User blog:Kirkburn/Technical Update: December 2, 2015

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

New Features
The mobile editor will be available for section editing. It is a wikitext editor, and is available to both registered users and anonymous users (on communities where anonymous editing is enabled).
 * Mobile editing is returning!

As was the case previously, edits made via this editor will be noted as "Mobile" on Recent Changes and user contributions.

Major Bug Fixes

 * We recently identified and fixed an issue that caused some GIFs to render badly. Newly uploaded GIFs will use the fixed process, and we are working on regenerating existing GIF thumbnails.

Other Notable Changes
Detailed CSS updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net - the diffs show changes to .css, .scss, .tmpl.php, .html, .sass and .mustache files in Wikia's codebase.


 * We are updating our recommendations around how to import JS on a community - see Help:Including additional CSS and JS for more info.
 * The styling of the Template Types dialog will be improved on dark-themed communities.
 * The styling of the Template Types success notification will be improved.

Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. And if you have additional bugs to report, please send them to us via Special:Contact.