Technical Updates: October 17, 2025

Technical Update

Notable Change

• My Fandom release

Recent Fixes

• mw-collapsible expand/collapse didn't use the wiki theme color
• File names with quotation marks did not load in the image lightbox for anon users
• Specific interwiki link couldn't be removed on Dune: Awakening Wiki
• Widgets within Explore panel sometimes didn't render
• Search input in Global Top Nav had the wrong font family on fandom.com
• Rubik font not available on My Fandom in the global components
• Incorrect hover styling for VISIT MY FANDOM button on some non-english language wikis
• Problem with saving Table Progress Tracking progress

Fixes in Development

• Remedying History related issues on My Fandom
• Clarifying "Error" text for unusable files when there's already an image uploaded in Theme Designer

Development Updates:
UXFCP

• [Tweak] Incoming improvement to Desktop Drawer Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) for wide viewports

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Hello, hello, hello, you lovely people! Welcome to the middle of October and the second Technical Update blog this month! It'll be the second of three blogs this month in which I'll show a selection of user-facing bugs, releases, and other relevant notes for you about changes to the platform. Per usual, this blog is announced on this wiki to reach everyone who's been active here in any form in the past 90 days. This is also a perfect time for you to leave a comment if you have some feedback to share or a bug to report.

Notable Change

My Fandom page on Desktop and Mobile view

With progress tracking on Interactive Maps and tables a hot topic, the need to have a central page grouping all this progress in the same location grew. That's why My Fandom was created, to be a home base for all your progress and engagement activity. While the current functionality of the page is limited to showing your progress tracking on Interactive Maps, tables, and your general browsing history, we're excited to see how you use it, what's still missing, and to keep tweaking and adding as we go. So that is our main question to you: what other utility would you like to see on My Fandom? Let us know! Read more about My Fandom: your progress and engagement activity

Recent Fixes

• mw-collapsible expand/collapse didn't use the wiki theme color.
• Anon users were sometimes unable to load files in the lightbox when the file name includes quotation marks.
• There was an issue to remove an interwiki link via Special:InterwikiEdit on Dune: Awakening Wiki
• Explore panel sometimes appeared empty, its widgets not rendering properly.
• Search input in Global Top Nav had the wrong font family on fandom.com
• Likewise, the Rubik font was not available on My Fandom in the global components
• The VISIT MY FANDOM button had incorrect styling on hover for some non-english language wikis.
• The team investigated and fixed problems with saving Table Progress Tracking progress, where trying to check a box threw an error.

Fixes in Development

• There currently are some History related issues when visiting My Fandom, such as the History resetting or showing older entries. The team is working on remedying these issues.
• The error message within Theme Designer for trying to upload an unusable file is too vague if there's already an image uploaded. The UX team is working on rectifying that.

Development Updates

User Experience (UXFCP) Team

Product Support Owner: Lostris

• [Tweak] Improve Desktop Drawer Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) for wide viewports: Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is a metric that quantifies the visual stability of a webpage. The Desktop Drawer pushes the page content when it auto opens so it doesn't overlap the content. To improve the negatively affected CLS score by this behavior, the team is working on adding a new breakpoint for which the article content does not need to be pushed at all.

That's it for the issue! Per usual, if you encounter something that feels off about the platform, please report it by sending in a bug report or your feedback, reach out to your Community Manager, contact the Product Support Owner on their Wall/talk page, or just simply sound off in the comments here. Remember 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. As always, thank you for helping us by continuing to communicate. Happy editing, everyone!

Lostris

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Lostris is a Senior Product Support Manager. When not online, she lives to travel, play roller derby, and escape the world by watching anything that has a good plot, good acting, and preferably a ton of sassy one-liners.

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