Hiya! I’m really excited to write this newsletter today as Spooktober finally came around! We’ve seen a bunch of new updates on Mineplex, which means new articles have been created on the wiki! Let’s jump straight a way in what has been done by the community this month, shall we? 

Remarkable contributions

• GeneralEJV and Enunciated revised the entire Game Insights page!

• GwenTheGuardian added some information to the Waiting Lobby page!

• Vanessa1375 updated and improved the Senior Moderator, Moderator, Appeals, Reports and Halloween Havoc pages.

• Nicodami added quite a few Nano Games pages, worked a lot on the Halloween Havoc page, and added a page for the Mineplex Discord (if anyone is interested, we will need to add a page about the old Mineplex Teamspeak!). He also added a new poll on the main page (make sure to vote if it’s not done already), and worked on some templates with me.

• NeoEnderman2016 created a new page for this year’s new exclusive Halloween game: Halloween Havoc! As your additions were really extensive, we’ve decided to reward you with the super fancy User of the Month tag! Congrats.

Discussion, feedback and internal changes

I have a big announcement to make today! Two months ago, both of our staff members (BlueandGreen (formerly Administrator) and RobbinK (formerly Moderator) resigned from their position. However, I’m very happy to announce that Nicodami will now step up from his moderator position to become an admin! This means I will not be alone doing the behind-the-scenes stuff anymore, which is pretty exciting. We can ensure now that the Wiki will be updated regularly! By the way, there’s still quite a few staff positions available, and we’d love to recruit more members. Be sure to visit the application page and give it a try.

For technical changes, I have a new addition to present which might come in really handy sometimes! The {{RankTag}} template allows you to easily find the Xenforo, Enjin or Teamspeak tag as well as the in-game prefix of a rank and add it on any page. Some of the missing tags, especially for the TS section, are still on our to-do list.

This change might turn out to be huge in the future: after reading various guides and help pages, I’ve set up a semi-automatic bot for this Wiki! Its most frequent fields of application will include making repetitive edits to many pages, such as 

• moving a group of pages to a new category

• fixing links to disambiguation pages 

• searching for misspelled words and replace them with correct ones.

Impressive, eh? If you have any boring, monotonous tasks to do, let me know and I’ll see if the bot can take over.

Upcoming content

We’ve decided to feature a timeless classic during the next month, which sadly has been removed from Java: Search and Destroy! Originating from the Red Warfare merge, this game will serve as a great test field for possible new kit and map navboxes. As always, editing isn’t limited to staff, so if you loved the game just like we did, be sure to contribute to the page! ^-^

If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you just want to share your thoughts, make sure to leave a reply. 

Thanks!

Newsletter written by Nicodami and MiningCreeper.