The Past
Welcome to the first Monthly Update of the 2020s, and hey! Won't you look at the time, it's New Year-o'clock! It is time to reflect upon the past year, which I hope was at least 75% good for you, and to make promises that we will eventually give up on and then slack for the rest of the year. My New Year's resolution kinda ended up being "make a hot sauce myself". I may consider it a prototype. Who knows how well that may end.
We have our new admin team intact! That's great, and if any of them drop out either through inactivity or retirement, we will hold tiny polls in Monthly Updates. Again, IF that happens. However, I may need to work on some requirements, raise the minimum edit milestones to really meet the quality standards and all that. You are free to oppose, but only if you can provide a good reason.
I also founded the third wiki, as I hinted in the previous Monthly Update, and it's officially open! Cue the grand-ish fanfare!
https://dreamincubator.fandom.com/
Yeah, I still need to work the kinks with the crew when we can. Anyways, the Incubator is... exactly what it says. Here we will work on possible new additions to the Dream Logos, Fiction and Incubator Wikis family, including versions in other languages, Dream Tropes Wiki and much more. You can also work on your own wiki in there as well, it's basically a launchpad.
The Present
I am currently holding the biggest Featured polls in Dream LFX Wikis (Logos, Fiction and Incubator) history, by far. If you haven't caught up with this mini-update yet, basically due to technical limitations, I had to move them elsewhere, namely Strawpoll, now another property of Fandom.
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/f/p/3148110465335318910
Updates on the wiki alliance project, by the way: yeah, nobody really responded to our affiliation requests since the turn of the decade. I know, kinda sad, but we will make it through.
Also, big update to our Discord server: if you have not noticed yet, or if you are not there yet, things have changed. Here's a list of that:
I am currently working on a replacement for most of the Discord bots there, which is why some are in the role of "Bots To Be Replaced Soon"
Most channels are now visible only to those who have the roles with residential continents on them (like Europe, Asia, wherever you live basically). This also happens to be a good way to get rid of lurkers, but it's coincidental, nothing more.
I am ALSO currently working on some rules, both of the server and the wikis, because some are a bit conflicting to how the server and the wikis work now, some are just nonsense, etc, etc.
We also have a new unban ticket system! https://forms.gle/fzN33b4FWJ7nB9bA9
So much new!!!!!!
The Future
So, the wikis have recently recovered in activity from the mess that was CoolGamer23's impeachment.
(Dream Logos's activity graph above, Dream Fiction's activity graph below)
We have a lot to do in terms of keeping this a stable and safe environment, so that more contributors can come to the wiki, so that we can have a larger but manageable community. But that talk is for nerds like me, so maybe I won't explain my plan now. I can however mention that yes, the wiki alliance/affiliation program plans ARE a part of that.
Montages (the thing I mentioned last time) and the search for more international contributors, they're both under works still. More on those later!
Pop Culture
As with every Monthly Update, this will contain some info about current and upcoming events, and video games and films to be released. However, nothing exciting is going to be released this month. It's dry. Next month will be more exciting.
However, Cats is going to be released in some countries. And as I got eight series tickets to cinemas, I'm going to take anyone willing to sacrifice their purity with me to see the movie. Wish us luck.
Something to think about
So with all that out of the way, I will leave you all with something to think about.
What is your New Year's resolution? Will you try to follow up on it?
Are you excited that school is starting again soon?
Isn't it weird that when you stack two lasagnas on top of each other, you get one big lasagna?
Until next time, may you love with ease, be happy, be free from danger, and be healthy! Ootwar out!
