Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20151018010102

"Orsinium is a real city. It's as honest as a stone wall, it's as brutal as a hailstorm, and no matter what they burn or bash or smash, it will never ever really die."

- Back Home in Orsinium

We have had a long week, never a bad thing. Here is this weeks weekly wiki update.


 * Kora Stormblade has been nominated as MOTM, Please vote to say if this editor should be our next Member of the month.


 * We have two articles being nominated for Good article status. Same as above, please vote. Make make sure the articles meet all criteria. The articles must meet these standards. If the problems are fixed, please change your vote.


 * Madman has put out his newest interview, and this one is rather special. Madman has a interview with a member of the VSTF (volunteer spam task force). I want to thank JR Mime for doing this, I have known them for a few years, and I was excited to see them explain more about their work with wikia and handling some of the issues that arise. You can read the interview here


 * As agreed on in last weeks moot, the image for the Away template has been changed. The image with the talk bubble saying "I am away" was been swapped out with the model wooden boat.


 * As many of you know, the Moot time was discussed heavily the last two weeks. The result was us moving the moot back four hours. We are hoping that this will allow more users and better outcomes to the Moot. In a few weeks we will discuss things and decide if the current Moots are better for everyone and if we will keep them at this time.

Moot summary

 * We discussed the current system for choosing staff, earlier this year we made adaptions that made it users can apply for staff, and that votes for staff require 2/3 majority.
 * We voted 8-1-0 to expand our Skyrim perks articles. Some perks do not have articles and we felt it should be an all or nothing kind of deal, we went with all.
 * This lead to us talking about the interactive map for the perks. Flightmare and AdmiralRegis both said they could do this project, and the idea passed 5-0.
 * 8-1-0 to adapt the MOTM policy of 500 mainspace edits. We now ask for 500 positive edits in one space of the wiki instead of mainspace only. A positive edit is a edit the helps other editors or guest. So RP's, talk page, or profile edits (and things similar to these) do not count as positive edits.
 * It was brought up that we have an article for information about the Wikipedia. Its use was questioned, and due to a past rejection, a appeal for the article to be deleted was brought up. The delete request was rejected 0-4-5. It was decided to move it to a Project:Wikipedia article (6-4-0).
 * It was again brought up that we should add the featured image and quote to the mainspace. After discussing things, it was voted on that we add them underneath the news. This passed (9-1-1)
 * We discussed our poll, an item that is often left unused and inactive for months as a time. It was discussed if we should either attempt to use it more or remove it. We agreed to keep the poll and turn it into a monthly thing. (7-3-2)
 * We then discussed how it should be decided what we vote on next. We concluded that we will handle it the way we handle featured content. You can help vote for the next poll on Project:Featured Poll (7-3-0)
 * A CT is coming up regarding chat policy, keep an eye out for that.

See you all next week, and happy editing.-Cheatcodechamp (talk) 01:01, October 18, 2015 (UTC) 