The Past
Hi again! Welcome back to the Dream Logos Wiki Forums. This is the monthly update of February 2020. Ever since the previous post, some things have changed quite a bit. I'm gonna go quickly through those:
I may have delayed work on new rules, but to be fair, itβs kind of hard to figure out what to change, except the obvious things like exceptions.
On January 23, 2020, Tanardo Loud basically wrecked the entire Discord server, deleted a lot of messages, channels, emotes, banned everyone in sight, and so on and so forth. So donβt be surprised if you see any minor changes, I couldnβt restore everything.
We also unveiled the new Unban system! (https://forms.gle/wkXNj28QyRtHLYNg7) It is based on the Drillimation Unban Ticket System or whatever, with minor changes such as removing all Drillimation references and such.
Also, 20th Century Fox had its name changed to 20th Century Studios. That was weird.
My CPN Holdings company also had quite a month as well. We sold a lot of assets to form 2 new big boys: Funhouse by MBS Corp, and a new rival, Fenix! We also established a partnership with Aurantius Media Group where they would run channels under our brands; and also a partnership with Seagrounds Financial Group (and soon GamerCraft Resources) to form a leading joint venture in the railway transportation industry, called RKO Railways Corporation.
Aside from that, I donβt know what other companies have gone through, but Iβm gonna stop talking about CPN now, donβt wanna end up gushing over it every update like CoolGamer23 did.
The Present
I'm currently both extremely happy and extremely sad. My grandpa recently passed away from cancer (I couldn't attend his funeral due to travelling issues, long story short) and I still am not completely over IRLs bullying me over one time when I was nice to a person who was actually a scammer, much to my zero knowledge of this. (Sure, call me a wuss.) But, I recently upgraded my keyboard and speakers, so that I can listen to thems bangerz while I code at midnight. (I'm very well known to be a night owl.) And my parents and I are in talks of upgrading my PC to have more storage and also splitting the thing to include both Windows AND a Linux-based operating system (Elementary, Debian, who knows).
But enough about me.
So, I suppose a lot of people quickly forgot we have an incubator where you can grow your own wiki (DXW sub-wikis, to be exact, as proofs of concept). If your DXW sub-wiki gets popular/big enough, we may spin it off as part of the true DLFW family. Check it out here: https://dreamincubator.fandom.com
Thanks to @Wazzupguys, we have over ten new affiliates to Dream Fiction Wiki! However, the affiliation with Ideas Wiki specifically, that is still pending. UPDATE: We are officially affiliated with Ideas Wiki! Check them out here.
So, I may have to clarify the purpose of our wiki affiliation program: the purpose of the affiliate program is to share our resources with the other wikis, like shared ownership over our Discord server (though it's temporarily under strict surveillance at the moment, due to the Tanardo incident) and our guidelines like rules and requirements for certain roles, in exchange of active communication between us and the wikiβs admin team and co-operation in certain events, yet to be revealed.
We introduced a new concept into the server by the way: the Rotating Channel. The meaning of that channel, which keeps changing the name, is to use it as a channel with constantly changing formats, to see which one works the best. I will be throwing some of these arounds and the ones that work the best (a.k.a. make the channel the most active and participated at a certain time period) will get their own channels, by popular vote crossing a certain amount set by me.
The Future
Hey, remember that Montages thing I mentioned in the last update? Still gotta work on that. And International Contributor Program is set to begin planning stages soon, might launch much later this year.
Also, if you do not have a bae for Valentine's Day yet (I'm very hip and with the times *old man noises*), don't worry. I'm also alone. But what truly matters is that we have each other, and also we have these wikis and the Discord server. I appreciate every one of you, except those who use "the Autism card" to excuse their toxic behaviour. There is a reason why people hate us, the autistic people, and I am personally offended by this. If it were up to me, I'd deport them the moment they even mention it in that context, but alas, I need to have great patience and judgement. And also a sense of community.
Anyways, where was I? Oh yeah, you're not truly alone. Sure, I may not be a big tidy goth mommy gf (as much as I wish to be) or a big muscly friendly bara gym-bro himbo (also as much as I wish to be), but it does not mean that we can love each other platonically any less, because that's what the day is really about. Friendship and appreciation of all the connections we have. That's what the Finnish word for it, "ystΓ€vΓ€npΓ€ivΓ€", may imply at least.
Pop Culture
Get ready for a whole lot of excitement, because we finally have something to talk about:
Finally, the Sonic the Hedgehog movie will be coming out on February 14th in the United States! Have you ever played a Sonic game? Hope you didn't find out about the franchise through the worst of what DeviantArt had in store.
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) will be coming out on February 7th!
I was going to talk about The King's Man, a prequel in the Kingsman franchise, but by the time of writing, they just revealed that they will delay it until September. Dang...
Hey, remember that disaster that was Disney removing the Fox from 20th Century Fox? Yeah, that logo will have its first feature debut through Call of the Wild, coming out February 21st. Does anyone know about the original film? Yeah, me neither. And I doubt anyone is gonna remember this film either, except maybe for the debut of the logo.
Hey, there's more video game related media coming out on February 14th, namely Dreams, the long-anticipated game creation system from the creators of LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule.
In case anyone here is interested, Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 is coming out February 20th.
Tame Impala's new album The Slow Rush, also coming out on February 14th, in case you need something to listen to that day. He's my favorite artist and that's all I know about any of our music tastes, if I'm honest.
BTS's new album Map of the Soul: 7, February 21st. In case you wanted to know that too.
Star Citizen hasn't been officially released yet.
Now hiring
Oooh boy, if you are interested in working with us on numerous projects, as well as help streamline the process of changing the wiki, watch closely and sit tight. By the way, all y'all will be reporting your activities to me, technically your boss, because while I can't do all of these at once, I really want to know what's going on so that the whole thing wouldn't fall apart over an unfixable mistake. Sorry.
If you want to apply to these positions, please contact me on Discord (pantsmode#0666) with the title, your Fandom username and why you would make a great candidate.
AFFILIATE RELATIONS
The main mission of Affiliate Relations will be to maintain connections between other wikis and ours (for that, we may need more), to establish them, and to promote Dream Logos and Fiction Wikis in their areas in acceptable ways in hopes of attracting more contributors. Two of the main tasks include creating navigational blurbs similar to {{Dream Logos Wiki}} in Dream Fiction Wiki, and vice versa, and to offer our resources in need, like shared ownership over our Discord server and standards for rules and admin requirements.
I pretty much told you what the job requires in that description, so yeah.
PARLIAMENT
As I keep requiring members of the Discord server and the wikis to answer questions about decisions, I may have to form a parliament. This parliament will represent ALL users in the DLFWs and affiliated wikis, though the representation of affiliated wikis is entirely optional. (It is however preferable that you pass this Update along to your wikis.) From then on, all decisions affecting users will go through them. Because I know some people hate being pinged constantly.
*Job requirements* include being very active on both Discord and Fandom, willing to communicate with the contributors on their message walls and, well, being trustworthy. I don't want anyone who tries to get things to go their way, that would be betrayal and you will definitely be thrown off the group by then.
STRAW CONTRIBUTORS
There are a lot of under 13 year olds interested in contributing to the wiki legitimately, but to comply with the Wikia terms of services, we can not allow them to contribute. However, their contributions and ideas may be interesting and need to be on the wiki immediately. Which is where "straw contributors" come in (like straw purchasing, that thing where you buy something for someone who isn't eligible yet). Their ideas will be in the wiki AND we will be safe and sound.
*Job requirements* include great communication skills and patience with underaged people (you gotta work well with the kids), and understanding of what exactly they want.
SOCIAL MEDIA & PR
The main mission of Social Media & PR is to run social media profiles for the Dream Logos, Fiction and Incubator Wikis as well as their affiliated wikis. The winners for monthly Featured polls will be featured through these accounts as well, and also as filler, there will be reports from affiliated wikis. The purpose is to promote the wikis as a safe and open environment for everything fictional. For this, you have to communicate with the Affiliate Relations people as well as me.
*Job requirements* include having Facebook and/or Twitter profiles, being able to come up with what to post (please keep it appropriate) and also keeping up with everything going on in the wikis.
INTELLIGENCE
There is no easy way of saying this one, but I'll try my best anyway. It's basically a research group. We will conduct research on wikis, Discord servers, how they operate, and other things (for improvement of relations and operations, a.k.a. I wanna make us look like we care), as well as dabble into technology stuff and merchandising, as well as other expansion opportunities.
(And before you say anything, no, I can't pay any of you, because while my parents may have a great financial situation, I do not. I am pretty much forced to live like a Slav for a while, in terms of food and going places of course, so that I won't end up in debt or whatever by week 2 after payday.)
Featured
Congratulations to @Thesmartestboyever10, @289Kid and @Timebomb192potato for winning the Featured User award for February 2020!
Also congratulations for the following articles for winning the Featured Article award for February 2020:
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Indosa
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/El_TV_Kadsre_Television_Network
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Victoria
Here are the next polls:
Featured User: https://www.strawpoll.me/19330059
Featured Article: https://www.strawpoll.me/19330224
This time, I will be boosting the winner amount for Featured Article up to 5, while Featured User winners will stay at 3. This is to even out in a way that we can safely move the polls back to Fandom Discussions platform by the time a Monthly Update for May 2020 comes out.
By the way, I had to replace Tanardo Loud with Ben Tran, because 1: I forgot Ben in the previous poll, and 2: Tanardo has done quite the damage to get himself disqualified from future Featured polls.
Something to think about
What do you think about that name change? Is it justified? (20th Century Fox to 20th Century Studios)
Who's your favorite music artist(s)? I may add updates about them into the upcoming Monthly Updates.
Was this post too long? I'm sorry.
Here's our Discord server by the way!
(You need to pick a role from #continents before you can see the message history in the general channel. It's a long story why this was implemented.)
Until next time, may you love with ease, be happy, be free from danger, and be healthy! Ootwar out!