Welcome back! It’s been a while since the last newsletter was released, and while we tried our hardest to work on an issue for you last month, our holiday vacations took up most of our time. No worries though, we’re back with even more this time: double the content, double the fun.

Remarkable contributions

We are very happy to see so many dedicated editors on the Wiki, and we don’t want to miss the opportunity to show you our appreciation! Here’s some of the users with the most outstanding work in the last months – July and August:

• Vanessa1375 removed tons of small mistakes she came across. Thanks!

• Welcome DanielW231! As one of the newest editors, he already made lots of changes.

• Even after earning themselves the User of the Month tag last time, Musmak continued to improve various articles. Thank you!
• With tons of new images added, we’d like to give a special thanks to YeeterFamGang.Great job, and congrats on becoming our User of the Month for your efforts in July!
• After his long absence, BlueandGreen has racked up hundreds of edits in almost no time, with one of his main projects being the Mineplex Discord article, which has now more than doubled in size. Great to see you back, and with no surprise – the User of the Month tag for August goes to you!

Discussion, feedback and internal changes

Over the last months, we’ve made plans to rework the staff verification system. Until now, we had a large range of tags which users could choose to receive, including Quality Assurance, Event Assistance and others. With this update, we’ve narrowed it down to Mineplex Staff and Game Insights tags, to accurately highlight the users who have extensive knowledge of the server. Along with that, we’ve also renamed the “Verified Mineplex Staff” tag to just “Mineplex Staff” – it was a bit redundant, wasn’t it? Last but not least, we now have a Discord verification in place as well, so if you’re either Mineplex staff or GI, don’t hesitate to contact us to have your tags applied to your account!

Staff pages have repeatedly shown to be a huge issue, and we’ve finally decided to remove all staff pages (excluding Admin+). We have already prepared an archive for the retired staff member articles, which means none of the information in the articles is lost. We thank each and everyone of you for your efforts on these pages, but please understand that we have grossly underestimated the work connected to keeping them updated. Feel free to take a look at Mineplex Wiki:Archive to see the removed pages. Needless to say, there are no plans to remove any other pages at the moment.

If you’ve paid close attention to the edit logs, you might have noticed that we deleted a seemingly harmless article about Staff Commands. Don’t worry, none of us went rogue! :) We have actually been asked by a Mineplex administrator to take down the page because it contained confidential information. To elaborate a bit more, they requested that we should not specify the commands which are in use by staff only. In the future, we will try to rework the article so that it does not violate Mineplex’s staff policy, as we would like to maintain a good relationship with the server. Thanks for understanding!

Upcoming content

Our next featured game will be Super Smash Mobs Domination! Being one of the longest standing games on the network, the article could certainly use a cosmetic makeover. Feel free to help us update the page.

That’s it for today! If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you want to share other thoughts, make sure to leave a reply. 

Thanks!