Board Thread:Month in Review/@comment-24619563-20160901021138

Hello Eliteforcers,

This month's post is a special one! With our one-year anniversay coming up, why not make a post reviewing the entire year!

This year has had a lot happen. Our actual anniversary was on September 3rd, when the Wikia opened. I founded the Wikia, and too this day, I never regret myself. This Wikia has been amazing. The users, all of the support given, the ups and downs, etc. This post will be covering all of the big event's that've happened over the year. Without further a do, let's begin.

The Start of the Elite Force Wiki: It's been one hard long year, and the only people I have to thank are you guys! I started this Wikia right when the show was announced out of excitement. I put a promotion up on the Lab Rats Wiki, and people started coming in. They helped, ever since that day, turn this Wikia into a major success, and I, as said above, have to thank you guys! This Wikia wouldn't be the way it is today, if it wasn't for you guys. -- September 3rd, 2015

Our Monthly Chat Parties: Every month on the Wikia, ever since April 2016, we've been holding monthly chat parties. At these events, we play games, roleplay, and spam our keyboards to our famous, Two Minute Spam Session! And the fun isn't over, we keep doing these events every month! Be sure to join our August 2016 Chat Party this Friday @ 7:00PM ET right here on the Wikia's chat! More information can be found here: http://elite-force.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:26743 Plus, that's not all. We've got chat parties planned throughout the rest of the year, including one big Christmas Celebration Chat Party in December with many fun activites! All of the dates can be found below. VVV

- September 2016's Chat Party: Friday, September 23rd @ 7:00PM ET

- October 2016's Chat Party: Friday, October 28th @ 7:00PM ET

- November 2016's Chat Party: Friday, November 25th @ 7:00PM ET

- Christmas Celebration Chat Party: Friday, December 16th @ 7:00PM ET

Please note that all of these dates are subject to change.

Transition from Lab Rats Wiki to Elite Force Wiki: Back in February, we transferred Wikia's over from Lab Rats Wiki to Elite Force Wiki. With that brought more users, more attention to this Wikia, and more edits, just getting ready for the premiere which was airing the next month. This is what started to grow our Wikia much more, leading up to what it is today.

Fanart & Fanfiction Contests: Back in April, we started up our Fanfiction Contests. Basically, users could submit their own fanfiction to be put into a contest. On a certain day, submissions would be closed, and voting would happen. At the end of the month, the winner's will be announced. In June, this contest came to a pause due the the hiatus. Now, we're back up and running, but with an all new contest, the Fanart Contest! This contest is where people can make fanart to submit for other users to vote. All of this is based around a monthly theme for each. Please note that our Fanart & Fanfiction contests are coming to a close for this month. Starting tomorrow, both will be done with submissions, and onto voting! Voting will happen from September 2nd - September 8th, and the winner's will be announced on September 10th! More information: http://elite-force.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:26092 & http://elite-force.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:26090 Plus, tomorrow, submitting for the Fanart & Fanfiction Contests will be starting up for the September 2016 ones.

Featured Articles: This started on the Wikia back in April, our Featured Articles. Basically, voting is put up for a month on the best articles for each category. Users select one out of four for each, and at the end of the month the winner's are put onto the homepage, and announced in a separate forum post. This month's Featured Articles is now ended, and the winner's can now be seen on the homepage! More information for next month's will be posted tomorrow.

Elite Force Wiki Awards 2016: This year, we held our first, and annual, Elite Force Wiki Awards! I'd like to go ahead and announce all of the user winners once again, to give them some recognition. The winner for Favorite User was EmeraldTulip, Favorite Staff Member was LabRatsFan123, Most Active User was EmeraldTulip, and Chattiest User was Duggie Davenport! All of the trophies they won may be found on the Elite Force Wiki Trophy Case page. Congratulations once again to all of them. Dates for next year's awards will be determined later. We hope to see you next year for the awards then, and plus, a new system for who's going to be nominated will be implanted. Look out for that next year!

Profile Picture Contest: We've done this once before, and we're bringing it back! Our annual Profile Picture Contest! This time around, it will be held on the Elite Force Wiki, plus with a new host. More information about this will be revealed later, seeing as this contest won't be held for another few months. The new host is still to be determined. This contest will be held in January 2017.

Inactivity for Staff Members: It's the summer time, a time where a lot of users/staff can be inactive, due to vacations, family things, etc. This is okay, but on this wikia, we need to know when you're gone, so we don't demote you for inactivity. If you plan on being gone for a while, let LabRatsFan123 know, so when a Staff check is done, you aren't warned & demoted. Specificity how long you'll be gone for, reason (nothing much, just something like "vacation", etc.), and you'll be excused.

And that's all for the 2015 - 2016 | A Year in Review! Thank you all for reading, and let's keep it going. As of now, the Wikia may be closing down once the show ends, unless it's renewed. So let's hope it gets renewed, and this Wikia can continue on! Help support the renewal by signing this petition if you haven't already -- https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-renew-lab-rats-elite-force-for-season-2

Have a great day everybody, and let's hope for a second awesome year!  