Hey everyone! I'm here to share some general news on what's going on at Fandom as of the middle of March 2024, including technical updates and some other announcements.

Technical Updates

• A known issue with section editing by using the Visual Editor source mode (2017 source editor) is known - the entire page gets loaded instead of only the section being clicked on. The team is currently looking into a fix.

• Issues with usage of <bloglist> tags causing faulty rendering of code for the "Create blog post" button have been solved, with the corresponding button now displaying correctly. Other issues with button interaction continue to be looked into, though!

• An upgrade for CodeMirror (the syntax highlighting extension for the editors) will be tested by a few communities prior to being released to all wikis. There were many reported issues during our first update attempt last month, but local testing will help prevent more of those. (Honkai Impact 3 Wiki is not part of that early test. Only specific wikis that agreed to it beforehand are included.)

For more known issues, fixes and other details, feel free to visit the March 8 Technical Update (or also the previous one, from February 23).

Experiments and feature tests

• Visual Editor performance: Following a successful experiment, we increased the loading speed of VE in a recent update.

• Interactive Maps: Some experimenting has begun for Maps, with an option for visitors to mark in-game progress via checkboxes for collected items/visited locations. (For the wikis that are part of this, I have reached out to admin(s) already to give some details.)

• Welcome messages: A beloved feature from years ago could be making a comeback soon, as testing is happening to figure out if this makes sense. Experimenting on this will be very limited to begin with, but we'll see what happens!

Other announcements

• We have unleashed a new Community Culture blog series - a monthly post highlighting diverse people, programming, and entertainment topics. The February Community Culture post was the first post.

• Also published was our first Transparency Report, which shows data relating to Trust & Safety actions in 2023. This includes things like the number of rejected JS edits, closed duplicate/spam wikis, and more. (See announcement and the 2023 report.)

That's all for now, hope y'all are having a wonderful month!

Hey everyone!

This week, Fandom released an update to the VisualEditor, targeting the interface of both the Visual Mode and the VE - Source Mode (also known as the '2017 editor'). The goal is to improve the editing experience there to make it more intuitive than it use to be.

You can check the announcement blog from staff for more details and a bit of history behind these changes, and also the updated help page.

To summarize, some of the changes the team worked on are these:

• Some of the tools have been renamed (e.g. "paragraph" is now "normal text")

• Icons were shuffled around (e.g. the back and forward arrow buttons are now located on the far left rather than the middle)

• Some less-essential tools were hidden from view to make the initial editor view a little less overwhelming (but the tools are still accessible in dropdown menus)

• For the 2017 source mode: removal of the options available from the menu icon (the three stacked horizontal bars) -- To get those back, anyone can customize the toolbar to access them from there)

• For the 2017 source mode: the menu icon was used to replace the gear icon

You can also see an outline of these in the design mocks below:

VisualEditor - Visual Mode

VisualEditor - Source Mode (a.k.a. 2017 source mode editor)

Separate from this, some functionality changes have also happened to the older source editor (a.k.a. "2010 editor"). Those are unrelated to the VE changes, and some have been filed as bug tickets (for instance, a cursor not being visible on wikis using a dark skin).

If you have any questions or feedback to share, you're more than welcome to either reply here, or message me directly. Cheers, and have a nice Friday/weekend!

Hey everyone. I thought I'd summarize a bit of what's been going on in the past couple of months at Fandom in terms of features and other updates.

The Thanks extension is now optionally available for all wikis

• This feature allows you to thank other editors for specific contributions they made. After much testing, it has been included as an option for wiki admins via the Admin Dashboard.

• It can be toggled on/off at any point by admins, which is great for those wikis that are unsure and just wanting to test for a bit to see how it works.

• You can find more information about the feature itself in the help page written for it, as well as some history behind it in the announcement post published by staff.

Gamepedia wikis now display less ads for logged-in users

• Wikis that originally came from Gamepedia lacked the "don't show all ads" option Fandom wikis have. Happy to report this is no longer the case, and the ad display for logged-in users is limited to the main page, not regular content pages.

• This change was made a couple of weeks ago or so, and is relevant to Honkai Impact 3 Wiki as a former GP wiki. Given how controversial the topic of ads has been (this year especially), this is obviously a small step, but hopefully one that begins to address community concerns.

Notifications for message reports were released back in November

• In response to user feedback about lack of visibility for reports, admins and Discussion moderators can now receive a new set of notifications for reported posts/messages in a wiki's social areas (Discussions, walls, comments).

• These are enabled by default for any admins/mods at their wikis and can be disabled at each wiki where you have one of these roles via the "notifications" tab in user preferences in case you prefer not to have the notifications for certain wiki(s).

• You can find more information about these in the announcement post made by Fandom staff.

The Quick Answers Dashboard is actively being tested by a set of wikis

• Quick Answers is a feature that adds a set of AI-sourced questions/answers to character pages. There was a disastrous release of these back in August, with many inaccuracies, and the feature had to be removed at the time. The current goal is to bring it back by providing much more admin control over the content.

• To that end, Fandom has been working on testing a new QA Dashboard with a few wikis. The dashboard allows inaccurate content to be reported, provides admins with the ability to alter answers, and also the option to reduce the amount of answers available. (You can find more info, as well as images of the dashboard itself, in the Quick Answers help page).

• There are no plans to expand the number of wikis trying it at the moment, and Honkai Impact 3 Wiki isn't part of the testing. (If that changes at any point, I'd expect admin(s) to be consulted prior to the wiki taking part in testing, since it's optional.)

More news / technical updates

• A number of new experiments have been taking place and are either still running, concluding, or being planned for upcoming testing. You can find more information on these by checking Fandom's Technical Update posts, as well as more detailed posts on some of the experiments in the Fandom Stars Wiki.

• For details on current bugs recently fixed or being looked into, as well as other feature news, you can also check technical updates and other recent posts via the Fandom Staff Blog in Community Central.

Everyone knows that fandom isn't good, annoying ads, bad UI and UX so i propose moving to wiki.gg or miraheze. that's all

I was just looking for some signet stuff and i see this, its so beautiful lmao

Hi, there are some unfinished parts in Memorial Arena, some Bosses' pictures are not placed above, and some bosses even lack descriptions and pictures for SSS rank.

Hello! I'm here to share various updates on things that have been happening at Fandom this month, as well as some news on what's coming soon.

Extension: Thanks

• The Thanks extension is being tested by various wikis right now. It is an extension that allows users to "thank" others for their contributions (via a link in Recent Changes, page histories, etc.) The user receiving the "thanks" then gets a notification about it.

• This was the most requested feature in Fandom's extension nomination process. It's now slowly being rolled into more wikis as an experiment to find out whether it's successful in incentivizing more editors to keep contributing.

• Any wikis interested in being part of the testing can request for the extension to be enabled (I can enable it on admin request). More information about the extension itself can be found in Mediawiki.org.

Other wiki-related news

• Besides the Thanks extension, Fandom is conducting more experiments to find what has a positive impact on things like editor retention and user registration (e.g.: adding edit icons next to section headers for logged-out users on desktop)

• For more details on these and other technical updates, feel free to also check the Technical Update blog posts (from May 5 and May 19).

Fandom's projects

• This May, we've been celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Month. You're welcome to check the introductory blog post, as well as an interview with Gene Luen Yang (creator of TV series American Born Chinese) and staff member Jieyang's favorite games featuring AAPI protagonists.

• There are various community programs editors can join if they wish - feel free to check the Community Programs Hub if you'd like to know more details.

If anyone has questions or comments on any of this, feel free to either leave them here, or message me anywhere :P

I recently download wallpaper for HoS and I noticed that HoS stigmata image is being swapped for Bronya Zaychik (T) and Bronya Zaychik (M).

I fear that I don't have experience with fandom. So, it would be better if someone change it back.

Thank you.

Hi,

I wasn't sure where to bring this, so I'm asking here. On the Emblems page, some emblems are just flat out not even there when you cross reference the list with the game.

Is there a reason to this?

Apologies in advance if this isn't where I should take this question. Not really sure who to ask about this.

Thank you.