User blog:Janus100/Wiki Weekly Write-up - July 24

This is a test announcement post. We're trying to see if we can bring attention to various discussions and other happenings on the wiki without having to highlight everything.

If you have suggestions for next weeks post, please let me know in comments below, thanks!

Community

 * Weekly episode discussion – Discussing episode 511, "The Dark Year".
 * Main page poll – Who should be in charge of Shallow Valley? After six days, Clarke has taken the lead, Bellamy second, and Madi third. Others in the running: Kane, Octavia, Diyoza, and McCreary.
 * Chatter – Join us in the forums, discussions, and chat!

Help Us Out
This wiki is entirely volunteer made. If you're already a wiki editor, thank you! If you aren't, please join us!
 * Season 5 episodes: "Quotes" section – Many season 5 episode pages need help. One way to help us out is filling in the "Quotes" section. (Here's an example of a filled quote section: God Complex.)
 * Character pages: "Throughout the Series" section – We always need help filling out "Throughout the Series" sections, but to name a couple, help us with new characters Charmaine Diyoza and Paxton McCreary.
 * Book series pages – The book series pages are pretty thin. If you've read the books, please help us out.

Editors' Corner

 * Cast page creation – Policy edit: setting 12 episode minimum for creating cast pages. Side discussion of "Cast" page and minimum episodes for other types of pages.
 * Fan made images – Policy edit: should we update media policy to allow fan made images in certain cases? Fan made images include copies of symbols & maps, gifs, fan art, etc.
 * Character infobox – Template edit: various proposed changes to Character, this will affect all character pages on the wiki.
 * Character appearances – Template & page edits: how should we label character (& cast) appearances. This includes appearance templates, as well as, other places on the wiki where we deal with appearances (e.g. infoboxes, cast section on episode pages, etc).
 * Main page season images – Main page edit: suggestions for season images on the main page (within the "TV Series" block).
 * Character preload – When creating new character pages, use the new preload feature to ensure the page will be formatted correctly. To use this feature, fill in input box & click "create page". (This form is also found on top of Category:Characters and in The 100 Wiki:Article Layout Guide.)

Polls
Polls – just because we can…