Technical Update: August 9, 2017
Here are the latest technical updates on FANDOM. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
Note: no release is planned for next Tuesday (August 15) due to a Polish holiday, the Assumption. The regular release schedule will resume on Thursday (August 17).
- The Discussions page header will be updated to use more language-appropriate formatting for the post counts.
- We recently fixed an issue where the global navigation on Discussions pages was showing the wrong text when local translations were unavailable.
- We will be running some code that should help clean up special page cat…
Technical Update: August 2, 2017
Here are the latest technical updates on FANDOM. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- We will fix an issue that was causing some database downloads for large wikis to fail to contain all expected files. Note: when extracted, these files can be extremely large.
Recent mobile app updates are listed on Apps Technical Updates, and detailed site CSS-related updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net
- We recently removed the 'Palantir' app (a companion app for Shadow for Mordor) from the Apple App Store, due to very low usage, and we will be removing the support framework…
Technical Update: July 26, 2017
Here are the latest technical updates on FANDOM. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- Discussions desktop pages will be updated to show the new page header, allowing easier navigation between wiki and discussion content. Some other layout adjustments also accompany this change. See this blog post for more info!
- We will fix an issue that was causing errors when trying to undelete pages that had comments.
- After switching to the full site layout while on a mobile device, URL parameters should no longer be lost when navigating between pages (this was causing issues when a…
Technical Update: July 19, 2017
Here are the latest technical updates on FANDOM. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- We will fix a layout issue that affected the right column in a couple of places, such as Special:AdminDashboard, main pages, and Special:Search.
- We recently fixed an issue that caused wiki logos to always link to "Main Page" rather than the appropriate main page for a wiki.
Recent mobile app updates are listed on Apps Technical Updates, and detailed site CSS-related updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net
- We recently finished re-running the rename process for some accounts, in…
Technical Update: July 12, 2017
Here are the latest technical updates on FANDOM. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- The previously mentioned button to disable autoplay for featured videos for two weeks will now apply to all wikis, not just the wiki it was clicked on.
Recent mobile app updates are listed on Apps Technical Updates, and detailed site CSS-related updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net
- MediaWiki:Edit has been removed from the MediaWiki whitelist as some concerns about its behavior were identified, and due to the updated customization policy.
- We are continuing to partially re-ru…