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Brandon Rhea Brandon Rhea 14 hours ago
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Announcement about the Fandom Wiki Representative program

Hi everyone, I have some difficult but important news to share with you today. Over the next several weeks, we will be winding down and ending the Wiki Representative program as we head in a new direction with how we support the Fandom community—which includes bringing on a number of new, full time Community Managers to Fandom staff, sourced directly from the Wiki Rep program.

As of today, a number of Wiki Representatives have been impacted by this change. This blog will be the first in a series of updates over the next several weeks that goes into why we made this decision and how we will continue to support our wikis into the future.

As many of you may know, the Wiki Representative program—previously known as the Wiki Manager program—is a …

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Antonio R. Castro Antonio R. Castro 10 days ago
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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…



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Brian Linder Brian Linder 17 days ago
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Community Partnerships March Update: Intro to Gaming Partnerships

Hi, everyone! I’m Brian and I lead the Community Partnerships here at Fandom. In the first installment of our new monthly blog update focusing on partnerships, we’d like to tell you a bit about what we’ve been getting up to with some of our wiki partners and share how we’re working together to make Fandom a fun and rewarding place for editors.

One of our team’s top priorities is obtaining benefits — both tangible and intangible — for editors on the platform’s gaming wikis. Our Partnerships Managers work with numerous game publishers and developers, across the indie to AAA spectrum, to make this happen.

Our partners often provide Fandom Wikis with official materials and in-game assets to enhance the quality of the wiki’s reference content, in…

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TimmyQuivy TimmyQuivy 19 days ago
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February's Community Culture

Welcome to our first ever Community Culture blog. At Fandom, we have three simple company values - We Serve a Global Community, We Build Experiences, and We Bring Joy. One way your Community staff lives out those values is to publicly celebrate and highlight the diversity of ethnicities, orientations and backgrounds that makes what we as fans care about so unique and special.

As we considered the best way to keep our spotlights going in 2024, we landed on this - a monthly post that brings together different news and events, allowing us to highlight our many communities and their topics, in order to introduce you to new people and topics. And as you’ll see below, we see this as a way to bring in the voices of you, the fans, and give you a me…

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Antonio R. Castro Antonio R. Castro 24 days ago
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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 …



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Sannse Sannse 13 February
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Announcing Fandom's First Transparency Report

The internet is full of wonderful things that brings people together in ever-changing and positive ways - but it can also be a dangerous place. How do we reconcile these two things? By working to increase the good in the internet, and reduce the bad.

That might sound obvious, but for Fandom that means trying to moderate thousands of communities over several sites, without getting in the way of your freedom to create and build.

One part of this is our Trust and Safety Team. There are four of us. Me, Jenny, Dylan and our fearless leader Tim. We work alongside other staff in keeping Fandom a safe and healthy place to be. We are helped by other members of our Community team, along with other key problem solvers such as the Fandom Support Team (i…

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Antonio R. Castro Antonio R. Castro 9 February
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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…



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Antonio R. Castro Antonio R. Castro 8 February
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Reorganizing the VisualEditor

Hello hello!

I'm here today to highlight to you all our latest product release: the Simplified Version of the VisualEditor! We've hinted at its arrival in our previous tech update, but now we're ready to indeed reveal what this Simplification of the editor is all about. So, if you're curious about the what, why, and how behind this change, stay with me, I've got you covered!

Before highlighting what changed, let's quickly recap how we arrived here. As per our standard for any product release, we run many different experiments on our platform to understand how it's being used and where it can be improved, whether with minor or major changes. We do not want to assume that something will help without having the data to prove it. One of our goals l…

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Pikushi Pikushi 7 February
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Updates on Quick Answers and Adding a Vetting Period


We introduced Quick Answers back in September when Brandon shared a comprehensive blog post about the tool's development up to that point. If you haven't read it yet, take a moment to check it out!

Let’s start with a quick summary of what we’re talking about: Quick Answers.

Quick Answers is a product that reformats long-form information from wiki pages into a Q&A (questions & answers) format that would appear as a module on the wiki page it’s based on. These modules directly address and answer questions about the subject of the page.

There are a large group of people who come to your community in search of the answer to a question or two. Many times, those people will stay to learn more information, but getting them through that first door in…


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Brandon Rhea Brandon Rhea 2 February
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Announcing Fandom's 2024 Community Connect in Phoenix, Arizona

It’s that time of year again: we are thrilled to announce that Community Connect 2024 is coming soon!

This year’s Community Connect will be from Sunday, April 28th to Thursday, May 2nd in Phoenix, Arizona. This year’s event will bring together 40 admins and editors from some of Fandom’s top communities, along with a number of Fandom staff members across teams like Community, Product, Engineering, and more. The event gives editors and staff alike the chance to talk face-to-face about what Fandom is working on this year, and provides an opportunity for attendees to provide feedback directly to staff about what they’d like to see from Fandom.

What we love most about Community Connect, and why keep hosting it, is that it’s always been about buil…

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