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==July 2018==
{{Template:Community_news|Title=Community News <small>20 July, 2018</small>
|Text=After a long break, we're finally back with more news on the current state of the wiki.
===Wiki Administration===
You may have noticed a lack of [[PZwiki:administrators|administrators]] on the wiki for a while, which there is a very good reason for. Since the last update, [[User:Connall|Connall]] has been employed by [[The Indie Stone]] as a dev, which has taken up a large portion of his time. However, him and [[User:Kirrus|Kirrus]] will still be popping by and are always contactable, see their user pages for details.
So, who am I? If you've been keeping up with the [[Special:RecentChanges|logs]] over the last few months you may have noticed me, [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]], making a lot of changes to the wiki, which I'll get into in a moment. I am a new administrator here on the wiki and will be frequently active, you may also see me on the [https://theindiestone.com/forums/ forums] and [https://steamcommunity.com/app/108600/discussions/ Steam]. Come say hello to me on my [[User_talk:Vaileasys|talk page]] and ask me anything you may be unsure about.
===Changes to the wiki===
There have been a lot of changes made to the wiki so far, mostly regarding consistency. The [[PZwiki:Style guide|style guide]] has been updated, so check that out, as well, a number of [[Help:Contents|help]] articles have been prepared to help you learn the basics and get started editing quickly. I've also made some changes to the [[:Category:Boilerplates|boilerplates]], hopefully making pages less confusing to read and edit.
====Community stuff====
The [[PZwiki:Community_portal|community portal]] has seen a massive overhaul, making it easier to navigate to what you're looking for. All the contents of the old portal can still be found as subpages, including [[PZwiki:Community_portal/Things_to_do|things to do]] and [[PZwiki:Community_portal/Priority_issues|priority issues]].
[[PZwiki:Community_projects|Community projects]] are now finally up and running, these are projects run by you, the community, to focus on a particular section of the wiki based on your areas of expertise within [[Project Zomboid]]. Anyone is free to contribute to any of these projects or become the leader of any that are missing one, or create a new project.
To get the community even more involved, we've decided to pick back up on the long since abandoned [[PZwiki:Userboxes|userboxes]] and [[Template:User_Award|awards]]. Userboxes are simply a small piece of code you can put on your [[Special:MyPage|user page]] as a communicative notice, which will help editors to collaborate more effectively.
===The state of Project Zomboid===
Sadly, Project Zomboid is several updates ahead of the wiki, therefore we ask anyone, no matter your experience, to check out the [[PZwiki:Community_portal/Priority_issues|priority issues]] or [[PZwiki:Community_projects|projects]] on the [[PZwiki:Community_portal|community portal]].
As I'm sure everyone would have noticed, Project Zomboid was updated to [[build 39]] at the start of June, this update added [[vehicles]] along with plenty of other minor changes and additions. As a response, we've organised the [[PZwiki:Project_Vehicles_and_Mechanics|Vehicles and Mechanics]] project in hopes to get this update covered quickly.
Additionally, we've already been able to get our hands on the new [[weather]] mechanics that will be coming with [[build 40]]. You can find how to opt into that [https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/24075-released-weather-test-build/ here]. Be sure to [https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/forum/85-bug-reports/ report any bugs] you encounter.
===Going forward===
I will continue to make more changes behind the scenes, the somewhat broken [[Template:RecipeLookup|RecipeLookup]] in particular. I've also got some more plans to further improve the boilerplates/page layout. If you'd like to see what I, personally, am working on, you can check out my [[User:Vaileasys|user page]].
In regards to these news articles, we may decide to make this a monthly thing, reporting on changes that have been made on the wiki along with the state of the game.
- [[User:Vaileasys|Vaileasys]] ([[User_talk:Vaileasys|talk]]) '''''Wiki Administrator'''''
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==September 2014==
==September 2014==
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|Title=Community News <small>5 September, 2014</small>
|Text=Another one of these the very next day, pretty surprising in all honesty. You probably won't be seeing these once a day but seeing as there's a fair bit going on it does seem to warrant an update from day to day. Interesting in it's own little way. Anyway, what's been going on today? Well first off pzwiki has a new Twitter account, for quite some time we had the link in the sidebar that said "Follow us on Twitter" I had never clicked on the link. Turns out, I should of. It had been linking to an old wiki administrator account, that was a cross between a personal account and wiki. It was all rather... odd. After a discussion with brilliant blindcoder (you would know him for his excellent Project Zomboid map.) and the magnificent man with the rocking body nasKo I decided to start an account for the wiki. The account can be found at: [http://twitter.com/ZomboidWiki @ZomboidWiki]<sup>[[File:TwitterIcon.png|16px|link=http://twitter.com/ZomboidWiki|ZomboidWiki]]</sup> so follow it!
|Text=Another one of these the very next day, pretty surprising in all honesty. You probably won't be seeing these once a day but seeing as there's a fair bit going on it does seem to warrant an update from day to day. Interesting in it's own little way. Anyway, what's been going on today? Well first off pzwiki has a new Twitter account, for quite some time we had the link in the sidebar that said "Follow us on Twitter" I had never clicked on the link. Turns out, I should of. It had been linking to an old wiki administrator account, that was a cross between a personal account and wiki. It was all rather... odd. After a discussion with brilliant blindcoder (you would know him for his excellent Project Zomboid map.) and the magnificent man with the rocking body nasKo I decided to start an account for the wiki. The account can be found at: [http://twitter.com/ZomboidWiki @ZomboidWiki]<sup>[[File:TwitterIcon.png|16px|link=http://twitter.com/ZomboidWiki|ZomboidWiki]]</sup> so follow it!


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|Title=Community News <small>4 September, 2014</small>
|Text=Hello again, time for another quick update as we integrate more and more items into the wiki. At the moment we've had a couple of users continue work on things such as the items page, which have been looking pretty impressive recently. In any case I figure I would do a quick rundown of what's happened.
|Text=Hello again, time for another quick update as we integrate more and more items into the wiki. At the moment we've had a couple of users continue work on things such as the items page, which have been looking pretty impressive recently. In any case I figure I would do a quick rundown of what's happened.


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--Connall '''''Project Zomboid Wiki Manager''''' 05:41, 5 September 2014 (BST)
--Connall '''''Project Zomboid Wiki Manager''''' 05:41, 5 September 2014 (BST)
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|Title=Community News <small>2 September, 2014</small>
|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.  
|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.  



Revision as of 07:32, 20 July 2018

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July 2018

Community News 20 July, 2018

After a long break, we're finally back with more news on the current state of the wiki.

Wiki Administration

You may have noticed a lack of administrators on the wiki for a while, which there is a very good reason for. Since the last update, Connall has been employed by The Indie Stone as a dev, which has taken up a large portion of his time. However, him and Kirrus will still be popping by and are always contactable, see their user pages for details.

So, who am I? If you've been keeping up with the logs over the last few months you may have noticed me, Vaileasys, making a lot of changes to the wiki, which I'll get into in a moment. I am a new administrator here on the wiki and will be frequently active, you may also see me on the forums and Steam. Come say hello to me on my talk page and ask me anything you may be unsure about.

Changes to the wiki

There have been a lot of changes made to the wiki so far, mostly regarding consistency. The style guide has been updated, so check that out, as well, a number of help articles have been prepared to help you learn the basics and get started editing quickly. I've also made some changes to the boilerplates, hopefully making pages less confusing to read and edit.

Community stuff

The community portal has seen a massive overhaul, making it easier to navigate to what you're looking for. All the contents of the old portal can still be found as subpages, including things to do and priority issues.

PZwiki:Community portal are now finally up and running, these are projects run by you, the community, to focus on a particular section of the wiki based on your areas of expertise within Project Zomboid. Anyone is free to contribute to any of these projects or become the leader of any that are missing one, or create a new project. To get the community even more involved, we've decided to pick back up on the long since abandoned userboxes and awards. Userboxes are simply a small piece of code you can put on your user page as a communicative notice, which will help editors to collaborate more effectively.

The state of Project Zomboid

Sadly, Project Zomboid is several updates ahead of the wiki, therefore we ask anyone, no matter your experience, to check out the priority issues or projects on the community portal. As I'm sure everyone would have noticed, Project Zomboid was updated to build 39 at the start of June, this update added vehicles along with plenty of other minor changes and additions. As a response, we've organised the Vehicles and Mechanics project in hopes to get this update covered quickly. Additionally, we've already been able to get our hands on the new weather mechanics that will be coming with build 40. You can find how to opt into that here. Be sure to report any bugs you encounter.

Going forward

I will continue to make more changes behind the scenes, the somewhat broken Template:Crafting in particular. I've also got some more plans to further improve the boilerplates/page layout. If you'd like to see what I, personally, am working on, you can check out my user page. In regards to these news articles, we may decide to make this a monthly thing, reporting on changes that have been made on the wiki along with the state of the game.

- Vaileasys (talk) Wiki Administrator

September 2014

Community News 5 September, 2014

Another one of these the very next day, pretty surprising in all honesty. You probably won't be seeing these once a day but seeing as there's a fair bit going on it does seem to warrant an update from day to day. Interesting in it's own little way. Anyway, what's been going on today? Well first off pzwiki has a new Twitter account, for quite some time we had the link in the sidebar that said "Follow us on Twitter" I had never clicked on the link. Turns out, I should of. It had been linking to an old wiki administrator account, that was a cross between a personal account and wiki. It was all rather... odd. After a discussion with brilliant blindcoder (you would know him for his excellent Project Zomboid map.) and the magnificent man with the rocking body nasKo I decided to start an account for the wiki. The account can be found at: @ZomboidWikiZomboidWiki so follow it!

The Twitter account will mainly be used to notify users of major changes to the wiki, along with general information.

If you visit the wiki semi-frequently, you can see that the main page has been rejuvenated a bit, to make it look a little bit more sleek. Hopefully everybody will enjoy the changes that have been made. Should you seem something out of place, make sure to pass on a note to me. I'll be sure to look into the issue. You can thank Bowlympicshero for the update to the front page and for his work, I introduced and awarded the Front Page Designer award, so congratulations to him.

Nightmare has put in considerable work into the Items page at the moment, adding class names, statistics and also doing translation work for the German version. It's all been pretty impressive so props to him.

I believe that's all for now. Until next time. --Connall Project Zomboid Wiki Manager 03:19, 6 September 2014 (BST)

Community News 4 September, 2014

Hello again, time for another quick update as we integrate more and more items into the wiki. At the moment we've had a couple of users continue work on things such as the items page, which have been looking pretty impressive recently. In any case I figure I would do a quick rundown of what's happened.

A project page has been created, but at the moment it's just temp as I get more things written down and integrated for the use of projects. What are projects though?

Projects are supposed to be a centralized page in which leaders can create tasks and contributors can be on the same page. It allows people to know what should be focused on and what problems people are aware for. It allows for an easier standardization and a central discussion point on changes that can be made, whether info wise or design wise.

It will hopefully make people more encouraged to contribute to project and will give a central goal that people can work towards. I will be rolling it out in a couple of weeks time and bringing pages under certain projects. Nothing might happen (due to the number of consistent editors is certainly possible) but lets hope not.

Some of things we have pulled from MediaWiki are Ambox Templates, these offer new information boxes that people can access and use on pages to make things look a little bit more slick. Documentation has been included and you should find everything you need at Template:Ambox so be sure to check that out.

I will also be rolling out a new main page design that was spearheaded by Bowlympicshero tomorrow at some point. The final design (short of any objection) can be found: here

As per the last post, I have been looking into user badges and I have in fact pulled over the user boxes template from MediaWiki as well. As a test run I have created an administrator user badge that can be found on my page here and Kirrus page as well. While there is a third admin by the name of Pianoman, due to his inactivity I have not put a badge on his profile. While Kirrus is an admin, anything to do with the wiki should be coming to me. Kirrus is here to make sure that the server boxes are running as smooth as possible and less to do with general editing around the wiki.

That's all for now, thanks for reading.

--Connall Project Zomboid Wiki Manager 05:41, 5 September 2014 (BST)

Community News 2 September, 2014

Hello there, I have decided to open up this community news section, where we will post anything management wise that happens with the wiki.

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.

I have cleaned up the administrators list, removing those who were no longer an active member on the wiki.

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.

Thanks,

--Connall Project Zomboid Wiki Manager 03:24, 3 September 2014 (BST)