Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5645428-20140807081521

The glory days of the wiki are no doubt over, until we have a mighty jump in editors let alone activity. Anyhow, that should in no way defer gradual progress which during some newfound spare time I will be able to offer my services. Our other admins? Busy I suppose.

Administrator Status: The presence of admins - also comparable to standard editors - has been dwindling. Good for you standard editors, as that means adminship is more easily granted, but that doesn't mean saying please is the whole extent of it. If you're interested, give me a call. As for our current admins, I'd say ApplerGamers and Clinkzbone are the main ports of call other than me if I'm not available. Kodokor12 is so far inactive and Bearzerger is more of a periodic visitor. Older staff are no longer considered at all active and should not be messaged. Finally, spread the word that we're looking for new, fresh and hopefully regular editors to help carry on the legacy.

New Theme: One which I'm hoping you guys will like. The stale and boring grey shan't be returning this time. Having learned some CSS, I was able to begin making some modifications to the appearence of the wiki. An ever so slightly nicer font and a tad lighter navigation bar and buttons for those with keen eyes, along with the more noticeable blue colour scheme for other elements of the wiki. Some things haven't be recoloured yet, as I have to do everything manually. Those who would like to help can identifying things such as templates and tabs and provide a list of items which haven't been refurbished yet. And of course, suggestions are always good to hear!

Categories: Something you'd know I fuss over a lot by now. Having to manually replace categories because they're no longer specific (should a new game be released) is a long and tedious process. Fortunately, I've covered a good few that weren't too much of a hassle, but a big one still is the "Weapons" category. These all need to be changed to "BBG Weapons", and we know how many of those there are. They've been started. Give us a hand by doing what you can, and those articles could use some polishing if you're feeling ambitious.

Badges: You'll all be pleased to hear the BB-1, BBG and BBU badge sets are all active! Go off and edit stuff! Many still require new images, and despite being quite neglected following their initial naming, it's still known and up on the agenda.

Weapon Types Article: Up until now, to classify weapons into groups based upon their design and function was up to the categories found at the bottom of their articles. I think I started putting stuff on some of the category pages themselves, but I wouldn't bet many people even know about them. Instead, I'll be putting that stuff on one big page for an easy way to find out about how types of weapons work. The category for this page will be "Stats", a label also used for the Weapon Statistics and Status Effects pages, both of which I will be revising soon enough. I will also need someone to help with the relevant BBU stats like Criticals and whatnot as those are new and currently not covered. That brings us to...

BBU Articles: Attention is quite poor in terms of those. They need a lot of work and I feel like I've been doing far too much organisation considering I don't even have the game. I've made sure as much information as possible is stored on a single page, which is something that wasn't done with BBR/BBG making things like categories far harder to manage. Now, everything should be more accessible for more convenient editing, so pitch in and try get the wheels rolling with this one.

Other stuff: I think having finally got that lingering Maps page out of the way is something worth being noted. BBG Maps provides links to all map articles and gives a little information about common map features. In the meantime, I'll be continuing to go about organisation and keeping everything in a good condition. Don't think there's much else, although there's bound to be something I've missed. Oh well. Good day to everyone! 