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2015

March

March 14^th

Rosslessness is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

February

February 17^th

A policy regarding the promotion of zerging being considered vandalism is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

February 13^th

A Helpful Little Gnome is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

February 2^nd

A Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Rosslessness' crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

2014

September

September 30^th

The September Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Boxy's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

September 8^th

The Abolish Ghost Town Policy policy has been approved by the community.

August

August 30^th

Spiderzed's re-evaluation has been successful, and he has been retained as a sysop.

August 21^st

Spiderzed is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

August 20^th

A policy to abolish a previous policy is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

June

June 30^th

The June Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Spiderzed's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

June 28^th

The Reduce Minimum Edits For Bureaucrat Promotion policy has been approved by the community.

June 16^th

There is an open discussion on a possible overhaul of the Dangermap system. All users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

June 13^th

The vote on a policy regarding minimum edits to be eligible for Bureaucrat Promotion has been restarted after revision of the draft. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

June 12^th

Congratulations to A Helpful Little Gnome for becoming a sysop!

June 8^th

A policy regarding minimum edits to be eligible for Bureaucrat Promotion has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

May

May 29^th

A Helpful Little Gnome has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

May 23^rd

A policy regarding minimum edits to be eligible for Bureaucrat Promotion is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

May 3^rd

Bob Moncrief is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

March

March 30^th

Congratulations to Boxy for becoming a bureaucrat!

March 16^th

The March Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Bob Moncrief's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

March 16^th

The wiki has been rolled back to its state as of February 18 to deal with the encoding problem. Pages that have been changed since have been re-imported, so no important data should be lost. See this discussion for more detail.

March 15^th

Boxy is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

March 5^th

It may be necessary to roll the wiki back to February 18th to fix the encoding errors that resulted from the server move. PLEASE TRY TO HOLD BACK ON MAJOR UPDATES TO THE WIKI UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Else, there is the risk of them getting lost in the rollback.

March 2^nd

Aichon is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

February

February 20^th

The wiki is currently experiencing some technical difficulties. Users are advised to double-check their pages for strange letters appearing in place of text that used to be there.

January

January 19^th

Rosslessness is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

2013

December

December 18^th

Survivor-Zombie Imbalance has been nominated for Featured Article status. All users are encouraged to comment.}}

December 16^th

The December Bureaucrat Elections are over, with Spiderzed gaining the bureaucrat seat.

December 2^nd

The December Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Rosslessness's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

October

October 25^th

The Great Suburb Group Massacre has come around again. Group members are encouraged to check their group's talk page over the next few weeks for a message from us that will need a response.

September

September 2^nd

Spiderzed is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

September 2^nd

The August Bureaucrat Elections are over, with Bob Moncrief gaining the bureaucrat seat.

August

August 18^th

The August Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Spiderzed's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

July

July 3^rd

Boxy is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

June

June 21^st

Aichon is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

June 14^th

Hagnat has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

Jun 10^th

Revenant is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

May

May 18^th

The May Bureaucrat Elections are over, with Rosslessness gaining the bureaucrat seat.

May 4^th

The May Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Aichon's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

May 3^rd

Rosslessness is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

April

April 6th

Karloth Vois has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

April 2nd

Congratulations to Bob Moncrief for becoming a sysop!

April 1st

Kirsty Cotton has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

March

March 19th

Bob Moncrief has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

March 2nd

A policy regarding the creation of temporary accounts by permabanned users during de-escalation proceedings has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

March 1st

Izumi Orimoto has been unbanned after a deescalation vote.

February

February 23rd

A policy regarding the creation of temporary accounts by permabanned users during de-escalation proceedings has been created. Please comment on the proposal here.

February 13th

Izumi Orimoto has been nominated for permaban appeal. All users are encouraged to vote.

February 4th

The January Bureaucrat Elections are over, with Spiderzed gaining the bureaucrat seat.

February 1st

Shortround is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

January

January 21st

The January Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Rosslessness' crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

January 15th

Battle of Pitneybank has been nominated for historical status. All users are encouraged to vote.

2012

December

December 25th

Vapor has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

December 25th

• Bob Moncrief has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

December 24th

Thadeous Oakley has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

December 24th

Misanthropy has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

December 23rd

DanceDanceRevolution has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

December 22nd

SA has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

November

November 19th

Johnny Twotoes has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

November 14th

Umbrella Corporation, U.B.C.S. Merc-for-hire and Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service has been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.

November 10th

A new article has been submitted for Featured Article status. All users are encouraged to comment.

November 4th

Congratulations to Spiderzed and boxy for each being confirmed to serve another term as sysop following their successful re-evaluations.

October

October 30th

Several current Featured Articles have been put up for review. All users are encouraged to comment here.

October 27th

Boxy is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

October 27th

Spiderzed is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.

October 25th

Tactical Resource Points has been submitted for Featured Article status. All users are encouraged to like comment and stuff.

October 22nd

Regulators Alliance have been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.

October 21st

The October Bureaucrat Elections are over, with Aichon gaining the bureaucrat seat.

October 7th

The October Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Boxy's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

October 3rd

The General is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here.

October 1st

Revenant is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here.

September

September 18^th

Karek is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here.

September 8^th

Rosslessness was re-evaluated by the community and will continue in his role as system operator and bureaucrat.

August

August 24th

Rosslessness is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here.

August 24th

After community discussion, Aichon has been promoted to sysop.

August 24th

Gameplay is having its Featured Article status reviewed. All users are encouraged to comment.

August 23rd

A number of articles have been nominated for Featured Article status. All users are encouraged to comment.

August 10th

Malton Uprising has been nominated for Historical Event status. All users are encouraged to vote

August 10th

Aichon has been nominsted for the sysop position. Please make your opinions clear here.

August 4th

The Battle of Pitneybank has been nominated for Historical Event status. All users are encouraged to vote.

July

July 29th

There is an open discussion on the continuing of Good and Featured articles on the wiki. All users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

July 7th

Pathetic Bill has been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.

July 4th

Team Xtreme has been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.

May

May 13^th

Shortround has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

April

April 30^th

Axe Hack is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here

April 23rd

Red Rum have successfully achieved historical group status. Good night, sweet prince. (May 1, 2006—April 1, 2012)

April 6^th

Red Rum have been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote

March

March 29^th

Misanthropy is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

March 14^th

Generaloberst has nominated himself for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

March 14^th

Shortround has nominated himself for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

March 14^th

The March Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Boxy's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

February

February 19^th

Spiderzed is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

February 14^th

A change to the rules on the recruitment page has been proposed. All users are encouraged to vote.

February 4^th

Columbine Kids have been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.

January

January 23^rd

The General is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 15^th

Revenant is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 9^th

Karek is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 6^th

A policy regarding changing the time frame for sys-op inactivity is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

2011

December

December 12^th

There is an open discussion on updating the DangerMap system. All users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

December 11th

There is currently a debate going on about updating the suburb danger levels. All users are encouraged to give their opinion here.

November

November 29th

The November Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Revenant's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

November 24th

A policy regarding text rape is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

November 9th

Due to server constraints, it has become necessary to delete wiki revision histories over one year old, again. This will occur in a few days' time, and will require the wiki to be offline for a short while.

October

October 22nd

Axe Hack has been retained by the community as a sysop, after his latest reevaluation.}}

October 11th

Axe Hack is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here

September

September 26th

Cornholioo has been put up for permaban appeal on the de-escalations page. All interested users are encouraged to vote here.

September 24th

Izumi Orimoto has been put up for permaban appeal on the de-escalations page. All interested users are encouraged to vote here.

September 21st

Rosslessness has been kept on as a sysop by the community.

September 7th

Rosslessness is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here.

August

August 29th

Congratulations to Boxy on his successful bureaucrat promotion!

August 15th

A scheduling request is underway to make Speedy Deletion criteria 9 (Prefix Rule) a scheduled deletion. All users are encouraged to vote.

August 15th

The August Bureaucrat Promotion is now open with Rosslessnes' seat being votedupon. All users are encouraged to vote.

August 1st

There is a rule change proposal in the suggestions section, related to the handling of humourous suggestions. All users are encouraged to cast their votes.

July

July 31st

There is an open discussion on a new suggestion system. All users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

July 31st

A policy regarding the addition of a third bureaucrat is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

July 28th

Congratulations to Misanthropy for becoming a sysop!

July 23rd

Spiderzed is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here.

July 18th

A policy regarding redirects to userspace pages has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

July 9th

Congratulations to Battle of the Bear Pit for being a Historical Event!

July 8th:

Congratulations to Channel 4 News Team for being a Historical Group!

July 8th

Katthew has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

July 8th

Misanthropy has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

July 8th

A policy regarding redirects to userspace pages is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

July 2nd

A policy regarding extending the A/RE discussion is being voted on. All users are encouraged to cast their votes.

June

June 26th

A policy regarding extending the A/RE discussion is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

June 25th

Battle of the Bear Pit has been nominated for Historical Events status. All users are encouraged to vote.

June 24th

Channel 4 News Team has been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.

June 17th

DanceDanceRevolution is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here.

June 9th

hagnat has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

June 3rd

A policy regarding clarification on the validity of off-site requests is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

May

May 30th

A policy regarding off-site requests has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

May 27nd

The Reevaluation for Bureaucrats policy has been approved by the community.

May 23rd

Congratulations to The General for becoming a sysop!

May 17th

There is an open discussion on page ownership and copyright. All users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

May 17th

A policy regarding clarification on the validity of off-site requests is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

May 14th

A policy regarding allowance for SysOps to choose to ignore SpamBot page creations is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

May 13th

A policy regarding adjusting the upper time limit for bureaucrats holding their seat without election has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

May 13th

A change to Recruitment advertising rules on the wiki has been proposed. All users are encouraged to stop by and vote.}}

May 8th

Congratulations to Karek for becoming a sysop!

May 5th

A policy on the requirement of signatures to contain a handle linking to the user's page has come up for voting. All users are encouraged to cast their vote

May 4th

The General has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

May 3rd

A policy regarding adjusting the upper time limit for bureaucrats holding their seat without election is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

May 1st

A policy is up for discussion on the requirement of signatures to contain a handle linking to the user's page.

May 1st

The new Bureaucrat Promotion has started, with DDR's spot up for grabs. All users are encouraged to give opinions here.

April

April 24th

Karek has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

April 22nd

Amazing has been unbanned due to the permaban appeal on the de-escalations page.

April 22nd

A guide has been put forward for evaluation at Guides/Review. All participants are encouraged to vote on the guide.

April 21th

UDWiki's wiki software has received its long awaited update. Thank you Kevan!

April 8th

Amazing has been put up for permaban appeal on the de-escalations page. All interestedmembers are encouraged to vote here.

April 7th

The Permaban Appeal policy has been approved by the community.

March

March 31st

Cheese has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

March 29th

Revenant has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

March 21st

DevilAsh has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

March 6th

A poll for determining community opinion on suburb group classifications is open. All users are encouraged to participate in the poll. The poll will conclude on March 16th.

March 1st

A policy which discusses a system for long-time permabanned wiki users to appeal their bans is under discussion. All users are encouraged to have their say here.

March 1st

A poll for determining community opinion on suburb group classifications is under discussion. All users are encouraged to discuss the poll here before it opens. The poll will open on the 5th.

February

February 21st

A guide has been put forward for evaluation at Guides/Review. All participants are encouraged to vote on the guide.

February 20th

A policy regarding the unbanning of User:Amazing has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

February 17th

A policy regarding the unbanning of Amazing is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.}}

February 17th

Axe Hack has been promoted to the position of sysop. Congratulations Axe Hack!

February 15th

The Update Promotion Procedure(2) policy has been approved by the community.

February 14th

A guide has been put forward for evaluation at Guides/Review. All participants are encouraged to vote on the guide.

February 14th

A proposal to adopt the wiki Terms of Service as official rules is under discussion. All users are invited to discuss it here.

February 13th

Congratulations to Spiderzed for becoming a sysop.

February 13th

A discussion regarding the point of view of the Suburb Map is taking place on the Suburb talk page. All users are encouraged to discuss.

February 11th

Nominations and discussion regarding redefining / renaming the Suburb Group Listings is currently taking place on the template talk page. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions / suggestions there. Yeah.}}

February 11th

A policy regarding the bias of group listings is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

February 9th

Congratulations to MisterGame for becoming a sysop!

February 7th

There is an open discussion on the idea of a new wiki project. All users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

February 6th

Big Bash 3 has been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.

February 5th

A policy regarding preventing harrasment is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

February 3rd

Axe Hack has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

February 1st

A policy regarding promotion procedure has come up for a vote. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.

January

January 30th

Spiderzed has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 28th

Big Survivors Little Survivor has been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.

January 24th

Thadeous Oakley has nominated himself for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 24th

A policy regarding promotion procedure is being discussed. All users are encouraged to voice their opinions.

January 20th

Cheese is up for re-evaluation. All users are encourage to give their opinion.

January 19th

Vapor has been promoted to sysop. Congratulations!

January 19th

The policy on removing the 20-vote requirement has Passed.

January 17th

The new Bureaucrat Promotion has started, with Rosslessness' spot up for grabs. All users are encouraged to give opinions here.

January 9th

Rosslessness has submitted himself for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 5th

Vapor has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

January 5th

A discussion has been opened regarding the "Current Status" section on location pages.

January 2nd

A policy proposal removing the 20-vote requirement for policy votes is being voted on here. All users are encouraged to vote.

January 1st

Yonnua Koponen has submitted himself for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.

2010

December

December 23rd

A policy proposal removing the 20-vote requirement for policy votes is being discussed here. All users are encouraged to comment.

December 12th

A policy proposal for better protection of User talk: Kevan has been put up for discussion here. All users are encouraged to discuss it.

December 9th

A policy proposal for an update of the sys-op promotion procedure has been put up for vote here. All users are encouraged to vote on it.

November

November 28th

A policy discussion is being held about an update of the sys-op promotion procedure. All users are encouraged to comment.

November 23rd

A discussion is being had about an "In Real Life" Urban Dead Convention. All interested parties are requested to provide input here.

November 21th

Blackmore 4(04) has been nominated for Good Article status. All users are encouraged to vote on its status here.

Several new guides are up for review. Users are encouraged to weigh in on their addition to the Guides page here.

November 11th

Dezonus has nominated himself for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

October

October 13th

Thadeous Oakley has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.

October 3rd

The new Bureaucrat Promotion has started, with the spot of Boxy up for reevaluation by the community. All users are encouraged to give opinions here.

August

August 10th

Misanthropy has been kept on as sysop following his Re-evaluation.

July

July 15th

Red Hawk One is having his re-evaluation as a sysop. The community is encouraged to give their input here.

July 12th

An update to The Community Portal Template, which will add Featured articles to the template, has been proposed. All users are encouraged to weigh in on the proposal here.

July 11th

The new Bureaucrat Promotion has started, with the spot of Boxy up for reevaltuation by the community. All users are encouraged to give opinions here.

July 10th

An open discussion has been started regarding the formatting and use of welcome templates on the Wiki. Users are encouraged to comment on the talk page.

June

June 28th

An open discussion regarding Copyrights, citations, and attributions, has been started. All users are asked to contribute here.

May

May 22nd

A policy enforcing hate speech as vandalism is now under discussion. All users are welcome to voice their opinion.

April

April 23rd

Yonnua Koponen has nominated himself for sysop status

April 15th

The bureaucrat elections have come to a close. Rosslessness won. Congrats, Ross!

April 14th

The policy Altered Ban Lengths has gone to voting. All users are encouraged to vote here.

February

February 21st

Cyberbob has been nominated for re-evaluation as a sysop. All the community is invited to offer input here.

February 13th

The Rooster has been nominated for re-evaluation as a sysop. All the community is invited to offer input here.

February 6th

Another article has been nominated for Good Article status. All users are encouraged to vote on the article here.

January

January 12th

2 of the 3 Better Vandal Data policies have passed, meaning A/DE has been created and A/VD will now be more formalised for the Wiki's users.

January 9th

A new policy relating to shortening the time between re-evaluations is up for voting. All users are encouraged to vote here.

January 5th

Suicidalangel has nominated himself for sysop status. All users are encouraged to provide their input here.

January 5th

A guide has been put forward for evaluation at Guides/Review. All participants are encouraged to vote on the guide here.