The Daily Edit/2007/09

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Volume 1, Issue 4	September 2007	About The Daily Edit

Contents 1 A message from the editor 2 TabView 3 Administrators 4 IRC RC 5 Title blacklist

[edit] A message from the editor

Welcome to the September edition of The Daily Edit. You may have noticed that there are a lot of big changes in this issue. The Daily Edit was always hard to manage. Ever since I became editor-in-chief, I knew that there would need to be a lot of hard work. The first issue was fantastic. There was that excited feeling that I sometimes get when something good happens. However, the issues that followed weren't so good. The newsletter was originally going to have six sections in each issue. However, in the second issue, there were only four. I think that this is because people were excited about a new project and wanted to contribute to it but ended up abandoning it. I can't blame those people however, as I sometimes have that mentality (nobody's perfect). For some reason, the issue after that had seven issues. I don't understand how that happened, but you've got to admit that the content wasn't that great. Then came August - a disaster. I was in a forest for a good part of the month with no internet access and when I came back, I found that no content had been created at all. I realised that The Daily Edit wasn't going to be created and published without its editor. The issue was abandoned.

The Daily Edit had always had its complications right from the beginning with the fact that scary transclusion is cached. I realised that the newsletter needed a new look. For this reason, starting with this issue, there will be the following changes:

• The biggest change of all is that The Daily Edit is now only one page. This means that there is just the simple process of clicking the 'edit' button and none of the previous complications.
• The links at the bottom of the screen have been changed slightly.
• The Newsroom has now become a discussion area for the stories in the month's Daily Edit. Talk:The Daily Edit remains discussion for The Daily Edit as a project.
• There will be no deliveries from now on. There is no need and the bot was never reliable.

Another note, a lot of people have been asking me why this is called 'The Daily Edit'. Well, the fact is that the project's creator, sannse, said that this is "for people who edit daily". However, I think that this name should be changed since it's misleading as the newsletter only comes out once a month. Let's have a little poll shall we? --Leon2323 (editor-in-chief)

[edit] TabView

On 17 August, a new extension was announced. TabView allows you to create tabbed pages where you just click on the tab to switch the content. This uses JavaScript to transclude the content from another page. The syntax is as follows:

<tabview id="ID (optional)" title="TITLE (optional)">
TAB NAME|?title=PAGE NAME&action=render
TAB NAME|?title=PAGE NAME&action=render
TAB NAME|?title=PAGE NAME&action=render
[...]
</tabview>

There are two other parameters that can be added for each entry:

3. Cache content?
4. Active tab?

These are both true/false.

[edit] Administrators

On 9^th August, Zizanzu requested adminship. However, the request was closed one month later on 9^th September with no supports.

[edit] IRC RC

The time has finally come when we now have the long awaited IRC RC! #rc gives all changes to all Wikia while #cvn-wikia shows possible vandalism.

[edit] Title blacklist

The new title blacklist means that if you try to save a page that is listed, you are stopped. This should help decrease vandalism and spam.

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