User blog:LostInRiverview/The Sims Wiki News - 2nd August 2015

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Last week, I mentioned a rumor about Cool Kitchen, which was rumored to be the next game pack. Well, it turns out that I was half-right; The Sims 4: Cool Kitchen Stuff was officially announced this week! As the name implies, this stuff pack will pack lots of new stuff for your kitchens. To read more about it, including some (literally) cool new features, check out Nikel's CKS announcement blog.
 * Cool Kitchen Stuff

Additionally, EA has announced that dishwashers are coming back, via a free game update this week. Keep an eye on our list of recent updates to see when this has been implemented.

SimsVIP has reached out to EA, regarding The Sims 4's presence at Gamescom 2015, which starts this week in Germany. According to EA, TS4 will have a behind-closed-doors presence at the convention, and will be covered during EA's press conference on August 5th.
 * Update - The Sims 4 at Gamescom

SimsVIP will be at Gamescom and will also bring live coverage of the EA press conference. Be sure to keep track of SimsVIP on Twitter for the latest Gamescom news.


 * Resolved discussions

In the past week, two significant discussions have been resolved. First, due to decreased activity and involvement from the community, Fanon Battles have been indefinitely suspended. If you have any ideas for new fanon-related activities, please leave suggestions on the community discussions forum. The community has also decided overwhelmingly to support anonymous editing on The Sims Wiki, and to oppose any attempts to disable editing by unregistered users.

As always, we have discussions going on in the community discussions forum that need your input! We've had more involvement in these matters in the past few weeks, but we still have many questions that need to be resolved. Among them are:
 * Important discussions
 * How to handle TS4 information on Sim and family pages
 * A proposal to implement the Wikia Forums extension on the wiki
 * A proposed exemption to the wiki's Notability Policy
 * Creation of a policy for Bots
 * Discussion of issues with featured content voting
 * A discussion of TS4 trait pages

As always, if you have a matter that should be considered by the community at large, please do not hesitate to start a new thread.

The first "Caption This" poll has been closed, the results are in, and the winning caption has been added to the picture below! The winner of the first poll is... me, incidentally :p I swear I didn't cheat! We've had several captions for the image below. Be sure to check out all the captions, and vote for your favorite! Please vote for your favorite caption for the image above Meditation -- it's a lot more fiery than it seems. "How on Earth," she wondered, "can he start a fire by making a bowl of cereal?" Irene uses powerful zen forces to spontaneously set her husband's breakfast on fire. This week, rather than take an image from Cool Kitchen Stuff or Spa Day, I've decided to revisit a "classic". As always, check out the image, and then leave your caption in the comments section below, starting with "Caption: ". Captions on this image will be voted on next week. As always, thanks for reading! Leave me a comment if you think I've missed something. --  LostInRiverview talk • blog  •  contribs 03:55, August 2, 2015 (UTC)
 * Caption winner
 * Last week's image
 * New image