Zelda Wiki:Announcements Archive


 * January 1, 2010 - A Year in Review: Zelda Wiki.org celebrates 3,214 articles, 4 Featured Articles, 5 Featured Pictures, and 6,583 of the best editors on the net! Now in its 6th year, Zelda Wiki.org thanks you for helping us become what we are today!
 * January 1, 2010 - A Call to Action!: Let's kick off the new year by ushering in new Featured Articles and Pictures! Many just need a few votes, so head on over there and check out the nominations!
 * January 1, 2010 - Skyward Sword News: 2011 is the year of Skyward Sword! Make sure all Skyward Sword pages are up to date as new information comes in from the masterminds at Nintendo this year!

December 10, 2010 - New NIWA Member: NIWA brings it's big secret into the open! Join us in applauding NIWA's sixteenth wiki,  Nintendo Wiki ! For general Nintendo information and insights into NIWA itself, nothing beats this cumulative source!
 * December 17, 2010 - Zelda Anniversaries: Join us in celebrating the anniversaries of the original American releases of The Adventure of Link (22 years), Four Swords (8 years), Twilight Princess (4 years), and Spirit Tracks (1 year) in the month of December!

November 30, 2010 - New NIWA Member: Another defector from Wikia joins the NIWA family! Give a hearty ZW welcome to  Golden Sun Universe ! Join their Adept editing squad, and fight back the coming of Alchemy!

November 19, 2010 - New NIWA Member: It's NIWA Friday, which means a new member has been revealed: none other than the ''' [http://animalcrossingwiki.me/wiki/Animal_Crossing_Wiki Animal Crossing Wiki! ] ' If you're into the Animal Crossing'' series, why not check them out?

November 12, 2010 - New NIWA Member:  Donkey Kong Wiki  has migrated from Wikia to independence and is now an official NIWA member! Swing in, no bananas required!

November 5, 2010 - New NIWA Member: Good news to all Mother/Earthbound fans out there:  WikiBound  is now an official NIWA member! Make sure you check them out, edit, and spread the PK Love!

October 22, 2010 - New NIWA Member: NIWA's newest member has been announced! Give a welcome to  Smash Wiki , the number one source for Super Smash Bros. information!

October 15, 2010 - New NIWA Member: NIWA is proud to present yet another new member: none other than  StrategyWiki , the best wiki for all your video game walkthrough needs! Check them out, and feel free to jump in and help out!

October 8, 2010 - New NIWA Members: NIWA has revealed two new members this week:  Pikmin Fanon  and ''' [http://www.pikminwiki.com Pikipedia! ] ''' Check them out and edit if you're a fan of the Pikmin series!

October 4, 2010 - Fellow  NIWA  member  Wars Wiki  has declared a victory for spelling deviations by region! Citizens of the United States and the European Union can rest assured, with peace at hand, one never has to see the other's spelling in the article body. Be sure to  check out  their great, new personalized feature!

October 2, 2010 - New NIWA Member: NIWA has just announced their newest member, Lylat Wiki, your wiki for everything Star Fox related! Make sure you drop in and help out!

September 1st, 2010 - NIWA News: Metroid: Other M for Wii has been released in the US, with other regions getting a release today or tomorrow! Fans of the Metroid series should be sure to head over to our friends at Metroid Wiki to catch all the exciting info fresh off the press!
 * September 27, 2010 - Technical Issue: Fortunately our technical difficulties have been resolved and all of our features should be completely functional. Loading times are also back to normal.
 * September 24, 2010 - Technical Issue: Unfortunately we're having some technical difficulties at the moment which are causing some of our key layout points to no longer appear, as well as making the site load slowly. We know how to fix both problems and we will try to resolve the issues as soon as possible. We apologize any inconvenience this may cause.
 * September 18, 2010 - New Affiliate: Give a warm welcome to Zelda Wiki.org's newest affiliate, Fire Emblem Wiki! Be sure to check them out!
 * September 13, 2010 - Check out Zelda Wiki.org's newest group, POSTMAN!
 * September 8, 2010 - New Mastermind: Welcome Link's Hideaway to our list of Masterminds!
 * September 5, 2010 - New Mastermind: Let's all give a warm welcome to our new Mastermind site, Zelda Temple.
 * September 4, 2010 - New Affiliate: Give a welcome to our new affiliate Zelda Fan Game Central!


 * August 24, 2010 - Media improvements: We're pleased to announce a number of recent enhancements to media handling at Zelda Wiki.org. The first of these improvements is that the previous 2 MB file size limit has been lifted, allowing much larger and higher resolution images to be uploaded. The other change is that it's now possible to upload audio and video files in the Ogg format, allowing for much wider multimedia options to complement the current embedding of YouTube videos and external links to audio files.
 * August 13, 2010 - New Affiliate: Say hello to our newest affiliate, Lylat Wiki ! They're a young, NIWA-bound wiki which aims to bring you all the info you need on the Star Fox series! Be sure to check them out!

August 7, 2010 - NIWA News: Fellow NIWA member Wars Wiki has a great new ''' [http://warswiki.warscentral.com/index.php?title=Main_Page Main Page! ] ''' Make sure to check it out and inform everyone everywhere of how great the NIWA wikis look! <div style="padding-left:8px; color: rgb(81, 102, 187); background-color: #f5ac78; border: 5px solid #f08030; -moz-border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px; border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px; khtml-border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px;">June 4th, 2010 - New NIWA Member: The third new NIWA member has been unveiled! Today we welcome Zelda Wiki.org's affiliate Wars Wiki, so why not charge on over to  <span style="color: rgb(54, 58, 218);">warswiki.warscentral.com  to reinforce their ranks!
 * August 13, 2010 - Staff Update: Melchizedek, one of our beloved admins, has moved on from Zelda Wiki.org, so we wish him the best of luck!
 * July 26th, 2010 - Episode 1 of Legend of Neil: Season 3 has been released!
 * July 8th, 2010 - Metroid Wiki and WiKirby have both been growing rapidly over the last month, and are starting to vote on featured content. Give them a visit and see how you can help! Help our fellow NIWA Wikis, and get involved!
 * June 18th, 2010 - New Wiki Exclusive: Embyr 75 presents a new Wiki Exclusive which takes a deeper look at Ordona's role in Twilight Princess. Give it a read here, and discuss it on its talk page!
 * June 7th, 2010 - New Affiliate: We are proud to announce our newest affiliate: none other than Zelda Chaos, the largest Zelda glitches database in the web!

<div style="padding-left:8px; color: #93D435; background-color: rgb(59, 37, 65); border: 1px solid #64486A; -moz-border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px; border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px; khtml-border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px;">May 29th, 2010 - The NIWA has revealed the new member wiki to be another one of Zelda Wiki's affiliates: Metroid Wiki! They are now an official NIWA member! Be sure to go to www.metroidwiki.org to give them a look!

<div style="padding-left:8px; color:#4466BF; background-color:#F69D99; border: 4px solid #A92C3C; -moz-border-radius:px;border-radius:px; -webkit-border-radius:px;khtml-border-radius:px;">May 21st, 2010 - NIWA: Today, Zelda Wiki's affiliate, WiKirby, has joined the  NIWA ! They are the first of three new members in the group, with the other two to be revealed on May 28 and June 4. Hop on over to www.wikirby.info to check them out!


 * May 18th, 2010 - New Affiliate: We have even more affiliate goodness for you! We'd like to welcome World Zelda Music Radio as our newest affiliate. Make sure to visit their site and give their awesome Zelda music library a listen!
 * May 17th, 2010 - New Affiliate: We have another affiliate! Unseen64, the large multimedia Nintendo site with everything related to beta content! Be sure to check them out!
 * May 1st, 2010 - NintendoLand and Zelda Wiki.org are now Affiliates. Visit their site for Zelda game and general Nintendo discussions!
 * April 24th, 2010 - 5th Birthday!: Zelda Wiki.org turns 5 years old today, and our Facebook fans are "liking" it!
 * April 19th, 2010 - Tattoo Request: We are looking for tattooed Zelda fans for a new Community article in the works. Check out this video for more details!
 * April 18th, 2010 - New Affiliate: We are proud to announce our newest affiliate: ZeldaPower.com! Be sure to check them out!
 * April 16th, 2010 - NIWA, our interwiki partnership now has its own Facebook page! Become a fan!.
 * April 14th, 2010 - Zelda Wiki.org now has its own YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe to us!
 * April 10th, 2010 - New Affiliate: Zelda Party Channel, Winner of the 2010 Golden Deku  Nut, and run by our two-time Wiki Exclusive writer Midnafan321. Check out their  clever Zelda-related  Arts & Crafts!
 * March 13th, 2010 - New Affiliate:  We welcome the Wars Wiki  as our newest affiliate. Check out the affiliates page  for more details.
 * March 5th, 2010 - New Bureaucrat: LegendZelda and his site, Community:The Hidden Triforce has been accepted as Zelda Wiki.org's newest staff member.
 * March 5th, 2010 - New Affiliate: We welcome the recently launched WiKirby as our newest affiliate. Check out the affiliates page for more details.
 * February 14th, 2010 - NIWA Membership: Zelda Wiki.org  is now a part of the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, known  otherwise as NIWA (pronounced NEE-wah) along with longtime affiliates  Bulbapedia and Super Mario Wiki! Check it out.
 * Febuary 14th, 2010 - Mentioned in print: Zelda Wiki.org and two Mastermind sites have been mentioned in the Official Nintendo Magazine! Thanks to our  valentine this year, GreenValentine for the image! See it here! Congratulations to us and the  communities of Zelda Universe  and Zelda Informer for the shared recognition from  Nintendo!
 * February 10th, 2010 - Facebook update: Zelda Wiki.org  has passed 1,000 Facebook Fans! Thanks to everyone for their support! Check it out!
 * February 6th, 2010 - New Wiki Exclusive: Brent McBride presents a new Wiki Exclusive which looks into many attributes that would give the series a more dark and epic experience. Take a look at it here, and discuss it on its talk page. Also make sure to give support by digging the article!
 * January 10th, 2010 - New Wiki Exclusive: Midnafan321 presents a new Wiki Exclusive which looks at the similarities between Zelda weapons and those used in the Middle Ages. Take a look at it here, and discuss it on its talk page!
 * January 1st, 2010 - Zelda Wiki.org is offering a link-exchange affiliation for other websites. See our current affiliates and notify your other favorite sites so they too can join.
 * January 1st, 2010 - New Wiki Exclusive Articles are Coming Soon! An increase of author interest in this format has the staff reviewing 3 submissions from 3 different authors! Contact any of the staff members if you too are interested in submitting an article.
 * January 1st, 2010 - With the new calendar month, you can help give 2010 a strong start by voting for Featured Articles and Featured Pictures.
 * January 1st, 2010 - Zelda Wiki.org finished 2009 on several high notes: 2 new Featured Articles, 7 new Featured Pictures, 2 new Wiki Exclusive Articles, passed the 50 million pageviews milestone by far, and closing in on 4,900 members! Congratulations, and thanks to everyone involved in our continued success!