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Now that Mineplex has been shut down (R.I.P.), is there another server that has Bridges on it? I always played Mineplex for Bridges and now it’s gone. 😔
I understand that the news of Mineplex's closure is disappointing for many. The server was renowned for its wide range of games and diverse community, making it a beloved place for players worldwide. Despite this setback, we can cherish the memories of our time spent on Mineplex, a unique and exceptional server that will always hold a special place in our hearts. goodbye legend
Greetings! I'm just a random player, in a very old account (because i dont even use the EMQSA nickname anymore lol). I have made some Main Menu Panorama packs before, and due to the unfortunate closing of Mineplex, I have decided to make one on the Mineplex lobby. If you want to be in it, please leve your nickname in here. If you want to make things easier for me to setup (please it takes ages), send your nickname already on the Carpet Player format: /player [YourNickname] spawn. That way I can simply copy and paste your usernames, instead of having to type it out every time. Thanks! It's soon going to be avaliable in my Modrinth, Curseforge and PlanetMinecraft pages.
So long, old friend,
Ok, so, while playing on Bedrock's Mineplex, two Housings I was in got griefed. One took me Hours to rebuild, as the owner was not around, and the other was reset by the owner. Both Were Griefed By A guy with the username TussmelerMarco. I was wondering if any other players have heard about this guy?
Be sure to give it a read here, and drop your comments below.
Like in previous years, we are looking for your opinion on various topics. Your vote matters, so don't forget to take part in the polls this time.
Finally, we are doing a giveaway! Check out the newsletter for more details.
Happy new year, everyone :)
8 Votes in Poll
Can you return me minecoins for the Lord Rank
Minplex keeps disconnecting me. I can’t even join the server I’m not banned. At least I don’t think I did anything wrong. Please help.
Aloha, and welcome back! It would be an understatement to say that lots of things have changed ever since our last update on the Wiki. The world is going through a pandemic, and on top of that, we are facing a political and financial crisis. It’s not looking great for this year so far, so first and foremost, we hope that you’re all safe and well!
On the bright side, summer is finally upon us! This is the time to take a break, enjoy the weather and go back to normal, even if it is just for a moment (mind you, social distancing is still in place, of course!). If you’ve had the chance to check out Mineplex recently, you might have noticed that as a minigame server, it has been a big winner of the coronavirus outbreak, with their player count more than doubling!
Keeping that in mind, we obviously want to keep the Wiki tidy and clean for the increased amounts of visitors. There have been plenty of cool changes we want to share with you today, plus there’s so many more to come later this year. So why not grab yourself a nice drink, a comfy spot and dive right in, hm?
Remarkable contributions
Over the past few months, many dedicated editors of the wiki have spent lots of time ensuring that the wiki stays a reputable source of knowledge for the server. In this section of the newsletter, we would like to focus on some of the users that have made a tremendous impact on both the reputability and overall appearance of the wiki.
Our first spotlight this time is on Sncwie. With 30 edits since joining the wiki in March 2020, Sncwie is very dedicated to keeping the wiki a valid source of knowledge for all and puts a lot of time and effort into editing different articles, whether it be ranks, games, or even more!
Next, we’d also like to thank BlueandGreen! He is an ex-wiki staff member who has put a tremendous amount of effort into the wiki in all aspects. More recently, he’s made somewhat of a return and now spends lots of time ensuring that the wiki is up to date, clean, and reputable.
One final shoutout goes to someone who has been working very hard over the past few months to keep the Wiki updated and accurate: TheBlueComet481! A current builder for the Mineplex network, he is constantly editing many different articles whether about the build team or just Mineplex in general. Showing his interest in- and outside of the Wiki, he is definitely deserving of the Featured User award. Congrats!
Discussion, feedback and internal changes
Feedback from polls
In the last newsletter, we asked a few different questions about various topics and aspects of the wiki to see how we could improve them. We are going to have a look through each one of them and the feedback it received here!
Mobile Readability
Judging from the poll results, it appears that most of you do not often use your mobile to browse through the wiki. 75% of you said that mobile readability could be worth a fix in some articles around the place, but it shouldn’t be a major concern. This is also backed up by the wiki statistics administrators have access to, which suggest that about ⅔ of our user base uses a desktop. Thus, while we are definitely going to take it into account while creating new articles in the future, it is very unlikely that we are going to go through all the older articles to improve them for mobile users, unless they are extremely messy.
Newsletters
Overall, 2 people would be happy to see the newsletters carry on, 5 think that the time spent on them could be spent on something more useful and announcements for major changes would be enough, and 1 person does not read them or care about them. From our perspective, except for polls, newsletters don’t get that much engagement. They are also quite a bit of a challenge for us to release in time or release at all as we are all rather busy, and do not have that much time to dedicate anymore. Hence, while we are not quite sure what is gonna happen to them yet, this might be the last one for a while since we are considering to put newsletters on hold temporarily. However, we expect things to change around the wiki in the future and its relation with the server, which signifies that there is a possibility they will return if there is a demand and more people around!
Rules
This one is straightforward. 100% of the votes said that the current community policy and rules were fine. Unless something major is brought up, we will most likely not change or add any rules in the near future.
Bedrock Content
2 people were focusing more on Bedrock articles, whereas 5 did not think it should be our main focus at the moment. Currently, we do have some articles about Bedrock games and features, but the issue is that most of the active editors actively play Java. Thus, we cannot really document stuff we are not entirely familiar with. In the future, if we get the Mineplex community to engage more with our platform then perhaps we could encourage more Bedrock articles to be written, but it is not our biggest priority as it currently stands. We have yet to finish all the server subteams and Java Nano Games pages, which we think is more important before starting a wider expansion.
Visualizations
This was about the layout of the pages and whether they had too much images / we should focus more on text. While this did not get a lot of votes, it appears that most people do not care or think it is currently fine as it is. Therefore, in the future we will most likely keep on writing articles the same way as we do nowadays, but we will keep in mind that too much images can cause loading issues, especially on low-end devices.
Usage of the wiki
We were quite surprised to see that most of you use the wiki to look up information about older, or previous games, features and updates! The content which is the most interesting to you guys is both general information on broader topics (hackers, GWEN, reports) and factual information, statistics and analytics (kit stats and game balance). We will thus try to make sure that the relevant articles are always up to date and available.
Design Choices
For the theme, 1 reader wants light, 2 readers want dark and 1 reader does not mind. We did experiment with a black theme in the past during seasonal events (Halloween), and people seemed to have enjoyed it. While it is not a priority at the moment, we will consider reintroducing a black theme for a longer period of time to see whether it is an improvement or not.
As for the general article layout and design, everyone voted for having professional-looking, Wikipedia-like articles without flashy colours or fancy fonts. This is great news as we believe this is already the case for most of our articles at the moment, so not too much change is required. However we invite you to debate on any change you think would be necessary in the #wiki-discussion
channel of our discord.
Thank you very much for giving your input and feedback, this is really helpful in order to stay on the right track and focus on stuff which actually matters to the wiki users and reflects what they want!
New staff member !
Even though we had SophOG resign from her administrator position at the beginning of the year, we are delighted to announce that Saltyfishhy will be joining the wiki staff team as a content moderator! Here is a few words from him:
Heyo! I’m Saltyfishhy, and I’ve been a member of the Mineplex community for about 6 years now. I’ve always been interested in contributing to the community and the network itself, and more recently I’ve discovered the Mineplex Wiki! As a little bit about myself, my favorite game on Mineplex is probably Speed Builders, and as a close second I’d have to say Super Smash Mobs. These days you’ll likely see me chilling in lobby one, however.
This is great news for us as we are always willing to see the wiki team and active users grow, as not only does it positively impact the quality of the content available, but it also allows us to realise more of our plans and projects for 2020! Speaking of...
Going Forward
Aside from several internal updates and additions, there haven’t been many content updates visible to regular readers. This is about to change though: Our schedule for 2020 is packed with exciting projects! Today, we’ll just name some of them which will be our main focus during the next months.
The mysterious CoM project?
If you’ve taken a look at our public project overview before, you might have noticed that one card has remained untouched for over a year now. But has it really? Today I’m happy to confirm that what might be our biggest collaboration to date is still in the making, and we’re now working on it at full steam. We will keep you updated on its progress over the course of the next few months. Stay tuned!
Discord server overhaul
Our Wiki Discord server is far from optimized, and we heavily rely on the use of third-party bots to make features like the Wiki integration and moderation possible. Even though it will only be a side project, we are planning to develop and implement our own bot to make more features possible, which also comes with an improved experience for all of our server members. We are considering to add features like:
- Wiki ↔ Discord account linking
- An upgraded report system for Vandalism/malicious edits on the Wiki
- An enhanced verification system for Mineplex Staff & GI members
We’re still in the planning phases, so if you have any other suggestions, let us know!
Unified Community Platform
The UCP is a major upcoming change, affecting all FANDOM & Gamepedia Wikis in the near future. It will come with a massively updated editor, improved mobile device support, and much more! To prepare for this, we will be undergoing some changes sooner or later. We’re not quite ready for the move towards the new platform just yet, simply because some features (like the forums this newsletter is being posted in) are not fully functional on the new platform, but we will make way for it soon. Read more about it here!
Upcoming content
Welp, that’s a lot to look forward to! If you want to give feedback on our current projects, feel free to check out our public trello board.
Content-wise, we wanted to do something special based on the poll results this time. Seeing that you guys are primarily interested in removed games, and UHC has been frequently requested to make a return in the Mineplex community, we decided to focus on our Ultra Hardcore page throughout the next weeks! UHC has actually been a featured article before, but we felt that it could still use some improvement in terms of content and layout. Be sure to help out and start editing the page if you have anything to share about UHC, be it factual information, screenshots, clips or anything of the like.
If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you want to share other thoughts, make sure to leave a reply.
Thanks, and stay safe!
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2020 | Newsletter 20 • Newsletter 21 |
2019 | Newsletter 11 • Newsletter 12 • Newsletter 13 • Newsletter 14 • Newsletter 15 • Newsletter 16 • Newsletter 17 • Newsletter 18 • Newsletter 19 |
2018 | Newsletter 1 • Newsletter 2 • Newsletter 3 • Newsletter 4 • Newsletter 5 • Newsletter 6 • Newsletter 7 • Newsletter 8 • Newsletter 9 • Newsletter 10 |
2016 | Week 1 • Week 2 |
I found a "Rare Finn n' Jake" from Carl's Spinner and I don't know what it is or how to equip? Thank you!
Hi does anybody know where I can find the music from the mineplex lobby? I've been trying to find it on YouTube etc and it's impossible haha, Thanks guys ?
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!
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!
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2020 | Newsletter 20 • Newsletter 21 |
2019 | Newsletter 11 • Newsletter 12 • Newsletter 13 • Newsletter 14 • Newsletter 15 • Newsletter 16 • Newsletter 17 • Newsletter 18 • Newsletter 19 |
2018 | Newsletter 1 • Newsletter 2 • Newsletter 3 • Newsletter 4 • Newsletter 5 • Newsletter 6 • Newsletter 7 • Newsletter 8 • Newsletter 9 • Newsletter 10 |
2016 | Week 1 • Week 2 |
Hey everyone,
you might've noticed that we skipped this month's newsletter again. This is for a very simple reason: Things have been busy for all of us from the Wiki Team, and we focused on exams and college work recently, which left barely any time for Wiki work. Because of this, we've decided to rework the schedule so that we'll be posting one newsletter every two months from now on, with special editions in between. As you could tell from the sometimes heavily delayed posts, the previous monthly releases have been very difficult to keep up, and with this change, we'll be given the opportunity to publish the newsletters on time. Next to that, this will allow us to provide more content in each newsletter, while also giving us more time to prepare each newsletter issue with more detail.
With our newest addition to our Project Management efforts, the Trello board, it soon became clear that we have a huge list of tasks to work on to improve this Wiki in various areas. Due to the above-mentioned time constraints, we unfortunately had to put most of these projects on hold in the last weeks. Regardless, we're still keeping track of all of our goals, and will continue to work on the page to the best of our ability. As always, all major updates will be announced in the newsletters, so check them out from time to time if you'd like to stay up to date. Staff applications are also open, so if you're interested in joining us, I highly encourage you to apply. Remember, we have cookies ?
Now for the exciting news: In case you're not on our discord server already, we've recently hit 100 members! That's a huge number I honestly never expected when opening it to the public. Anyway, to celebrate the occasion, I'm hosting a giveaway to give back to our amazing community for your contributions over the last months. I know I've said this before, but without your dedication and passion for the Wiki, the site wouldn't exist. So, what can you win? I'm giving away 3 rank upgrades, and all you have to do in order to win is join the Discord server and react to the giveaway message in the Announcements channel. You'll have a week to enter, so don't miss out. Good luck to everyone :)
The next newsletter should be released next week, if everything goes according to plan. Thanks for reading, and Happy Halloween! ?
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!
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2020 | Newsletter 20 • Newsletter 21 |
2019 | Newsletter 11 • Newsletter 12 • Newsletter 13 • Newsletter 14 • Newsletter 15 • Newsletter 16 • Newsletter 17 • Newsletter 18 • Newsletter 19 |
2018 | Newsletter 1 • Newsletter 2 • Newsletter 3 • Newsletter 4 • Newsletter 5 • Newsletter 6 • Newsletter 7 • Newsletter 8 • Newsletter 9 • Newsletter 10 |
2016 | Week 1 • Week 2 |
School’s finally over! So how did everyone’s exams go?
We’re in a bright mood for the July Newsletter today! With Mineplex’s player-count increasing a lot in the recent times, we have seen a great amount of activity around the wiki lately! Let’s jump straight into it, shall we?
Remarkable contributions
First off, we’d like to give a big shoutout to Musmak, who made over 100+ edits in barely 2 weeks! With Musmak’s many improvements on various articles, be it grammar fixes and formatting changes, they’ve easily earned themselves the User of the Month tag for sure. Thanks a lot!
BaconAnEggs continued working on his recently started project – the staff pages. We’d also like to thank you for your continued efforts!
As our newest member of the Wiki staff team, SophOG was very active in June and has improved a number of pages. Be sure to give her a warm welcome, if you haven’t already! :)
Discussion, feedback and internal changes
We have lots of great news today, so we’d like to begin with the most important announcement: we have a new Administrator candidate, SophOG! As always, we allow our community to vote before making a final decision on the application. If you want to have your opinion count, leave your thoughts here!
In the last month we realised how hard it was to juggle between all the different projects we have for the wiki. With the aim to organise all these tasks in a better way, we decided to create a public Trello board! At last, we are now able to overlook everything at a glance while knowing some idea or project will not get lost on the way. It also provides a greater transparency and community interaction between us and the wiki community, as it is now possible for anyone to check out what we are up to.
But wait – there’s more! You’re also able to comment on all cards to share your ideas with us. This means we can always collect your feedback on all projects. We hope you’re just as excited for our Trello board launch as we are!
We also have a small update regarding Discord moderation. Recently, we have witnessed a few trolls around our discord at times where we weren’t able to moderate. Coincidentally, we’ve had a staff role which remained largely unused for years: the Chat Moderator position. From now on, this role is not only responsible for moderating the wiki chat module, but also our Discord server. The main tasks are enforcing the chat rules and making sure to maintain a suitable and welcoming environment for all users on both platforms.
Along with that, we’ve decided to overhaul the Wiki staff application requirements, to reflect more accurately what we’re expecting from our applicants. Be sure to take a look here, and if you have any remaining questions, feel free to let us know!
In addition to that, we also made the application form itself more clear and added a few more questions. One thing to be sure, with a mature attitude and a clean punishment history, you’re more than ready to give the application a try. So what are you waiting for? We’d be excited to welcome you on board! :)
Upcoming content
As a result from last month’s poll, it became clear that we’d have to remove all articles of former staff members. This project is definitely one of our current priorities, so the archival process should begin soon(TM).
Now, a little word about the translations project! It’s still fresh in our minds, we have worked on it a lot lately! Recently, the Rules Committee of Mineplex decided to remake the main rules document. This meant that we had to rework a lot of what we had previously started, thus resulting in further delays. Once again we would like to apologise to everyone, especially our fellow TT people! We are coming close to publicly launch it though, so stay tuned for that!
Aside from that, we know we haven’t had the time to work on our featured games recently. We hope to make up for that with a new project coming soon! Although we’re not going to ruin the surprise yet, we might be welcoming a lot of new editors in the near future. We’re thrilled for this long-awaited change, and hope to share more with you in the next months.
And that’s all for today, folks. If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you want to share other thoughts, make sure to leave a reply.
Thanks!
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2020 | Newsletter 20 • Newsletter 21 |
2019 | Newsletter 11 • Newsletter 12 • Newsletter 13 • Newsletter 14 • Newsletter 15 • Newsletter 16 • Newsletter 17 • Newsletter 18 • Newsletter 19 |
2018 | Newsletter 1 • Newsletter 2 • Newsletter 3 • Newsletter 4 • Newsletter 5 • Newsletter 6 • Newsletter 7 • Newsletter 8 • Newsletter 9 • Newsletter 10 |
2016 | Week 1 • Week 2 |