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Wiki status update

Microsoft no longer considers the Minecraft Wiki as official and as such requires some changes to be made on the wiki, which are described in detail below.

Back in 2011, Mojang and Curse signed an agreement that gave Curse (later Fandom) the rights to use certain trademarks and branding related to Minecraft. This agreement meant that the Minecraft Wiki in all languages would be considered the official wiki for it.

Microsoft, however, recently notified Fandom that they are terminating the agreement. Fandom's legal team attempted to discuss the matter with Microsoft and find alternatives so that the agreement could be continued, but Microsoft insisted on their position. According to that position, all fan websites they do not host are unofficial (which includes, among many others, the wiki), and therefore subject to their branding and community guidelines.

Being officially declared unofficial does not mean the wiki is no longer in good standing with Mojang or Microsoft. Other than the matters stated below, Microsoft do not require other changes to the wiki. Other opportunities for cooperation, which wouldn't involve the wiki being declared official, are being explored by Fandom, but no guarantees can be made that these efforts will produce results visible to community members.

– Fandom and the Minecraft Wiki administration team

Microsoft requires the following to be done:
 * Remove any reference to the wiki being official in every version of the wiki (which includes the international wikis).
 * Create a new wordmark. It can still say "Minecraft" but cannot be its logo. Fandom's design team is available to make a new one with Minecraft's feeling to it in collaboration with us.
 * Remove all Minecraft logos from the main page, and optionally replace them with screenshots.
 * Remove product packaging artwork and logos from the infoboxes on product pages like "Minecraft", "Minecraft Earth", "Minecraft Dungeons", etc. These can be replaced with screenshots. Artwork can be used elsewhere on the page, but not as the infobox image. It's not entirely clear why this is asked of the wiki, but Fandom thinks it's to avoid making pages look official.
 * Addition of a disclaimer to the footer mentioning it's not an official wiki. Fandom will take care of this.

As the agreement has already been terminated, these changes are to be made as soon as possible, ideally before the end of this week.

The following is a rough checklist of what needs to be done:
 * Remove all mentions of the wiki being official from pages describing the wiki.
 * Remove all Minecraft logos from the main page.
 * Remove all Minecraft logos and packaging artwork from product article infoboxes.
 * Change the wiki logo and icon to not use any Minecraft trademarks.
 * It's fine if it says "Minecraft", but this word must not be represented as the game logo. Using another font (ideally not the Minecraft font) would be necessary.
 * The grass block in particular is quite recognizable, and so the logo shouldn't look like a grass block at all, including any derivations of the Minecraft grass block or other such reproductions.
 * Logos that don't use any graphical materials from Minecraft products at all are a bonus.

The following does not need to be done:
 * It's not needed to remove product logos from other parts of associated product articles, such as galleries.
 * It's not needed to remove block or mob renders from infoboxes in corresponding articles.
 * It's not needed to remove mentions of being official from old talk page messages, old page revisions, log entries, or summaries.

For questions or clarifications regarding the above, please post on the community discussion page or the wiki discord.

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Useful pages

 * The wiki rules
 * Style guide (including its redstone, feature, and version subpages)
 * Talk page guidelines
 * Admin noticeboard for administrative issues
 * Projects for current community projects
 * Pending tasks
 * Patroller requests for requests to verify specific edits or information
 * Quick reference page for an indexing of all navigation boxes and articles on the wiki
 * Help:Editing on Wikipedia for help with editing pages
 * UCP migration issues

Recent discussions
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Wanted pages

 * Articles
 * A page on the way Minecraft renders; all about the rendering engine. – 20:27, September 16, 2014
 * Partially finished due to the release of the Bedrock Edition.
 * Partially finished due to the release of the RenderDragon.
 * A page about biomes before Alpha v1.2.0. – 08:46, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Page detailing potion mechanics, names and functions in Beta 1.9 prereleases – 11:18, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
 * A page listing block, item, entity, enchantment, status effect, biome, etc. IDs in Legacy Console, New Nintendo 3DS, and Pi Editions. – 13:18, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * A page describing what a translation string is, while also listing them. – 08:48, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * A page describing what an upgrade path is, while also listing them and explaining the DataFixerUpper library. – 21:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
 * List of characters supported by Minecraft's font – 12:39, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * A page listing and containing official promotional art for Minecraft. - unknown date
 * Page focused around a table showing what mobs can spawn on what blocks. e.g. passive mobs only in grass blocks, and some new nether mobs can't on wart blocks – 11:49, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
 * A page documenting all possible valid right click actions and their results. – 12:21, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * A gallery-like page compiling all image and video teasers released for each update. – 22:56, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
 * A Main page of Minecraft Earth Wiki – 04:33, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * A Main page of Minecraft Dungeons Wiki – 19:56, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * A beginners guide on Minecraft Dungeons. – 17:28, 7 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Article updates


 * Host privileges in-game game options screen – 19:58, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Add the Bedrock Edition information to Demo mode/Locations – 12:41, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Rewrite the Inventory documentation, where it could be useful for tutorial pages. – 17:33, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Make sure all Texture Update revisions are safely documented in the history sections of the respective blocks/items/entities/status effects. This also does include prerelease screenshots shared by the development team, as well as official Texture Update resource packs which contain textures that were not part of snapshots. – 23:04, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
 * A list of hex codes for foliage colors in Bedrock Edition. – 18:45, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * A major.minor.patch.revision version number for Bedrock Edition 1.14.41 (can be found in options.txt). – 16:00, 13 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Project pages


 * Categories
 * More media categories 20:02, 17 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Templates


 * Images


 * Entities
 * All entity renders listed at Talk:Texture Update for the Texture Update page. – 05:38, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Numerous renders as seen in Category:Objects requiring isometric renders. – 01:45, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Now split up into easier-to-manage chunks! – 11:29, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * There is now a specific category for images that appear at or near the top of pages, which are higher priority to render. – 20:53, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Upload new images to pages in Category:Pages needing images. – 01:45, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The 20w17a version of saddled shivering Strider, with the properly oriented saddle (see File:Saddled Strider Shiver JE2.gif)


 * Blocks
 * All block renders listed at Talk:Texture Update for the Texture Update page. – 05:36, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Numerous renders as seen in Category:Objects requiring isometric renders. – 01:45, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Renders from Category:Pages needing images. – 01:45, 21 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Environment
 * Nothing here at the time


 * Sprites
 * New InvSprite entries for the banners as seen in Java Edition 1.12. – 18:09, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge multiple files into File:InvSprite.png (listed on template in file page). – 10:29, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Sprites for the icons that make up the tabs in the creative inventory in Bedrock edition. – 1:26, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Sprites from Category:Pages needing images. – 01:45, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * New Pencil sprite for Template:CommentSprite to use for "wip" instead of the hourglass (as that really is more a waiting than in progress sprite. – 10:05, 19 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Sounds
 * Bedrock Edition exclusive jumping and landing sound files for each block material type. – 22:30, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Category:Pages missing sounds should now include all missing sounds for entities, and as such should be a complete list of what sounds need to be added. – 15:35, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

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