User blog:Alemas2005/The End-of-MBs Editing Drive (FAIL, THANKS MODS)

As we all already know, our beloved LEGO Message Boards will die off this week. Tomorrow, at 8pm EST, they'll be officially "frozen". They'll still be accessible until March 5, the day after they'll be wiped from LEGO.com and into Internet oblivion.

Now, for us, it'll mean the very subject matter of the Wiki will be deleted, meaning that we'll end up as an archive of information relating to the MBs. This is where you come in.

Because the mods decided, in their infinite wisdom, to lower the rank requirements in order for everyone to get bumped-up ranks, we'll have to update the ranks of nearly 4,500 user articles on our Wiki. If we want to be considered a decent "archive" for the MBs, we'll have to get a move on this week and update every single one of these articles.

"Ah," I hear you say, "but how about the signatures and avatars?". Well, you should update them as well (if they have changed). However, if you just want to update the ranks and nothing more (this is the main focus of the editing drive after all), or you don't know how to update them, just write "Signature", "Avatar", or "Signature and avatar" in the edit summary, and one of our expert editors will come and add them in for you. Hopefully, if they're kind enough.

How do you update the ranks? Just go into source mode and look for "|Rank=" in the User template (where there's a bunch of code at the top of the page). The number corresponds to the rank number of the user. Simply change it to whatever the user currently has. Easy. And don't forget to update the rank in the general description.

Don't worry, you'll get rewards in the form of shiny badges which you can show off to everyone.

To start off, head on over to the Category:Users page. I've already done the "-" and "0" pages, as well as a few articles from "Random Pages". Yes, it's a lot, but if we all do this together, we should be able to make it in time.

Well, what are you waiting for? Go edit, now!