User blog:LostInRiverview/The Sims Wiki News - 23rd August 2015

Welcome to The Sims Wiki Weekly News! Let's talk about what has been going on this week.

The Sims 4 producer Rachel Franklin (aka SimGuruRachel) sat down with the folks at Gameplanet during Gamescom, and talked about Maxis' goals for The Sims 4: Get Together, as well as The Sims 4 as a whole. You can check out the full interview here (Hat tip: SimsVIP)
 * Rachel Franklin on Get Together

Sapphire Moondust (Previously known as "S*pphir3 St*rdust") has been given rollback rights on the wiki. C.Syde65 has applied to serve as the wiki's Community Director; C.Syde65's application is still open for discussion here.
 * User promotions and nominations

This week, The Sim's Pen, which is The Sims Wiki's weekly fanon newsletter, celebrated its one year anniversary! Congratulations to everyone who has contributed to TSP over the past year, and thanks to everyone who has read along. You can read the special anniversary edition of The Sim's Pen here.
 * The Sim's Pen First Anniversary

As always, we have discussions going on in the community discussions forum that need your input!
 * Community discussions
 * Caption contest feature spin-off
 * Consistency with capitalization
 * New Discussion - Should we separate The Sims 4 information from the Original pages?
 * Bot policy
 * Proposal to implement the new forums
 * Flags feature
 * Proposing an exception to the Notability Policy
 * Featured Content voting issue

The fourth "Caption This" poll has been closed, the results are in, and the winning caption has been added to the picture below! This week's winner was submitted by an anonymous contributor. Congratulations!
 * Caption winner

We've had several submissions for last week's caption contest. Please vote for your favorite in the poll below!
 * Last week's image


 * Poll is closed. It was created at 23:51 on August 23, 2015 (UTC), and had 15 voters. The results are, as follows:


 * As Joel dropped the strawberry ice cream, Diana crossed her eyes in the most inhuman manner as her own bowl of frozen treats perched precariously on her hands... - 1 votes
 * Guy: Ermagherd, ai drpped mi ayscrem Girl: *derp derp* - 1 votes
 * Guy: My icecream :( Girl: Hahahaha noob! - 1 votes
 * In order to ensure only he could eat his ice-cream, Ryo used his epic mind-control powers acquired from aliens to begin a mass murder of the ice-creams around him...starting with poor Fred...because of course. - 3 votes
 * After years of being defied by Justin, Gravity finally exacts her sweet revenge. - 5 votes
 * After years of being in hiding, the ice cream finally fulfills its skydiving dreams. - 4 votes

Check out our new image, and then leave your caption in the comments section below, starting with "Caption: ". Captions on this image will be voted on next week. We are also accepting image suggestions. If you know of an image on The Sims Wiki that would be fun to add captions to, let us know and we may feature it in a future Caption This! – As always, feel free to leave a comment below. Thanks for reading! --  LostInRiverview talk • blog  •  contribs 23:52, August 23, 2015 (UTC)
 * New image