With the recent addition of the My Home page, the admins are wondering where everyone starts browsing the wiki. There's lots of information on the Main Page, but the My Home page has some good things to offer as well. Please answer the poll below (one response per user) and if you mark down "Other", please leave a comment to let us know how you start your browsing experience.

Some pages like Do Nothing Day have an icon at the top. This is called an Era template. Topher has discovered that if the Era template is moved to the bottom of the page, it removes a blank line from right under the page title. We're not sure what's causing it to add the blank line, but there's an easy way to get around it.

We're asking that any time you edit a page and you see the Era template at(…)

Just a few days remain in the voting for our new Main Page design. Not many people have voted, so the votes are pretty even between the two main candidates.

Why are we updating the main page? There's a few reasons, including that the layout was about a year old. But one main reason is that we wanted to implement blogs like the one you're reading now. The main page will automatically update itsel(…)

We've been playing around with creating a newsletter for the wiki. We were going to call it The Daily Danville to match the newspaper from the show, but then you'd expect it to be updated every day. A bi-weekly publishing schedule is more realistic, so the newspaper will be called the Tri-State Gazette.

The first edition will be August 1st, 2009. That's just two weeks away. We will be updating t(…)

The "Helping Out" section on the main page has been marked for updating. The "Create new article" button will be going away because that function is now available in the left-hand menu as "Write an Article".

The Community Portal will also be overhauled. As it is now, it is the default page that was created when our wiki was started. No one has been assigned to do it yet, but I'd like to do it.

We held our first every Administrator Convention on the IRC Chat channel today, which lasted more than 8 hours. Topics of discussion included reorganizing the main page, a featured articles proposal that needs to be voted on in order to be finalized, rules for featured pictures, how to make use of our new blogging tool, retooling our newsletter, what to do with fake episode articles, and some p(…)