Progress in the Making: Engagement
This year's Community Connect, with the theme "Gears of Progress", was a collaborative event where Fandom Staff, admins, and editors worked together to shape the platform's future. This teamwork led to new initiatives like the first in-person Hackathon and the Virtual Community Connect experience. Now, Fandom is launching "Progress in the Making", a blog series that showcases the real changes made based on community feedback, including new features and tools. The series invites continued input from the community to help keep improving the platform.
During these last days, you have been reading our previous blog posts talking about the importance of keeping an optimal experience for our users and readers, and also how to help editors in thei…
Progress in the Making: UX
This year's Community Connect, with the theme "Gears of Progress," was a collaborative event where Fandom Staff, admins, and editors worked together to shape the platform's future. This teamwork led to new initiatives like the first in-person Hackathon and the Virtual Community Connect experience. Now, Fandom is launching "Progress in the Making," a blog series that showcases the real changes made based on community feedback, including new features and tools. The series invites continued input from the community to help keep improving the platform.
Over the past few months, I have been on a bit of a decluttering spree. As my family and I change & grow, I have been trying to sort through ‘’stuff’’ and cut down to things I really need. Marie …
The first structured content initiative: Structured Quotes
Hello hello!
I'm here today to announce one of our most exciting releases in recent months: a new kind of content, the Structured Quotes!
Structured content is information or content that is organized in a predictable way and is usually classified with metadata. What does it mean for us? This means Fandom will be able to understand the content created by users and offer better service to them. It will be possible to analyze the content you generate and give you some extra options for using it.
For example, you create content about a specific character, and we can identify the page and sections of that page, knowing that you are talking about the character's personality, relatives, etc. When you create another page about a relative of this char…
Progress In The Making: UGC
This year's Community Connect, with the theme "Gears of Progress," was a collaborative event where Fandom Staff, admins, and editors worked together to shape the platform's future. This teamwork led to new initiatives like the first in-person Hackathon and the Virtual Community Connect experience. Now, Fandom is launching "Progress in the Making," a blog series that showcases the real changes made based on community feedback, including new features and tools. The series invites continued input from the community to help keep improving the platform.
User-generated content (UGC) is a crucial aspect of platforms like Fandom, which enable users to create and share their own content with multiple points of view, coming together to enrich the vis…
Progress In the Making: Checking in on Fandom's Product Roadmap
If you attended this year’s Community Connect, you might remember the theme Gears of Progress. It was more than just an in-person community event; it was an opportunity to share our future plans for the platform with the entire community and as well as collaborate between Fandom Staff, admins, and editors. As a result, we developed new ideas that stemmed from our community-driven effort like our first-ever in-person Hackathon, the Virtual Community Connect experience, and even Ad Bash! We also outlined a series of commitments to enhance the platform and your editing experience, making it even more valuable for both fans and editors. Every suggestion and every critique you shared became a gear and brought us to this point.
Now, we're deliver…
Technical Updates: August 23, 2024
Eyo! Another two weeks have gone, another technical update blog gets published, the last one of August already! For those new to the series, that's how it goes: every two weeks we'll post a technical update blog in which we'll share some of the changes that users may see affecting the platform, some bug fixes, things that are in the works, running or upcoming experiments etc. This is also another great way to share feedback on some of the experiments, but please remember that love or hate it, tell us why, so the actionable feedback can be relayed to the relevant team. Alright, let's see what happened the past two weeks!
- 1 Notable Changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Platform team
- 3.2 User Experience (UX) Team
- 3.3 User Generated Content (UG…
The Downstream is Back: Your Monthly Fandom Fix
Hey everyone!
The wait is over! The Downstream is back and better than ever before. Years ago, The Downstream was a virtual stream powered by the Community team for the Fandom community as a way to connect staff and editors and share updates. Now, we’re bringing this monthly stream back to the community, but we wanted to focus on celebrating community, fandoms, and having genuine fun with the people who make this platform special. We are ready to deliver a monthly dose of fandom fun, community connection, and exclusive insights about all things fandom — and sprinkle in some interesting content to keep you guessing. So, get ready to immerse yourself in your beloved fandoms, explore captivating lore, and peek behind the curtain with The Downs…
New ways to embed Interactive Maps on pages are available to all wikis
Hello everyone!
At the beginning of August I also brought to you an important update related to Interactive Maps. Today we have another new and exciting announcement! After a successful period of community testing, just now you can use the new ways to embed maps on article pages from all the wikis!
Since the implementation of Interactive Maps back in 2022, once you created a map on its own map namespace, you were only able to embed it on an article page using the full width of the page or using CSS or other tweaks. For the 2024 roadmap of the Engagement Team, offering native solutions for customizable embedded maps was one of their priorities.
These new options were ready back in June, but instead of a full release, we opted to start with a te…
Celebrate 20 years of worldbuilding for Fandom's 20th anniversary
If you’ve seen the global navigation today, you've probably spotted it – we gave the Fandom logo a little makeover! Why, you may ask? Well...
Fandom’s turning 20! That’s right, Fandom – formerly Wikia, formerly Wikicities – was founded just about twenty years ago, on October 18, 2004, and we’ve officially kicked off the run up to our birthday. Celebrate with us as we journey back through two full decades spent documenting, exploring, and celebrating the worlds of your favorite games, movies, shows, and more, all for the love of fans.
Our online celebration is just kicking off now and will run through October, our birthday month, with the official campaign hashtag (on social media, if you want to share): #fandom20.
Off-platform, the party’s al…
Technical Updates: August 9, 2024
Hiya, lovely people! In this first of two blogs of August, spaced two weeks apart, I'll walk you through some of the more public-facing bug fixes, platform changes, and experiments that may be ongoing or will be upcoming. The comment section is also an excellent opportunity to ask questions or raise awareness about something that's on your mind regarding Fandom. Remember that when you're reporting something to include a link to where you're experiencing the issue, a screenshot if it is something visible, as well as steps to reproduce your issue. With all that said, let's dive in!
- 1 Recent Fixes
- 2 Fixes in Development
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Engagement
- 3.2 Monetization
- 3.3 User Experience (UX) Team
- 3.4 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
- The category and …