Admin voting is now public!
For a large part of this wiki's history, the admins have secretly communicated about wiki issues using various sites throughout the years, collectively known as Admin Chat. Most of the community did not see any of these discussions, except for a handful who managed to find these sites. But now, the admins have decided on a method that will still allow us to have discussions with a reasonable amount of privacy, while making much of these discussions public and open to the community! We will not disclose transcripts of the discussions, but we will keep a list of the issues we're discussing, a summary of each issue, how many votes each proposal has, and the current status of the discussion. This is based on the public disclosures that the U.S…
Update on Default Emotes
After a long discussion, the admins have finally reached a consensus on default emotes! We've decided to accept Aokpisz's petition for keeping old emoticons as default, which means that the older emoticons will remain default on chat, at least for now. The admins may eventually change some of the default emotes, but if we do, the change will be on a much smaller scale, and we currently have no plans to change widely used emoticons on chat in the near future.
Interestingly, some of the admins did not vote for the petition because they supported the old emotes, but because they considered the community's opinion in their decisions, more so than in other recent decisions. Perhaps this could mark a change in the role that the community plays in…
Cool Math Fact
13.37 * pi ≈ 42.
(In case you don't know the symbols, 13.37 times pi is approximately equal to 42. You can multiply 13.37 and pi yourself and get a number close to 42. )
Going On Vacation
I'm going on vacation for a week, starting tomorrow. I'm going to visit some historic sites in Boston. My schedule's not as tight any more, so when I come back, I should be more active on this wiki.
Ironic glitch...
I heard about how Sherm was able to make it look like he left chat, so I did some tests on this chat and on my wiki's chat (Lego Online Games Wiki) to try to see if I could duplicate it. I tried some random stuff, and soon this happened on the Lego Online Games Wiki chat :
... Instead of creating a fake leaving message on the LMBW, I got fake joining messages on the Lego Online Games Wiki from almost every user on the LMBW chat. I kicked everyone several times, and they kept coming back, even though I closed the other chat window. Some users stopped glitching out by this time, and only a few glitched users were left, but eventually I had to ban the rest of the users from my wiki's chat.
Note that I blacked out something I tested with my bot…