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|text = Welcome again to the monthly summary! February is technically the shortest month in the year (less with the leap day this year), though with me writing the summary on each Sunday, I guess it's more dependent on the weeks' layout than the days alone. Anyway, this we got a lot to cover this month, so let's get into it!
 
This month started with some [[PZwiki:Awards|PZwiki awards]] cleanups, originally introduced by [[User:Connall|Connall]] as userboxes back in 2014 and slightly brought back in 2018, they were introduced as barnstars by [[User:Ikip|Ikip]] late last year, but were to expansive for us, so instead of removing, I trimmed them down. There will be some more cleanups done later down the line, especially since they aren't used really widely, but since a few users seemed to at least get fond of them, I kept them, giving credit where it's due.
 
Next, thanks to [[User:NasKo|nasKo]] we got new roles on [https://discord.gg/theindiestone Discord] for wiki admins and wiki editors – the latter will be used to announce important messages and monthly summaries, so that's nice to have. We had some organizational/coordination updates too, more on that below.
 
Then, next main thing down the line was introduction of automated distribution template thanks to [[User:Calvy|Calvy]], carrying on the loose idea from [[User:Carina|Carina]] marked in [[PZwiki:Tasks|PZwiki tasks]] page for a while. The script used also brought back a need of coordinated place on GitHub for those scripts – we might get a proper repository somewhere down the line, but right now they are being collected as a part of [https://github.com/stars/Faalagorn/lists/pzwiki-scripts this list]. They are slowly being updated on item pages.
 
Which bring us to another huge job [[User:Calvy|Calvy]] was performing this month, utilizing [[User:CalvyBot|CalvyBot]] to perform thousands of mundane tasks with clever [[Wikipedia:Regular expression|regex]] scripts with [[mw:Manual:Pywikibot|Pywikibot]], that brought us tons of minor fixes but also helping tremendously with both [[PZwiki:Project Navigation and Categories|Project Navigation and Categories]] and removal of language bar lately (which is now replaced by a sidebar), as well as deploying new infoboxes…
 
…Which again, brings us yet another point, being the new infoboxes! By now, pretty much all the infoboxes are moved to the newer look and functionality, with the old ones being deprecated and removed soon™.
 
And another not-project-related work by Calvy is elaborating on [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]] idea of adding [[item tags]] – these will probably be especially useful on [[build 42]] with the new crafting systems, but are starting to be useful right now!
 
And finally, before getting to the project summaries, we also had some organizational changes:
*I took the leadership of [[PZwiki:Project Build 41 Update|Project Build 41 Update]] from [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]], slowly trying to bring it to finish. We'll probably open a [[build 42]] project after that, but gotta finish off the old crust first.
*[[User:Calvy|Calvy]] took the leadership of the [[PZwiki:Project Spiffo's Construction Crew|Project Spiffo's Construction Crew]] from the busy [[User:HakunaWhiskey|HakunaWhiskey]] to finally get the attention it deserves, mo on that later.
*Sadly the [[PZwiki:Project Modding|Project Modding]] lost its leadership now – it was always on a backburner, but maybe will see some love down the line.
 
The [[PZwiki:Tasks|Tasks]] got some cleanups too, some things moved to projects properly.
 
===Project Build 41 Update===
Following the leadership changes in '''[[PZwiki:Project Build 41 Update|Project Build 41 Update]]''', I updated the job board and listed everythin that remains to be done. It's mostly a few missing items (some of which can be moved to [[build 42]] project if they don't make it, as they only be spawned in [[debug mode]] and by admin in [[multiplayer]], as well as bringing skills, items, recipes and tiles up to date, some of the tasks being shared with the [[PZwiki:Project Spiffo's Construction Crew|Project Spiffo's Construction Crew]] and [[PZwiki:Project Seat Yourself Furniture|Project Seat Yourself Furniture]], so some focus could shift there eventually.
 
Some items, mainly clothing, were split to separate pages too, following the new infobox, codebox and distribution deployments, to not host too much on one page. There will be a few more that will be split, some missing pages updated and afterwards the main focus will be updating the pages to 41.78.16 from [[:Category:Version]].
 
We also don't announce the project through the site notice now, as it's closer than ever to being finished!
 
Aside from that, we had some valuable contributions, too, thank you!
*[[User:Stock|Stock]] creating [[Bowling Shoes]] page.
*[[User:DevoTan|DevoTan]] adding some items and updating what's needed to be updated [[ammo]] pages.
*[[User:Calvy|Calvy]] helping with some pages in between too and adding missing models slowly.
 
===Project Locations and Maps===
The '''[[PZwiki:Project Locations and Maps|Project Locations and Maps]]''' is probably the most active one, sadly resulting in one contributor being blocked from editing because of some mishaps, but other than that it's getting healthy management of [[User:ThinkDock1721|ThinkDock]], including article rewrites and image categorization and contributions from other users.
 
Here's the summary from [[User:ThinkDock1721|ThinkDock]]:
<blockquote>
Hi all, [[User:ThinkDock1721|ThinkDock]] here. While there were a few more heated debates and some speed bumps along the way, including an unfortunate loss of a contributor, January was a great month for locations and maps! Here's a quick summary:
 
Unfortunately, I am sad to announce that our long-time contributor [[User:Ikip|Ikip]] was banned. His contributions were greatly appreciated, and will live on in the reworks and templates that we continue to use.
 
[[User:Calvy|Calvy]] Finished up the rest of the first pass of [[Louisville]], so now all that needs to be done is formatting and other cleanups. However, he has mostly been busy with clothing and other items. That doesn't mean he hasn't knocked it completely out of the park with brainstorming, though! Thanks for all your help!
 
[[User:Ksilem|Ksilem]] Also helped out by reworking the [[Laundromat]] page, as well as adding on to various pages, including some [[Doe Valley]] and [[Fallas Lake]] works. This will make it a lot easier to complete these towns faster. They also did lots of brainstorming in the Discord. Thanks!
 
[[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]] and [[User:Faalagorn|Faalagorn]] helped with some brainstorming as well, mainly with figuring out what categories will be relevant for the project and which ones we have and don't have. Thanks, it's great to have admin support!
 
I personally did a lot of stuff behind the scenes this month, namely getting almost all the images of locations categorized. In the future, when we upload images, I want to kindly ask everyone to edit their page and categorize them according to what town the location is in, even if the category isn't made yet. If anyone knows how to work bots, please hit me up, as I had to do it all manually.
 
I also got moderator privileges on the Map Project (Thanks [[User:Blindcoder|blindcoder]]!) so I will be adding more and more POIs on there as my time frees up. I also added the ''site maintenance'' task on the job board, so if you want to help out with behind the scenes stuff as well, feel free to, as now I have a documented list available.
 
As for future plans, after I have all the newer images categorized, I'm going to finish up Fallas Lake and then focus on improving consistency for the Map Project to keep it in line with the wiki. After that's mostly accomplished, it'll be off to the rest of the smaller towns and then the massive juggernaut of Louisville! I don't see myself getting through all that in only one month, so changes after that will be discussed in the next summary. That's just me, though! Feel free to use the Discord or project talk page to discuss with other contributors!
 
See y'all next month!
</blockquote>
 
Other than that, there were two more old-time contributors helping us as well, as well as one newcomer fixing location coordinates, those help too!
*[[User:The (plastic) Cheeseman|The (plastic) Cheeseman]] expanding some pages.
*[[User:Slightsmile|Slightsmile]] expanding some pages as well.
*[[User:Doncaster|Doncaster]] fixing wrong coordinates for [[Filigree Fashions]].
 
I also helped with some image miscategorization lately, which should help the [[PZwiki:Project Navigation and Categories|Project Navigation and Categories]] too!
 
===Project Modding===
Like I mentioned before, the '''[[PZwiki:Project Modding|Project Modding]]''' project didn't get much attention sadly. It's currently looking for new ownership, so if you think you are up for the task of managing it, let us know either here on the wiki or on the [https://discord.gg/theindiestone Discord].
 
It did see a contribution to the active [[list of Tiledefs in use by mods]] page by [[User:Glytch3r|Glytch3r]] this month, thanks!
 
===Project Navigation and Categories===
The '''[[PZwiki:Project Navigation and Categories|Project Navigation and Categories]]''' saw probably the most attention this month, the layout was finally pretty much finalized, with the only remaining ones being [[clothing]] (and unrelated [[Template:Body location]] changes), and materials intricacies when it comes to the item and some cleanups to other categories which will be narrowed down the line, possibly by other projects. Here's the summary from the project leader, [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]]:
<blockquote>
We've had a lot of progress with the project this month, largely thanks to Calvy and the use of his bot swapping the [[Template:Header|header]] and updating categories.
This month we've completed:
*[[:Category:World]]
*[[:Category:Development]]
*[[:Category:Tiles]] - this may need another review over the next month
*[[:Category:Equipment]]
*[[:Category:Materials]]
 
Other than some minor adjustments, the last major category left is [[:Category:Clothing]], which has been put on hold temporarily until we finalise the layout.
</blockquote>
 
There was some categorization decisions related to [[PZwiki:Project Locations and Maps|Project Locations and Maps]].
 
===Project Seat Yourself Furniture===
As expected not much moved in the '''[[PZwiki:Project Seat Yourself Furniture|Project Seat Yourself Furniture]]''' yet, but it got some minor job progress mainly thanks to the rapid progress in the Project Spiffo's Construction Crew and some in the Project Build 41 Update. Hopefully after both of them will be reaching mature stage, this project will get back to spotlight again!
 
===Project Spiffo's Construction Crew===
A lot has happened for the '''[[PZwiki:Project Spiffo's Construction Crew|Project Spiffo's Construction Crew]]''', it's yet far from being finished, especially as it all correlates with different projects and side projects, but it's catching speed real quick. Let me get the summary from the current project leader, [[User:Calvy|Calvy]]:
<blockquote>
G'day editors. It's been a good month over in [[PZwiki:Project Spiffo's Construction Crew|SCC]] land. After finishing [[PZwiki:Project Electricals and Transmission|Project Electricals and Transmission]] I took up the role of leader from [[User:HakunaWhiskey|HakunaWhiskey]], who I'd like to thank for their work on the project before me.
 
By contributor count, we're the smallest project (besides the on hold [[PZwiki:Project Modding|modding project]]), and it was clear that construction had been neglected for quite some time. Due to this, a large portion of this month has been dedicated to getting a good framework to build off of, including a full overhaul of the job board. So far the completed work this month includes;
*Categorising relevant articles.
*Marking articles as stubs, or requiring improvement where needed.
*Working with [[PZwiki:Project Build 41 Update|Project B41]] to design and deploy [[Template:Infobox tile]], replacing the multitude of different infoboxes.
**Creating [[Item tags]] for the new <code>X_tool_tag</code> parameter.
*Creating and deploying [[Template:Construction hp]] to relevant articles.
*Verifying information in [[Template:Crafting carpentry]] and [[Template:Crafting metalworking]].
*Article updates;
**Most construction related items are completed.
**Wall articles are in a much better place.
 
I'd like to thank both [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]] and [[User:Faalagorn|Faalagorn]] for their help across the project, and coordination with their respective projects to standardise articles. As well as;
*[[User:PotatoEngine|PotatoEngine]] - Edits to [[Water Dispenser]].
*[[User:ThinkDock1721|ThinkDock1721]] - Design feedback via [[Discord]].
*Anyone else I may have missed with various edits.
 
For the coming month we'll be focusing on articles themselves, we still have missing articles from B41s release, and a large list of articles to update and improve.
 
Overall a really good start to the project, and looking forward there's a lot of work left to go, but I have no doubts that we can get it done.
 
Thanks, [[User:Calvy|Calvy]].
</blockquote>
It would be nice to thanks [[User:ThreeLime|ThreeLime]] doing some meaningful contributions to the somewhat-neglected-yet-popular [[carpentry]] page!
 
===Project Translations===
The '''[[PZwiki:Project Translations|Project Translations]]''' didn't see a huge changes with [[User:Vibrance|Vibrance]] waiting [[User:Kirrus|Kirrus]] to let us test the [[mw:Extension:Translate|Translate extension]] before evaluating it being deployed, to hopefully make keeping translations up to date easier, but it might take some time. It also made [[User:Ksilem|Ksilem]] focus more on helping with English pages, including the ones from [[PZwiki:Project Locations and Maps|Project Locations and Maps]] which is important task for a healthy basis for other translators!
 
Anyway, that doesn't mean there wasn't any strides being done – the <nowiki>{{Languages}}</nowiki> template is finally being retired in favor of the sidebar, done by [[User:CalvyBot|Calvy's bot]] and I'll finally get myself to update the remaining 7 main pages to the new format, to retire the old templates. We're also slowly moving away from the translation database from {{tlx|Translate}} and {{tlx|T}} in favor for {{tlx|ll}} and retiring <nowiki>{{Sp}}</nowiki> in favor of {{tlx|lcs}} template.
 
As far as specific translations though, we saw some activity as usual, thank you everyone!
 
====Traditional Chinese====
*[[User:A41133tw|A41133tw]] contributing some translations as usual this month, nice!
 
====Simplified Chinese====
*[[User:CHN20240222|CHN20240222]] contributing translations for [[Traits/zh-hans]].
 
====Czech====
*[[User:NyaCZ|NyaCZ]] joining and adding some Czech translations – some templates usage had to be corrected, but it's understandable, as they are confused sometimes.
 
====French====
*[[User:Julien furious|Julien furious]] translating [[Metalworking (crafting)/fr]].
 
====German====
*[[User:Combreaker|Combreaker]] contributing some translations.
 
====Brazilian Portugese====
*[[User:Bueno|Bueno]] contributing some translations to the [[First Aid/pt-br]].
 
====Russian====
*[[User:Shpatell|Shpatell]] contributing some translation and also contributing a minor fix to [[Hazmat Suit]].
 
====Spanish====
*[[User:Notauser|Notauser]] translating some of the [[Bags/es]].
As well as [[User:Teromax34|Teromax34]] coming back from a break, so hopefully we'll see more, Spanish being one of the most healthy languages supported on the wiki!
 
====Turkish====
*[[User:Ksilem|Ksilem]] contributing translation, before staying with us helping with the general wiki tasks, especially the [[PZwiki:Project Locations and Maps|Project Locations and Maps]].
 
===Other important works===
I summarized all the most important works above, this time, but let the [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]] summarize his work below:
<blockquote>
Outside of the category project, most of my time this month has been spent on adding/improving infoboxes and misc work on various other templates.  
 
The bigger changes are:
 
Infoboxes:
*[[Template:Infobox tile|Infobox tile]]: replaces Infobox furniture and uses the new infobox framework.
*[[Template:Infobox item|Infobox item]]: a lot of improvements, added translatability, and completed documentation. (more work still to do)
*[[Template:Infobox character|Infobox character]]: implemented changes to pages
*[[Template:Infobox company|Infobox company]]: updated to new framework.
*[[Template:Infobox game|Infobox game]]: updated to new framework.
*[[Template:Infobox version|Infobox version]]: updated to new framework.
*[[Template:Infobox vehicle|Infobox vehicle]]: updated to new framework.
 
Other templates:
*[[Template:Navbox skills|Navbox skills]]: added translatability.
*[[Template:Transcript|Transcript]]: template to consistently format transcripts.
*[[Template:Mood|Mood]]: used to calculate the in-game moodle effect from values in game files.
*[[Template:Experience|Experience]]: added calculations for values in media files.
*[[Template:Tag link|Tag link]]: template to simplify adding links to [[item tags]].
 
As a side project I've been developing a parser for the scripts files, along with complimentary scripts. The purpose of this is for the [[PZwiki:Item List|item list]] and simplify updating values elsewhere, such as tables on on the [[weapons]] page.
</blockquote>
 
====Minor fixes====
With that done, let's get directly into all the little but important fixes:
*[[User:Fuberti|Fuberti]] contributing some trivia.
*[[User:Kdjnchii|Kdjnchii]] providing some [[food]] value corrections.
*[[User:Limpfro|Limpfro]] fixing a typo in [[Cooking Pot]].
*[[User:LSD|LSD]] minor fix for the [[Skills]] page.
*[[User:Qunas|Qunas]] fixing a typo in [[Fire]].
*[[User:MailDeadDrop|MailDeadDrop]] fixing a typo in [[Gas Tank]].
*[[User:Diparcu|Diparcu]] with [[dedicatd server]] fixes.
*[[User:Marmarkaroo|Marmarkaroo]] clarification for [[Skills]].
*[[User:Patrwe|Patrwe]] fixing encumbrance of the [[Digital Watch]].
*[[User:VitorRi|VitorRi]] fixing wrong [[electrical]] XP gains.
*[[User:Fazbeus|Fazbeus]] fixing one wrong name.
*[[User:Chickenuprising|Chickenuprising]] helping a little with few future and neglected pages.
*[[User:Meni|Meni]] correcting [[Paper Clip]] encumbrance in the [[Fishing]] page.
*[[User:Utaru|Utaru]] fixing wrong description of the prison in [[Rosewood]].
*[[User:Stubbs|Stubbs]] fixing wrong ID in [[Ammo]].
*[[User:Merasmador|Merasmador]] adding back the accidentally removed [[charcoal]] info from [[Metal Drum]].
*[[User:Robosium|Robosium]] couple of handy minor additions in various pages.
*[[User:Roudrick|Roudrick]] adding some NPC infos, additions to [[HottieZ]], [[Rubber Duck]] and some VHSes.
*[[User:XelaThing|XelaThing]] contributing some improvements to [[Louisville]] and [[Stars & Stripes Flag]].
*[[User:PotatoEngine|PotatoEngine]] fixing some typos in addition to helping with the water dispenser page.
*[[User:Rlives|Rlives]] fixing wrong skill in [[Katana]].
*[[User:It%27sJoever|It'sJoever]] correcting some minor things in [[Metagame]].
*[[User:Dr. Strangelove|Dr. Strangelove]] fixing a wrong value in [[Exercise]].
*[[User:Champygnakx|Champygnakx]] updates for the [[Foraging]] page and minor fixes to [[weapons]] damage.
*[[User:Craxxet|Craxxet]] [[dedicated server]] page additions.
*[[User:Frightcrafter|Frightcrafter]] making last minute additions adding missing names to the [[Tie]] page.
As always, you can also see the [[Special:ActiveUsers|active users list]] page for the last 30 days.
 
I think I forgot to mention all the prior contributions of the long-standing user [[User:LethalCitizen|LethalCitizen]], being focused on [[Easter eggs]], but Lethal also helped improve the page for [[The Indie Stone]], and creating the [[Formosa Interactive]], [[General Arcade]], [[The Eccentric Ape]], and [[Tanglewood Games]]! Thanks a lot for all the contributions!
 
Also [[User:Calvy|Calvy]] again helped us fixing some of the [[Spiffo]] and [[Discord]] page, thanks!
 
====Affiliates====
Nothing much changed here, but the [https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Fallout_Wiki Independent Fallout Wiki] is being healthy as always, and so are we. Here's a short note from [[User:Kate Aces|Kate Aces]], an admin of the Fallout Wiki:
<blockquote>
HELL YEAH this month we are celebrating our two year anniversary and hit 65,000 articles!
</blockquote>
Congratulations on reaching 65k! That's a huge number of pages to maintain!
 
====Future works====
Next month should mark further style changes to the look of the wiki – I'll finish moving main pages to the new format, we'll finish deploying the new header, removing language toolbar in favor of sidebar and finally re-introduce the background image, so stay tuned! Some server-side things will have to wait, as [[User:Kirrus|Kirrus]] will be away for a week or two, so barred some emergency not much help here, but there's a lot that we have on mind, so we'll all have our hands occupied.
 
I'll try hard on finalizing the Build 41 updates and clearing tasks, to provide a blank canvas for future [[build 42]] update too, so hopefully we can speed it up. I'll try collaborating more with the various other projects, including the PZMap and the overall community and developers, so a bright future is ahead of us!
 
Thank you for making it to the end reading it all, see you around on Wiki and Discord, and in the next month summary! —[[User:Faalagorn|Faalagorn]][[User talk:Faalagorn|☎]]/[[Special:Contributions/Faalagorn|✓]] 18:07, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
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==September 2014==


{{Community_news
{{Wiki news
|Title=Community News 02/09/14
|title = January 2024
|Text=Hello there, I have decided to open up this community news section, where we will post anything management wise that happens with the wiki.  
|date = 2024-02-04
|text = Welcome everyone to the summary of the first whole month of 2024! Now that we're deep in 2024, I archived all the 2023 monthly summaries to the [[PZwiki:News/2023|2023 archive]], and changed the header names so they refer more to what the news were about. Hopefully for 2024 we will have a full 12 of the monthly summaries, with all the project summaries started in late 2023!
 
Despite some minor setbacks, this month was again much productive, let's start with the projects summary.
 
===Project Electricals and Transmission===
First off, let's congratulate to [[User:Calvy|Calvy]] for manning up and bringing the final push for '''[[PZwiki:Project Electricals and Transmission|Project Electricals and Transmission]]''' and everyone else for contributing! The next in line will probably be [[PZwiki:Project Spiffo's Construction Crew|Project Spiffo's Construction Crew]], good to have another project closed, pushing focus to other ones and opening room for potential new ones in the future!
 
===Project Build 41 Update===
'''[[PZwiki:Project Build 41 Update|Project Build 41 Update]]''' again saw much love, thanks from the combined effort of [[User:Angostura|Angostura]], some minor additions by [[User:Stabbyson|Stabbyson]], [[User:Absolute Lambda|Absolute Lambda]] updating missing items, [[User:Calvy|Calvy]]'s massive work, and [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]] hard work elsewhere, as well as everyone else contributing anything minor – you all probably saw the new infoboxes, codeboxes, models, as well as version updates – it's hard to close it totally just yet, especially as it intertwine so closely with other projects, and side activities, but it is close enough to be taken out of the everlasting site notice, combined with inability to translate it reliably and taking some space, especially with the new skin improvements (more about it below). I may also be the one trying to push it forward in the coming weeks, probably taking it off [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]]'s shoulders (who's busy with [[PZwiki:Project Navigation and Categories|Project Navigation and Categories]] and some template works, currently focused on adjusting new infoboxes and skins, which you probably noticed already), after our brief discussion for those following us on the official [https://discord.gg/theindiestone Discord] server.
 
===Project Locations and Maps===
It's hard not to mention '''[[PZwiki:Project Locations and Maps|Project Locations and Maps]]''' without a great dose of admiration how much dedication is being put into updating it, here's the summary from the project leader, [[User:ThinkDock1721|ThinkDock1721]]!
 
<blockquote>
Hi all, [[User:ThinkDock1721|ThinkDock]] here. While there were a few heated debates and some speed bumps along the way, January was a '''monster''' of a month for locations and maps! Here's a quick summary:
 
First off, I want to give an enormous thanks to [[User:Calvy|Calvy]] for willingly tackling [[Louisville]]. It's quite the juggernaut, but they've managed to not only make a table with all the businesses, but also began the arduous process of elaborating on all the businesses so they're no longer stubs! There will be some cleanups required as always, but it's a monumental effort for just one person to take on. '''Thank you so so much!'''
 
Our long-time contributor [[User:Ikip|Ikip]] categorized almost all of the location pages, and also helped out with some minor edits here and there. Thanks!
 
We also had some minor edits and small contributions from the following users:
*[[User:Slightsmile|Slightsmile]] uploading some images and helping out with some [[March Ridge]] articles,
*[[User:XelaThing|XelaThing]] adding onto [[Goodman Legal Services]],
*[[User:Faalagorn|Faalagorn]] and [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]] mediating some heated debates, and
*[[User:LethalCitizen|LethalCitizen]] brainstorming and overall helping out ideas in the Discord.
 
Thanks everyone!
 
I personally completed my project of finishing all the spawn towns, managing to get all of both [[Muldraugh]] and [[West Point]] done this month. (Late nights galore!) I also restructured the project page a bit.
 
As for the plan for the future, with Ikip categorizing all the locations themselves and Calvy tackling most of Louisville, I'll be free to do some collaboration with the folks at [[PZWiki:Project Navigation and Categories]] to categorize all the images and business logos that were missed by the bots.
 
After that, It'll be on to the minor towns of March Ridge and Valley Station, and then off to Louisville for some cleanups!
 
However, once that's done, I'll be steering the project more towards challenge maps, site maintenance, and minor tasks until build 42 arrives with the new towns we all desperately want. It will be updated on the job board once I have all the ideas and tasks worked out.
 
That's just me though, feel free to use the project's talk page or the Discord to discuss ideas! See you all next week!
 
(''please help it's 2:48AM right now and I have work at 7AM, I haven't even slept and I'm on for a 10 hour shift please help'')
</blockquote>
Hopefully ThinkDock will be able to get some rest though, especially we're on the right track starting a collaboration with [[User:Blindcoder|Blindcoder]] to bring updates to POIs on the epic official map up to date with the ones done in the wiki – we'll start with making the [[Project Zomboid Map Project]] page updated and more visible, so more people can contribute to both the wiki and map project, which will be more than important after [[build 42]] which is tentatively scheduled for the hopefully first half of this year in IWBUMS, which seems quite soon™.
 
Also, while minor, thanks to [[User:Missold|Missold]] for contributing description for [[Dentistry]], [[User:Perfk|Perfk]] for contributing one missing location for [[Wrecking yard]], [[User:Chomasyean8|Chomasyean8]] contributing some bits [[Louisville border camp]], and [[User:Insp175|Insp175]] for adding note for the [[Kentucky State Prison]] page – those bits help too, thank you!
 
===Project Modding===
'''[[PZwiki:Project Modding|Project Modding]]''' sadly continues to be a tad neglected and most likely won't see a big push/update and stay open way past [[build 42]] (which will surely bring a lot of modding updates!), though it's understandable most of the editors want to focus on adding content and modders do their job, but there were some minor additions nevertheless:
*[[User:ChuckleberryFinn|ChuckleberryFinn]] improving [[How to make a clothing mod]] page.
*[[User:STIMP TM|STIMP TM]] adding new entry to [[List of Tiledefs in use by mods]].
*[[User:Glytch3r|Glytch3r]] adding even more entries to the page above.
*[[User:Neznajka|Neznajka]] contributing as always, this time making a dedicated page for translations.
As always, thank you even for the tiniest contributions!
 
===Project Navigation and Categories===
'''[[PZwiki:Project Navigation and Categories|Project Navigation and Categories]]''' finally saw the amount of work needed this time, thanks to the hard work of [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]] – while not yet finished, we expect it being finished soon. There's a brief summary of the works from [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]].
 
<blockquote>
'''Categories'''
 
The category project has finally received some major progress. We have the category tree mostly completed and have implemented almost every category, with just some items left. The big ones left are "Equipment/Tools", "Materials" and "Clothing". As part of this project, we're also adding the new Template:Header/sandbox2|header and [[Template:Page version|page version]] templates.
 
'''Minor changes'''


There will be a few things going on over the next coming weeks and months that you should hopefully look forward to. One thing we will be looking at is documenting Project Zomboids LUA Modding and hopefully getting at least something started on that front. I will also be exploring the idea of "Projects" and "User Badges" as a way to insentivise or at least help users show off a little on their profile for the wiki.
We've added "show/hide" to the navbox, making it easier to know how to expand it, for inexperienced readers (also autotranslates). Body location template for clothing is now smaller and removed borders/headers from table.
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Vaileasys work was split between this and other templates, and people are slowly moving to help with this project, so hopefully we'll see it finally done really soon!


I have cleaned up the administrators list, removing those who were no longer an active member on the wiki.
===Project Seat Yourself Furniture===
'''[[PZwiki:Project Seat Yourself Furniture|Project Seat Yourself Furniture]]''' sadly didn't see contributions – I still want to get back to it eventually, but due to time constrains, I already mentioned it on Discord briefly, so if anyone want to take leadership here, let me know! I'll gladly help with starting things up adding and updating the tiles!


As always please feel free to ask my anything, if you are interested in something being added on the wiki, feel free to visit my talk page.
===Project Spiffo's Construction Crew===
'''[[PZwiki:Project Spiffo's Construction Crew|Project Spiffo's Construction Crew]]''' saw some great work by [[User:Calvy|Calvy]] – Calvy is busy with other tasks, but depending on [[User:HakunaWhiskey|HakunaWhiskey]] plans, we might push it forwards to close before [[PZwiki:Project Build 41 Update|Project Build 41 Update]] officially closes, as it seems to be much doable, we'll see!


Thanks,
===Project Translations===
And finally, '''[[PZwiki:Project Translations|Project Translations]]''' – big behemoth to coordinate, [[User:Vibrance|Vibrance]] is waiting for the translation extension bundle to be tested by [[User:Kirrus|Kirrus]], no solid ETA though, so we'll see, as the whole project may need reworks, so it's better wait with major changes. However, there's been some new translators popping and a lot of work done. Let me summarize


--Connall '''''Project Zomboid Wiki Manager''''' 03:24, 3 September 2014 (BST)
====Afrikaans====
So far it's [[User:TungstenX|TungstenX]] translating some pages at the beginning of the month, but hopefully they will return for more!
 
====Simplified Chinese====
*[[User:KcFuture|KcFuture]] continuing to contribute some translations.
*[[User:Obiwan|Obiwan]] joining to contribute a lot of new translation, utilizing the existing templates in place.
*[[User:Auncer|Auncer]] contributing some fixes for [[Knox Event/zh-hans]] page.
 
====Traditional Chinese====
A little less up to date than the Simplified one, it also saw updates thanks to the [[User:A41133tw|A41133tw]] adding solid translation throughout the month, thank you!
 
====French====
French saw much love this month, thanks to two great contributors, [[User:Quentinlamamy|Quentinlamamy]] and [[User:Dietrich|Dietrich]], thanks!
 
====German====
German didn't see much translation this month, but thanks to [[User:Edgarogg|Edgarogg]] [[Muldraugh/de]] is now translated, thanks!
 
====Korean====
[[User:Atlas7|Atlas7]] mentioned on their talk page, that they are awaiting a child and taking a break from translations – first of all '''congratulations'''! It's understandable taking the break and thank you for announcing it, too!
 
====Polish====
Polish saw two new contributors joining and doing minor works, [[User:Matt Morgan|Matt Morgan]] and [[User:Jake Williams|Jake Williams]], thank you!
 
====Brazilian Portugese====
Brazilian Portugese saw some useful translations thanks to [[User:Silocorb|Silocorb]]
 
====Russian====
While [[User:Mark|Mark]] returned to some editing, they seems to only accidentially bring back the old revision of a page sand sadly not add anything else yet, but maybe in future we'll see more!
 
====Spanish====
Spanish saw three contributors adding various translation, [[User:Valiko2023|Valiko2023]] who joined us some time ago, but mostly [[User:Kesosdev|Kesosdev]] doing much work this month as well as [[User:ANGIELTOR|ANGIELTOR]] translating [[Nutrition/es]].
 
====Turkish====
Turkish seems really healthy thanks to the epic work done and continue to be done by [[User:Ksilem|Ksilem]], but also [[User:Mabik|Mabik]] and [[User:Counterr90|Counterr90]] contributing, great work guys!
 
====Ukrainian====
Ukrainian saw some new work too, by a long-stanging [[User:NeGat1FF|NeGat1FF]], but also newly-joined [[User:Bayon558|Bayon558]] as well as [[User:Astrelsba|Astrelsba]], though accidentially putting it on the wrong page (though let's home that won't be deterring!).
 
 
I also updated some of the main pages, you can see the progress for remaining ones on [[PZwiki:Project Translations|Project Translations]] under each language headers (click them to see), at the moment of writing only 5 languages not being updated to the new format and some still requiring translations, but all are marked accordingly.
 
There was also some changes fore the [[MediaWiki:Tooltip-n-discord|Discord tooltip]], following the re-addition of Discord to sidebar as it's no longer present in the site notice, so you may want to check your translations there!
 
===Other important works===
You all probably noticed a new skin when logged out, as we changed the default to [[mw:Skin:Vector/2022|2022 variant of the old Vector skin]], as this is the skin we'll focus the most with improvements. You can still change to any of older skins including Vector legacy (2010) in [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering-skin|Preferences]] if you like the old one, but expect some changes in the nearest feature, especially the background one, as we're preparing to move to the new header.
 
We've also added the [[PZwiki:Rules#Wiki spirit|Wiki spirit]] section to the rules page, as we had some minor disagreements, but it seems to be all solved thankfully, but it's great to remember what the wiki is about, coopration on bringing something great together!
 
I also updated the [[PZwiki:Administrators|Administrators]] page to list both me and Vaileasys as equal, so do contact us if you have any question / problem to solve first, [[User:Kirrus|Kirrus]] being mostly for the technical side. If you encounter any problem on Discord, especially the one we can't solve there or when we're not around, do contact the Spiffo bot to get through our awesome moderators there, they prove to be helpful if things arise!
 
One of the important new pages, you may have not noticed that was deeply researched is the [[Easter eggs]] – there's been also some updates to the [[The Indie Stone]], thanks to the awesome works done by [[User:LethalCitizen|LethalCitizen]], but also help from people around Discord, including [[User:Kirrus|Kirrus]], [[User:Angostura|Angostura]] and [[User:Calvy|Calvy]], so '''make sure to check the [[Easter eggs]]'''  page up, it's also linked on the main page.
 
Also, [[User:Darkonion5|Darkonion5]] created the new [[Foraging items]] page, originally on their talk page, it seems nice for [[foraging]] that we will see some cleanups following the hopefully soon™ skill page updates.
 
The here's the summary of other stuff from Vaileasys:
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'''Infoboxes'''
 
For a while I've been working on consolidating all the item infoboxes, as it was confusing for editors to know which infobox to use, and a pain to maintain/update each time a new version of the game was released that changed and added something, but was shelved in September 2023.
 
Early this year, [[User:Vibrance|Vibrance]] created a new infobox metatemplate suite, which improves the previous process of creating an infobox, along with changes to the styling which compliments other stylistic changes we've been making, and collapsible sections. The biggest feature though, is the ability to click on the icon and display the associated model for the variant.
 
Many infoboxes (not just items) have already been changed to this new one, however there's still quite a few to go, along with adding the model variants to the infobox. I'll also be working on more infoboxes, such as tiles/furniture, moodles, traits, skills, and any others we may have a need for.
 
The [[Template:Infobox item|item infobox]] isn't ready to be translated yet, but I'm working on that on its [[Template:Infobox item/sandbox|sandbox]]. Any of the infoboxes that are ready to translate, will have the Translation guide section on it (same goes for any templates).
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====Minor fixes====
As always, here's a list of contributors doing minor fixes, that accumulate to our bigger project, thanks!
*[[User:Valiko2023|Valiko2023]] aside contributing Spanish translation, contributed minor fixes for [[How to Use Generators]] page.
*[[User:ViveeFox|ViveeFox]] fixes to [[Lipstick]] and fixing one wrong bed quality.
*[[User:Red-Unicorn|Red-Unicorn]] contributing here and there with minor fixes, thank you!
*[[User:BroastedGarlic|BroastedGarlic]] fixing a hole→hope in [[Player]] page.
*[[User:Markverb1|Markverb1]] (fixing spelling, image and contributing a background-less image for the CantSprint moodle.
*[[User:Wigmoso|Wigmoso]] trying to add some bits for the [[Vinegar]] page, though sadly these had to be reverted.
*[[User:ARG|ARG]] added references/clarifications to [[Foraging]] and [[Fishing]].
*[[User:NoLoGGic|NoLoGGic]] returning with contributing some minor fixes this month, thank you!
*[[User:Fuberti|Fuberti]] contributing some new lore bit trivias as usual.
*[[User:Mkmint|Mkmint]] fixing wrong ID in [[Cocoa Powder]].
*[[User:XelaThing|XelaThing]] contributing some minor changes aside the [[Louisville]] changes as a part of [[PZwiki:Project Locations and Maps|Project Locations and Maps]].
*[[User:DevoTan|DevoTan]] contributing a fix prompting me to clean up the [[Admin commands]] page.
*[[User:Squid|Squid]] fixing a spelling error in [[Build 42]] page.
*[[User:Dinkley|Dinkley]] fixing a typo in [[Walkie Talkie]] page.
*[[User:DinDin|DinDin]] noting us about the deleted Cooking (crafting) page still having red links.
*[[User:Bananabreadboi|Bananabreadboi]] uploading new image for an Xbox button.
*[[User:Nailuj29|Nailuj29]] fixed a mistake on [[Wooden Spear]] page.
*[[User:UserMK22|UserMK22]] added trivia to [[Glasses]] page.
*[[User:Sawhillfnps|Sawhillfnps]] adding new model for the red Premium Technologies [[radio]].
*[[User:Redderzooming|Redderzooming]] contributed a note for [[Fishing Rod]] page.
*[[User:Sinnicus|Sinnicus]] fixed wrong ID in [[Gardening Spray Can]] page.
*[[User:Catalepsis|Catalepsis]] fixing a typo in [[Vehicle maintenance]] page.
*[[User:MrSurvivor1997|MrSurvivor1997]] adding few bits again.
*[[User:BeboD|BeboD]] adding some screenshots for the [[Black Leather Trousers]] page.
*[[User:BrBryan07|BrBryan07]] fixing a spelling in [[Campfire]] page.
*[[User:PattyBourbonman|PattyBourbonman]] doing some shuffling in the [[Traits]] page.
Hopefully no one is missed, and make sure to check [[Special:ActiveUsers|Active users list]] for an up-to-date list of users being active in the last 30 days!
 
====Affiliates====
Still currently with one but stable affiliate, the [https://fallout.wiki/ Independent Fallout Wiki] celebrates it's first anniversary, here's the warm words from [[User:Kate Aces|Kate Aces]], administrator of the [https://fallout.wiki/ Independent Fallout Wiki].
 
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Hooray! We released our Annual Report and celebrated our 1 year anniversary! That is about all from us. Can't wait to see the new summary!
</blockquote>
 
If you are fancy from PZwiki editing break, and are in a Fallout mood, make sure to check them out!
 
====Future works====
First, a note from [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]].
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'''Future'''
 
Going forward I'll mostly be continuing with infoboxes and categories. I also have a few plans for new/updated templates, such as:
 
*transcripts template
*[[Template:EvolvedRecipesForItem]]
*[[Template:Fixing condition]]/[[Template:Fixing weapon]]
 
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
 
Some work also needs to be done to reduce the width of some tables, which will increase the use of icons in the heading, along with a guide to the meaning of the icons, which will be especially helpful for mobiles users that can't see the tooltips.
 
If time permits, I'll also be taking a deep dive into the changes coming in [[build 42]], to hopefully be more prepared for its release.
</blockquote>
 
As far as I go, I'll mostly be continuing patrolling changes and focus mostly on [[PZwiki:Project Build 41 Update|Project Build 41 Update]] from now on.
 
Till the next month! —[[User:Faalagorn|Faalagorn]][[User talk:Faalagorn|☎]]/[[Special:Contributions/Faalagorn|✓]] 15:50, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
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February 2024(3 March 2024)

Welcome again to the monthly summary! February is technically the shortest month in the year (less with the leap day this year), though with me writing the summary on each Sunday, I guess it's more dependent on the weeks' layout than the days alone. Anyway, this we got a lot to cover this month, so let's get into it!

This month started with some PZwiki awards cleanups, originally introduced by Connall as userboxes back in 2014 and slightly brought back in 2018, they were introduced as barnstars by Ikip late last year, but were to expansive for us, so instead of removing, I trimmed them down. There will be some more cleanups done later down the line, especially since they aren't used really widely, but since a few users seemed to at least get fond of them, I kept them, giving credit where it's due.

Next, thanks to nasKo we got new roles on Discord for wiki admins and wiki editors – the latter will be used to announce important messages and monthly summaries, so that's nice to have. We had some organizational/coordination updates too, more on that below.

Then, next main thing down the line was introduction of automated distribution template thanks to Calvy, carrying on the loose idea from Carina marked in PZwiki tasks page for a while. The script used also brought back a need of coordinated place on GitHub for those scripts – we might get a proper repository somewhere down the line, but right now they are being collected as a part of this list. They are slowly being updated on item pages.

Which bring us to another huge job Calvy was performing this month, utilizing CalvyBot to perform thousands of mundane tasks with clever regex scripts with Pywikibot, that brought us tons of minor fixes but also helping tremendously with both Project Navigation and Categories and removal of language bar lately (which is now replaced by a sidebar), as well as deploying new infoboxes…

…Which again, brings us yet another point, being the new infoboxes! By now, pretty much all the infoboxes are moved to the newer look and functionality, with the old ones being deprecated and removed soon™.

And another not-project-related work by Calvy is elaborating on Vaileasys idea of adding item tags – these will probably be especially useful on build 42 with the new crafting systems, but are starting to be useful right now!

And finally, before getting to the project summaries, we also had some organizational changes:

The Tasks got some cleanups too, some things moved to projects properly.

Project Build 41 Update

Following the leadership changes in Project Build 41 Update, I updated the job board and listed everythin that remains to be done. It's mostly a few missing items (some of which can be moved to build 42 project if they don't make it, as they only be spawned in debug mode and by admin in multiplayer, as well as bringing skills, items, recipes and tiles up to date, some of the tasks being shared with the Project Spiffo's Construction Crew and Project Seat Yourself Furniture, so some focus could shift there eventually.

Some items, mainly clothing, were split to separate pages too, following the new infobox, codebox and distribution deployments, to not host too much on one page. There will be a few more that will be split, some missing pages updated and afterwards the main focus will be updating the pages to 41.78.16 from Category:Version.

We also don't announce the project through the site notice now, as it's closer than ever to being finished!

Aside from that, we had some valuable contributions, too, thank you!

  • Stock creating Bowling Shoes page.
  • DevoTan adding some items and updating what's needed to be updated ammo pages.
  • Calvy helping with some pages in between too and adding missing models slowly.

Project Locations and Maps

The Project Locations and Maps is probably the most active one, sadly resulting in one contributor being blocked from editing because of some mishaps, but other than that it's getting healthy management of ThinkDock, including article rewrites and image categorization and contributions from other users.

Here's the summary from ThinkDock:

Hi all, ThinkDock here. While there were a few more heated debates and some speed bumps along the way, including an unfortunate loss of a contributor, January was a great month for locations and maps! Here's a quick summary:

Unfortunately, I am sad to announce that our long-time contributor Ikip was banned. His contributions were greatly appreciated, and will live on in the reworks and templates that we continue to use.

Calvy Finished up the rest of the first pass of Louisville, so now all that needs to be done is formatting and other cleanups. However, he has mostly been busy with clothing and other items. That doesn't mean he hasn't knocked it completely out of the park with brainstorming, though! Thanks for all your help!

Ksilem Also helped out by reworking the Laundromat page, as well as adding on to various pages, including some Doe Valley and Fallas Lake works. This will make it a lot easier to complete these towns faster. They also did lots of brainstorming in the Discord. Thanks!

Vaileasys and Faalagorn helped with some brainstorming as well, mainly with figuring out what categories will be relevant for the project and which ones we have and don't have. Thanks, it's great to have admin support!

I personally did a lot of stuff behind the scenes this month, namely getting almost all the images of locations categorized. In the future, when we upload images, I want to kindly ask everyone to edit their page and categorize them according to what town the location is in, even if the category isn't made yet. If anyone knows how to work bots, please hit me up, as I had to do it all manually.

I also got moderator privileges on the Map Project (Thanks blindcoder!) so I will be adding more and more POIs on there as my time frees up. I also added the site maintenance task on the job board, so if you want to help out with behind the scenes stuff as well, feel free to, as now I have a documented list available.

As for future plans, after I have all the newer images categorized, I'm going to finish up Fallas Lake and then focus on improving consistency for the Map Project to keep it in line with the wiki. After that's mostly accomplished, it'll be off to the rest of the smaller towns and then the massive juggernaut of Louisville! I don't see myself getting through all that in only one month, so changes after that will be discussed in the next summary. That's just me, though! Feel free to use the Discord or project talk page to discuss with other contributors!

See y'all next month!

Other than that, there were two more old-time contributors helping us as well, as well as one newcomer fixing location coordinates, those help too!

I also helped with some image miscategorization lately, which should help the Project Navigation and Categories too!

Project Modding

Like I mentioned before, the Project Modding project didn't get much attention sadly. It's currently looking for new ownership, so if you think you are up for the task of managing it, let us know either here on the wiki or on the Discord.

It did see a contribution to the active list of Tiledefs in use by mods page by Glytch3r this month, thanks!

Project Navigation and Categories

The Project Navigation and Categories saw probably the most attention this month, the layout was finally pretty much finalized, with the only remaining ones being clothing (and unrelated Template:Body location changes), and materials intricacies when it comes to the item and some cleanups to other categories which will be narrowed down the line, possibly by other projects. Here's the summary from the project leader, Vaileasys:

We've had a lot of progress with the project this month, largely thanks to Calvy and the use of his bot swapping the header and updating categories. This month we've completed:

Other than some minor adjustments, the last major category left is Category:Clothing, which has been put on hold temporarily until we finalise the layout.

There was some categorization decisions related to Project Locations and Maps.

Project Seat Yourself Furniture

As expected not much moved in the Project Seat Yourself Furniture yet, but it got some minor job progress mainly thanks to the rapid progress in the Project Spiffo's Construction Crew and some in the Project Build 41 Update. Hopefully after both of them will be reaching mature stage, this project will get back to spotlight again!

Project Spiffo's Construction Crew

A lot has happened for the Project Spiffo's Construction Crew, it's yet far from being finished, especially as it all correlates with different projects and side projects, but it's catching speed real quick. Let me get the summary from the current project leader, Calvy:

G'day editors. It's been a good month over in SCC land. After finishing Project Electricals and Transmission I took up the role of leader from HakunaWhiskey, who I'd like to thank for their work on the project before me.

By contributor count, we're the smallest project (besides the on hold modding project), and it was clear that construction had been neglected for quite some time. Due to this, a large portion of this month has been dedicated to getting a good framework to build off of, including a full overhaul of the job board. So far the completed work this month includes;

I'd like to thank both Vaileasys and Faalagorn for their help across the project, and coordination with their respective projects to standardise articles. As well as;

For the coming month we'll be focusing on articles themselves, we still have missing articles from B41s release, and a large list of articles to update and improve.

Overall a really good start to the project, and looking forward there's a lot of work left to go, but I have no doubts that we can get it done.

Thanks, Calvy.

It would be nice to thanks ThreeLime doing some meaningful contributions to the somewhat-neglected-yet-popular carpentry page!

Project Translations

The Project Translations didn't see a huge changes with Vibrance waiting Kirrus to let us test the Translate extension before evaluating it being deployed, to hopefully make keeping translations up to date easier, but it might take some time. It also made Ksilem focus more on helping with English pages, including the ones from Project Locations and Maps which is important task for a healthy basis for other translators!

Anyway, that doesn't mean there wasn't any strides being done – the {{Languages}} template is finally being retired in favor of the sidebar, done by Calvy's bot and I'll finally get myself to update the remaining 7 main pages to the new format, to retire the old templates. We're also slowly moving away from the translation database from {{Translate}} and {{T}} in favor for {{ll}} and retiring {{Sp}} in favor of {{lcs}} template.

As far as specific translations though, we saw some activity as usual, thank you everyone!

Traditional Chinese

  • A41133tw contributing some translations as usual this month, nice!

Simplified Chinese

Czech

  • NyaCZ joining and adding some Czech translations – some templates usage had to be corrected, but it's understandable, as they are confused sometimes.

French

German

Brazilian Portugese

Russian

Spanish

As well as Teromax34 coming back from a break, so hopefully we'll see more, Spanish being one of the most healthy languages supported on the wiki!

Turkish

Other important works

I summarized all the most important works above, this time, but let the Vaileasys summarize his work below:

Outside of the category project, most of my time this month has been spent on adding/improving infoboxes and misc work on various other templates.

The bigger changes are:

Infoboxes:

Other templates:

  • Navbox skills: added translatability.
  • Transcript: template to consistently format transcripts.
  • Mood: used to calculate the in-game moodle effect from values in game files.
  • Experience: added calculations for values in media files.
  • Tag link: template to simplify adding links to item tags.

As a side project I've been developing a parser for the scripts files, along with complimentary scripts. The purpose of this is for the item list and simplify updating values elsewhere, such as tables on on the weapons page.

Minor fixes

With that done, let's get directly into all the little but important fixes:

As always, you can also see the active users list page for the last 30 days.

I think I forgot to mention all the prior contributions of the long-standing user LethalCitizen, being focused on Easter eggs, but Lethal also helped improve the page for The Indie Stone, and creating the Formosa Interactive, General Arcade, The Eccentric Ape, and Tanglewood Games! Thanks a lot for all the contributions!

Also Calvy again helped us fixing some of the Spiffo and Discord page, thanks!

Affiliates

Nothing much changed here, but the Independent Fallout Wiki is being healthy as always, and so are we. Here's a short note from Kate Aces, an admin of the Fallout Wiki:

HELL YEAH this month we are celebrating our two year anniversary and hit 65,000 articles!

Congratulations on reaching 65k! That's a huge number of pages to maintain!

Future works

Next month should mark further style changes to the look of the wiki – I'll finish moving main pages to the new format, we'll finish deploying the new header, removing language toolbar in favor of sidebar and finally re-introduce the background image, so stay tuned! Some server-side things will have to wait, as Kirrus will be away for a week or two, so barred some emergency not much help here, but there's a lot that we have on mind, so we'll all have our hands occupied.

I'll try hard on finalizing the Build 41 updates and clearing tasks, to provide a blank canvas for future build 42 update too, so hopefully we can speed it up. I'll try collaborating more with the various other projects, including the PZMap and the overall community and developers, so a bright future is ahead of us!

Thank you for making it to the end reading it all, see you around on Wiki and Discord, and in the next month summary! —Faalagorn/ 18:07, 3 March 2024 (UTC)


January 2024(4 February 2024)

Welcome everyone to the summary of the first whole month of 2024! Now that we're deep in 2024, I archived all the 2023 monthly summaries to the 2023 archive, and changed the header names so they refer more to what the news were about. Hopefully for 2024 we will have a full 12 of the monthly summaries, with all the project summaries started in late 2023!

Despite some minor setbacks, this month was again much productive, let's start with the projects summary.

Project Electricals and Transmission

First off, let's congratulate to Calvy for manning up and bringing the final push for Project Electricals and Transmission and everyone else for contributing! The next in line will probably be Project Spiffo's Construction Crew, good to have another project closed, pushing focus to other ones and opening room for potential new ones in the future!

Project Build 41 Update

Project Build 41 Update again saw much love, thanks from the combined effort of Angostura, some minor additions by Stabbyson, Absolute Lambda updating missing items, Calvy's massive work, and Vaileasys hard work elsewhere, as well as everyone else contributing anything minor – you all probably saw the new infoboxes, codeboxes, models, as well as version updates – it's hard to close it totally just yet, especially as it intertwine so closely with other projects, and side activities, but it is close enough to be taken out of the everlasting site notice, combined with inability to translate it reliably and taking some space, especially with the new skin improvements (more about it below). I may also be the one trying to push it forward in the coming weeks, probably taking it off Vaileasys's shoulders (who's busy with Project Navigation and Categories and some template works, currently focused on adjusting new infoboxes and skins, which you probably noticed already), after our brief discussion for those following us on the official Discord server.

Project Locations and Maps

It's hard not to mention Project Locations and Maps without a great dose of admiration how much dedication is being put into updating it, here's the summary from the project leader, ThinkDock1721!

Hi all, ThinkDock here. While there were a few heated debates and some speed bumps along the way, January was a monster of a month for locations and maps! Here's a quick summary:

First off, I want to give an enormous thanks to Calvy for willingly tackling Louisville. It's quite the juggernaut, but they've managed to not only make a table with all the businesses, but also began the arduous process of elaborating on all the businesses so they're no longer stubs! There will be some cleanups required as always, but it's a monumental effort for just one person to take on. Thank you so so much!

Our long-time contributor Ikip categorized almost all of the location pages, and also helped out with some minor edits here and there. Thanks!

We also had some minor edits and small contributions from the following users:

Thanks everyone!

I personally completed my project of finishing all the spawn towns, managing to get all of both Muldraugh and West Point done this month. (Late nights galore!) I also restructured the project page a bit.

As for the plan for the future, with Ikip categorizing all the locations themselves and Calvy tackling most of Louisville, I'll be free to do some collaboration with the folks at PZWiki:Project Navigation and Categories to categorize all the images and business logos that were missed by the bots.

After that, It'll be on to the minor towns of March Ridge and Valley Station, and then off to Louisville for some cleanups!

However, once that's done, I'll be steering the project more towards challenge maps, site maintenance, and minor tasks until build 42 arrives with the new towns we all desperately want. It will be updated on the job board once I have all the ideas and tasks worked out.

That's just me though, feel free to use the project's talk page or the Discord to discuss ideas! See you all next week!

(please help it's 2:48AM right now and I have work at 7AM, I haven't even slept and I'm on for a 10 hour shift please help)

Hopefully ThinkDock will be able to get some rest though, especially we're on the right track starting a collaboration with Blindcoder to bring updates to POIs on the epic official map up to date with the ones done in the wiki – we'll start with making the Project Zomboid Map Project page updated and more visible, so more people can contribute to both the wiki and map project, which will be more than important after build 42 which is tentatively scheduled for the hopefully first half of this year in IWBUMS, which seems quite soon™.

Also, while minor, thanks to Missold for contributing description for Dentistry, Perfk for contributing one missing location for Wrecking yard, Chomasyean8 contributing some bits Louisville border camp, and Insp175 for adding note for the Kentucky State Prison page – those bits help too, thank you!

Project Modding

Project Modding sadly continues to be a tad neglected and most likely won't see a big push/update and stay open way past build 42 (which will surely bring a lot of modding updates!), though it's understandable most of the editors want to focus on adding content and modders do their job, but there were some minor additions nevertheless:

As always, thank you even for the tiniest contributions!

Project Navigation and Categories

Project Navigation and Categories finally saw the amount of work needed this time, thanks to the hard work of Vaileasys – while not yet finished, we expect it being finished soon. There's a brief summary of the works from Vaileasys.

Categories

The category project has finally received some major progress. We have the category tree mostly completed and have implemented almost every category, with just some items left. The big ones left are "Equipment/Tools", "Materials" and "Clothing". As part of this project, we're also adding the new Template:Header/sandbox2

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