Technical Updates: September 19, 2025
Hiya, lovely people, welcome – or welcome back – to our second Technical Update of September! If you are team "Welcome back", then I appreciate you, but you can skip the rest of this paragraph as it won't tell you anything new. If you are team "Welcome", then I also appreciate you for hopping on one bi-weekly update blog post! In this series, you'll find updates about the Fandom platform, from user-related bug fixes, fixes that are imminent, and other tweaks you as our wiki reader may notice. These blogs are posted every other week to keep you updated on a regular basis! You can also use the comment section of the blog to let us know about an idea or bug you may have found yourself!
- 1 Notable Change
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Fixes in Development
- 4 Developm…
New Measures to Reduce Bot Activity
Hi everyone,
We’ve recently noticed a sharp increase in bot activity on Fandom, particularly on our Revisions pages. This has placed unexpected strain on our servers, disrupted analytics and SEO, and negatively affected site performance.
To address this, we’ve rolled out some changes as of today.
- On History, the following will no longer be clickable for logged-out users:
- Versions (prev/cur)
- Direct links to specific revisions
- The Special:Contributions and Special:RecentChanges pages will now be hidden from logged-out users and will display a message prompting them to log in.
We hope these changes will significantly reduce the type of bot traffic causing these issues and help stabilize performance.
We’re also working on additional safeguards, includ…
Technical Updates: September 5, 2025
Hey hey, lovelies. The first week of September means for a lot of people the first week back to school, but for us it means the first Technical Updates blog of September! If you're new, hello, I'm Lostris, the Senior Product Support Manager bringing you the updates on the user-facing work our dev teams have been doing. Every other week, a tech blog is released with a selection of the most relevant user-facing bugs that either got fixed or are being worked on to be fixed, as well as some notable changes or perhaps experiments that we're running. Aside from that, this is also a great opportunity for you to reach us to ask questions about certain features or issues you may be experiencing and would like some answers to. Remember though, if yo…
Admin Code of Conduct - Workshops Update
Hello all!
Earlier this year, we introduced the Admin Code of Conduct, an admin-focused policy to help make sure communities stay welcoming, respectful, and fair for everyone. Since then, we’ve been getting deeper into the policy with our Fandom Stars, holding special workshops back in June where we talked through the details, explained the “why” behind some of the trickier parts, & answered their questions. The conversations were great, & the feedback was incredibly helpful. (Thank you for your help, Stars!!)
Now we’re opening the workshops up to everyone!
We’ll be hosting two public workshops in the Fandom Discord:
- Tuesday, September 9 at 2 PM (Central Time)
- Thursday, September 11 at 10 AM (Central Time)
Note: I am scheduling the workshops for …
Technical Updates: August 22, 2025
Eyo, my lovely people! Welcome to the second tech blog of August during which I'll give you all an overview of a selection of the user-facing bug tickets, platform changes, and other relevant user notes of the past two weeks. If there are specific things you'd like to receive an update on or have something to report yourself, please leave us a comment so we may investigate and let you know!
- It is no longer possible to add additional text to the body parameter when creating a poll on Discussions, bypassing content type limits.
- Tables using
panel aims to provide readers with suggestions on the next page to read. However, sometimes no widgets will be available on low traffic wikis, and the drawer just appears empty and gives the impression of b…
gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 - Biggest Reveals and Highlights
Hello there! Some of you may know me from being around your wikis, but for those that don't, I'm Lucas, a Community Manager for gaming wikis at Fandom. I've been around wikis in myriad ways for many years, but I believe this is my first ever staff blog here at Community Central. There's a first time for everything!
gamescom, the biggest gaming event of the year, has been taking place this week, and its Opening Night Live was filled with game announcements and brand new trailers for quite a few upcoming projects.
Since we have many lovely video game wikis out there covering these topics, I'm absolutely going to take the opportunity to share them here. If you know of any others or want to share any of our own top moments from the showcase, fee…
Internationalization Experiment: Latest Updates
Hey!
It has now been a few weeks since we launched our first Pilot wiki in our LLM Translation Pilot. In case you missed it, this small Pilot of a few wikis aims to see if we can use an AI Large Language Model to assist in translating opted-in wiki pages and provide a springboard for International communities to grow in places where translations did not previously exist.
- 1 A bit about LLMs
- 2 Search Engine Performance & SEO Impact
- 3 Edits and Engagement
- 4 Translation Quality Feedback
- 5 Pilot Wikis Update
- 6 Next steps!
Large Language Models (LLMs) function as highly advanced versions of predictive text systems, used in everything from Predictive Text on smartphones, to Spellcheck on writing apps, to translation tools like Google Translate. They operate th…
Technical Updates: July 25, 2025
Hello hello lovely people! It's the end of the month, and we have another new technical update for all of us! These updates are shown to all users participating on Community Central in the last days, highlighting everything that happened on the platform in terms of user-facing bug fixes, platform changes, and possible experiments that are being done. We always encourage all of you to comment on this blog, to let us know what you think or how you feel about our services.
- 1 Notable Project
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Fixes in Development
- 4 Development Updates
- 4.1 Consumer Tools
- 4.2 User Experience (UXFCP) Team
- Our Internationalization Experiment continues to be a key focus. Following the initial announcement, we published a second blog post responding to your valuab…