Theme Designer support for Discussions
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Today, I’m excited to talk to you about an upcoming expansion of our Theme Designer tool for wiki administrators. As you know, Theme Designer 2.0 launched with FandomDesktop this summer which included Light and Dark theme support. We’ve already delivered a change to the feature, allowing you to set your community background as a header or full background, thanks to great feedback from administrators. In a few weeks, we’re delivering another big change that the community has requested for years and Theme Designer 2.0 allows us to achieve: Theme Designer support is coming to Discussions!
- 1 Some Background
- 2 The Unification of Theme Designer
- 3 When can we get it?
- 4 An Extra Benefit
Theming is how communities stand out and express their unique …
Starlight Design-A-Gown Contest
Please note that the submission period has now closed. We will announce finalists on October 20th and open voting.
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Today, I’m really excited to announce a partnership that has become near and dear to my heart. Fandom is teaming up with Starlight Children’s Foundation for a very fun contest to help bring joy to kids dealing with serious illness across the United States by providing them with awesome hospital gowns that are more comfortable and more colorful than the standard gowns.
What is Starlight?
Starlight Children’s Foundation opened its doors in 1982 with a simple but impactful mission: Delivering happiness to seriously ill children. They are best known for their Starlight Gaming program, bringing gaming stations to children’s h…
This Month at Fandom - August 2021
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The dog days of summer (which are a real thing, defined as July 3rd to August 11th, the rising of the Sirius star system in the northern hemisphere) have passed us by and with them, quite a bit of exciting stuff. Let’s observe our rituals and traditions once more and dive into the month that was August 2021.
- 1 New Brand, Who Dis?
- 2 Community Connect: Part Deux
- 3 Speaking of enhancements…
- 4 Data Is Fun
- 5 Editors of the Month
- 6 One More Thing…
At the beginning of the month, we launched our refresh of the Fandom brand across all aspects of our company, from the wiki platform to D&D Beyond to Fanatical to our email signatures to our presentation slides.
The future of Fandom, as Brandon coined it, came as a surprise to some of you, but I’m pleased t…
Site Notice and Anon Notice return to Fandom
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The development team has re-enabled the Site Notice feature for all Fandom wikis. Admins can edit this on /wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice to provide wiki-level notifications to all users. This fills the stopgap solution provided by the WikiaNotification script, which will be deprecated now that Site Notice is enabled.
Why is this good for you? It allows you to provide high-value announcements to all of your wiki’s visitors, including logged-out users and mobile users, through a native MediaWiki feature.
Best Practices for Site Notice Use
- Use a site notice for important or temporary messages updates only. If a site notice used too often, regular users to your wiki might begin to ignore it, which makes it harder to get the really important …
A trio of wiki enhancements for editors and admins
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Now that FandomDesktop is fully rolled out to all Fandom wikis, we’re ready to reveal our first post-release changes.
Theme Designer enhancement
Starting next week (the week of August 16th, 2021), Theme Designer will natively support full-sized backgrounds again.
In collecting feedback from a number of admins, many found that, while the CSS option for a full background was appreciated in the abstract, the actual work of implementation was not a good experience. Given the number of wikis wanting to go that route and admins not minding that user choice could render part of the background moot at wider settings, we met as a project team and decided to reverse course on this design decision.
You will have the option to set a banner backgr…