Newsletter 4
Dear Book Lovers Wiki Community,
We hope this newsletter finds you well and that you're enjoying your time on our beloved platform. As always, we're dedicated to fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment for book enthusiasts from all walks of life. With that in mind, we have some important updates and rule changes to share with you.
After careful consideration, we've decided to remove the requirement to censor swears when they appear in acronyms. We trust our community to maintain respectful and appropriate language while discussing their favorite books and topics.
We've revised the guidelines regarding moderator activity. Here's the updated section:
"After 3 months of relative inactivity in their area of Moderation (Content Moderators i…
Reminder of the Rules Regarding Uploading a Image on the Wiki
Hello Wikians! I hope you are having an awesome week/weekend. Here is a reminder/update of the rules regarding uploading a file/photo to an article/badge/userpage/MessageWall.
In the Wiki Rules, it states ‘When uploading a file, make sure you name the picture you are uploading an appropriate name. If it’s a picture relating to a book/author/book character, please name the file by the book/author/book character name.’ This is a rule for all users to help Wiki Administrators and Content Moderators keep all files nice and tidy. If you accidentally forget to name a page with the correct name, tell a Content Moderator before telling an Administrator.
Examples of files with incorrect names are files consisting of keyboard smashes or random letters…
Thank Feature
So as I'm sure some of you have noticed now when you go to the history of a page you will see a "Thank" option. This is a way for you to show appreciation of someones edits to an article. What it does is it sends a notification and an email to the user whose edit you thank. (you can turn this off in your Special:Preferences)
But anyways, it is an experimental feature that FANDOM is putting on some Wikis to test it out.
Lil rules regarding it:
Do not overuse the “Thanks” extension. It is there to show you appreciation to other users, but remember it sends an email and a notification to the user you thank so it can get very annoying. Do not spam with the thanks extension.
For more information see: Technical Updates: May 5, 2023
P.S. If you find a…
Enabling FANDOM Compass
I am currently working on enabling FANDOM Compass on our Wiki, but to do that I need help! The requirements for FANDOM Compas are as follows:
- Minimum 500 pages
- At least 75% of links to Fandom wikis (either own wiki or other wikis) rather than outside sources
- 0 broken links in topnav
- Less than 100 broken/red links on wiki
- No articles or blog posts under 300 words of meaningful content
- No redirect chains
- Openness to participating in SEO experiments (as needed; these will be communicated to the admin team)
So we need Articles, lots of them. This is one of the main and easiest things that users can help with! Please help us by adding pages, but also detailed pages.
Please don't link outside sources! If you copy a page from Wikipedia put at the bottom…
A Large Amount of Knowledge That Will Probably Be Helpful To Someone
- 1 Things To Know While Going Around The Wiki, By Kira
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 The Open Closed Code
- 1.2.1 [private]
- 1.2.1.1 [closed]
- 1.2.1.1.1 [open]
- 1.2.1.1.2 [join]
- 1.2.1.2 [urgent]
- 1.2.1.1 [closed]
- 1.2.1 [private]
- 1.3 Tone Indicators
- 1.3.1 Most Commonly Used (Feel Free to Suggest)
- 1.4 Reply Signs
As people might have noticed just by talking to everyone here, the large majority of the people here come from the Lost Cities Keeper (commonly dubbed kotlc) Wiki, and a lot of the customs from that Wiki are carried over onto this one.
However, some people might not be from there, and might not know a lot of the things that might be common knowledge around some of us.
This will also be a guide, for, well, most everything, and not just things that come from the Kotlc Wiki.
Something that is commonly used a…
Winters Page of Tips and Tricks
If you have trouble with any of the following please shoot me a message on my Message Wall! I'm more than willing to help.
Also if you have anything you want to add just put it in the comments!
- 1 (UNFINISHED)
- 1.1 Magic Words
(all of these need to be added in 'source editing' mode)
these are some magic words I think are super useful!
inside the source editor. (note this will not work on other Wikis unless they have SpoilerBlur enabled on their Wiki)
[[Category:help
Small editing reminder!
Hi guys this is just a small reminder about editing.
When you are naming a page, please check for spelling errors and if the page already exists. For example, I have seen 'Keeper of the Lost Cities' and 'Keepers of the Lost Cities' in pages before
Same thing goes with categories. Please make sure there is not already a category like 'Wings of Fire' and 'Wings of fire'. And remember, categories are used for navigation.
Thanks for reading :)
-Jay