Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4146635-20150304020315

Hey everyone! It's Jessie1010, here to give everyone at the Austin & Ally Wiki a good update on the current changes here on the wiki. For the past month or so, I personally have not been too active here on the wiki but I'm back now and looking forward to go further into season 4 with the fandom! We have made a few changes to the wiki's main page as well have added some new things so please continue reading to learn all about it.

Main Page

The main page has undergone some big changes. These changes were actually added probably over a month ago but each change has not been publicly explained yet. A few changes actually happened just recently. The main page still has its fun and fluid layout but sections have been altered. As you can, below the slider is an "Austin & Ally" section where the show is explained and the characters are displayed in a square/box kind of way rather than horizontally. We also added an episode progression section which will be edited each time an episode airs.

The biggest change to the main page is probably the "Featured" section. In the section currently, our categories are featured episode, gif, video, and guest star. The admins decided that we wanted to have some more fun with the Featured section so we have added new categories, fun categories. The section will be changed bi-weekly and the categories will change each week. Categories will vary from anything: character, actor, song, pairing, episode, guest star, gif, video, user, quote, picture, cast tweet, etc. We will have four categories each time. We also moved the "Did You Know" section to the Featured section where we will have a featured set of "Did You Know" trivia and it will change with the featured categories. Originally, we had one big long DYK section and that was way too long for the page so we decided this would be better.

On the sidebar of the main page, we have also added a section titled "Community Corner." This section is something that should be very fun for the community. Here, we feature anything that a user on the wiki would like to put out there for the community to see! If you would like to advertise your wiki, get people to go to your blog post, get people to visit your profile, put in an ad for your tumblr blog, etc. this is the place for you! All you have to do is request for it to be added to the corner on the administrator noticeboard, we will evaluate it, and then add it if it means well. Currently, the only thing in the corner is a list of the latest blog posts. The corner can have much more so make requests as you please and we will add. :) Please remember that we also have the fan page and typically that is where any comical/informal user posts go. The Community Corner is for more serious user posts.

Weekly Discussions

We are now starting weekly discussions! Every week or every two weeks, we will start a topic discussion on the forum and will post a link to it on the sidebar as our discussion of the week. On the thread, we would like everyone to participate and give their take on the topic. These discussions are to bring the community together and have us all talk about something fun. If tons of people participated, so many friendships could be made and you could meet many different people on the wiki who you never talked to. Some weeks will have two discussions, like this week. Some discussions will last longer than others. So go ahead and join one of the discussions. :) Check out the discussions of this week as well:


 * Season 4 So Far...
 * #VoteAustinAndAlly #KCA

User Birthdays

We are starting back up again sending users birthday wishes on their birthday! We also have begun listing user birthdays of the month on the sidebar of the main page so check there to see who and when to wish a happy birthday! To add your birthday to our complete list go here.

KCAs

Last but not least, we must mention, if you haven't heard about it yet, Austin & Ally has been nominated for a Kids Choice Award as well as Ross Lynch and Laura Marano! The fandom is really fighting for us to win and we need EVERY fan's help1 Go HERE to learn all about it. :)

The past month I've been pretty busy and while this month will still be busy for me, the wiki is going to be my top priority and I will be active, easing into a hardy activity. Also I just want to put this out there, the wiki staff might be seeking some assistance, mostly for editing, so if you're interested in that, keep an eye out. Thank you for reading everyone. :) 