Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5645428-20150103141642

Me and many others have been busy during the past weeks. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone! Over the past six months, the wiki has gone from a shamble of random pages into the biggest source of information on Geometry Dash helped by almost all of you here. Especially you registered editors, you are the ones who make the difference, and from the Wikia standpoint, define what this wiki is. Thanks for being a part of the community!

This thread will outline several things as part of communicating a lot of the work that has been going on lately. First things first, congratulate User:3primetime3, who was granted adminship recently and is now an active staff member (although he too has been busy during the holiday season and hasn't gotten his promotion out onto the forum yet). He's an experienced fellow and knows the ropes, not to mention friendly, so drop him a chat if you'd like to share a few words.

Onto the wiki itself, there are two specific things everyone should want to be familiar with. The blue navigation bar will take you anywhere on the wiki in terms of article content, all 45 pages at present. The "Community" section covers some other important things, in particular the Geometry Dash Wiki:Community Portal. All editors should be referring to this page at some point as it will explain useful things including the wiki objectives for general editing. For more advanced editors, they will find links at the bottom of the page which reveals select Special:SpecialPages. Use these to target certain aspects of a page, such as those with expired (red) links or underdeveloped pages. Don't forget to check out Category:Article stubs!

Next, I'd like to draw attention to Geometry Dash Wiki:Sprites. For most of you, images are probably a minor focus and are either too confusing or annoying to take much notice of. I share the feeling, but for a different reason. The wiki should responsibly contain images of every icon, and that's starting to near one hundred. Without a reliable source, it's down to our editors to assist in providing those images. However, there are requirements for them, and getting them wrong means a lot of effort is wasted in resolving the issues caused. It is crucial that the uploaded icon sprites have a: In order to get this right, I will be deleting all icon sprites which do not follow the above requirements. Yes, this will mean there will be dead links around the place, but that is for the staff to take care of on a wide scale. From now on, these icons are to be submitted through the sprites page before proceeding to be added to articles. They are to be named the given names on the sprites page, which are the most simple for predictability. This is a challenging task, so advise only experienced users of graphics programs attempt to provide the finalised images (and if you are, do mention it below), although everyone is welcome to source them. Since many on the wiki are appropriately sized but with the wrong colours, be quick in saving them if you haven't already. I think that's enough for this topic. Good luck!
 * Grey primary colour
 * White secondary colour
 * Transparent background
 * High resolution and do not appear edited
 * .png file type

Nearing the big update, v2.0, it is likely that the article comments will be disabled again. It is a tiresome process attending to the spam and pointless commenting that really builds during the lead-up, and we admins have more pressing matters we'd rather be looking into. Scanning through everything is not easy, and general talk is not something that should be demanding our time. Fortunately, the forum will always be open, and you can post meaningful discussion as usual. Speaking of which, always check you're posting on the right forum board. "Geometry Dash Gameplay Discussion" is for stuff related to the playing of the game. The new "Technical Support" is for stuff like more prominent glitches or issues with downloading the game, for instance. There is where problems may be addressed, not elsewhere, and the staff will be monitoring the board so we may help where we can.

Styling the wiki never seems to have its end, but on the most part should appear well presented and captivating for you readers and functional and engaging for you editors. The known things I'm working on right now include... hover over the kudos button and you'll see a persistent white background on the bubble that is proving difficult to grasp within the code. That will be fixed, along with a further improved tabber (big on the Level Editor article) and soon a better-looking main page. Sorry guys, Wikia doesn't want their big and ugly new header restyled for the time being, so that'll have to sit as is for now. I'll try to keep you guys up to date on any global Wikia announcements.

To finish off, thanks to all those who submitted their progress for the Geometry Dash Wiki:Leaderboard. I encourage whoever hasn't yet to do the same, as this not only puts you head to head with others in a fun and competitive setting, but also says you're a part of the community. Our other fun features Top 10 Lists and Userboxes are there for your enjoyment. Check back soon for new userboxes of your collected stars!

Once again, thank you all for your contributions. This next year will be bigger and even better! 