The Elder Scrolls Wiki:Announcements

Announcements Interface — The interface for the announcements tool.

Shortcut: TES:ANNOUNCE

Announcements are important messages sent by administrators or moderators to any user who has made an edit, upvote, or post on TESWiki in the past 90 days. Acting as a replacement for the 2.0 Forums' highlight tool, which notified all users on a wiki of a thread (regardless of activity), announcements went live in an early test on TESWiki on 12 July 2018.

Usage[]

The tool can be accessed by admins and mods from Special:Announcements (/announcements). Please try not to send more than one announcement per week unless some really big news breaks. Users can disable announcements from specific wikis with the AnnouncementsIgnore script.

Announcements[]

Title	Date	Announcer	Recipients (#)
Introducing the Announcements Feature (archive)	2018-07-12	Atvelonis	3175
Weekly Update 7/14/18 (archive)	2018-07-17	Atvelonis	3159
Weekly Update 7/21/18 (archive)	2018-07-23	Atvelonis	3166
Weekly Update 7/28/18 (archive)	2018-07-28	Atvelonis	3163
Weekly Update 8/4/18 (archive)	2018-08-06	Atvelonis	3155
Weekly Update 8/11/18 (archive)	2018-08-14	Atvelonis	3108
Weekly Update 8/18/18 (archive)	2018-08-20	Atvelonis	3057
Weekly Update 8/25/18 (archive)	2018-08-28	Atvelonis	3015
Weekly Update 9/1/2018 (archive)	2018-09-02	Atvelonis	2982
Weekly Update 9/8/2018 (archive)	2018-09-12	The Cat Master	2851
Weekly Update 9/15/18 (archive)	2018-09-18	Atvelonis	2736
Weekly Update 9/22/18 (archive)	2018-09-23	Atvelonis	2669
Weekly Update 9/29/18 (archive)	2018-10-02	Atvelonis	2578
Weekly Update 10/6/18 (archive)	2018-10-09	Atvelonis	2521
Weekly Update 10/13/18 (archive)	2018-10-15	Ottoman Hold	2471
Weekly Update 10/20/18 (archive)	2018-10-21	Atvelonis	2392
Weekly Update 10/27/18 (archive)	2018-10-28	Ottoman Hold	2319
Weekly Update 11/3/18 (archive)	2018-11-03	The Cat Master	2234
Weekly Update 11/10/18 (archive)	2018-11-12	Atvelonis	2190
Weekly Update 11/17/18 (archive)	2018-11-18	Atvelonis	2131
Weekly Update 11/24/18 (archive)	2018-11-25	Atvelonis	2110
Weekly Update 12/1/18 (archive)	2018-12-01	The Cat Master	2101
Weekly Update 12/8/18 (archive)	2018-12-08	Atvelonis	2035
Weekly Update 12/15/18 (archive)	2018-12-16	Atvelonis	2030
Weekly Update 12/22/18 (archive)	2018-12-22	Atvelonis	2040
Weekly Update 12/29/18 (archive)	2018-12-29	Atvelonis	2027
Weekly Update 1/5/19 (archive)	2019-01-06	Atvelonis	2041
Weekly Update 1/12/19 (archive)	2019-01-12	Ottoman Hold	2037
Weekly Update 1/19/19 (archive)	2019-01-19	Atvelonis	2040
Weekly Update 1/26/19 (archive)	2019-01-27	Atvelonis	2008
Weekly Update 2/2/19 (archive)	2019-02-04	Atvelonis	2016
Weekly Update 2/9/19 (archive)	2019-02-09	Atvelonis	2020
Weekly Update 2/16/19 (archive)	2019-02-17	Atvelonis	2006
Weekly Update 2/23/19 (archive)	2019-02-24	Atvelonis	1957
Weekly Update 3/2/19 (archive)	2019-03-09	Atvelonis	1928
Weekly Update 3/9/19 (archive)	2019-03-13	Atvelonis	1881
Weekly Update 3/16/19 (archive)	2019-03-18	Atvelonis	1852
Weekly Update 3/23/19 (archive)	2019-03-23	Atvelonis	1852
Weekly Update 3/30/19 (archive)	2019-03-31	Atvelonis	1853
Weekly Update 4/6/19 (archive)	2019-04-09	Atvelonis	1838
Weekly Update 4/13/19 (archive)	2019-04-14	Atvelonis	1846
Weekly Update 4/20/19 (archive)	2019-04-22	Atvelonis	1862
Weekly Update 4/27/19 (archive)	2019-04-27	Atvelonis	1935
Weekly Update 5/4/19 (archive)	2019-05-04	The Cat Master	2004
Weekly Update 5/11/19 (archive)	2019-05-11	Atvelonis	1979
Weekly Update 5/18/19 (archive)	2019-05-18	Atvelonis	1967
Weekly Update 5/25/19 (archive)	2019-05-25	Ottoman Hold	1940
Weekly Update 6/1/19 (archive)	2019-06-01	The Cat Master	2060
Weekly Update 6/8/19 (archive)	2019-06-08	Atvelonis	2082
Weekly Update 6/15/19 (archive)	2019-06-15	The Cat Master	2126
Weekly Update 6/22/19 (archive)	2019-06-22	Atvelonis	3028
Weekly Update 6/29/19 (archive)	2019-06-29	Atvelonis	3001
Weekly Update 7/6/19 (archive)	2019-07-09	Atvelonis	2977
Weekly Update 7/13/19 (archive)	2019-07-13	The Cat Master	2962
Weekly Update 7/20/19 (archive)	2019-07-21	Ottoman Hold	2937
Weekly Update 7/27/19 (archive)	2019-07-27	The Cat Master	2897
Weekly Update 8/3/19 (archive)	2019-08-04	Atvelonis	2864
Weekly Update 8/10/19 (archive)	2019-08-10	The Cat Master	2870
Weekly Update 8/18/19^{[note 1]} (archive)	2019-08-20	The Cat Master	2891
Weekly Update 8/24/19 (archive)	2019-08-25	The Cat Master	2906
Weekly Update 8/31/19 (archive)	2019-08-31	Atvelonis	2802
Weekly Update 9/7/19 (archive)	2019-09-07	Atvelonis	2812
Weekly Update 9/14/19 (archive)	2019-09-16	The Cat Master	1862
Weekly Update 9/21/19 (archive)	2019-09-21	Atvelonis	1850
Weekly Update 9/28/19 (archive)	2019-09-29	Atvelonis	2094
Weekly Update 10/5/19 (archive)	2019-10-06	Ottoman Hold	2119
Weekly Update 10/12/19 (archive)	2019-10-16^{[note 2]}	Ottoman Hold	2054
Weekly Update 10/19/19 (archive)	2019-10-21	The Cat Master	2044
Weekly Update 10/26/19 (archive)	2019-10-26	The Cat Master	1997
Weekly Update 11/2/19 (archive)	2019-11-05	Ottoman Hold	1974
Weekly Update 11/9/19 (archive)	2019-11-11	The Cat Master	1969
Weekly Update 11/16/19 (archive)	2019-11-18	The Cat Master	2800
Weekly Update 11/23/19 (archive)	2019-11-25	The Cat Master	2783
Weekly Update 11/30/19 (archive)	2019-11-30	Atvelonis	2819
Weekly Update 12/7/19 (archive)	2019-12-08	Atvelonis	2880
Weekly Update 12/14/19 (archive)	2019-12-14	The Cat Master	2898
Weekly Update 12/21/19 (archive)	2019-12-22	Atvelonis	3143
Weekly Update 12/28/19 (archive)	2019-12-29	Ottoman Hold	2940
Weekly Update 1/4/20 (archive)	2020-01-05	Ottoman Hold	2975
Weekly Update 1/11/20 (archive)	2020-01-12	The Cat Master	3188
Weekly Update 1/18/20 (archive)	2020-01-19	Atvelonis	3269
Weekly Update 1/25/20 (archive)	2020-01-27	The Cat Master	3362
Weekly Update 2/1/20 (archive)	2020-02-02	The Cat Master	3381
Weekly Update 2/8/20^{[note 3]} (archive)	2020-02-15	The Cat Master	2823
Weekly Update 2/15/20^{[note 3]} (archive)	2020-02-15	The Cat Master	2823
Weekly Update 2/22/20 (archive)	2020-02-24	The Cat Master	2839
Weekly Update 2/29/20 (archive)	2020-03-04	The Cat Master	3403
Weekly Update 3/7/20 (archive)	2020-03-12	The Cat Master	3357
Weekly Update 3/14/20 (archive)	2020-03-14	Atvelonis	3336
Weekly Update 3/21/20 (archive)	2020-03-22	Atvelonis	3127
Weekly Update 3/28/20 (archive)	2020-03-30	The Cat Master	3203
Weekly Update 4/4/20 (archive)	2020-04-04	Atvelonis	3231
Weekly Update 4/11/20 (archive)	2020-04-13	The Cat Master	3366
Wekly Update 4/18/20^{[note 4]} (archive)	2020-04-19	Atvelonis	3391
Weekly Update 4/25/20 (archive)	2020-04-25	Atvelonis	3426
Weekly Update 5/2/20 (archive)	2020-05-04	The Cat Master	3624
Weekly Update 5/9/20 (archive)	2020-05-09	The Cat Master	3793
Weekly Update 5/16/20 (archive)	2020-05-18	Atvelonis	3845
Weekly Update 5/23/20 (archive)	2020-05-24	Atvelonis	3900
Weekly Update 5/30/20 (archive)	2020-05-31	Atvelonis	3250
Weekly Update 6/6/20 (archive)	2020-06-08	Atvelonis	3351
Weekly Update 6/13/20 (archive)	2020-06-14	The Cat Master	3456
Weekly Update 6/20/20 (archive)	2020-06-20	Atvelonis	3419
Weekly Update 6/27/20 (archive)	2020-06-27	Ottoman Hold	3366
Weekly Update 7/4/20 (archive)	2020-07-04	Ottoman Hold	3329
Weekly Update 7/11/20 (archive)	2020-07-12	Ottoman Hold	3203
Weekly Update 7/18/20^{[note 5]} (archive)	2020-07-18	Atvelonis	3179
Weekly Update 7/18/20^{[note 5]} (archive)	2020-07-20	The Cat Master	3231
Weekly Update 7/25/20 (archive)	2020-07-26	Atvelonis	3220
Weekly Update 8/1/20 (archive)	2020-08-02	Atvelonis	3066
Weekly Update 8/8/20 (archive)	2020-08-14	Ottoman Hold	2845
Weekly Update 8/15/20^{[note 6]} (archive)	2020-08-17	Ottoman Hold	2962
Weekly Update 2020-08-22 (archive)	2020-08-22	Ottoman Hold	2956
Weekly Update 2020-08-29	2020-08-30	Atvelonis	2945
Weekly Update 2020-09-05	2020-09-07	Ottoman Hold	2875
Weekly Update 2020-09-12	2020-09-15	Ottoman Hold	2850
Weekly Update 2020-09-19	2020-09-24	Ottoman Hold	2839
Weekly Update 2020-09-26	2020-09-29	Atvelonis	2900
Weekly Update 2020-10-03	2020-10-05	Ottoman Hold	2961
Weekly Update 2020-10-10	2020-10-10	Atvelonis	3105
Weekly Update 2020-10-17	2020-10-18	Ottoman Hold	3013
Weekly Update 2020-10-24	2020-10-24	Ottoman Hold	3021
Weekly Update 2020-10-31	2020-11-02	Ottoman Hold	3075
Weekly Update 2020-11-07	2020-11-09	Ottoman Hold	3124
Weekly Update 2020-11-14	2020-11-15	Ottoman Hold	2993
Weekly Update 2020-11-21^{[note 7]}	2020-11-29	Stygies VIII^{[note 8]}	2897
Weekly Update 2020-11-28^{[note 7]}	2020-11-29	Stygies VIII^{[note 8]}	2870
Weekly Update 2020-12-05	2020-12-05	Ottoman Hold	2847
Weekly Update 2020-12-12	2020-12-13	Ottoman Hold	2802
Weekly Update 2020-12-19	2020-12-19	Ottoman Hold	2828
Weekly Update 2020-12-26	2020-12-28	Ottoman Hold	2724
Weekly Update 2021-01-02	2021-01-04	Ottoman Hold	2672
Weekly Update 2021-01-09	2021-01-14	Ottoman Hold	2642
Weekly Update 2021-01-16	2021-01-17	Ottoman Hold	2598
Weekly Update 2021-01-23	2021-01-30	Ottoman Hold	2526
Weekly Update 2021-01-30	2021-01-31	Atvelonis	2530
Weekly Update 2021-02-06	2021-02-06	Atvelonis	2536
Weekly Update 2021-02-13	2021-02-14	Atvelonis	2552
Weekly Update 2021-02-20	2021-02-21	Ottoman Hold	2505
Weekly Update 2021-02-27	2021-02-28	Ottoman Hold	2497
Weekly Update 2021-03-06	2021-03-06	Ottoman Hold	2613
Weekly Update 2021-03-13	2021-03-21	Stygies VIII^{[note 8]}	2674
Weekly Update 2021-03-20	2021-03-22	Ottoman Hold	2693
Weekly Update 2021-03-27	2021-04-07	Ottoman Hold	2758
Weekly Update 2021-04-03	2021-04-09	Ottoman Hold	2766
Weekly Update 2021-04-11^{[note 9]}	2021-04-11	Ottoman Hold	2776
Weekly Update 2021-04-17	2021-04-18	Ottoman Hold	2834
Weekly Update 2021-04-24	2021-04-29	Ottoman Hold	2920
Weekly Update 2021-05-01^{[note 10]}	2021-06-05	Ottoman Hold	2936
Weekly Update 2021-05-08^{[note 10]}	2021-06-06	Ottoman Hold	2914
Weekly Update 2021-05-15^{[note 10]}	2021-06-10	Ottoman Hold	3003
Weekly Update 2021-05-22^{[note 10]}	2021-06-12	Ottoman Hold	3014
Weekly Update 2021-05-29^{[note 10]}	2021-06-18	Ottoman Hold	2971
Weekly Update 2021-06-05^{[note 10]}	2021-06-22	Ottoman Hold	3001
Weekly Update 2021-06-12^{[note 10]}	2021-06-27	Ottoman Hold	2903
Weekly Update 2021-06-19^{[note 10]}	2021-06-29	Ottoman Hold	2929
Weekly Update 2021-06-26^{[note 10]}	2021-07-02	Ottoman Hold	2985
Weekly Update 2021-07-03^{[note 10]}	2021-07-07	Ottoman Hold	3017
Weekly Update 2021-07-10	2021-07-12	Ottoman Hold	2977
Weekly Update 2021-07-17	2021-07-18	Ottoman Hold	2882
Weekly Update 2021-07-24	2021-07-25	Ottoman Hold	2865
Weekly Update 2021-07-31	2021-08-03	Fundom user	2723
Weekly Update 2021-08-07	2021-08-08	Atvelonis	2720
Weekly Update 2021-08-21^{[note 11]}	2021-08-21	Ottoman Hold	2755
Weekly Update 2021-08-28	2021-08-31	Atvelonis	2656
Weekly Update 2021-09-04	2021-09-06	Ottoman Hold	2661
Weekly Update 2021-09-11	2021-09-13	Ottoman Hold	2579
Weekly Update 2021-09-18	2021-09-19	Ottoman Hold	2520
Weekly Update 2021-09-25	2021-09-28	Fundom user	2434
Weekly Update 2021-10-02	2021-10-04	Ottoman Hold	2370
Weekly Update 2021-10-09	2021-10-18	Ottoman Hold	2280
Weekly Update 2021-10-16	2021-10-21	Ottoman Hold	2245
Weekly Update 2021-10-23	2021-10-25	Ottoman Hold	2204
Weekly Update 2021-10-30	2021-11-04	Ottoman Hold	2304
Weekly Update 2021-11-06	2021-11-17	Fundom user	2237
Weekly Update 2021-11-13	2021-11-17	Fundom user	2235
Weekly Update 2021-11-20	2021-11-23	Ottoman Hold	2219
Weekly Update 2021-11-27	2021-11-29	Fundom user	2312
Weekly Update 2021-12-04	2021-12-06	Ottoman Hold	2480
Weekly Update 2021-12-11	2021-12-13	Ottoman Hold	2559
Weekly Update 2021-12-18	2021-12-20	Ottoman Hold	2496
Weekly Update 2021-12-25	2021-12-26	Ottoman Hold	2544
Weekly Update 2022-01-01	2022-01-03	Ottoman Hold	2592
Weekly Update 2022-01-08	2022-01-16	Fundom user	2614
Weekly Update 2022-01-15	2022-01-17	Fundom user	2594
Weekly Update 2023-01-07	2023-01-07	Atvelonis	1202
Weekly Update 2023-01-14	2023-01-14	Atvelonis	1135
Weekly Update 2023-01-21	2023-01-21	Atvelonis	1091
Weekly Update 2023-01-28	2023-01-28	Atvelonis	1025
Weekly Update 2023-02-04	2023-02-06	Atvelonis	980
Weekly Update 2023-02-11	2023-02-12	Atvelonis	952
Weekly Update 2023-02-18	2023-02-19	Atvelonis	937
Weekly Update 2023-02-25	2023-02-26	Atvelonis	1035
Weekly Update 2023-03-04	2023-03-05	Atvelonis	1051
Weekly Update 2023-03-11	2023-03-15	Atvelonis	1102
Weekly Update 2023-03-18	2023-03-19	Atvelonis	1093
Weekly Update 2023-03-25	2023-03-30	Atvelonis	1171
Weekly Update 2023-04-01	2023-04-02	Atvelonis	1166
Weekly Update 2023-04-08	2023-04-12	Atvelonis	1228
Weekly Update 2023-04-15	2023-04-16	Atvelonis	1241
Weekly Update 2023-04-22	2023-04-24	Atvelonis	1249
Weekly Update 2023-04-29	2023-04-30	Atvelonis	1248
Weekly Update 2023-05-06	2023-05-07	Atvelonis	1250
Weekly Update 2023-05-13	2023-05-13	Atvelonis	1232
Weekly Update 2023-05-20	2023-05-22	Atvelonis	1288
Weekly Update 2023-05-27	2023-06-01	Atvelonis	1249
Weekly Update 2023-06-03	2023-06-05	Atvelonis	1256
Weekly Update 2023-06-10	2023-06-16	Atvelonis	1262
Weekly Update 2023-06-17	2023-06-21	Atvelonis	1229
Weekly Update 2023-06-24	2023-06-24	Atvelonis	1172
Weekly Update 2023-07-01	2023-07-01	Atvelonis	1196
Weekly Update 2023-07-01	2023-07-08	The Beautiful Princess Ashley	1176
Weekly Update 2023-07-15	2023-07-15	Atvelonis	1151
Weekly Update 2023-07-22	2023-07-22	Atvelonis	1152
Weekly Update 2023-07-29	2023-07-29	Atvelonis	1145
Weekly Update 2023-08-19	2023-08-19	Atvelonis	1142
Weekly Update 2023-09-09	2023-09-11	Atvelonis	1030
Weekly Update 2023-09-16	2023-09-18	Atvelonis	996
New Consensus Thread: Review of the Incomplete Template	2024-05-22	Ottoman Hold	560

If any negative activity trends are to be inferred from this data, it is important to place the hypothesized cause of the trend 90 days prior to the announcements. For example, the decrease in users from August 4th, 2018 to September 1st, 2018 was caused by decreasing user input on the wiki three months before then (May–June), not anything that happened between August and September. Positive activity trends are not subject to such delay.

Notes[]

↑ The title of this thread was changed to "Weekly Update 8/17/19" shortly after its announcement.
↑ On October 17th, an additional announcement was made by The Cat Master with an improved link. This announcement went to 2052 recipients.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Originally, the weekly updates for the weeks of February 8 and February 15, 2020 were combined into one weekly update called "Weekly Update 2/15/20 (and 2/8/20)." The weekly updates for the two weeks were separated into individual weeks on February 18, 2020.
↑ The announced text for 4/18/20 was indeed "Wekly Update" and not "Weekly Update," on account of Atvelonis's limited observational skills.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Due to a miscommunication, two announcements of this weekly update were made.
↑ It was decided to alter the date format in order to not confuse non-Americans, to which the weekly update was titled as 2020-08-15; however, since Ottoman Hold did not notice at first, the announcement was made using the original format as 8/15/20.
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Due to backlog, these two updates were released on the same day; both were given announcements less than five hours apart.
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 With the staff's approval, Stygies VIII was able to use her Wiki Representative role to highlight these weekly updates after their creation when other staff were unavailable. This allowed for the community to see them quicker than if it was decided to wait for an administrator or moderator to become available some time later.
↑ Because he is blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the Gregorian Calendar, Ottoman Hold made the announcement with the date 2021-04-11 instead of the proper 2021-04-10.
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 ^10.3 ^10.4 ^10.5 ^10.6 ^10.7 ^10.8 ^10.9 Due to backlog, these updates were released off-schedule in order to catch up. Announcements were made for each after a bit of time had passed from the previous.
↑ After the switch to FandomDesktop, the link to Special:Announcements was broken during the duration of the previous update. Therefore, no announcement was made for the week of August 14th; the link was fixed sometime just before the release of the the August 21st update.

[1] The title of this thread was changed to "Weekly Update 8/17/19" shortly after its announcement.

[2] On October 17th, an additional announcement was made by The Cat Master with an improved link. This announcement went to 2052 recipients.

[2020-02-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Originally, the weekly updates for the weeks of February 8 and February 15, 2020 were combined into one weekly update called "Weekly Update 2/15/20 (and 2/8/20)." The weekly updates for the two weeks were separated into individual weeks on February 18, 2020.

[4] The announced text for 4/18/20 was indeed "Wekly Update" and not "Weekly Update," on account of Atvelonis's limited observational skills.

[7-18-20_X2-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Due to a miscommunication, two announcements of this weekly update were made.

[6] It was decided to alter the date format in order to not confuse non-Americans, to which the weekly update was titled as 2020-08-15; however, since Ottoman Hold did not notice at first, the announcement was made using the original format as 8/15/20.

[Nov29-7] 7.0 ^7.1 Due to backlog, these two updates were released on the same day; both were given announcements less than five hours apart.

[WikiRep-8] 8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 With the staff's approval, Stygies VIII was able to use her Wiki Representative role to highlight these weekly updates after their creation when other staff were unavailable. This allowed for the community to see them quicker than if it was decided to wait for an administrator or moderator to become available some time later.

[Apr11-9] Because he is blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the Gregorian Calendar, Ottoman Hold made the announcement with the date 2021-04-11 instead of the proper 2021-04-10.

[May2021Backlog-10] 10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 ^10.3 ^10.4 ^10.5 ^10.6 ^10.7 ^10.8 ^10.9 Due to backlog, these updates were released off-schedule in order to catch up. Announcements were made for each after a bit of time had passed from the previous.

[BadLinkAug2021-11] After the switch to FandomDesktop, the link to Special:Announcements was broken during the duration of the previous update. Therefore, no announcement was made for the week of August 14th; the link was fixed sometime just before the release of the the August 21st update.

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