User blog:HighJewElfKing/South Park Archives in 2019

Hello everybody! HighJewElfKing here with an outlook for South Park Archives in 2019. First off I hope you all had a great new year! In today's post, I'll go over some big changes planned for the wiki expected to take place over 2019.

Homepage
South Park Archives has had the same homepage design since 2012. This year, we are going to completely revamp the South Park Archives homepage. Some things like Featured Articles, News and On This Day will remain. But a lot will be removed, and subsequently, a lot will be added like new navigation icons to help you all find what you came here for, articles and information much faster. This project will be headed by myself. User:Jamesb1 and SilasGreaves12 we expect to start this by February and complete the project by April. If you have any homepage ideas, let us know!

Commmunity Feeds
Despite us getting ready to build a brand new homepage, FANDOM has other plans. FANDOM is preparing to build a feature that will REPLACE our homepage with Discussions and "a pinch" of wiki content. As a member of the Commnuity Council, I've been assured that FANDOM is working to make sure this feature meets wikis needs. I've also been making my position clear to staff that replacing homepages with this is a BAD IDEA. None the less, if the idea of a wiki's homepage getting replaced by a computer and random posts on sounds like a bad idea to you like it does to me, I advise you to contact FANDOM HERE.

Our Response to Community Feeds
This feature has the potential to kill things like our Group Photos, Countdowns to new episodes and more. If feeds does take over our homepage, we will introduce strict discussion post guidelines since it will be the first thing that visitors will see. I don't want to silence people's thoughts by any means but we will need to take action to ensure there are some "laws" in place to ensure our visitors see the very best of South Park Archives. We don't know what these guidelines look like yet but we will let you know more about them if FANDOM moves forward with this. We also are prepared to discuss forking as well.

New Theme
Back to positive things, we will be working on a new wiki header photo and background. No idea when this will be out but we would assume by Summer. If you got any ideas, be sure to let us know!

Lua Navboxes
We also are looking into moving to Lua Navboxes. Long story short, Lua Navboxes would allow us to shrink the amount of code used on navboxes and make them look even better on mobile devices.

Projects
We will be resuming some projects this year and we will share more about that in the State of The Wiki posts.

Season 22
We also will be tying up loose ends from Season 22 during January.

Video Game Content
Expect to hear more in March about our plans forward for Fractured But Whole and Phone Destroyer Content

South Park Season 24?
We also are patiently waiting for the summertime when we should find out if South Park will be renewed (cross your fingers!) If it isn't this year's season (Season 23) would be the final season.

Discord Changes
We will be creating and repurposing some channels as well as removing and adding bots during the first quarter of 2019.

That's all folks!
Hopefully, that gives you a sense of where we are heading for 2019, if you have any questions don't hesitate to let us know! Thanks for visiting South Park Archives!