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This is information regarding that I, my friend, Fandom, and Community Hired are beginning to prepare for the forum migration.
To do this Fandom will backup our current VSBW, JBW, and FCOC forum threads, send them to a programmer who will convert them to the right format, and then Community Hired will install them into the new forum.
However, any posts made after this date will not be saved, and we all also need sufficient amounts of free time to organise the actual moving process, especially myself (who currently has to manage up to 14 hour daily work shifts).
As such, Fandom and CH suggested that we should lock the forums completely while this is going on, and strictly communicate via message wall threads.
However, I did not consider this a realistic option to maintain for possibly a few weeks, especially given that our members still need to unwind and get stress relief from the global crisis that we are all going through, so I think that we should simply halt all wiki revision discussions, and only allow commenting in the Fun & Games forum, the General forum (so our members can talk about what is happening in their favourite fictions), the rule-violation report thread (to notify the staff about troll attacks and similar), and an information thread regarding the moving process in our News and Announcements forum.
We will also likely have to lock the wiki itself for editing from non-staff members while this is going on, to not get overwhelmed with handling too many important tasks at once.
I and the official Fandom staff will create pop-up information messages regarding this for all logged in visitors to the wiki, but I need the rest of the staff to help out with "enforcing" the lockdown of all other discussions by continuously informing the other members about that we are taking a break from all other wiki revisions while the moving process is going on, while linking to this announcements thread, but that they are free to talk about non-serious issues in the Fun & Games and General forums in the meantime (with the knowledge that these will not be saved to the new forum), and that they should all follow and keep themselves updated via the official migration information thread. It is also very appreciated if they help out with calming people down if they get upset about it.
It is also possible that we should keep the Versus forum open, so our members can have their regular fun, but then all of you have to be aware of that none of the new threads or posts there will be backed up and migrated, or referenced in our profile pages.
After everything is finished, Community Hired and Fandom will collaborate to send out email invitations to all of our members who have been active for the last 2 years, have over 100 edits, and are not banned.
Help and cooperation would be extremely appreciated, and please take note that the partial lockdown will only be temporary until Fandom and Community Hired finish with their work.
My superior at Fandom has proposed an export date of April 15 to his engineers, but they still need to confirm that the script updates will be ready by then. And they need to agree to that date.
I have been told that it is probably safe to assume that we'll be able to do the export sometime between April 15 and 30, so nothing from that date will be exported, and we should lock the regular wiki pages for non-staff members, as well as stop all revision discussions, a little before that happens. The partial lockdown will then be active until Community Hired has finished installing the backups of VS Battles, Joke Battles, and FCOC to the new forum.
After that has been finished, the invitation messages with login information to all members with confirmed email addresses will be sent out. If you still have not confirmed your email, you can get information how to do so by clicking here.
In any case, it is now time to start quickly wrapping up the content revision threads that you are already engaged in, and not start any new ones, unless they are extremely important.
EXTRA NOTE TO THE STAFF:
This is just a note that I tried to explain that the transitional period will start around April 14, not yet, and that you should tell our members to stop the discussions and link to an information thread, not close down their threads, as the threads will remain closed when imported into the new forum. Please inform the rest of the staff about this.
This is information regarding that I, my friend, Fandom, and Community Hired are beginning to prepare for the forum migration.
To do this Fandom will backup our current VSBW, JBW, and FCOC forum threads, send them to a programmer who will convert them to the right format, and then Community Hired will install them into the new forum.
However, any posts made after this date will not be saved, and we all also need sufficient amounts of free time to organise the actual moving process, especially myself (who currently has to manage up to 14 hour daily work shifts).
As such, Fandom and CH suggested that we should lock the forums completely while this is going on, and strictly communicate via message wall threads.
However, I did not consider this a realistic option to maintain for possibly a few weeks, especially given that our members still need to unwind and get stress relief from the global crisis that we are all going through, so I think that we should simply halt all wiki revision discussions, and only allow commenting in the Fun & Games forum, the General forum (so our members can talk about what is happening in their favourite fictions), the rule-violation report thread (to notify the staff about troll attacks and similar), and an information thread regarding the moving process in our News and Announcements forum.
We will also likely have to lock the wiki itself for editing from non-staff members while this is going on, to not get overwhelmed with handling too many important tasks at once.
I and the official Fandom staff will create pop-up information messages regarding this for all logged in visitors to the wiki, but I need the rest of the staff to help out with "enforcing" the lockdown of all other discussions by continuously informing the other members about that we are taking a break from all other wiki revisions while the moving process is going on, while linking to this announcements thread, but that they are free to talk about non-serious issues in the Fun & Games and General forums in the meantime (with the knowledge that these will not be saved to the new forum), and that they should all follow and keep themselves updated via the official migration information thread. It is also very appreciated if they help out with calming people down if they get upset about it.
It is also possible that we should keep the Versus forum open, so our members can have their regular fun, but then all of you have to be aware of that none of the new threads or posts there will be backed up and migrated, or referenced in our profile pages.
After everything is finished, Community Hired and Fandom will collaborate to send out email invitations to all of our members who have been active for the last 2 years, have over 100 edits, and are not banned.
Help and cooperation would be extremely appreciated, and please take note that the partial lockdown will only be temporary until Fandom and Community Hired finish with their work.
My superior at Fandom has proposed an export date of April 15 to his engineers, but they still need to confirm that the script updates will be ready by then. And they need to agree to that date.
I have been told that it is probably safe to assume that we'll be able to do the export sometime between April 15 and 30, so nothing from that date will be exported, and we should lock the regular wiki pages for non-staff members, as well as stop all revision discussions, a little before that happens. The partial lockdown will then be active until Community Hired has finished installing the backups of VS Battles, Joke Battles, and FCOC to the new forum.
After that has been finished, the invitation messages with login information to all members with confirmed email addresses will be sent out. If you still have not confirmed your email, you can get information how to do so by clicking here.
In any case, it is now time to start quickly wrapping up the content revision threads that you are already engaged in, and not start any new ones, unless they are extremely important.
EXTRA NOTE TO THE STAFF:
This is just a note that I tried to explain that the transitional period will start around April 14, not yet, and that you should tell our members to stop the discussions and link to an information thread, not close down their threads, as the threads will remain closed when imported into the new forum. Please inform the rest of the staff about this.
