Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5645428-20150917103210

Hey everyone!

"Since my joining of the Geometry Dash Wiki over a year ago, we have seen immeasurable progress from a pile of scattered pages, spam, and not much else to really speak of, to a comprehensive database and social hub of Geometry Dash. Today, we sit among some of the highest rated Wikia wikis according to our WAM score as you can see here. 98.5, at the time of posting this thread, and in our Games category, we sit beside top game wikis like Halo, Clash of Clans, World of Warcraft, Grand Theft Auto and Terraria to name a few. That is fantastic! You guys being active here, editing heaps and clearly attracting a great many readers is why we can boast this achievement. As a staff member, I thank you all for being a part of the project. As Hackey5, I thank you all for giving me a cool place to hang out because it is a community of awesome people who make it all worthwhile. It's seriously amazing the place we've got here."

I posted this not so long ago (I updated a few references to the WAM score), and I just wish wish to reiterate it all most sincerely. Since RaonicHero adopted the wiki on August 28, 2014, with me alongside, you just wouldn't imagine how far we could come, and now that we're here, you just really appreciate it. Sadly, RH has entered into inactivity, but without him, I don't believe we'd be anything like we are today. I might not even have stayed on board myself without someone cool and responsible leading the way. A shout-out to you RH, thank you for everything you have done for the wiki during your time here!

Our community is now vast and with so many legends. Among those we have administrator Nusdan. He's decided to take a bit of a break for now, but that's certainly deserved for his extensive contributions, including the styling that will soon become a brand-new wiki theme! In Nusdan's absence, we have a newcomer, well, he's been a moderator for a while now, but has indeed been ready to take it to the next level. Today we turn to Shudddervolt, who recently became an administrator for being responsible, intuitive, but most notably, the chillingly cool and friendly glaceon that he is. Congratulate him on his achievement, and I encourage you to get to know him on the chat should you see him around. ;)

So what's been happening?
Glad you asked! It's about time we get you guys up to date on the latest action!

First comes something so ridiculously overdue, something promised months and months ago but was never delivered, until now... star userboxes! They are here and ready to pimp your profiles! If you were thinking some green would spice up the look, now you have it, starting from 100 stars all the way up to 2500. To implement these new userboxes and more, Geometry Dash Wiki:Userboxes (Community > Cool stuff > Userboxes, on the navigation bar) will reveal all there is to offer and give you the complete walkthrough. If it doesn't seem like it, don't worry, more updates are planned for the article very soon! Also try out Template:Babel, a new way to position userboxes efficiently with simplicity. Oh, and to top off the userbox talk, userboxes for completing Demon-rated levels will also be coming in the near future. I guarantee, nearer than the future it took to get the star userboxes out. :P

Just a reminder that you can submit your in-game progress to grab a position on the the Geometry Dash Wiki:Leaderboard alongside top players on the wiki. Follow the given link in the first section to read instructions on how to do so.

You might have heard about a hacking incident on Wikia last month. Nothing that directly affected our wiki, but Wikia consequently acted to repair damages and ensure a similar incident doesn't happen again. That resulted in the locking of MediaWiki (system) pages. Fortunately, most have since been unlocked, but the main JavaScript pages (those which the hacker exploited) have remained locked to all editors including us administrators. During this time, we have been unable add scripts that enable cool features to the wiki. Some you might be familiar with include the DisplayClock in upper right corner of the page, the functionality that powers the Username template, the wall greeting button which you don't see much on other wikis, and the refresh button for articles. The chat also earns the advanced formatting you can learn from Geometry Dash Wiki:Chat, in addition to those features you can use from the Options menu. We have planned up to three new games for the chat, involving either spelling, anagrams or tic-tac-toe. We will work to have these implemented once we are allowed to edit the MediaWiki pages again (maybe even a Twitter feed for the main page while we're at it!). Which game would you like the most? And whilst having mentioned the chat, check also the new emoticons from Update 2.0!

A small change which may be occurring is having admin names changed to blue, and moderator names changed to green. This will make admin names more distinguishable within green text sections including the right column boxes and in tables. What do you think of this change?

A notice in regards to categories, if you see that a category is missing from an article (in the box at the bottom), do help by re-adding it. It'll either be Category:Levels, Category:Features, Category:Level Elements, Category:Updates or Category:Other. Take an educated guess and you should be right. If you didn't know, the category pages themselves will link to every encyclopedic article, which can also be found on the navigation bar for quick access.

Another heads-up about images. But just before that, we have categorised every image on the wiki! Now that's something few wikis achieve! On this topic, I'd like to thank Loochi for uploading all the Update 2.0 icon sprites! What brilliant effort! As demonstrated here, images should only be uploaded if they are intended to be used for articles. If not, you should be using Template:Image to do so for posting images on the forum and on your profile, otherwise they will be deleted. If you upload a custom icon, it will be deleted from the wiki but transferred over to the custom icon album. Keep in mind that there are sometimes delays. If you are already using Template:Image and would still like your custom icon added to the album, just notify me. Same if you have any questions on anything to do with any of this!

You might like to know that you will be able to advertise your own custom levels on the main page one day. Geometry Dash Wiki:Advertising, it is, something set on the backburner which we will be able to begin working on soon since we're nearing the end of all the file/template work that's been happening in the meantime.

If all this wasn't enough reading, I'll send you off and over to the Off Topic board once you're done here. Why? 3primetime3 has been organsing some exciting forum games, and right now he's hosting the Jack of all trades series where you can answer random questions about anything from simple to extremely challenging. Test your knowledge in the most interesting way yet! And once you're done there, maybe request your own custom icon from the Custom Icon Creation board. Indeed, there's plenty to do in between editing!

And here I'll wind it up. Feedback, questions and suggestions are welcomed as usual. Thanks again for being a part of the Geometry Dash Wiki! 