Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3390500-20131127200413

For those who haven't already heard, we've made a couple major changes recently relating to character articles. We also now have an official bot for the wiki. I'll explain this further in a moment.

The first of these changes is the overhaul on the normal character infobox template. The old templates have now been retired and replaced with a single new template. Template:Character. Instructions for use and explanations are all on the page. The appearance is still fairly similar, only with a cleaner look.

Please do not add any of the old templates to your characters' pages. The templates will soon be deleted once everybody has been informed of this change. If you have any characters that haven't already been changed over by the admins or the new bot, please switch it over.

Another important event, as I mentioned before, is the newly flagged bot for the wiki. For those of you who don't know, bots are used for automated mass edits for things such as category swaps, template changes, and various find & replace functions. Lucbot is the bot, and it is run by Lucan07.

If you find anything that requires mass editing, please contact one of the admins, so that the changes can be approved and passed on to Luc.

The final major change is the ownership categories used on all the character pages. They now have an official naming pattern. Rather than -username's- Cats, Cats Roleplayed by -username-, or any of the past naming patterns, all categories will now be titled Cats Owned by -username-, and Deceased Cats Owned by -username-.

The old categories have all been switched over now, and an automatic system has been added to the character template that will place the page in the correct category based on what's entered int he owner parameter. Therefore you shouldn't need to worry about these changes at all, aside from avoiding further use of any old categories.

I believe that's all for now. If you have any questions, or are confused about something, feel free to comment. 