User blog:Antonio R. Castro/End of Year Reflection: Antonio's Favorite Games and Series of 2022

Hello hello! I'm Antonio, Lead Community Manager on Fandom.

Although this role can sound a bit generic, I'm responsible for very concrete projects: I work actively on improving internal processes (how we collect/share community feedback, triage bugs, and support our wikis...), monitor community activity and traffic to identify how to improve our wikis, and collaborate with Product and Engineering on facilitating the implementation of important changes like the MediaWiki upgrades.

Yes, I spend most part of my time checking stats, reviewing users' feedback, and analyzing problems for proposing solutions.

What I watched/played this 2022
You won't believe me, but I had a pending task from a long time ago and this year was the chosen one for completing it: Watch The Clone Wars. I'm a huge fan of Star Wars, with dozens of comics (Legends now) and a Millenium Falcon replica built with LEGO, but I never had time until this year!! Don't worry, because I also watched Andor (AMAZING) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (this one was a gift for all the SW fans).

And The Clone Wars is not the only TV series that I wanted to watch: House of the Dragon and The Rings of Power were on the list too. I love A Song of Ice and Fire (I have all the books and more), and The Lord of the Rings, but I had to prioritize others and they will have to wait a bit more.

I can say at least that I'm keeping up with The Boys and I enjoyed a lot the end of Better Call Saul. Oh, and what a wonderful time to be an MCU fan! When will we see a new season of She-Hulk? I loved it!

And for 2023?
I should finish the list of pending TV series, movies, games etc. It's too long and it's growing every year!!


 * Some TV series from that list? Peaky Blinders, Arcane, The Walking Dead (last season), Doctor Who (last season too), Star Wars Resistance...
 * And games too: Death Stranding, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Bloodborne, Pentiment, Stray, The Callisto Protocol, The Last of Us 2...

That list is not going to decrease easily, I know it, because I'm very excited about the upcoming releases of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Hogwarts Legacy, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Diablo 4 and the final version of Baldur's Gate 3.

This is not the year that I will clean the whole list, I’m sure haha.

What I look forward to doing for the community in 2023
I have a lot of plans in order to understand the editor lifecycle in Fandom and find new ways to support them.

With the help of the stats, we can understand how the content is consumed in our platform and detect new ways to improve it. That’s how we confirmed the potential to develop some important tools that we released during the last 2 years. And they had an incredible impact on how the content is consumed and created now.

But not only that, I want to explore new ways to improve the onboarding process for new editors, help them to become power users, and that will need not only stats but also your valued feedback. Because what makes Fandom so special is the users that we have and how they build the content. I’m a Fandom editor since 2007, and I know how important is to have more editors collaborating in your wikis.

That's the reason I will be putting the focus too on improving the collaboration with our engineers. Because after the UCP, we learned valued lessons and we are applying them currently, but there is a margin for improvement and I'm decided -together with the whole Community Team- to offer to you the best possible experience.

The best is yet to come!