User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: September 12, 2016/@comment-30384903-20160913161345/@comment-20644-20160913163536

We didn't announce it to the whole community, just to the Stars themselves.

Here's the gist, though: we launched the program in 2013 with the idea of recognizing the best and brightest wiki users, community leaders, and fan experts on Wikia. That way, we could show the internet at large, media brands, clients, and more who the stand out users were in terms of content creation and management. That also gave us the opportunity to include a lot of Stars in fan conventions, video programming, Fan Studio programs, and the Community Council.

As Wikia evolved, though, other programs began to take on those same ideas. For example, like Stars, Fan Contributors on Fandom are individually-recognized fan experts who have the opportunity to attend fan conventions, participate on video, and more. So we evaluated the future of Wikia Stars and decided that because other programs had taken on most of its scope, we'd migrate Stars to the Community Council&mdash;the one thing we were continuing to offer Stars&mdash;and end the Wikia Stars program. Stars was a great test run for what became other programs on Wikia, and we consider it a big success&mdash;just one that ultimately was absorbed into other programs.

We also encourage all former Stars (and anyone else, for that matter!) to sign up for the Fan Contributor Program if they want to continue to make their voices more widely heard and have the opportunity for more recognition within the community and fandom at large.

Let me know if you have any other questions about Stars!