User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/An Update on the Future of Featured Video/@comment-5392588-20191211045245/@comment-24006128-20191211153558

In 2019 we have...

- Delivered a new Analytics Dashboard for wiki admins, allowing them to see where the most popular pages are and understand their audience better

- Run several experiments on subjects like editor education, editor help, and new user onboarding (a few of these are in consideration for permanent new features)

- Started work on upgrading the platform to a 7 years newer version of MediaWiki, which will bring core enhancements for editors, better extension compatibility, and cleaner code which allows us to deliver more new features

- Launched Editor Rewards to thank the folks who provide the content on the wikis, including getting editors who work on wikis with upcoming movies free tickets to said movies during launch weeks so they don't have to be worried about spoilers

- Built out new Wiki Manager and Content teams here at Fandom to give more "boots on the ground" level support to wiki editors

- Unified the support system to give better ticket responses for Fandom and Gamepedia

- Released Best Practices blogs to help editors better understand things like navigation, article design, presenting data, templates and scripting, and main page layout.

- Launched an Official Fandom and Gamepedia Discord server to give registered editors crowd-sourced support from each other and more access to staff

Gathering more data so that the potential replacements for Featured Video, which we are committing to removing altogether, is just one small part of what we've been working on. Most of our teams have been focused on exactly what you have asked for: "helping those who already works on their respective wikis"

And improved discoverability does lead to more editors because when users inclined to edit discover a wiki for something they already enjoy, they're more inclined to edit it. We're very interested to see how our discoverability efforts impact the new editor count in 2020 when coupled with things we've been testing to encourage new editors to start up, like User Walkthroughs of page features, In-Editor Help Desk, and new user onboarding dashboard.