Lots of interesting stuff has been going on behind the scenes here at Shifti. With the recent explosion of stories (we've passed 100) the administrators have begun adding "Transformation Type" categories. While they aren't mandatory – the category could give away a twist in the story – it is going to be one of the main ways for people to find stories on the site. Another bit of news is that I (ShadowWolf) have added the "ShadowWolf's Pack" as an alternate to Bryan's Picks for finding high quality stories. It has three sections — a rated section, where I will rank the stories from 1 to 4 stars; an unrated section, where I have been putting stories that rate more than four stars and a small section where I'm highlighting the first one or two stories from authors new to Shifti who show great promise.
The template {{part}} has been deprecated and is planned to be removed as soon as the admins get around to removing it from use. The reason is that Bryan discovered a subtle feature of the MediaWiki parser that would generate links into sections of a template if the template used the header markup === text ===. Since {{part}} does this, it was creating a subtle breakage of the sections in articles.
In all seriousness we are trying to make Shifti a great place to find stories. To do this we have been developing the policies regarding categorization as we go along, such that, recently, a change was made to institute Category:Stories by author so that stories are sorted by author and changed the original Category:Author so that it is a place to find a list of authors that have contributed stories, so you can find a list of all stories by a given author.
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