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…
New ways to embed Interactive Maps on pages are available to all wikis
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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…
Progress tracking feature is now available for all wikis using Interactive Maps
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It's been almost two months since the last time I updated all of you about what we're doing this year to improve the experience with Interactive Maps. Today, I'm glad to announce a wide implementation that should make everyone happy! Starting today, the progress tracking feature is now available for all wikis!
This feature has been tested on all our gaming wikis using Interactive Maps for the last 5 months, but after the experimentation period, now we're ready to extend it to the rest of wikis... with extra additions!
This feature was mainly designed to help gamers save and organize their real progress in a video game based on the info and assets they can see on a Fandom wiki map. For instance, for a map on a Fandom wiki displa…
Testing Announcement: New Ways to Embed Interactive Maps on Pages
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While we’re currently running the third iteration of the experiment to track progress in maps, I’m here to announce another planned enhancement to this interactive feature for every community. Since the end of March, we already announced we were working in parallel, to both experiment with features like progress tracking, but also adding native enhancements to the Interactive Maps tool and for all the communities. The first one was the option to use the full screen to display a map, and we’re currently starting to test how we can embed maps on pages in different ways.
Project Name: New Ways to Embed Interactive Maps on Pages
Test Launch: June (Tentative) *
Type: Early Testing with Voluntary Communities
Will Be Tested On: All logged…
Experimentation Announcement: Progress tracking in Maps 3
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We are already in June, and this is my fourth blog post (originally published) on the Fandom Stars Wiki, talking about our recent experiments and implementations. Some of my recent updates have been about the current experiment on gaming wikis with maps to use a feature for progress tracking. Now I would like to explain a bit more about our next plans.
On June 10, we are launching the third iteration of our experiment, releasing multiple design variants of our feature interface. Before moving on to the next details, for people who are not familiar with the experiment, you can see the initial details we shared on March 8, and also the second iteration we announced on April 12.
Experiment Name: Progress tracking in Maps 3
Test Lau…