Recent Blog Posts

Hey everyone! Today we're pleased to announce an improvement that will help many editors just starting out on our platform. We're rolling out several enhancements for creating new wikis.

When a user decides to start a new community, the process usually kicks off with the creation form. Once those steps are completed, the new wiki launches with a default template. This template—colloquially called the "Starter Wiki"—is the one we've improved. We've added new resources and optimizations to facilitate the growth of these new communities, specifically with new editors in mind.

• 1 Helping Editors as a Priority
• 2 New Visual Elements
• 3 Focus on Page Creation
• 4 Introducing Our Features and Utilities
• 5 Accessibility First
• 6 New Wikis for Everyone

One of the most f...

Hey hey, lovelies. Welcome to the last Technical Updates blog of November and the penultimate of the year! As per past editions, we use this blog series to update you on the latest bug fixes, some fixes that are in the works, potential experiments, and Fandom-wide platform changes. This blog is announced on this wiki to reach everyone who's been active here in any form in the past 90 days. Feel free to ask questions in the comment sections, but know that you can also share your feature suggestions and your feedback via the Community Feedback board.

• 1 Recent Fixes
• 2 Development Updates
  • 2.1 Consumer Tools
  • 2.2 User Experience (UXFCP) Team

• Some characters, such as single and double apostrophes, when used in the user's profile bio were replaced with the...

Hey y’all! I’m Kaye, I’m a Client Strategist here at Fandom, and I’m bringing this blog post to you from a couch where my cat keeps putting his paw on my hand like "Mother, cease typing." As a queer woman whose wife is trans, Trans Awareness Week and Trans Day of Remembrance are very important to me. I am also an enormous nerd, so I volunteered to write our history blog commemorating this week. We’re sharing this blog internally, too, for employees to learn more about and celebrate Trans Awareness Week.

I would love to start off by telling you exactly what Trans Awareness Week we’re on. It might be the 26th – but that’s dating from the first Transgender Day of Remembrance, a vigil in 1999 that a small group of trans women hosted in honor of...

Hello, lovely people! Welcome to the middle of November, between Halloween and Thanksgiving for those celebrating! This would probably be the only Technical Update we are publishing this month because of how the calendar is and because today we start to publish them on Mondays. But don't worry, each two weeks we're always updating all of you about user-facing bugs, product improvements, and other general announcements. If you have any questions or feedback for us, don't forget to use the comments and let us know about them!

• 1 Notable Change
• 2 Recent Fixes
• 3 Development Updates
  • 3.1 Consumer Tools
  • 3.2 Platform Team
  • 3.3 User Experience (UXFCP) Team

Starting November 25, we're updating how ads work for logged-in users on Fandom. This change reflects the evo...

Hey hey, lovelies! Happy Halloween for those celebrating! Happy Friday and start of the weekend for everyone who is not. This will be the third Technical Update blog for October in which you can expect an overview of some more user-facing bugs, updates, and general announcements. Per usual, this blog is announced on this wiki to reach everyone who's been active here in any form in the past 90 days. If you have any questions or feedback for us in turn, please sound off in the comments and let us know about it!

• 1 Notable Change
• 2 Recent Fixes
• 3 Fixes in Development
• 4 Development Updates
  • 4.1 Platform Team

Most of you already know how to reach out to Fandom in case you'd like to leave us with valuable feedback. In order to further facilitate and centrali...

Hello, hello, hello, you lovely people! Welcome to the middle of October and the second Technical Update blog this month! It'll be the second of three blogs this month in which I'll show a selection of user-facing bugs, releases, and other relevant notes for you about changes to the platform. Per usual, this blog is announced on this wiki to reach everyone who's been active here in any form in the past 90 days. This is also a perfect time for you to leave a comment if you have some feedback to share or a bug to report.

• 1 Notable Change
• 2 Recent Fixes
• 3 Fixes in Development
• 4 Development Updates
  • 4.1 User Experience (UXFCP) Team

With progress tracking on Interactive Maps and tables a hot topic, the need to have a central page grouping all this progress...

Hey hey, you amazing people! Progress tracking has been a hot topic for a while on Interactive Maps and, more recently, on tables. However, this progress is tracked in isolation, only visible from the page in question. Your interactions and history disappear unless you know where to look, and even if you do, it's often fragmented and not particularly welcoming. Your contributions page displays your editing and social history, but it doesn't show your progress. Until now! Let me introduce My Fandom: a home base for all your progress and engagement activity.

Let's start with the "what is it." At this moment, My Fandom's functionality is limited to three main sections:

1. Interactive Maps, including progress tracked on map checkboxes.
2. Progress Track...

Hey there! Nothing like an evening blog post to get the momentum going. Long time no see, or rather, long time no blog post, since I tend to see community work as both a professional and personal pursuit. (Shoutout to several long conversations with my sister-in-law about Grow a Garden) For those who haven’t met or heard of me, I’m Dylan "DToast" Host, Community Manager for Fandom Media. I also help manage the SOAP team and handle some of the technical safety aspects across our platforms. I’ve got several updates and bits of info to share, starting with a quick branding note: in case it hasn’t already filtered through or wasn’t obvious from the blog title, News & Rating, which includes GameFAQs, GameSpot, Comic Vine, TV Guide, and Metacrit...

Hey everyone!

A little while ago, we introduced a way for wiki tables to be more than just references: progress tracking.

With this, fans of your wiki can check off their own progress against a goal in editor-created tables, save it to their account, and come back later to pick up where they left off. This can be things like achievements in their game, collectables they're stacking, secret items, missions, there are a LOT of different applications that we've seen. We've even seen users tracking episodes for TV shows they're watching!

This feature is private, personal, and it turns tables into something readers actively use.

Since that first announcement, we've seen the feature take off in a big way.

Progress tracking is now live across more than a tho...

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• ...
• 1144