Fandom Publishes New Policy Regarding Offensive Language
Policies are the backbone of how we protect user safety on Fandom and ensure a welcoming experience to fans of all backgrounds and beliefs. As part of that mission, we regularly review our policies to ensure that they are as clear as possible and contain all information about how we approach user safety. These reviews can lead to us adding important new clauses to pre-existing policies, creating brand new policies to fill in gaps, or formally documenting rules that are already largely in practice so that our standards can be applied consistently and fairly.
One policy we are releasing today, the Offensive Terms Policy, is a reflection of that last option - it’s not so much a new rule, but it’s formalizing something publicly that has been an…
Progress in the Making: Ad Experience
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. Today, we conclude "Progress in the Making", a blog series that showcased the real changes made based on community feedback, including new features and tools. You can view all the blogs in this series in the table to your right.
There's something else extra special about this blog! It's the 1000th post on our Staff Blog!! Further proof that as a company we're always working towards building a bigger, better, and more collaborative platform.
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Progress In the Making: Checking in on Fandom's Product Roadmap
If you attended this year’s Community Connect, you might remember the theme Gears of Progress. It was more than just an in-person community event; it was an opportunity to share our future plans for the platform with the entire community and as well as collaborate between Fandom Staff, admins, and editors. As a result, we developed new ideas that stemmed from our community-driven effort like our first-ever in-person Hackathon, the Virtual Community Connect experience, and even Ad Bash! We also outlined a series of commitments to enhance the platform and your editing experience, making it even more valuable for both fans and editors. Every suggestion and every critique you shared became a gear and brought us to this point.
Now, we're deliver…
Overviewing Fandom's Policies Regarding Political Content
As you may well know, the United States, where Fandom is headquartered and where the majority of our community lives, is having a Presidential election this fall.
It’s not Fandom’s role to discuss an election, so we’re not going to do so. Adjacent to that, though, is the topic of today’s blog, which is an overview and reminder of Fandom’s rules about politics and its role on the Fandom wiki platform.
One of the core strengths of Fandom wikis is that they are, most prominently, encyclopedic reference sites about the topics they cover across gaming and entertainment. What brings users to Fandom wikis is a shared celebration of a common interest, and that’s the fandom itself – whether you want to look up a piece of information, contribute conte…
Experimentation Announcement: Referenced Links
Hey all,
First, I'm excited to say you’re going to be seeing a lot more of these posts in the coming weeks. As we review 2023 and heading into 2024, your Community staff is focusing on how we can better and more effectively serve information to you. We'll share a bit more in coming weeks, but what you need to know today is: We're committed to better, broader communication of product changes to the entire community. And we're also committed to using this Stars group to drive early, direct, and actionable feedback into various parts of the product process.
To that end, today I'm writing to talk to you about a forthcoming experiment. An experiment is not a full-fledged feature. It is an idea we are testing on the network, measuring the results,…