Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20180806054224

Hi all, Atvelonis here with the weekly update. I was on a Lord of the Rings marathon this weekend so this is a little later than usual. Anyway, it's been a productive week on the wiki. I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear that we had a particularly long moot on Saturday, full to the brim with article formatting discussions. Riveting, I know. More importantly, we also have a new staff application! And the typical news from ZeniMax et al. awaits you as well. Keep reading for the juicy details!

TES news

 * ZeniMax has released the Crown Store showcase for for the month of August 2018, which you can read about here. This month's showcase features new costumes, a new crafting motif, and new outfit styles, furniture, mounts, and pets. They also revealed that the newest expansion to The Elder Scrolls Online,, would be coming out on the Crown Store on August 13th for PC/Mac and August 28th for Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
 * The company held another episode of ESO Live on August 3rd at 6:00 PM EDT. This time around, Lead PvP Designer Grand Warlord Zimmeron (Brian Wheeler) discusses "the new Battlegrounds map, Keep Recall Stones, unique PvP rewards, and more coming with the Update 19 base-game patch." A number of ESO developers also queued up on the Public Test Server (PTS) to do battlegrounds matches with players during the livestream.
 * ZeniMax also gave an official Wolfhunter Preview on Wednesday where they explained the premise behind the add-on and the rewards that players will be able to earn by completing it. As if that wasn't enough, they also wrote another blog titled "5 Ways to Prepare for Wolfhunter," which anyone looking to buy the expansion should check out.
 * Sparkypants Studios published a blog on the site reaffirming their commitment to revamping the game. In the article, Lead Producer Andrew Auseon pre-teased a new story expansion and gave some more details about the visual changes (and others) that will be made to the game soon. He also mentioned that the wants Sparkypants to begin using a release calendar for future updates to Legends. To read the full post, see here.

Wiki news

 * As I alluded to above, for the first time in a few months we have a new staff application from none other than Rozty, who applied for the position of patroller  just the other day. Please vote on her application here as soon as possible. Good luck Rozty!
 * The wiki's monthly moot happened on Saturday, August 4th and lasted for just about two and a half hours. Thank you to The Crusader of Truth for writing the summary, which can be read in full here. The next moot will take place on Saturday, September 1st at 4:00 PM EDT in the Chat.
 * Splitting ESO pets and mount into two different articles, as long as they are different. Passed 9-0-0.
 * Proposal to remove Category:Online: Lorebooks. Passed 8-0-0.
 * Proposal to remove ==Summary== from book pages and replace it with ==Locations== and ==Quests==, where applicable. Passed 8-0-0.
 * Vote to add references to uses of Mo. Passed 9-0-0.
 * Proposal to remove personality section from Breton. Passed 6-2-0.
 * Proposal to use ==Dialogue== for NPC w/ player, ==Conversations== for NPC w/ NPC, and ==Quotes== for general things the NPC says. Additionally, we would use the semicolon for the subheaders for Conversations instead of ===. 8-0-0.
 * Vote to move all ESO DLCs into a single template per topic. For example, merging OnlineCharacters with . Passed 9-0-0.
 * We're getting a solid amount of new content on the mainspace, as usual. Here are a few people who have been doing extraordinary work in this regard:
 * Blademaster Jauffre – dialogue
 * Bronkiin – character images
 * FrisyN – Crafting Motif images and  quest images
 * TinyClayMan – Crafting Motifs and character images
 * Vincentius1 – Camlorn, Gold Coast, Riften
 * I am in the process of recategorizing a number of old threads on the Discussions to suit the three new boards that Wikia was kind enough to add for us (so far I'm on page 300 out of 3,000). Once I complete this I will get back to the backlog on my bot tasklist for AkulakhanBot.

Wikia news

 * Wikia published a new staff blog the other day titled "You can join Wikia's Community Video Program today." If you want to write a script for one of the company's featured videos, please send it to them from this link.
 * The company also released two new technical updates since last week, as follows:
 * July 31, 2018: Known Issue With Active Users Statistic – They are looking into a bug that caused the "active users" statistic to get stuck at -1.
 * August 1, 2018: Increasing Discussions title limit – The character limit for Discussions posts has been raised from 70 to 100 characters on desktop, with app updates coming soon.

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) 05:42, August 6, 2018 (UTC) 