Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24187738-20161207141958

It's been a year since I held our major fundraiser for the Wikia, and so it's a good time for me to update everyone on what has taken place since then and where we'll be going from here.

Regarding Wikia


 * 1) No more giveaways.
 * 2) *Birthday giveaways were really just something we came up with to help use up excess funds, while contributing back to the fandom. We chose to make them based on fan-work submission because we wanted to reward, and encourage more quality fan-work. It's been a great year looking at all these submissions, but it's also really tiring for one person alone to have to print, pack and mail out all these prizes every month. More than just the couple of tiring hours I have to invest there, us admins also need to take the time to judge and publish the results. Now that the funds have been used up and we've done an entire year of giveaways, I would like to stop this practice here. There are still some remaining funds (<7 SGD) but they will be used up in either small-scale adhoc giveaways or pushed to magazine purchases. More on the latter below.
 * 3) No changes to existing command structure.
 * 4) *One key thing I'm always worried about are officers holding onto admin roles beyond their time, as they fade into inactivity. However given that the current bureaucrats are still the ones making the majority of new pages/constant updates, this isn't an issue. At the same time, we will continue to be on the lookout for promising new users to promote to moderator roles, who might someday take over the community. There has to be a transition period, but until Ragnarok6354 and I actually slow down in work, that period won't even start, so this point is moot for now.

Regarding Social Media


 * 1) Wikia Twitter on Main Page, if yet unaware.
 * 2) *The Wikia Twitter has been around for a while now, after I took over it sometime in June 2015. It will continue to function as it has, covering news and major events. The account is now jointly run by User:Dyreatic and I, and he will take over fully in the eventuality that I no longer have the time.
 * 3) Wikia Discord also accessible on Main Page.
 * 4) *Our Discord server is a new initiative this year to connect with our users in a less buggy medium than the Wikia Chat, feel free to join us there to chat!

Regarding Translations


 * 1) Dengeki G's Magazine translations no longer an obligation, but will continue to be delivered as long as possible.
 * 2) *With the funds finally out of money, we will no longer be using the funds to purchase Dengeki G's Magazine, as there are now helpful users (blessings upon you, friend @pKjd) who send us their e-copy for us to work with. I have covered almost all of the important content in the past 24 months within respective pages where I could, and will continue to do so for as long as I can (most likely I will stop once it hits July when I graduate and begin work).
 * 3) New translation team, and page.
 * 4) *There's a new joint initiative within the LL subreddit Discord to pull together fan-translators so that we can offer each other opinions, and more importantly not clash with each other in our planned work. We're still thrashing things out as we go, but this team will most likely remain invite-based to keep non-contributors from joining. If you believe you should be a part of this team, just drop by either the LL subreddit or Wikia Discord servers and ask for us, and let us know what you've worked on before. In the meantime, all of our work is being pushed to the Translated Voice Actress Content page, alongside what others we can find that are done by other individuals/teams.
 * 5) New CD Japan affiliation to pay for magazines.
 * 6) *Some of you might have seen that we're posting CDJapan Affiliation links in the last few months. This is a new initiative on our part to fund our magazines without asking for direct funding: If our users are going to throw money at CDJapan to buy singles and merch anyway, might as well grab a small percentage of that money back, right? These affiliate links will continue to be pushed on Twitter as well as on the Love Live! subreddit, and results have been promising so far. The funds will be documented as per normal, and used to purchase magazines aside from Dengeki G's Magazine (such as Seiyuu Animedia, Seiyuu Bible and so on), for the use of the team mentioned above.

All in all, there are a few changes in structuring, but not much that affects what we do. Most of the coming changes will really be just for my own sake, pulling my different roles apart from the Wikia and decentralizing them. This will be helpful in making sure that there is a smoother transition when the time comes for me to drop certain aspects as I get busier.

I just want to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has supported us over the past year, whether it be with money or with words. It's been a really wild ride and even though it was tiring, I really did enjoy packing all those prizes and looking at everyone's fanwork in our giveaways. It was just one of those things that I could only do now, before I got busier with life, and I'm really grateful I had the chance to experience that and give something back to the fandom. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all for making this possible for me.

 ♪ LuciaHunter ♪  http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/emoticon-bank/images/5/5b/Little_Devil_Emoji.png 14:19, December 7, 2016 (UTC) 