Suggestion Box
I read almost everything we get. Not everything is usable so if you don't see your particular idea implemented don't take it personally. It has more to do with direction than merit. I think up things all the time we never use because at the start of each day we have a finite amount of resources to see a given task done between us and some ideas are just a bit too far afield to realize. We tend to focus on what will hopefully draw the membership in, give them enjoyment, and keep them interested. So we're forced to an extent to go with what has the highest probability of achieving those goals tempered by the direction we all want to see the club take.

But ideas do get through. So send them. A couple of you out there might soon notice some familiar things in what's in store and I appreciate you taking the time to help us make this place better.

The Ninth Great Jedi War
Apparently fighting really doesn't solve anything. Work in earnest has begun on the plot and event mechanics of GJW 9. I've shifted off some other projects to knock out some work on the upcoming GJW while the flood of ideas (hopefully good ones) has been flowing. I really didn't see myself doing another war. They are a fucking ridiculous amount of work and more closely resemble a second job rather than a hobby. But we have some ideas I think are worth the effort to explore and I'm excited about the story for this one.

Plot Updates Update
I finished the second one of these a while back. It needs a bit more work. You'll start to see some of the things I talked about on the fiction forums appear. I started writing the third update as well. It's fun to bridge us from where we were at the last war's end to the start of the next. With a living story guiding us, opportunities are opening up to weave together some interesting things. I think this concept will pay off and I hope we'll wonder one day how we got along without it.

Army of the Iron Throne Suffers Cutbacks
This is really the only project I have going affected by my work on the GJW. Everything else I have in the chute is pretty much 100% waiting on another department to work their magic. I've recruited Sarin to help me finish wikitizing things, but it's not terribly important in the grand scheme and we're getting to it when we can.

Results
So, June. Coming off the IG's I kept it light figuring most would be a bit written out. Even so we had a few people put forth quite a bit of effort hopefully indicating the topic was worthy of some thought. I also ran a short but intense trivia competition in early June that had a lot of participation.



Round 1 - Holocronology

1st Place - Dock 7410, Tarentum
2nd Place - Kyra 7699, Tarentum
3rd Place - RevengeX 3491, Scholae Palatinae

Round 2 - Force Philosophy

1st Place - Taigikori 5829, Taldryan
2nd Place - Kyra 7699, Tarentum
3rd Place - Sato 5175, Tarentum

Round 3 - Sith Archaeology

1st Place - Dock 7410, Tarentum
2nd Place - Taigikori 5829, Taldryan
3rd Place - Kyra 7699, Tarentum




1st Place - Haruun 9067, Arcona
2nd Place - Mal 91, Naga Sadow
3rd Place - Etah 8075, Arcona

Participation
Draco 8521, Arcona
Kyra 7699, Tarentum
Cypha 10035, Tarentum
Koryn 9761, Scholae Palatinae

July Competitions





Submissions
As Jac told the DC, email bounces from @darkjedibrotherhood.com aren't working like they once did. Not his fault either. In the meantime, send your submissions to raken.is@gmail.com. Sorry if this gave you any trouble.

Reading
Outbound Flight finished off a little better than it began. I still don't think it should take 250 pages of set-up to get to only mildly interesting events for the climax.

Finished Legacy of the Force. I write junk fan fiction, but I would say any of us could have given Troy Denning a run for his money with the work put into Invincible. I don't normally rant. He gets paid to write Star Wars and I don't, but at just under 300 pages I really felt his attention must have been on his next project rather than the conclusion to a nine book series. Piss-poor. Look for a more in-depth review of Invincible and LotF on the forums in the near future.

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Raken

In case you had not noticed, I'm back from my LoA.

2000!
We have reached the 2,000 articles mark! Yay! As of this moment, there are 2,007 articles.

We also have 1,920 images uploaded! Will we reach 2,000 there too?

POSITIONS OPEN:
Aabs, Halc, Korras, and Dessan have left, and Vladek has rejoined the Wiki Staff.

Although 4 - 1 = 3, I will only be opening two spots on the Wiki Staff. If I find that there is a need to open up another spot, I will do that. To be appointed to the Wiki Staff, you must write a formal application. If you are unfamiliar with writing an application, please view the Leadership Applications reference file from the Shadow Academy.

Requirements to apply:
- hold at least the rank of Guardian
- understand the policies and guidelines of the DJBWiki
- be willing to assist with the duties outlined on the "Wiki Tribune" article

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements, I may make an exception if your application blows my mind at least three times consecutively.

Please send your applications to me.

FAIRUSE IMAGE AUDIT:
I am beginning the Fairuse Image Audit!

Everyone who participates must complete their task by July 8th, or I'll just do it myself. This will require a lot of grunt work, but the results should be quite satisfying.

For this audit, you will be looking for images that do not have a category besides "Fair use files." Like Tron's audit in April, you will also be looking for duplicates and any "miscategorized" images. Everyone (including Staff) who completes their task earns a DSS.

Also like Tron's audit, you (including Staff) will not edit the images or make corrections yourself; instead, you will be sending reports to me (via email) so that I can keep a record of who did what, rather than scrolling through a very busy Recent changes list and trying to pinpoint everyone's name.

If you would like to help out with this, please post a comment with something like "___ is my favorite letter!" I have already checked through the images that began with numbers as I was figuring out how to best run this process, so you cannot pick those.

The Fairuse Image Audit begins now.

TIP OF THE DAY:
Don't make red links.

Red links are the color of blood, and that means that a Wiki article is bleeding, so a Staff member has to patch it up.

Don't hurt the Wiki.

If you are not sure if a page exists or not, use the "Show preview" button! If the link shows up red, it does not exist!

THE WIKI STAFF:
3491 Krath Pontifex RevengeX Palpatine

6381 Grand Master Sarin
153 Dark Jedi Master Astronicus Aurelius Sadow
2706 Obelisk Primarch Benevolent Taldrya Whiner
3944 Sith Warlord Robert Atema Sadow
5951 Krath Epis Impetus Korin-M'Nar Palpatine
7941 Krath Priest Vladek

CONCLUSION:
- I killed two spambots in one day. I feel buff. (Thanks to Ylith and Ashura for spotting the first one.)
- Apply for a spot on the Wiki Staff. Two positions are open.
- Fairuse Image Audit begins.
- Don't hurt the Wiki.
- Smoke (Ma`ar-Tyrius Ga-Tir) earned a Dark Side Scroll for helping with the Dead-end pages. Thanks, Smoke!

Have a great week.

-RevengeX

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