User blog:Lost Labyrinth/June 2012 News

June 2012 News Hello Sims Wikians With the absence of the Newsletter this month, I figured that I may as well deliver the news in some form. A large chunk of this blog is regarding Wikia's incoming MediaWiki update. Main news The Abuse Filter was enabled on The Sims Wiki to help us combat unconstructive behavior and has so far proved highly efficient. There is a discussion on the Community Portal talk page revisiting a proposal to eliminate Player Stories. You can find this discussion here. There is a request for bureaucratship for Nikel23 which closes tomorrow. If you haven't yet voted/gave input then be sure to do so! Fanon tags, such as {{Fanon-cleanup}}, {{Fanon-stub}}, {{Fanon-anon}} etc. can now be applied by all users. Requests for administratorship for those who wish to apply. Please remember that rollback rights are a requirement for anyone to be considered for administrator rights. Those who don't have rollback rights but wish to obtain them can do so here. Chat was re-enabled and is used to chat with your fellow Wikians in addition to the IRC channel. MediaWiki update As you may have seen via a global notification, Wikia are preparing an update to the MediaWiki software as said in a this community central blog, where you can see what changes they are bringing to Wikia. The reason I've gone and mentioned this in a local blog is due to the last MediaWiki update causing problems with operating the wiki such as outages, the inability to use administrator tools and more. I would like to assure the community that these bugs are normal and nothing to worry about. MediaWiki is basically the software that powers the wiki; it's like it's operating system - the wiki won't function without it. Like operating systems, MediaWiki is updated over time and Wikia update their iterations whenever they feel the need to do so. Special:Version will say which version of MediaWiki is being run by The Sims Wiki; Wikia are updating the global MediaWiki profile to 1.19. As a wiki we shall try to run things as normal as possible and we would like to thank everyone for their patience. References Follow us on: Lost Labyrinth • (c) • (b) 17:36, June 12, 2012 (UTC)