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# ArchWiki:News

## 2015/07/08 - ArchWiki turns 10!

Exactly 10 years ago, on July 8th 2005, the ArchWiki was installed with the MediaWiki engine: since then, more than 20,000 users created their account and made almost 400,000 edits that evolved the initial blank page into this fantastic documentation resource that innumerable Arch and non-Arch Linux users every day browse from all around the world.

For the future, several major improvements are already under discussion or planning in various talk pages, with Talk:Beginners' guide#Unification, Help talk:I18n#Language namespace(s) in place of suffixes?, ArchWiki:Requests#Should we remove or archive obsolete articles? or ArchWiki talk:Maintenance Team#Reorganization being only some notable examples. For this anniversary, ArchWiki:Statistics has been expanded, and many more ideas have been brought up in its talk page to better show the evolution of the wiki and try to give something back to the most active contributors.

If you did not make it to get involved in the community of contributors in the past decade, you are very welcome to become one of the first ones of the decade that has just started! The wiki syntax is very easy to learn and use, you can find an introduction in Help:Editing, and ArchWiki:Contributing is there to give you plenty of inspiration about how and where to start. If you have any questions, just ask in the talk page of one of those pages, or any other that suits your specific issue, and the wiki staff, or possibly other proactive users, will try their best to give you a quick and accurate answer.

Well, Happy Birthday ArchWiki, then! The celebrations will go on until the weekend, as for example the 11th is the anniversary of the first edit: if you want, you can take this chance to make a small gift edit to your favorite article ;) Let's keep working together to make this project grow better and better for the next 10 years and more, thanks everybody!

— Kynikos (talk) 07:17, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

## 2015/05/24 - Restyled AUR template

Template:AUR has been restyled with the addition of an "AUR" superscript to make AUR packages look different from official ones: this has the consequence that almost all articles mentioning AUR packages now have a redundant "from the AUR" wording that needs to be removed. In the same fashion, the "from the official repositories" wording associated to official packages is deprecated.

Describing how to install a package is still forbidden by Help:Style#Package management instructions but, for both official and AUR packages, you can use the "install" word as a link, e.g. `[[Install]]`, to point users to the centralized package installation instructions.

This change was discussed and voted in Help talk:Style#Pkg and AUR templates: add icon, make them look different.

— Kynikos (talk) 02:41, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

## 2015/04/24 - New administrator

Congratulations to Alad on his promotion to Administrator, naturally following his long streak of exemplary contributions to the articles and proactive, all-round participation in the organization of the wiki, which will now be able to benefit even more greatly from the experience he gained while serving as an official Maintainer.

— Kynikos (talk) 13:53, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

## 2015/04/19 - New maintainer

Today the ArchWiki:Maintenance Team gains the help of Chazza, who distinguished himself for the quality of his work in the wiki, thank you!

— Kynikos (talk) 03:28, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

## 2014/12/22 - Adopt an article

The ingredients of a healthy and successful wiki are both the addition of fresh, up-to-date content (the "attack"), but also protection from counter-productive edits (the "defense"). While "attacking" may be the most entertaining part, please be aware that helping "defend" the ArchWiki is of invaluable importance and fortunately also extremely easy! Just add a bunch of your favorite articles to your watchlist and follow their changes, taking action when necessary: the wiki will receive your love with gratitude :) See ArchWiki:Contributing#The most important task for a more extensive introduction.

— Kynikos (talk) 15:13, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

## 2014/10/31 - Unintelligible edits

This news entry is a reminder that edits that do not respect the 3 fundamental contributing rules may be reverted without previous warning, especially on popular articles. The ArchWiki is a shared resource within the Arch community, and users who do not understand this concept, and treat wiki articles like they would with their own personal blog, are invited to spend their time somewhere else. Thank you for choosing to respect your fellow Archers, keep up the good work everybody!

— Kynikos (talk) 14:48, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

## 2014/08/03 - New administrator

With great pleasure we announce that Lahwaacz has gained his seat at the command table, very well deserved after tirelessly serving our community with more than a year of innumerable, high-quality contributions that have certainly played a big part in the continuous effort we all make to preserve the ArchWiki as one of the best Linux documentation sources currently available. Congratulations!

— Kynikos (talk) 02:45, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

## 2014/07/20 - New maintainers

Today the ArchWiki:Maintenance Team can count on the contribution of two new users: Alad and Indigo. Thank you for the effort you are spending on the wiki!

— Kynikos (talk) 07:14, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

## 2014/03/13 - New maintainer

We are happy to announce that Lonaowna has joined forces with the other members of the ArchWiki:Maintenance Team. Keep up the good work!

— Kynikos (talk) 11:01, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

## 2013/12/09 - Code templates are fixed

Template:bc and Template:hc have been adapted to work like before they broke. No fixes are required anymore.

— Kynikos (talk) 05:15, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

## 2013/12/08 - MediaWiki 1.22.0 has broken code templates

After upgrading MediaWiki to version 1.22.0, the wiki will not parse wiki syntax or HTML code inside Template:bc and Template:hc anymore, rendering them as plain text. This has broken many templates around, especially those that were using `''` and `'''` for highlighting parts of code with italic or bold. Please help fixing them, guidelines for dealing with the various cases are a work in progress.

— Kynikos (talk) 11:39, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

## 2013/08/05 - New maintainer

A new user, Lahwaacz, has joined the official Maintenance Team: our community is thankful for the quality and accuracy of his contributions.

— Kynikos (talk) 10:28, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

## 2013/06/15 - New maintainer

The official Maintenance Team sees the addition of a new member: thank you Flu, your commitment will be of great help for our wiki.

— Kynikos (talk) 13:52, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

## 2013/05/02 - New administrator

The ArchWiki proudly welcomes a new administrator, Fengchao, whose passionate dedication to our community we have been able to witness over the past several months: thank you! We are confident this will give our beloved, ever-growing wiki an important help in maintenance and moderation for the times to come.

— Kynikos (talk) 11:01, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

## 2012/06/11 - Changes in internationalization

In the next few days Template:i18n will be deprecated and replaced by interlanguage links (e.g. `[[en:Title]]`) also for the languages hosted locally. This operation will be completely performed by a bot, please do not attempt to "help" it with manual edits, as it is necessary to follow a particular procedure and you would risk compromising its operations. The original discussion is in Help talk:I18n#"Dummy" interlanguage links and deprecation of Template:i18n.

— Kynikos (talk) 21:18, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

## 2012/06/06 - Maintenance team additions

We announce that also Filam, Emiralle and jstjohn have joined the group of Maintainers: the ArchWiki is thankful for their contributions so far!

— Kynikos (talk) 19:46, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

## 2012/05/20 - Maintenance team

An official team of users has been created with the purpose of helping supervising the recent changes and fixing the resulting reports. See ArchWiki:Maintenance Team for more information. Thanks to the initial Maintainers (in alphabetical order) AlexanderR, Fengchao, Graysky and Skydiver, who have been chosen for their constant commitment and the accuracy and quality of their work on the ArchWiki.

— Kynikos (talk) 12:47, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

## 2011/11/01 - Official style guidelines

An official set of style rules is now defined in Help:Style in order to improve the consistency of content formatting among the various articles: all ArchWiki contributors are encouraged to read these guidelines and follow them when editing articles.

— Kynikos 12:14, 1 November 2011 (EDT)

## 2011/09/20 - Administration team additions

Congratulations to the two newest additions to the ArchWiki administration team: Kynikos and thestinger. Over the past year, both have demonstrated dedication and exceptional judgment in maintaining and improving ArchWiki. Their contributions have undoubtedly helped thousands of (Arch and non-Arch) Linux users and served to render ArchWiki one of the best sources of GNU/Linux documentation on the web. Thank you!

— pointone 15:37, 20 September 2011 (EDT)

## 2011/05/29 - A reminder

Please completely avoid the use of contractions and keep the language formal. Thanks!

— Misfit138 19:38, 29 May 2011 (EDT)

## 2010/03/27 - Thank you, ArchWiki contributors

Thanks to everyone for their invaluable contributions to ArchWiki. Its content and reputation have been and continue to be second to none. Please keep the knowledge flowing in.

— Misfit138 12:37, 27 March 2010 (EDT)

## 2010/01/14 - Internationalization guidelines

As you may have noticed, many articles have been moving around this past month; especially non-English ones. This was due to a recent discussion on the topic of ArchWiki internationalization. As a result, new guidelines have been drafted and a major transition has begun.

For more detail, please see the related forum thread and Help:i18n. Briefly, the following standards have been set:

- Non-English article titles should be of the form Title in English (Language), where "Language" is the localized spelling of the language.
- Localized titles can and should still be created, but only as redirects to the English-named article.
- Template:i18n should be used in place of the old `Template:i18n links start`, `Template:i18n entry`, and `Template:i18n links end` combination.

We hope this does not alienate or inconvenience international users; these changes were made primarily to facilitate wiki maintenance and administration and to simplify inter-language linking. Thanks for all your translations and other contributions thus far, and please continue making ArchWiki the envy of distributions world-wide!

— pointone 23:43, 14 January 2010 (EST)

## 2009/09/18 - Remember to keep it formal

Please remember to avoid chatty, conversational style throughout the wiki. Also, avoid signing your name to a wiki article or comment therein. Thanks!

— Misfit138 11:36, 18 September 2009 (EDT)

## 2009/01/04 - Article categories!

Please remember to add your contributed articles to the appropriate category at the top of the page. This will streamline the search process and make use of the Table of contents system in place. Thanks!

— Misfit138 12:33, 4 January 2009 (EST)

## 2008/09/21 - The finest GNU/Linux distribution wiki

Thanks to your vigilant dedication and contribution, the Arch Linux wiki remains the finest available. It continues to grow and improve in quality daily. Nothing negative to report, just keep up the great work.

— Misfit138 12:55, 21 September 2008 (EDT)

## 2008/07/22 - Thank you, Arch users

The recent boost in wiki contribution has been nothing short of miraculous. Thanks to everyone contributing and improving ArchWiki. Informative and well written articles, as well as gratuitous translations, are coming in at an alarming rate. Because of you, word is spreading about Arch Linux, its high quality wiki and its excellent community!

— Misfit138 20:28, 22 July 2008 (EDT)

## 2008/05/01 - Don't just give me the 'how' - give me the 'why'

A wiki is a collection of knowledge, most of which ends up being how-tos, which is to be expected. Let us always remember to add the 'why' to our how-tos. Explanatory information always goes further toward imparting knowledge than does instruction alone. Adding explanatory wiki articles is also welcome. Why not add one if you are qualified?

Thanks for the recent increase in contribution to the wiki! Please keep the knowledge coming.

— Misfit138 12:45, 1 May 2008 (EDT)

## 2008/04/21 - ArchWiki needs YOU!

In our goal to provide the most exhaustive high-quality documentation, Arch is calling all qualified users to contribute to the wiki. Share your knowledge and help us improve this invaluable free resource.

— Misfit138 18:03, 21 April 2008 (EDT)

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