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==Current News==</noinclude>
{{news item|September 13 2019|[[Su Helmas: Seeds of Entropy]] opens.}}
{{news item|August 9 2019|[[Guildfest 431]] opens.}}
{{news item|July 19 2019|[[Return to the Keep 431]] opens.}}
{{news item|June 13 2019|[[Artificing discipline|Artificing]] is released in Prime}}
{{news item|June 24, 2014|Please use [[Elanthipedia Bugs]] to report any pages that are not behaving.}}
*''See '''[[DragonRealms Updates (2019)]]''' for a list of the most recent game changes''
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==2019==
{{news item|January 18 - January 27, 2019|[[House of the Revenant Fang 429]] opens.}}
{{news item|March 2 2019|[[Artificing discipline|Artificing]] is open for testing in the Prime test instance.}}
{{news item|March 15 2019|[[Drathrok's Duskruin 430]] opens.}}
{{news item|May 10 2019|[[Droughtman's Challenge 430]] opens.}}

==2018==
{{news item|January 19, 2018|[[Droughtman's Challenge 426]] opens.}}
{{news item|March 23, 2018|[[Drathrok's Duskruin 426]] opens.}}
{{news item|November 1, 2018|[[Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze (2018)]] opens.}}
{{news item|October 26, 2018|[[Hollow Eve Festival 428]] opens.}}
{{news item|December 21, 2018|[[Chris' Mass Festival 429]] opens.}}

==2017==
{{news item|December 28 - December 30, 2018|[[Thorkim Family Farm 429]] opens.}}
{{news item|December 14, 2017|[[Chris' Mass Festival 425]] opens.}}
{{news item|November 1, 2017|[[Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze 425]] runs through November 26.}}
{{news item|October 27, 2017|[[Hollow Eve Festival 425]] runs through November 26.}}
{{news item|September 22, 2017|[[Su Helmas: The Forbidden Temple]] opens.}}
{{news item|July 21, 2017|[[Return to the Keep]] opens.}}
{{news item|June 2, 2017|[[Guildfest 423]] opens.}}
{{news item|May 19, 2017|[[House of the Revenant Fang 422]] opens.}}
{{news item|March 17, 2017|[[Drathrok's Duskruin 422]] opens.}}
{{news item|January 20, 2017|[[Su Helmas: Revealed!]] opens.}}

==2016==
{{news item|December 19, 2016|[[Chris' Mass Festival 422]] opens.}}
{{news item|October 27, 2016|[[Hollow Eve 421]] and [[Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze]] are about to arrive.}}
{{news item|September 19, 2016|Come join the [[Policy command|Policy commentary project]], where you can give feedback on longstanding DR policies. Follow the links and give your opinions on the appropriate discussion page.}}
{{news item|September 16, 2016|[[Drathrok's Duskruin 421]] is now open. Arena tickets and labyrinth tokens can be purchased in the [[SimuCoins|Simucoin Store]].}}
{{news item|August 22, 2016|The upgrade we just got seems to have disabled some important functions and caused a mess. We're working on fixing it.}}
{{news item|July 25, 2016|Read all about upcoming [[Magic 3.2]] changes here! Test them out on the [[Test]] server!}}
{{news item|June 3, 2016|[[:Category:Commands|Verb and Commands]] drive has begun! Have a favorite role-playing verb? Help us fill out the messaging!}}
{{news item|May 22, 2016|[[Tinkering discipline|Tinkering]] (a discipline of [[Engineering skill|Engineering]]) is now live in Prime.}}
{{news item|June 5, 2016|[[Turmar-Magen Charity Benefit]] is now open in the Crossing Town Green.}}
{{news item|May 13, 2016|The Estate Holders' Council is hosting [[Bacon Man's Birthday Bash 419|Bacon Man's Birthday Bash]] in Fang Cove.}}
{{news item|April 22, 2016|[[Shard Theater Faire 419]] is now open on Shard's New South Bridge.}}
{{news item|March 17, 2016|[[Festival of the Boar 419]] is now open in Boar Clan.}}
{{news item|February 25, 2016|[[Dwarven Culture Faire 419]] is now open in Raven's Point.}}
{{news item|January 23, 2016|[[Drathrok's Duskruin]] is now open! Come fight in the arena or search the labyrinth for treasure!}}

==2015==
{{news item|December 15, 2015|[[Chris's Mass Festival 418]] is open to celebrate the time of year!}}
{{news item|November 20, 2015|Come enjoy the [[Premium Mini Festival 418]] in Fang Cove.}}
{{news item|October 30, 2015|Today opens the Prime version of [[Hollow Eve Festival 417]].}}
{{news item|October 27, 2015|Come see [[Plokks' Perspicacious Performing Panoply]] in Outer Hibarnhvidar!}}
{{news item|July 10, 2015|See the [[:File:DR-elanthia.jpg|new, higher detail map of the realms]].}}
{{news item|June 26, 2015|[[Leth Deriel Faire 416]]}}
{{news item|June 19, 2015|[[Gor'Tog Culture Faire 416]]}}
{{news item|June 13, 2015|[[Lumberjacking]] and [[Shaping discipline|Shaping]] (a discipline of Engineering) are now live in Prime.}}
{{news item|April 4, 2015|We're attempting to make some repairs and unfortunately, it may cause some strange behavior. Sorry for the mess!}}
{{news item|May 22, 2015|[[Guildfest 416]] is now open in Prime. Don't miss it!}}
{{news item|March 27, 2015|[[:Category:Shard's South Bridge Street Faire 415 shops|Shard Street Faire 415]]}}
{{news item|March 21, 2015|Don't miss the [[Faire on the Crossing Green 415]].}}
{{news item|February 14, 2015|Happy Valentines Day from the staff. Don't miss [[Tokens of the Heart (1)|Tokens of the Heart]] and the new Estate Holder's area in [[Trevellyn's of Leth Deri'el‎]].}}
{{news item|January 24, 2015|We'd like to invite comment on the subject of page names for player organizations. [[:Category_talk:Player_organizations#Naming convention for player organizations and families|Go here to comment.]] '''Update: (February 10, 2015)''' This has now been implemented. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion.}}

==2014==
{{news item|December 18, 2014|We will finally be starting to tackle the project of making sure articles and categories are capitalized according to the standard. During this process, we will also be shifting some categories over to concepts. Please excuse the dust and mis-linked items, and for more details and work arounds, see [[Capitalization Update Project]]. -The Staff (of Doom)}}
{{news item|December 02, 2014|Welcome back to one of our former moderators, [[User:GAMERGIRL151|GAMERGIRL151]]!}}
{{news item|November 25, 2014|Please do not put appraisal values on any items that are not directly collected. Math off other denominations is often off by 1 or 2 kronar, and no one reviewing the pages will know they aren't actual appraisal value to fix or update.}}
{{news item|November 2, 2014|We'd like to invite comment on the subject of website crediting. [[Template talk:LostWhim|Go here to comment.]]}}
{{news item|June 21, 2014|Thanks to his recent hard work, we've offered ABSOLON a trial as a [[Elanthipedia:Administrators|moderator]]. Say hello!}}
{{news item|May 10, 2014|All pages are safe to edit. Go nuts!}}
{{news item|May 5, 2014|Once again, please do not edit existing pages, as they may be overwritten. Only add new pages.}}
{{news item|May 1, 2014|Elanthipedia is moving. Please see [[EpediaMoving|this page]] for details.}}
{{news item|Mar 19, 2014|Soon we'll be switching over to only allowing the staff to edit. This is to keep load down while we update things to reflect the 3.1 changes. Hopefully it won't take too long.}}
{{news item|Mar 15, 2014|We're back but due to some technical issues, please limit editing to critical updates.}}
{{news item|Mar 01, 2014|As Solomon mentioned earlier, we are in the process of trying to move over to Simutronics servers. We'll try to give you as much notice as possible if we need to shut down.}}
{{news item|Feb 14, 2014|We're going to try keeping this up over the weekend. Please use judiciously.}}
{{news item|Jan 28, 2014|Elanthipedia has been causing MAJOR problems for the server that it is hosted on - we have it back up temporarily but please limit your usage as much as possible for the next several days. If it gets bad again we will have to take it back down. Very sorry for any inconvenience.}}

==2013==
{{news item|Dec 8, 2013|Test is now open to all players for [[DragonRealms 3.1]].}}
{{news item|Nov 28, 2013|Happy Turkey Day. While you're at it, please consider tossing us a bone (I mean money). We've run through your last set of donations, and though our host isn't about to cut us off (thanks Rhoat!), it's probably polite to help him cover at least a bit of it.}}
{{news item|Oct 31, 2013|The [[Hollow Eve Festival 410 Map|Hollow Eve Festival]] has come to Prime. Come have some fun.}}{{news item|Oct 6, 2013|Ooops. We're back!}}
{{news item|Sept 26, 2013|Later tonight, we will be disabling editing due to some maintenance issues. It may a few days, but we hope to have it remedied much sooner. Viewing will not be affected.}}
{{news item|Sept 18, 2013|Apologies for the recent down time - there was a data center outage in CA that had us down for a day or two. Back up and running for the moment - keep your fingers crossed. ALSO - Many have sent donations recently & we really appreciate the support. THANK YOU}}
{{news item|August 30, 2013|We've changed the way items are named and linked to. It no longer is required that they be all in lower case.}}
{{news item|July 28, 2013|Thanks to your donations, we'll be able to ramp up the server for several months. This should offset some of the fancy things we want to do. Thanks from the staff!}}
{{news item|July 13, 2013|As we add more features to the site, it results in us having to pay for a better server. Our current host is a volunteer and it's becoming costly. '''Please consider donating to help offset the costs'''.}}
{{news item|July 20, 2013|[[Alchemy]] is released, though only [[Remedies]] discipline. Enjoy!}}
{{news item|June 03, 2013|We've added a small symbol to the shop pages that will pop up when an item is incomplete. This should assist those who are cataloging for the festival.}}
{{news item|May 19, 2013|We've added a section for people who want to make [[Help:Help Videos|help videos]].}}
{{news item|January 26, 2013|{{tt|EXP SWITCH}} can be used for 24 in-game hours after a character's DR3 conversion, to manage the relative levels of the new magic skills that were introduced with [[Magic 3.0]]. Please see [[Experience command#EXP_SWITCH|here]] for details.}}
{{news item|March 24, 2013|Those who are interested in updating the title requirements should feel free to do so. There is still some conversion on our end that must be done, but the data will be saved.}}

==2012==
{{news item|December 15, 2012|If you haven't read [[Solomon]]'s '''[[Post:Important News - 12/15/2012 - 20:44|big news item]]''', you might want to.}}
{{news item|November 19, 2012|In preparation for everything 3.0 coming out, we're going to be updating the site to reflect it. Excuse our dust.}}
{{news item|October 28, 2012|Oh, right, the festival's open, isn't it. Here's a [[Hollow Eve Festival 406 Map|map]].}}
{{news item|August 9, 2012|Everyone welcome our new trial moderator, [[User:TEVESHSZAT|TEVESHSZAT]]!}}
{{news item|August 8, 2012|Yesterday we introduced a new account blocking tool that should prevent creation of accounts with certain patterns we've been seeing in spam accounts. If this blocks a name you wanted, please contact one of the staff who can bypass the block.}}
{{news item|August 7, 2012|Now that it's all official, it's time to reveal some big news. Several of the GameMasters have volunteered to contribute to the site, where possible. To make it obvious who they are, their accounts begin with "DR-GM". If you see anyone else claiming to be a GM, please let one of the staff know.}}
{{news item|August 7, 2012|We've reenabled email support. Members, please make sure your email is up to date, so that your password can be sent in the event you forget it. See [[Special:Preferences]].}}
{{news item|June 20, 2012| Help support Elanthipedia! Thank you to everyone who helped with a donation during / immediately after the migration to the new hosting platform. We are currently making a second request for donations to help support the monthly hosting fees to keep the site alive. Please use the DONATE button on the left nav bar to show your continued support of Elanthipedia, and help us keep this awesome resource available! Thank you in advance for your generous contribution!}}
{{news item|April 16, 2012|"Due to technical conflicts, we're going to delay [the extended downtime that was scheduled for April 17) a few weeks. We're rescheduling the downtime for mid- to late-May. More details when we nail down a date, but the main thing is that now tomorrow is all clear." --GM Solomon}}
{{news item|April 1, 2012|Happy April Fools (Due to a server error, it looks like we may lose a significant chunk of the site permanently. Staff is currently deciding whether or not it's worth coninuing the site at all. We'll let you know soon.)}}
{{news item|March 20, 2012|At the request of our users, we've added a page that will show the last 20 forum posts we've archived. See [[Recent Forum Posts]].}}
{{news item|February 27, 2012|We've added a new extension to help combat the annoying spam, [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist SpamBlacklist]. Please let us know if it causes any problems.}}
{{news item|February 21, 2012|It seems that previously we did not have an easy to locate listing of our rules. [[Elanthipedia:Elanthipedia_Rules|Now we do]]. Please take a moment to read them.}}
{{news item|February 5, 2012|Despite our best efforts, the site is taking longer to update than anticipated. [https://twitter.com/#!/elanthipedia Follow us on twitter] for up to the moment updates.}}
{{news item|February 2, 2012|Be prepared for the site to go down this weekend, as we do a series of much needed updates.}}
{{news item|January 27, 2012|Please help us keep Elanthipedia going and donate.}}{{news item|January 27, 2012|If you encounter an error, please list it in [[Elanthipedia Bugs]].}}
{{news item|January 26, 2012|We're back! A redirect will be set up at www.elanthipedia.com as soon as possible.}}
{{news item|January 14, 2012|[[Tailoring_discipline|Tailoring]] is now live.}}
{{news item|January 8, 2012|If you're having problems with the left navigation bar, it has to do with the most recent Firefox update. We're looking into whether we can do anything about it.}}

==2011==
{{news item|October 3, 2011|The lead up to the [[Hollow Eve Festival]] has begun! See [[Post:Kurmin and the Crashed Spider - 10/03/2011 - 02:32|here]] for a log.}}
{{news item|October 2, 2011|Due to a rash of spam attacks, we will be preemptively blocking suspicious account names. If you have a legitimate name that gets blocked, please IM one of the Moderators to have it unblocked.}}
{{news item|July 16, 2011|[[Armorsmithing_discipline|Armorsmithing]] is now live.}}
{{news item|July 4, 2011|Wishing all our American Elanthipedians a safe and happy 4th of July!}}
{{news item|July 1, 2011|[[Weaponsmithing_discipline|Weaponsmithing]] is live. Go forth and weaponsmith!}}
{{news item|June 29, 2011|If you are noticing caching problems and error messages on pages while viewing Elanthipedia anonymously, please [[Special:UserLogin|create an account or login]] to properly view the page. --[[User:Naeya|Naeya]] <sup>([[User talk:Naeya|talk]])</sup>}}
{{news item|June 16, 2011|We're having some severe server issues. I don't know how long they'll last, but we're working as fast as we can. -Moderator [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon Makdasi]]<sup>([[User talk:Caraamon|talk]])</sup> 08:15, 16 June 2011 (UTC)}}{{news item|February 08, 2011|Say hello to [[User:Ysselt|Ysselt]] and [[User:Isharon|Isharon]], our new trial moderators.-Moderator [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon]]}}

==2010==
{{news item|December 25, 2010|Happy Holidays, whichever you choose to celebrate, to everyone from all of us at Elanthipedia!}}
{{news item|December 11, 2010|The [[Post:Updated Skill List - 12/11/2010 - 15:45:26|new skill combinations]] have been released. -[[User:Caraamon|Moderator Caraamon]]}}
{{news item|November 29, 2010|I've released an update to the query pages that should resolve a longstanding issue with using the OR options. -[[User:Caraamon|Moderator Caraamon]]}}
{{news item|November 10, 2010|I have setup a Twitter account for Elanthipedia, which I will use to help broadcast any downtimes due to server maintenance, etc. Or maybe just broadcast random DR related nonsense, 140 characters at a time, when I'm bored. Who knows! [http://www.twitter.com/Elanthipedia @Elanthipedia] ~ [[User:Naeya|Naeya]]}}
{{news item|October 31, 2010|Happy Halloween, Elanthipedians! And Happy Hollow's Eve. Take a gander at the [[Hollow Eve Festival 399|fest page]] and [[Hollow Eve 399 Map|map]] for help finding your way around the fest. ~[[User:Naeya|Naeya]]}}
{{news item|October 24, 2010|It has come to my attention that a number of users seems to be marking their changes as "minor" by default without regard to its actual status. Please read [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Minor_edit minor edits] if you have any questions. -Moderator [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon]]}}
{{news item|October 10, 2010|The new durability system has been released. Everything should be updated to match, so drop me a message if I messed up or forgot something. Also added a bit of help remembering the new ranges while I was at it. Enjoy! -[[User:Caraamon|Moderator Caraamon]]}}
{{news item|October 22, 2010|As some of you might have noticed, a donation link is (back) up in the sidebar. Please consider helping us keep the site running. -Moderator [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon]] (because [[User:Naeya|Naeya]]'s too nice)}}
{{news item|September 20, 2010|The GMs are releasing more information on [[Magic 3.0]] and we're in the process of collecting everything about [[Combat 3.0]]. -[[User:Caraamon|Moderator Caraamon]]}}
{{news item|July 5, 2010|The stonecarving system is available. Notes can be found [[Crafting|here]]. -[[User:Caraamon|Moderator Caraamon]]}}
{{news item|April 29, 2010|We have completed our upgrade of MediaWiki to v1.15.3. Should you notice any problems please comment on the Talk Page of [[Elanthipedia:Upgrade History]]. Thank You. --Callek}}
{{news item|March 4, 2010|Once again Callek's done his magic and we're updated to the latest thingies. -Moderator [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon Makdasi]]<sup>([[User talk:Caraamon|talk]])</sup>}}
{{news item|March 16, 2010|There seems to be rash of people who think defacing the Lyras event articles is funny. Stop. There will be no more warnings before the bannings begin. -Moderator [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon Makdasi]]<sup>([[User talk:Caraamon|talk]])</sup>}}
{{news item|March 17, 2010|We've discovered a new way to do searching. Check out the [[Special:RunQuery/BestiaryQuery|Bestiary search page]] for a peek at our efforts.}}
{{news item|March 17, 2010|Be warned, we're scheduling a major update for April 29th. It probably won't take down the site.... unless it does. -[[User:Caraamon|Moderator Caraamon]]}}
{{News item|February 22, 2010|The proposed [[Elanthipedia:Necromancer_Policy|policy on Necromancer secrets]] has been drafted. Please give your opinions. -Moderator [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon Makdasi]]}}
{{News item|February 26, 2010|Thanks to the work of [[User:Callek|Callek]] the semantic functions are working again! In the near future, he might even be brave enough to update things. -Moderator [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon Makdasi]]}}
{{news item|January 6, 2010|There is a new (though temporary) policy on Necromancer secrets. Please [[Talk:Necromancer|read it]].}}

==2009==
{{news item|October 30, 2009|The [[Hollow Eve 396 Map]] is up! -Moderator [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon Makdasi]]<sup>([[User talk:Caraamon|talk]])</sup>}}
{{news item|August 1, 2009|The [[Magma Falls Mini-Festival]] is open and maps are up! -Moderator[[User:Caraamon|Caraamon Makdasi]]<sup>([[User talk:Caraamon|talk]])</sup>}}
{{news item|July 10, 2009|The new [[experience]] system is here and live. Hooray!}}
{{news item|May 20, 2009|We're restoring some of the categories we deleted when SemanticWiki was added. This is a '''temporary''' measure until we can get it working again. -Moderator [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon Makdasi]]<sup>([[User talk:Caraamon|talk]])</sup>}}
{{news item|March 21, 2009|There is a new NameSpace to hold forum posts. Please see [[Elanthipedia:Post]] for details. -[[User:Caraamon|Caraamon]]}}
{{news item|March 2, 2009|The Search function is now back in operation.}}
{{news item|March 2, 2009|Search seems to be broken for the time being. Will post a news update when it is fixed.}}
{{news item|March 2, 2009|Due to some problems with the host, Elanthipedia experienced a bit of a downtime yesterday evening and this morning. I have done upgrades to the MediaWiki software as well as important extensions. The problem seems to have been corrected. I have noticed a few issues with some pages such as items, titles, and even basic tables. I will be working with Caraamon to get the issues fixed as soon as possible. The wiki is up for browsing and basic edits, though. Many apologies for the downtime. ~ [[User:Naeya|Naeya]]}}
{{news item|January 7, 2009|With the changes to the treasure system, please consider adding data to the [[Gems]] page. -[[User:Caraamon|Caraamon]]}}
==2008==
{{news item|December 31, 2008/January 1, 2009|Happy New Years from those of us watching over Elanthipedia. ~ [[User:Naeya|Naeya]]}}
{{news item|November 7, 2008|I'm experimenting with a Google search. This will probably provide better search results than the current wiki search (it also includes all pages by default, not just in the Main namespace (good for searching items, armor, etc). If you notice any problems with the search function, let me know on my talk page please. Thanks! ~ [[User:Naeya|Naeya]]}}
{{news item|November 4, 2008|Ok, so I lied about the 7k article count. After running some much needed maintenance scripts, the site should be a lot faster though! Oh... and don't forget to VOTE! ~ [[User:Naeya|Naeya]]}}
{{news item|November 3, 2008|Titles are going to be broken for a bit. Sorry. -Caraamon}}
{{news item|November 3, 2008|The MediaWiki upgrade went smoothly. We're now running version 1.13.2. If you look at [[Special:SpecialPages]] you'll see a new look to that area. If anyone notices anything odd, report it in the [[Project:Town Green|Town Green]] or on [[User_talk:Naeya|my talk page]]. - [[User:Naeya|Naeya]]}}
{{news item|November 2, 2008|Sometime today we've reached 7000 significant articles. Very cool, people! Keep up the great contributions ~ [[User:Naeya|Naeya]]}}
{{news item|November 1, 2008|You may notice quite a bit of a mess in the Item department. Caraamon and I are working to get things fixed. Upgrades seemed to have caused more problems than we thought. - Naeya}}
{{news item|October 31, 2008|We have many of the festival shops up in horribly mangled unwikified form. Hey, I only have three hands. -Caraamon}}
{{news item|October 31, 2008|The upgrade to the new version of the wiki software seems to have broken titles, and possibly other things. I'm working on it as I type this. -[[User:Caraamon|Caraamon]]}}
{{news item|October 31, 2008|Happy Halloween everyone! For those attending the Festival of the Gods, have a good time! I'm sure we'll have some information about the contents of the fest "soon" after it opens.}}
{{news item|August 21, 2008|There are some small issues with category inclusion for shops, due to some updates I just made. I'm working as fast as I can to fix them, but it's a big job. -Caraamon}}
{{news item|July 2, 2008|Big thanks to [[User:Reene|Reene]] for our new logo.}}
{{news item|June 28, 2008|As part of our move towards Semantic Wiki, I have deleted most of the item-based categories. For more information, please see [[Category_talk:Items]].}}
{{news item|June 19, 2008 | Thanks to our own wonderful owner [[User:Naeya|Naeya]], the issues with namespaces has been squashed and we will return to moving items willy-nilly! -Caraamon}}
{{news item|June 17, 2008 | Changes are being made to the various item templates for semantic wiki support. Please check before using them.}}
{{news item|June 17, 2008 | Oops! Forgot to disable anonymous edits. Sorry! You will now again need to login to edit/add content.}}
{{news item|June 17, 2008 | Well folks. After an unexpected but necessary server move, Elanthipedia is safe and sound on her new server. If possible, please report any noticeable problems in the [[Elanthipedia:Town_Green_(technical)|Technical Green]]. I'll be posting a [[Elanthipedia:Town_Green_(technical)#Server_Move|few more details]] about the move there. ~[[User:Naeya|Naeya]]}}
{{news item|June 12, 2008 | As you may have noticed, we had stopped the item move due to technical problems with the new namespaces (AKA I don't know as much as I thought I did). Hang in there, we'll get it done or die trying (famous last words, yay!) -[[User:Caraamon|Caraamon]]}}
{{news item|June 12, 2008 | Fairly soon we will be moving in game item pages to new namespaces (i.e. Item:, Armor:, Weapon:, Shield:). This will almost certainly cause some link confusion at first, but [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon]] will be working day and night (or when he feels like it) to make sure everything gets fixed. So this begs the question, "Why bother?" Despite the massive headache it will cause, it will allow some nifty tricks to be implemented once we fully switch to the SemanticWiki "stuff."}}
{{news item|June 11, 2008 | All item templates are created, except for the PC created item template. In addition, they had automatic links to the forms that make editing them easier. Take a look and feel free to post any suggestions or comments.}}
{{news item|April 15, 2008 | Welcome new sysop, [[User:Caraamon|Caraamon]]. He'll be tidying up things a bit around the wiki.}}
{{news item|April 15, 2008 | Couple updates on the site. See [[Talk:Main_Page#Site_Upgrades|here]] for more info.}}
{{news item|January 18, 2008 | Annnnd we're back! Sorry about the downtime folks. Had some server complications. The wiki will be taken down in ~7 hours for a brief update. This downtime should only be about 5-10 minutes. Sorry for any inconveniences.}}
{{news item|January 1, 2008 | To mark the new year, our 5,000th article was created today by [[User:Yamcer|Yamcer]]. You can view that article here: [[Multi-armed Devourer]]. Let's keep up the momentum and make 2008 a great year!}}

==2007==
{{news item|December 24, 2007 | [[Chris's Mass Festival 389|Chris's Mass Festival of 2007]] is here! Visit the festival today.}}
{{news item|December 15, 2007 | Elanthipedia is nearing its 5,000th article! The wiki has grown so much over this last year, and it's thanks to contributors like YOU! Keep up the excellent work! ~ [[Elanthipedia:Administrators|The Admins]]}}
{{news item|December 11, 2007 | We've upgraded the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki software] to the newest version (1.11.0). If anyone notices any problems, please [[Elanthipedia:Town Green (technical)| post here]].}}
{{news item|December 3, 2007 | {{tlink|User Talk Top}}}} template is available for any user to put on their talk pages.
{{news item|December 3, 2007 | Belated announcement of our newest sysop [[User:Aetherie|Aetherie]]. He's a dedicated contributor and has earned the position in his time here. ~~[[User:Naeya|Naeya]]}}
{{news item|November 24, 2007 | The issue with people not being able to edit any of the wiki pages seems to be fixed now. If you are still having issues, please contact me via AIM at EmpathNaeya. ~~[[User:Naeya|Naeya]]}}
{{news item | October 27, 2007 | A new project is underway to develop and expand articles on the cities of [[Elanthia]]. Visit the [[Elanthipedia:Projects/City Articles|City Article Project Page]] for details.}}
*'''''October 16, 2007''''' - Please welcome our newest [[Elanthipedia:Administrators|admin]], [[User:Kraelyst|Kraelyst]]! You all might know him as [[Kraelyst the Hand]] of [[The Locksmith Union]].
*'''''July 18,2007''''' - Woo! We reached our 200 user mark (201 as of this posting.) [[User:Nikhetto|Nikhetto]] appears to have been our 200th user to join.
*'''''July 2, 2007''''' - Thanks to our contributors, Elanthipedia is growing every day! Keep up the good work, everyone! ~~[[User:Naeya|Naeya]]
*'''''June 18, 2007''''' - Setup the [[Elanthipedia:Town Green|Town Green]] and [[Current events|Community Bulletin Board]]. Go take a look!
*'''''May 14, 2007''''' - You no longer need to input coin type on item prices in [[:Category:Shops|shops]]. This is now handled by [[Template:Store At A Glance]].
*'''''April 21, 2007''''' - On April 19th, [[User:Valynn|Valynn]] became our 100th registered user! We have over 1600 articles and climbing! Keep up the good work, all! ~~ ''[[User:Naeya|Naeya]]''
*'''''April 18, 2007''''' - If you have any questions/concerns/suggestions regarding the wiki, please head to the [http://groups.google.com/group/elanthipedia-contributors?hl=en Elanthipedia Contributors] discussion group. ~~ ''[[User:Naeya|Naeya]]''
*'''''March 25, 2007''''' - Shops move to [[:Category:Shops]] is completed. ~~ ''[[User:Naeya|Naeya]]''
*'''''March 24, 2007''''' - In process of overhaul of [[:Category:Shop]]. Moving it to [[:Category:Shops]]. Sorry for any inconvenience. ~~ ''[[User:Naeya|Naeya]]''
*'''''March 2007''''' - DR Wiki moved to ''www.elanthipedia.com''. With the new home we hope to see new growth and enthusiastic contribution to make this the most up to date information source for [[DragonRealms]]. ~~ ''[[User:Naeya|Naeya]]''

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