Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5645428-20150403031131

A lot has been going on lately, so I thought it'd be a good time to get down those details in one convenient place.

First up, and way overdue, the 'official' promotion announcement of Seth4564ti! He proved incredibly helpful and cooperative when came the time we were updating the Level Images on  the wiki, and worked real-time with me on the chat to get it done way faster than I would have initially thought. In the meantime, he was one of the main people to draw others to the chat from his presence, and continues to make plentiful edits. Congratulate him on his achievement!

Not too long ago, the objective to categorise all files was set out. This is something I doubt few wikis would care about, considering the number of files that build up if not moderated. But we have been doing that, very well indeed in fact, which also lends to the storage of custom icons on the wiki's imgur account here. The task is by no means an easy one, although I would say we're more than half way there. Progress details can be found on the Geometry Dash Wiki:Community Portal. Anyone who is interested in reuploading the whole set of ship icons should contact me on my wall.

You can find links to the file categories on the newly updated main page. Gradual improvements have been made to it over the past few weeks and it is looking pretty neat! A small editing guideline section can be found there, which is worth having a read. More is planned to be added to the main page. What do you think should be next?

Edging away at the site styling as usual, text input sections are currently being changed to have rounded edges and this background here. This is proving a more difficult element to work with, so excuse design inconsistency for the time being. A plethora of other tweaks and adjustments are being made elsewhere around the site. Also, you may have noticed that the Latest Photos module that used to be in the big right column is no longer there. Wikia decided to remove it, which I wouldn't call particularly helpful, but unfortunately nothing can be done about it. Beta features like the VisualEditor and header bar I have refrained from modifying until they're further consolidated, but I would be interested in hearing any feedback in relation to the visuals or usage of these features. How do they fend for you?

I've stumbled across some very fidgety issues with templates that I have failed to discover what is causing them. Userboxes, the USERNAME template and the ticks and crosses seem to have forced spaces/breaks that I cannot pick out from the template code, and this is affecting certain updates I am trying to make that will allow parameters to be specified. This is also holding up the release of  new userboxes that got tied down in the process, and also a 'Babel' template that will replace the code specified on the Geometry Dash WIki:Userboxes page for stacking userboxes. This will be addressed ASAP.

Yes, it's been held up for a long time. I hope to get around to the nominations/voting system for wiki/chat moderators once some of the above items have been cleared. This will establish a way for forum users to select their own members to represent their moderation group to settle disputes, address spam and keep everything fun if administrators cannot get around to doing so.

The Geometry Dash Wiki:Level Advertising page has also been set on the backburner for the while. Like the leaderboard, submissions of level details will be received on a forum thread to be posted on the page itself. Through some system, that information will find its way onto the main page for a short time so viewers can discover new levels, your levels. As is the leaderboard, the time-consuming nature sees that it be developed when we have more time to commit to operating the page.

Skipping back to some file talk, later on, profiles will have to either use images/videos from the categorised file list or have them inserted from an external source using the External Image Loader or through another method. In short, wiki content comes first to user content, which is why organisation must be focused in this way. More information about this will be announced at a later time.

Finally, RaonicHero expertly arranged a Q&A with Robert Topala himself. The Q's are over, but check out Thread:21476 to get a load of the A's that you can't find anywhere else!

And that concludes as much as I can remember of what is going on as of April 3, 2015! Feeback, suggestions, etc, always happy to hear it. 