours should be updated for Summerset content on both desktop and mobile).
 * Additionally, Wikia published two new technical updates this week, as follows:
 * May 15, 2018: Further HTTPS Rollout & Updates
 * May 22, 2018: Known Issue With Following Threads

That's about all I have for this week, folks. I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend, and as always, happy editing! ―Atvelonis (talk) 02:32, May 22, 2018 (UTC) 