Weekly Update 8/1/20

"The Dragons took everything from this one. Her home, her hope, her future. Now Urbinna wanders Rimmen, hoping to find her faith once more."

―Adept Urbinna^[src]

Another week, another weekly update! There have been no recent Blades news, and our Online section is a little on the smaller side, but there are a few things in the TES Wiki section to go through!

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Legends

• The July Monthly Card has been revealed as Monster Perfection Lab! A Battlemage support with a cost of only 1 Magicka, this card can be especially useful (and scary!) in item decks when used at the correct time. Read about how you can utilise this card in this article. Imagine the things you could do with Gardener of Swords in play…
• The Micro Singleton Gauntlet is back this weekend. Decks may only have a minimum of 30 cards (or 45 cards for a three-attribute deck), and no more than one copy! Seht's Masterwork, Siege of Stros M'Kai, and Morokei, the Deathless are not allowed in this event. This gauntlet is currently running and will end at 12pm ET on Monday, August 3.

Online

• The winners of the Greymoor Housing Contest have been announced! You can check out their here alongside some honourable mentions if you require inspiration for your Nordic or Gothic homes.
• QuakeCon at Home is coming up on Friday, August 7 at 12:00PM EDT. You can catch it over on Bethesda’s Twitch channel. There will be a lot of ESO content, including a Stonethorn gameplay trailer, interviews with the voice actors of Lyris Titanborn and Fennorian, developer interviews, gearless dungeon runs, and art streams. There will also be Twitch Drops and giveaways! Also, be sure to check out some streams from the wider ESO community, including charity streams and roleplays. The schedule for all ESO events and other details can be found in this article, and QuakeCon's full schedule can be found on Bethesda's website.

TES Wiki

• Our next Interview is with The Beautiful Princess Ashley! We discussed the social side of the wiki with the chat and Discussions, as well as the Elder Scrolls series' lore and future. This can be read here.
• Let's not forget there are Comrehensive and Good article nominations to be voted on!
• The August moot was held today, and a rather long one too. The topics discussed are as follows:
  • Remove the "era" template from the {{Deity}} infobox, as it is not relevant to the majority of gods. For those to whom it is applicable, the details can be discussed in greater depth in the article body. Passed with 9-1-0
  • The {{Infobox City}} template be merged with {{LoreLocations}}, keeping the name of the latter. The parameters of any variables unique to {{Infobox City}}, like seal or some sort of map, can go in a gallery or elsewhere on the article, in keeping with the style we use on most pages. Passed with 10-0-0
  • Treat Blackreach and Artaeum as their own "zones" ("regions") in ESO, like Western Skyrim or Summerset, in the context of article infoboxes. 10-0-0
  • Stop using the {{Quote}} template before the article lede on articles. For character articles that have a ==Quotes== section or similar, the contents of the quote should be moved there. For location or item articles (or similar) that have a descriptive quote like a loading screen or caption in-game, that quote can be moved to a dedicated ==Description== section, where it can be placed inside of a blockquote. The source can be cited with a reference. For lore articles where neither method is appropriate, the quote can simply be placed underneath a header elsewhere on the article. If there is no header under which to put the template, then the article should be reorganized slightly to accommodate that. Additional edge cases can be addressed on a per-article basis. 6-4-1
  • Now, this was a rather...complicated discussion. Some Discussions users are interested in having a dedicated thread to roleplaying, similar to the monthly off-topic thread. A moderator will be required to make sure things don't get off the rails as they tended to in 2016 when such roleplay threads were allowed. While everyone is generally open to the idea, this may not happen just yet due to staffing concerns. Watching over such a thread, reading over every post, deleting rule-breaking content etc. is time consuming. This topic will likely go to a Consensus Thread where it can be planned out further. 6-2-0
  • The next moot will be held on Saturday, September 6 at 8PM UTC in the #moot channel on our Discord server. If you have something you wish to bring up, be sure to read over the project page, and feel free to sign up!
• A busy week this week. Here are some notable contributions to the wiki:
  • Amulet of Kings – Blades quests
  • GreyFox06 – Online items
  • FrisyN – Greymoor images
  • Fundom user – spelling/formatting on various articles

Wikia

• There have been no new technical updates or blog posts this week.

That's all for this update. Have a fantastic start to your month, and happy editing!

– Poisoned apples ^(talk) 04:38, August 2, 2020 (UTC)