Hello Wikitubians!
I thought that it would be a good way to connect with the community more if we had a wiki report for the events that had happened in the month. This post will showcase changes and announcements. So without further ado, let's go through some of the changes towards Wikitubia during May 2023!
To start, let's go over some staff promotions and retirements that occurred this month. They are as follows:
- May 14: Content moderator KeeBlokk was deemed too inactive for user rights and was demoted shortly after.
- May 22: Former administrator Tylerota2 was approved for reinstatement to a content moderator and was promoted to the position shortly after.
- May 28: DanTDM Fan was promoted to discussions moderator.
Next, here are the most important changes to the rules that happened in May:
- May 4: The punishment for breaking G:2:4 (Do not engage in bigotry or hate speech) was changed from being either a warning or a permanent ban to an instant block.
- May 8: G:2:15 (Do not raid or threaten to raid Wikitubia) was ratified.
- May 12: A:1:6 (A Wikitubia Jury to make decisions on ban or block statuses and ban or block appeals for Wikitubia must be established, and the wiki jury rules must be followed) was ratified.
- May 13: G:2:16 (Do not be a constant annoyance) was ratified.
- May 17: The block rules were changed to include that if a block was removed within a day of when it was given, it is automatically block pardoned.
As some of you might have already heard, we have formally established a Wiki Jury system. This is a way for block and ban appeals to be appropriately reviewed, as well as decisions to be made on contested bans and if a rule was broken or not in a specific situation. The jury consists of 7 staff members who were selected by the administrators to be a part of the jury until the beginning of next year. Due to the creation of this process in the middle of the year, a snap election was called for the jury to have it's jurors selected, which happened earlier this month. The selected jurors are as follows:
- Bureaucrat and administrator Cluckster, who was also selected to be the lead juror
- Content moderator and discussions moderator Enayy
- Discussions moderator and rollbacker Headquarter8302
- Bureaucrat and administrator Purzyckij
- Administrator SuperStario89
- Content moderator and discussions moderator Tabbloide
- Rollbacker TheVlogger110
Congratulations to all who made it onto the jury, and let's hope that they are all able to adequately use the responsibility.
And before we end this report, we have some unfortunate news. Our administrator Nisk00n, who joined our staff team in 2021, has made the decision to retire from being an administrator on June 30 of this year. With his retirement, it leaves an opening in the administrator positions, which I have decided to fill by promoting Tabbloide to the position after Nisk00n's retirement. I believe that she would make a valuable edition to the admin team as she is incredibly keen when it comes to moderation, and is also very in-touch with the community. Nisk was a solid administrator who provided quality contributions to the wiki, as well as laughs. He will be missed.
So this first post doesn't end on a sad note, I want to share with you all my plans on reviving and rebooting the Hall of Fame in a few months. I plan on having the Hall of Fame polls start from a clean slate, while not entirely removing the previous winners. Call it a "Hall of Fame - Round 2". In addition to doing that, the voting system for the HoF would be adjusted to be proportional to what candidates are suggested the most to be included. This idea of a revival is still in the works, so I will let you know when more developments have happened. and when we will start doing it again.
That is all the news I have to share for the month of May in 2023. As this the first of it's type, please let me know if there is anything I should add to these. Feedback is welcome. I hope you enjoyed this month's Wikitubia Report, and lets hope that June is a good month for not just the wiki, but for all of us!
- Bureaucrat Cluckster