User blog:Lost Labyrinth/June 2012 News

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Hello Sims Wikians

With the absence of the Newsletter this month, I figured that I may as well deliver the news in some form. A large chunk of this blog is regarding Wikia's incoming MediaWiki update.

Main news

 * The Abuse Filter was enabled on The Sims Wiki to help us combat unconstructive behavior and has so far proved highly efficient.
 * There is a discussion on the Community Portal talk page revisiting a proposal to eliminate Player Stories. You can find this discussion here.
 * There is a request for bureaucratship for Nikel23 which closes tomorrow. If you haven't yet voted/gave input then be sure to do so!
 * Fanon tags, such as Fanon-cleanup, Fanon-stub, Fanon-anon etc. can now be applied by all users.
 * Requests for administratorship for those who wish to apply. Please remember that rollback rights are a requirement for anyone to be considered for administrator rights.
 * Those who don't have rollback rights but wish to obtain them can do so here.
 * Chat was re-enabled and is used to chat with your fellow Wikians in addition to the IRC channel.

MediaWiki update
As you may have seen via a global notification, Wikia are preparing an update to the MediaWiki software as said in a this community central blog, where you can see what changes they are bringing to Wikia.

The reason I've gone and mentioned this in a local blog is due to the last MediaWiki update causing problems with operating the wiki such as outages, the inability to use administrator tools and more. I would like to assure the community that these bugs are normal and nothing to worry about.

MediaWiki is basically the software that powers the wiki; it's like it's operating system - the wiki won't function without it. Like operating systems, MediaWiki is updated over time and Wikia update their iterations whenever they feel the need to do so. Special:Version will say which version of MediaWiki is being run by The Sims Wiki; Wikia are updating the global MediaWiki profile to 1.19.

As a wiki we shall try to run things as normal as possible and we would like to thank everyone for their patience.