User blog:Colgatecity/Weekly Wiki News (issue 3)

Volume 1. Issue 3. Issues usually written every Thursday or Friday - this issue delayed.

Defcon drops to a '1'
The Defcon index plummeted to a one mid-week after vandalism struck roblox wiki. It is always a good idea to check the defcon before you start editing - so you know if there will be vandalism you have to revert or if you can create a page about your unnoticed fav admin.

A view on cross-wiki advertising and how it gets more annoying by the day.
The 'random wiki' button has always been located at the lower-right hand corner of each page. It guides you to a random wiki hosted by Wikia. Spotlights and the wikia-entertainment/gaming/lifestyle bar have also been in the same-spot since this wiki became popular in 2010. Then the 'my favorites bar' shows up. This is a way to show what wikis you edit on most-of-the-time. A recent study conducted by Colgatecty shows that users that originated on Roblox wiki in 2011 are started to edit more frequently elsewhere then users that originated on Roblox wiki in 2010 and quit in 2011.

How switching to monobook may help (this isn't for sure yet).
Switching to monobook would give Roblox wiki users a higher quality viewing and editing experience than the new Wikia theme. Older users like UnknownPerson have experienced monobook as a theme before back in 2010 when it was Roblox wiki's official and default theme. Wiki's like uncyclopedia use monobook still as their theme, although the only reason they are doing that is because it's suppose to be like wikipedia.

How hard this is going to be, and why staff may not let us do it.
Wikia staff like Miss Dopp stated that "[they] will only switch wiki themes that are suppose to be opposites of Wikipedia or another site". This will be hard to do, but expect this change to happen next week if it happens.

Personalizing our wiki
Our wiki needs to feel special when other uses set foot on it. In the next week, many monobook scripts will be edited. This may cause some 'lulz' if something messes up - so an apology if something does mess up. Colgate is a higher-up class monobook scripter, so this is an unlikely warning that he'll mess up.

New "Keep Silent" rule
A new rule was issued last week for roblox wiki. It states that "[you should not] not talk about other wikis. You can only link to the official roblox wiki, Community Central, and here." For now, the my favorites page does not count. But as stated in the above issues, Wikia has made too much cross-wiki advertisement. We will try our best to cut the numbers down, at least on our little corner of Wikia.