User blog:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: May 6, 2014

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Wednesday, so we're posting this on a Tuesday to give you advance notice. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

Major Bugs Fixed

 * Adding a page via the Contribute button or a createbox field resulted in confusing messages when VisualEditor was enabled.
 * Special:Promote image uploads were not working.

CSS Updates
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.


 * Styling on image and video thumbnails has changed. Most notably:
 * The attribution CSS class has been changed from  to
 * Other CSS changes include:  and   changing to   and   to.
 * The border has been removed
 * Caption text size was reduced
 * Video title is now placed below the thumbnail
 * If the video sizing is less than 270px wide, the play button is moved to the bottom left corner
 * Special:Videos now has a responsive layout.

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