2 months later, and we are back! Although it may seem like we skipped a newsletter, it is intentional. We have decided that it would be better if we released a newsletter every other month, thus covering 2 months in one newsletter. Anyway, let’s jump straight into it! 

Remarkable contributions

The past months have been quite busy in terms of edits! We’ve seen a few new member joining us, as well as older ones who suddenly went on a streak of edits. It’s nice to see that your trick-or-treating hasn’t impacted the involvement on the platform!

• MachoPiggies went through a great amount of pages, improving, fixing and updating them! The amount of work done was so impressive, it would not have made sense to not award him one of the 2 User of the Month titles! Congrats! 

• Vanessa1375 went around editing a few pages, which include Classics Cow, Streams Team or even Content Creator Council!

• BlueandGreen also contributed in a more technical way by targeting cosmetics pages as well as improving some templates.

• DCPlaysMC edited the Power Play Club page.

• Heckingss mainly focused on working on various teams and subteams pages, such as Rules Committee and Quality Assurance Testing to only name a few. We thought his numerous contributions were quite pertinent, hence he will be able to enjoy the 2nd ‘User of the Month’ tag given along with this newsletter. Congrats!

• Xukuri, THELichCA and Surved edited a bunch of miscellaneous pages.

Discussion, feedback and internal changes

During Halloween, you probably noticed that your eyes have been treated with a dark and spooky theme! As this period is heavily celebrated on Mineplex - especially through the 2019 Halloween Event which included the return of Halloween Havoc - we had no reason to pretend nothing was going on around here. Although we received a lot of positive feedback on the general aspect of the wiki, the colour being pretty much inverted led to some displaying issues around some templates… Sorry about that! Anyway, did you enjoy that theme? What do you think should have been improved? What would you like to see if something similar was done to celebrate Christmas? Please make sure to vote on the poll below and let us aware of any ideas you may have through the comments!

Over the last weeks, BlueandGreen overhauled some of the cosmetics pages, which sparked a discussion about their layout on our discord server. Not only is there some information we’d like to add to the main tables (the rarity of cosmetics, for instance), but the large galleries of some pages have proven to be highly inconvenient for our mobile readers, too. To combat this, we’re considering to move all animated images to a dedicated subpage. This would allow us to improve the general design of the galleries (such as by sorting and categorizing the GIFs), as well as speeding up the load times of the main pages and lowering data usage. What do you think about this?

Another small change is the recent addition of the Wikia Bot to our discord server! Our little helper is connected to the Wiki, and provides some interesting statistics on the page, and many more useful commands. Use !wikia help for a quick overview of all features.

Finally, here’s the results of our Halloween giveaway! Our 3 winners are:

• AceSJus

• Jaekub

• killer10

Congrats to you all! Be sure to message Mining on Discord to claim your prize. If you haven’t won anything this time, don’t worry! We might do another giveaway in the future.

Upcoming content

For our next featured minigame, we wanted to do something special: We’ve chosen a Bedrock game. The article for Dragons wasn’t even created yet, but that is about to change. If you’re a bedrock player, feel free to contribute to the page, because there’s obviously a lot missing.

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

Thanks!