Technical Updates: June 13, 2025
Hello everyone! It's me again with another technical update! Lostris will be back for the next one, but in the meantime, I'm here to share the most relevant platform changes—including major product releases. As always, feel free to leave your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions in the Comments section. I genuinely enjoy reading what you all have to say!
- 1 Notable Change
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Fixes in Development
- 4 Development Updates
- 4.1 Consumer Tools
- 4.2 User Experience (UXFCP) Team
- 4.3 Mobile Team
[Product Release] This week marks the rollout of a long-anticipated feature: Progress Tracking for tables! This new tool lets you track your personal progress on wiki tables—whether it's completing actions in a video game, watching TV show episodes, or reading chap…
Technical Updates: May 30, 2025
Hello, hello! You might have noticed something different—I'm not Lostris! This is my first time publishing a technical update. That said, we're sticking to the same format you're used to. As always, these biweekly blog posts aim to keep you informed about the most relevant platform updates, including product releases, ongoing experiments, and a selection of resolved or in-progress bug fixes. Feel free to use the Comments section to share your insights, questions, feedback, or any concerns you may have. We'd love to hear from you!
- 1 Notable Change
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Consumer Tools
- 3.2 User Experience (UXFCP) Team
- To avoid vandalism, Fandom usually has some edit restrictions based on user levels. For the case of Discussions, logge…
Technical Updates: May 16, 2025
Hey hey, here we are again! Normally this would've been the last tech blog of May, as there tend to be two per month, but hey, May surprises us with three tech blogs this year! If you read this while thinking "What is a tech blog", I got you. The Technical Updates are a blog series we release every two weeks, containing an update of relevant platform changes, products released by specific product themes, an overview of experiments that may be relevant to note, and a selection of user-facing bug tickets that got fixed (or that we're working on fixing). In addition to providing you with these insights, the comment section is also a good place for you to ask questions, give feedback on your experience, or report bugs you may have encountered …
Technical Updates: May 2, 2025
Eyo, my lovely people. It's gonna be may! If you know, you know, and you're welcome to now have that song on repeat in your head. If you don't know, no worries, it's an age thing. Either way, welcome to our first tech blog of May! Every two weeks, the Technical Updates blog takes you through a selection of user-facing bugs that got fixed, potential experiments that are running, or things that changed on the platform. Other than (hopefully) serving as a source of information to you, you can also use the comment section to ask questions, give constructive feedback, and report any bugs you may have encountered.
- 1 Recent Fixes
- 2 Fixes in Development
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Consumer Tools
- DiscussionsAbuseFilter exports sometimes failed to import
- The
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Technical Updates: April 18, 2025
Hey hey hey! Welcome (back) to the second technical updates blog of April! As always, I'll cycle through some of the more user-facing changes that happened on the platform in the past two weeks and/or are about to go live. This ranges from bugs that got fixed, experiments that are running, and changes that were made. This blog also serves as a good opportunity for you to give feedback, ask questions, or raise potential issues you may be encountering.
- 1 Notable Changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Fixes in Development
- 4 Development Updates
- 4.1 Consumer Tools
- Let me immediately start with the big change that several of you have been waiting for: video uploading has been re-enabled on the platform. As of yesterday,
.mp4,.webm,.mkv, and.movare once again supported vi…
Technical Updates: April 4, 2025
Hiya! After Antonio was kind enough to publish our last tech blog, I'm back to go over the changes that happened in the past two weeks and those that are imminent. As is standard with this series, we update you on a bi-weekly basis to inform you all about some of the more user-facing bug updates, experiment, productizations, and platform changes. The comment section also serves as an excellent opportunity for you to ask questions or report issues yourself as well.
- 1 Notable Changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Fixes in Development
- 4 Development Updates
- 4.1 Consumer Tools
- 4.2 User Experience (UXFCP) Team
Platform safety has been a high priority for Fandom, which has resulted in changes such as emailconfirmation for every logged-in user and a restriction to anonymou…
Technical Updates: March 21, 2025
Hello hello!
It's me again :) Lady Lostris is out of the office this week, so I'm responsible for publishing this second tech update of March. As we always explain, these blog posts are posted every two weeks with the most relevant information related to the changes done by our engineers under the hood. If you have questions or have something to report, feel free to jump to the comments section and leave it there. And now, let's talk about the last news:
- 1 Notable Changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Platform Team
- 3.2 Consumer Tools
If you visited the wikis from mobile in the last years, you probably noticed how sometimes you were redirected to the Fandom App. This practice is known as Deep Linking. This is ending now. With the last initia…
Technical Updates: March 7, 2025
Hey hey! Another two weeks have passed, and those familiar with the Technical Updates series knows what that means: another Tech Blog! As always, I will walk you through some of the notable bug fixes and changes to the platform, as well as potential experiments we may be running. If you have questions yourself or have something to report, feel free to sound off in the comments about it, and I'll try to find an answer for you!
- 1 Notable Changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Platform Team
- 3.2 User Experience (UXFCP) Team
Three weeks ago, Fandom removed the ability to upload video files via Special:Upload, Special:NewFiles, and from within the editors. While we are not ready just to re-enable the functionality, we can tell you that we've fini…
Technical Updates: February 21, 2025
Eyo, lovely people! We’ve already (or finally?) arrived at the second tech blog of February, which means that the month is coming to an end! If you’re new to this series, hi there! You’re in the right place to be updated about the latest updates on the Fandom platform, bug fixes, and experiments. These blogs are posted every two weeks. Aside from being a source of information for you, they can also serve as a good location to ask questions or report issues you may have encountered. For those who’ve been faithful readers of this series, also hi there! You know the drill, so let’s just go over the past two weeks and look ahead!
- 1 Notable Changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Platform Team
- 3.2 User Experience (UXFCP) Team
Last Friday, Fandom r…
Technical Updates: February 7, 2025
Hello, hello, hello, lovelies! This is the first of two tech blogs I will be posting in February. This is the place for you to be updated on a selection of bug fixes that got fixed over the course of the past two weeks, what's being worked on, and what you may expect in terms of experiments and releases. It's also a great opportunity to ask questions or report problems in the comment section. A general note that has been unique to all the tech blogs of 2025 thus far is that there seemingly haven't been that many fixes or announcements. The simple reason for this is because a lot of the engineers have been helping to review and prepare the update of all the wikis on the platform to the MediaWiki 1.43 version. A lot of work goes into that be…