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2014
May
- May 3rd
- Bob Moncrief is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.
March
- March 30th
- Congratulations to Boxy for becoming a bureaucrat!
- March 16th
- The March Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Bob Moncrief's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.
- March 16th
- 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 15th
- Boxy is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.
- March 5th
- 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 2nd
- Aichon is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.
February
- February 20th
- 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 19th
- Rosslessness is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.
2013
December
- December 18th
- Survivor-Zombie Imbalance has been nominated for Featured Article status. All users are encouraged to comment.}}
- December 16th
- The December Bureaucrat Elections are over, with Spiderzed gaining the bureaucrat seat.
- December 2nd
- The December Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Rosslessness's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.
October
- October 25th
- 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 2nd
- Spiderzed is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.
- September 2nd
- The August Bureaucrat Elections are over, with Bob Moncrief gaining the bureaucrat seat.
August
- August 18th
- The August Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Spiderzed's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.
July
- July 3rd
- Boxy is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.
June
- June 21st
- Aichon is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.
- Jun 10th
- Revenant is undergoing sysop re-evaluation. All users are welcome to voice their opinions here.
May
- May 18th
- The May Bureaucrat Elections are over, with Rosslessness gaining the bureaucrat seat.
- May 4th
- The May Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Aichon's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.
- May 3rd
- 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.
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 18th
- Karek is currently up for Re-Evaluation by the community. Everybody is encouraged to voice their opinions here.
- September 8th
- 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 13th
- Shortround has been nominated for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.
April
- April 30th
- 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 6th
- Red Rum have been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote
March
- March 29th
- Misanthropy is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.
- March 14th
- Generaloberst has nominated himself for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.
- March 14th
- Shortround has nominated himself for the position of sysop. All users are encouraged to comment.
- March 14th
- The March Bureaucrat Elections have begun with Boxy's crat seat being voted upon. All users are encouraged to cast their vote.
February
- February 19th
- Spiderzed is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.
- February 14th
- A change to the rules on the recruitment page has been proposed. All users are encouraged to vote.
- February 4th
- Columbine Kids have been nominated for Historical Group status. All users are encouraged to vote.
January
- January 23rd
- The General is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.
- January 15th
- Revenant is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.
- January 9th
- Karek is up for re-evaluation. All users are encouraged to comment.
- January 6th
- 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 12th
- 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
- 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 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.
