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.
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. …
End of Year Reflection: Mandy's Favorite Things of 2022
Hello friends! My name is Mandy and I’m the Senior Community Manager for Entertainment on Fandom’s Community Experience Team. I lead a team of fantastic Wiki Reps who you may know and love - Chris, Kylara, Lostris, and Miller (who just joined this year!) - to help provide top Movies, TV, Books, Music, and Lifestyle communities with the best possible experiences and support on our platform.
Reflecting back on 2022, it has overall been a really exciting year here at Fandom. I got to work on so many incredible things that I’m proud of, like our first full calendar year of DEI programming, which has been so well-received thanks to all of you. There were plenty of great campaigns throughout the year, but the Women’s History Month video in partic…
End of Year Reflection: Lucas' Favorite Anime, Manga, Shows, Movies, and Games
Hi everyone! I’m Lucas DeRuyter, Fandom’s Anime Community Manager!
This was my first full year at Fandom, and I’ll admit that a lot of that time was spent trying to get my legs under me. I still think I was able to do a lot for the platform and anime communities, though!
Helping communities best implement Fandom’s Gender Identity Guidelines was a big focus for me this year, and it was inspiring to see how many admins and bureaucrats are committed to making the Fandom wiki platform an inclusive space where everyone can celebrate their passions. I also attended, and helped Fandom users attend, anime conventions like Anime Expo and Crunchyroll Expo. Connecting with wiki users in IRL spaces was a blast, and there’s definitely room for Fandom to …
End of Year Reflection: Elsa's Favorite Series and Movies
Hi everyone! I’m Elsa, I’m a cross-vertical Community Manager working closely with an awesome team of 5 Wiki Representatives that you might know well: Moviesign, Nightsilver, TimeShade and our latest additions to the team Saunt3D and Vector Sigma!
This year, our team changed and grew, but I am proud to say that we’re now helping more wikis than ever deal with social, technical or design issues. I have also worked with Product on Trivia Quizzes, that you might have helped create or spotted on your wikis when logged-out!
- 1 My top IPs of
2022
- 1.1 Andor
- 1.2 House of the Dragon
- 1.3 Pistol
- 1.4 Hacks
- 1.5 Nope
- 2 IPs I'm looking forward
to in 2023
- 2.1 Dune: Part Two
- 2.2 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- 2.3 Yellowjackets
- 3 What I look forward to doing for the communi…
Technical Updates: December 16, 2022
Hey everyone!
Check out the latest Technical Updates since December 2, 2022. We’ll update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates bi-weekly!
- 1 Last update of 2022 and code freeze
- 2 Known Issues
- 3 Development
Updates:
- 3.1 Mobile Theming
- 3.2 Discussions Moderation
- 3.3 Mobile Editing
- 3.4 FanCentral
- 4 Platform
2022 is coming to a close, and that means that this is our final Technical Update of 2022. We don’t like to release code too close to the holiday break, since there will be fewer people around to help deal with any potential bugs or code release issues, so we have officially entered into what we call a code freeze. That means we will not be releasing any code until after New Years, when we return to “the office” on January 3rd, t…
End of Year Reflection: Héctor's Favorite Products
Hi everyone! I'm Héctor Donís López, Fandom's Community Manager for Emerging Wikis and Special Projects, and part of Fandom's Community Experience Team.
This year has been really exciting, and we've been performing some different projects and events alongside all of you. 2022 is the first time we have been helping several emerging communities throughout a full year - almost 100! - and I'm very thrilled to learn from this experience and move forward in 2023!
In addition, 2022 has also been the first full year we have been supporting several DEI observances with established but also new initiatives and activities. I've learned and enjoyed a lot with them and I definitely want to continue and amplify our support and efforts to make Fandom (and th…
End of Year Reflection: Jieyang’s Favorite Games
Hey! Jieyang here and I’m the Senior Community Manager for Gaming at Fandom! I only joined a few months ago but have been able to help out on a few cool projects like bringing Discussions and ArticleComments to Gamepedia Wikis. It’s been great getting to know the community and I look forward to more stuff in the future.
Anyway, 2022’s been a pretty good year for gaming! Coming off the back of a whole bunch of delays due to… life circumstances, it’s nice to see games finally making it out the gate. I played quite a few games this year, both old and new, but these are my top five most memorable ones, in no particular order, spoiler-free:
- 1 My top 5 games of
2022
- 1.1 Citizen Sleeper
- 1.2 God of War Ragnarök
- 1.3 Horizon Forbidden West
- 1.4 Elden Ring
- 1.5 A M…
Discussions and ArticleComments are now optionally available on Gamepedia wikis
In an important step toward feature unification between historically Fandom and historically Gamepedia wikis, we can announce that Discussions and ArticleComments are now available on Gamepedia wikis for the first time since the two legacy platforms merged onto the Unified Community Platform (UCP). These are available on an opt-in basis, with information later in the blog about how you can opt-in.
Throughout this blog, we’ll go through some of the background of why these features weren’t previously available, how this helps support FanCentral [Beta, how admins can get them turned on if their communities are interested, and some of the things that aren’t available yet (like Message Wall).
NOTE: If you don't edit on a Gamepedia wiki, feel free…
Extension Review Nomination
Hey everyone!
It’s time to kick off the Extension Review Nominations! During Community Connect, we mentioned our plans for what we want to build and deliver to you, our creators. One of the things we promised was an extension review for the Fandom platform, and we’re excited to fulfill that promise today. Prior to the Unified Community Platform (UCP), Gamepedia had a system where the Gamepedia development team would review requests for extensions available in MediaWiki but not available on Gamepedia. That was paused – we’re bringing it back for ALL wikis!
We will conduct reviews on a quarterly basis at the beginning of 2023. Today, you can nominate the next extension that will be available to the community. We’ll review your submissions and …
Technical Update: December 2, 2022
Hey everyone!
Check out the latest Technical Updates since November 18, 2022. We’ll update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates bi-weekly!
- 1 Notable Changes:
- 2 Known Issues:
- 3 Development
Updates:
- 3.1 Mobile Theming
- 3.2 Discussions Moderation
- 3.3 Mobile Editing
- 3.4 FanCentral
- 3.5 Platform
There weren’t any major user-facing changes fixed since our last Technical Update, but keep on reading for the Known Issues we’ll be working on next as well as the Development Updates section for the major feature work we’re currently focused on.
The following are known bugs (or areas of improvement) that are currently in progress and that we hope to have released by the time of the next Technical Update:
- Editors experience an error on Special:An…