Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20180814040255

"Each day a bed of burning coals, each night a plunge into cool water."

- Gaiden Shinji

Hi all, Atvelonis here with a belated weekly update. I mentioned in Slack to the other staff members some time ago that we really ought to have a more organized system for putting these out on time. Perhaps we need to get some more people on the news team. We'll see! For now, let's take a look at the news from this past week.

TES news

 * ZeniMax posted a blog about what was going to happen (and what has now happened) at QuakeCon 2018, which ran from August 9th–12th. Events coinciding with the convention were a free play event for, Twitch drops, and some big sales on the games, which you can read about here.
 * The company also released a preview of Update 19 titled "Always Stay in the Fight with These Update 19 PvP Additions," discussing subjects like the Istirus Outpost, Keep Recall Stones, new battlegrounds-themed outfit styles, and more.
 * Lastly, ZeniMax also published a news post on the 13th announcing that, the newest expansion to The Elder Scrolls Online, is now live on PC/Mac. The post, which you can read here, goes into great depth about many of the things players will be seeing in the add-on. ESO editors, please try to add content about this as quickly as possible! It will be out on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on August 28th.
 * Dire Wolf Digital has announced that another Rumble Gauntlet would be taking place for on August 11th–13th, with the prizes for the winners being just as desirable as ever. You can read more about this here.
 * The company also revealed that Legends would be receiving another story expansion titled Isle of Madness based around―you guessed it―Daedric Prince and cheese-lover Sheogorath! We didn't get much from the announcement, not even a release date, but it's good to know that it's coming.
 * Bethesda Game Studios has apparently opened up a new office in Dallas, Texas, absorbing Escalation Studios into the company. Hopefully that means The Elder Scrolls VI will be out sooner! (Yeah right.) For more information, see here.

Wiki news

 * The patroller application from Rozty will end by August 15th. If you haven't voted already, please do so quickly!
 * Content additions have been coming in well enough this week. Here are a few users who have done an excellent job in this regard:
 * FrisyN – images
 * The Beautiful Princess Ashley – Lore appearance citations
 * The Dagonator – dialogue
 * TinyClayMan – quests
 * Vincentius1 – Artaeum, Bruma, Lilmoth

Wikia news

 * Wikia has published a new staff blog announcing that the unified "FANDOM" app that was released on iOS in June is now out for Android devices as well. This also means that the TESWiki community app will be taking its final breaths sooner or later. You'll be able to continue using it, but it won't be receiving any updates in the future. I have an FAQ about this on my post on Discussions.
 * The company has also released three more technical updates since last week's update. They are as follows:
 * August 7, 2018: Styling Changes on Mobile – Some stylistic changes on Wikia's mobile "Monaco" skin. These happen to remove the mobile edit option (temporarily) because no one uses it.
 * August 8, 2018: Moar HTTPS prep – External links to Wikia using the "http:" protocol instead of "https:" will be handled more efficiently in the future. Kirkburn also noted in the comments that they fixed a bug where local URL links were mistakenly being given the "external link" icon (Discord folks: I think this is what was tripping me up about CVU on Vandalism in progress the other day).
 * August 14, 2018: Additional styling changes on mobile – More changes to the mobile skin, such as an "other languages" section at the bottom of articles.

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) 04:02, August 14, 2018 (UTC) 