User blog:MonkeysHK/2022 Anniversary Update



The Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki just entered its fourth year of service! In our commitment to bring a better and unique experience to our readers, we are bringing some important updates today. Besides content-side improvement, we have dedicated a lot of time in researching, coding, reaching out to people, and exploring new frontiers, in order to evolve the wiki for the betterment of our readers and editors.

Since establishment, this wiki has seen editors with great vigilance and dedication at all times. This wiki is not just defined by its content, but the accumulation of work in the past three years, across generations of editors each contributing their part. We do not fear change, and we embrace each and every challenge - and that is the spirit that shapes this wiki. We have taken tremendous steps to reach where we are, and things we are going to undertake will be no less excellent.

Lastly, there would be no wiki if there were no reader or editor, and we are wholly grateful for the continuous support for the wiki, either by viewing articles or helping out. We will see many new features and improvement this year, and I hope more people that come to the wiki find this place useful and inspiring!

Full Collection Expansion


Similar to the update to CollectionTable, Collection UI can now generate the whole Collection UI and its inner interfaces just using the collection name. It is fully clickable and recreated with all the inner UIs, excluding Recipe UIs (see Challenges). We also retained old implementations of all associated features for flexibility and compatibility reasons. You should be able to see these new Collection UIs on any collection pages.

Challenges:
 * Recipe UIs will have a big impact on transclusion size. We think it is better to develop a more efficient API to display recipes later, than to recreate all the Recipe UIs at this moment.

Font Update


It all started when an editor pointed out several issues about the texts in our tooltips. After much research, we are finally able to bring the Minecraft font to display like in-game texts of Minecraft 1.8.9 (the wiki standard). It can now display all glyphs available within 1.8.9, as well as all symbols and characters from other languages, as close as possible. (If you zoom in close enough, you'd notice some text shadows aren't exactly shown the same as 1.8.9; we may do something about it in the future.) The font is also highly optimized - we incorporated techniques to make it so that your browser only requests small files rather than large ones. Even though it supports 57,000+ glyphs, the update should have minimal effect your viewing experience. We also give appropriate attributions to the font here.

Features:
 * All characters and symbols in tooltips and inline Minecraft texts are displayed the same as in MC 1.8.9
 * Realistic bold font and obfuscated text made according to in-game text
 * The displayed font is highly optimized and accurate to meet wiki standards

Infobox Generator


We are happy to announce the Infobox Generator, a new tool available on Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki Tools. This will allow editors to get pre-generated templates to use in their editing, if an item exists on the Items API.

Features:
 * Generates the Infobox and Essence Crafting based on an item name or ID
 * Now supports Armor!

In the future, we hope to make more use of the API to optimize editing. We have plans to simplify more parts of editing in the future with the API - for example, Bingo Tasks and Mayor Elections. Please give us suggestions if there are tools you wish to have on this wiki.

How You Can Help
The wiki, and its international wikis, are better with more people helping out. If you find this wiki inspiring, you can help us improve a thing or two, or correct things that you find are inaccurate. More, you can help us write or improve Tutorials articles!

Here are some resources:
 * Editing Resources
 * Wiki Discord
 * About Wiki Staff
 * About International Wikis