Technical Updates: April 5, 2024
Hello hello! The last Technical Update was published 2 weeks ago so it means it’s time for a new one. As always, we remind you this is just a snapshot of the work done during the last weeks. We don’t include all the minor fixes and tweaks because it would convert this blog post into something longer than the list of characters appearing in Disney sagas –12,778–
- 1 Recent Fixes
- 2 Fixes in Development
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
- 3.2 UX Team
- 3.3 Traffic team
- 3.4 Platform team
- Long usernames that don't line break caused some design issues:
- They pushed the "edit profile" and “post to wall” buttons to overlap the right rail at some page widths
- In the list of notifications, the name overflowed to the right, making the whole space sc…
Technical Updates: March 22, 2024
Hello hello! It’s time for a new Technical Update. You can read our previous blog post here. And as always, we remind you this is just a snapshot of the work done during the last weeks. We don’t include all the minor fixes and tweaks because it would transform this blog post into something longer than the list of disintegrated lives after the Snap –why Thanos, why–
- 1 Recent Fixes
- 2 Development Updates
- 2.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
- 2.2 UX Team
- 2.3 Traffic team
- Some fixes for FandomDesktop and FandomMobile including:
- [FandomDesktop] The social icon tooltip in the user pages was using the wrong color.
- [FandomDesktop] “Edited by” information in messages published on Walls, Blogs and Article Comments had contrast issues.
- [FandomMobile] Collapsing a s…
Technical Updates: March 8, 2024
Hello hello! It’s time for a new Technical Update. You can read our previous blog post here. And as always, we remind you this is just a snapshot of the work done during the last weeks. We don’t include all the minor fixes and tweaks because it would transform this blog post into something longer than the list of saved lives by Son Goku during his life –thank you, Mr Toriyama–
- 1 Recent Fixes
- 2 Changes in Development
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Platform
- 3.2 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
- 3.3 Traffic team
- Several FandomMobile fixes these weeks:
- When viewing images in the lightbox on FandomMobile, the part of the caption that’s also a link would not show up. Upon first release, this caused Wikipedia Interwiki links in the image caption to break the layout…
Technical Updates: February 23, 2024
Hello hello! February is ending and it’s time for a new Technical Update –time flies, March will come in only 6 days…—. You can read our previous update here. And as we always say, this is just a snapshot of the work done during the last weeks, there are more minor fixes and tweaks released during that time, but we don’t include all of them because it would transform this blog post into something longer than the history of How I Met Your Mother –they spent days on that sofa!!–
- 1 Recent Fixes
- 2 Changes in Development
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 News and Ratings (N&R)
- 3.2 Platform
- 3.3 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
- 3.4 Traffic team
- The Cargo extension's Special:Drilldown produced an exception when filtering it by field
- Special:ListFiles was not adapted to …
Technical Updates: February 9, 2024
Hello hello! After a very active week with some important releases, it’s time to do a recap and show you all the other stuff that we did under the hood. You can read our previous update here. As we always say, please keep in mind that this is just a snapshot of the work done during the last weeks, we are featuring only the most relevant updates.
- 1 Notable changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Fixes in Development [WIP]
- 4 Development Updates
- 4.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
- 4.2 User Experience
- 4.3 Traffic team
- As we teased in the previous tech update, the Simplified editor has been released for both modes of the VisualEditor. The icons have been reorganized and the accessibility has been improved significantly, seeing more interactions in the tool after the previ…
Technical Updates: January 26, 2024
Hello hello! And welcome to the first tech update from 2024. It has been a long time since our previous update and code freeze on December 15th, so we have a lot of changes to announce this time! Please keep in mind that this is just a snapshot of the work done during the last weeks, we are featuring only the most relevant updates.
But let’s talk about the most recent changes!
- 1 Notable changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 2.1 User Experience
- 2.2 Traffic team
- To avoid unwanted image uploads, user avatar changes will only go live on the platform after you save the changes.
- Submitting the account registration form no longer clears all fields if the username is unavailable.
- Map namespace is localized for non-English languages now.
- Template pages created by the new Info…
Technical Updates: December 15, 2023
Hello hello! Check out the latest Technical Updates since December 1st. This is the last tech update of 2023, as we go into a code-freeze at the end of the year, meaning that we won’t release more bug fixes until next year.
But let’s talk about the most recent changes!
- 1 Recent Fixes
- 2 Fixes in Development
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
- 3.2 User Experience
- 3.3 Traffic team
- Avatar quality has been improved in the global nav.
- tag was unreadable on dark theme when display=”block” is used in FandomMobile.
- Disabled accounts with rights on a wiki aren’t counted in the list of rights in Special:ListUsers anymore.
- Clicking the infobox image in FandomMobile will load that image again rather than the second one.
- Pages with quotation marks…
Technical Updates: December 1, 2023
Hello hello!
Check out the latest Technical Updates since November 17th. We’ve been publishing these tech updates on a bi-weekly basis, so the next one will be on December 15th. However, that one will be the last update of 2023, as we go into a code-freeze at the end of the year, meaning that we will not be releasing anything major. You can expect these to resume in January as usual.
- 1 Notable changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Fixes in Development
- 4 Development Updates
- 4.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
- 4.2 User Experience
- 4.3 Traffic team
- Highlight menu redesign: After a successful recent experiment, we are adding an edit entry point onto the highlight to search menu for logged-in users. The experiment saw more logged-in users opening the editor as well as an …
Technical Updates: November 17, 2023
Hey everyone! Check out the latest Technical Updates since November 3rd. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates on a bi-weekly basis!
- 1 Notable Changes
- 2 Known Issues
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
- 3.2 Traffic team
- Editors reported a cacheless refresh of the page after reporting a Quick Answer caused no "report issue" or "already reported" text to appear on any of the QAs. We’ve found a solution, and we’re happy to share that this bug is fixed!
- Editors reported a bug as they received n+1 number of notifications while only n would be visible for Reported Notifications. Within the notification center, editors will see the number of notifications next to the “Fandom” label i…
Technical Updates: November 3, 2023
Hey everyone! Check out the latest Technical Updates since October 26th. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates on a bi-weekly basis!
- 1 Notable Changes
- 2 Known Issues
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
- 3.2 Traffic team
- Editors reported that the editor preview works fine, it just doesn't show an update if you've previewed the page once, then edited a template used in it, and then hit preview again. It showed a cached version of the preview, rather than a fresh one. We’re excited to share that we’ve found a fix!
- Mark All As Read. We recently announced in a special Technical Update that Mark All as Read was fixed. We’ve found the problem behind the issue of the notification is a…