Fandom in December: end of year updates
Eyo, my lovely people! With 2022 coming to an end and potential holiday celebrations arriving soon, I wanted to leave you with this last overview of Fandom updates!
- 1 Extension Review Nomination
- 2 Technical Updates: December 16, 2022
- 3 A+ Wiki status
- 4 Native American Heritage Month roundup
Read the Extension review nomination blog
Every three months, Fandom will review which extension to enable next, and we will do so with your help! If you have an extension in mind that you'd love to see enabled on Fandom, fill out the form with a link to the extension on the relevant MediaWiki.org page, e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Thanks
Suggest an Extension to be added to the platform
Extension nomination closes on December 21! You can fill out th…
Formatting
This is for me so referencing is easier but if anyone wants to copy this it would be great to make sourcing more consistent across the wiki.
Season 1
Red accent
Can one of the admins change the link accent color so it isn't nearly identical to the color that shows up when a link doesn't exist? It's kinda confusing to tell if a page has been created.
Interactive Maps for everyone!
You get a Map, and you get a Map, and you a Map!
Hey everyone! Fandom recently announced that Interactive Maps are live on the platform. With this feature, communities can design their own interactive maps, allowing you to place pins on an image that will lead to wiki articles when clicked on.
Interactive Maps are available to all communities, accessible from the the "Explore" menu on the local navigation, or by visiting Special:AllMaps directly in the url. Map creation and editing is currently limited to those with the user right editinteractivemap, which is automatically given to administrators and Fandom Staff, and they can make anyone a "map-tester".
You can get very creative with Maps, from creating Maps of the world, to indicating the pa…
Global Wiki Rules and Blocking policy updates
Hey everyone!
About a year after the introduction of the global "Wiki Rules and Blocking Policy", which was created to benefit to overall health of wiki communities, this policy is getting an update based on user feedback and request for more clarity and examples. The changes to the global policy will go into effect on April 4th, 2022. This is the perfect time to come together as a community and review whether or not your wiki is in compliance with the new requirements!
- 1 The new policy
- 1.1 What changed?
- 2 Got questions?
- 3 Easy links
- Rules for your wikis must be defined and easily accessible. This can include putting a link to the rules page on the wiki’s main page or in the top navigation.
- Rules must include guidelines regarding wiki formatting, how …
Fandom's plans for the first quarter of 2022
Hey all, first time reaching out to you all in the new year, so I first of all want to start off with the sincere hope that 2022 has been treating you all better than the previous years have. Continue to stay safe!
Secondly, I wanted to share a glimpse of the plans Fandom has in store for the first months of the new year. Brandon, the VP of Community at Fandom, shared a more elaborate blog about it, which you can read here, but this would be the overview:
Interactive Maps
- In 2021, we released an Interactive Maps alpha to 20 communities.
- Feedback from the Map testers was invaluable to determining what tools to build into the feature next.
- After a pause for the last few months of the year, development has once again kicked off on Interactive Maps…
The Downstream - Friday, September 10 at 11am EST
Hey all! I wanted to invite you to Fandom's second The Downstream on Friday, September 10 at 11am EST (check for your local time here). It is a 2-hour live Twitch stream during which you will be briefed on what is happening on Fandom, with the latest news and updates.
This session will include 3 special guest, who will each bring a different set of expertise to the table:
- Joey Merkel, Director of Social Strategy & Operations: discover what social media can do for your wiki.
- Maggie Owens, Sr. Analyst - Site Analytics: observe how Fandom tracks and explains traffic trends on the platform.
- Max Spector, Director of Brand Design: learn how the new logo came to be over the rebranding process.
After the presentations, some questions, previously submitted by admin…
The FandomDesktop opt-in is now LIVE
After all the blogs Fandom shared with previews, FandomDesktop is now LIVE for you to check out! During this time, logged-in users will be able to switch from Oasis to FandomDesktop as their wiki experience through an opt-in toggle, found in an on-site banner and in user preferences. You will also be able to switch back by changing your user preferences.
Please do note that not everything has been developed yet, so expect changes to still occur. However, you already get access now so editors and admins get used to the new design and, especially, the admins can prepare this community for full migration, which will come early this summer.
Admins, you should definitely check out the new Theme Designer and the FandomDesktop preparation guide for a…
FandomDesktop: deeper look into the new navigation
Hey all! As you know, 2021 will be the year of the Fandom/Gamepedia desktop skin redesign, called FandomDesktop. In order to help communities better prepare, understand, but especially get insight and be able to get involved by sharing their feedback, Fandom has been releasing blog posts with the latest updates on the design.
The latest reveal is "A deeper look at Navigation on FandomDesktop", which gives you some more insights and mock-ups for how search, profile submenu, and notifications will look, and some insights as to how the decision about the new local navigation came to be.
If you have a few minutes to spare, I strongly recommend giving it a read (click here). Should you have any questions or concerns about it, please do not hesita…
Bug smashing efforts
Hey all! I am super glad that I get to reach out for this and ask for your input! Some of you may have already read the blog announcement on Community Central about this, but for those who haven't: Fandom announced that it would focus the upcoming 2 weeks on an all-hands quality of life project -- read "a two-week bug squashing effort"!
So my question to you all is: are there perhaps any bugs that have been annoying you since whenever UCP came along? This project is the perfect opportunity for you to get the word out about those things! Just drop your report in the comments here, leave me a message, or even reach out to me via Discord if you're more comfortable doing that, and I'll do my best to get your voice heard. These don't have to be …
Discussion guidelines change
Greetings all, This is important information for anyone active in discussion. I have added three new discussion guidelines that I believe will help this community maintain respectfulness & order(the good kind, not the overly restrictive & oppressive kind). I was inspired by the guidelines at the Gravity Falls wiki which is home to a excellent thread mod Rhino Schneider lll. If anyone has any problem or concern about these new guidelines, please reply or message me.
6. No NSFW content.
7. Do not use words in a derogatory or hostile fashion.
8. Low-effort posts are discouraged, make sure your post/reply is spellchecked and comprehensible.
I encourage everyone to follow these guidelines & if a post does not reach this criteria then it will most l…
Admin/Wiki Adoption Request
Hi, TUA fandom.
I have loved the Umbrella Academy ever since I started watching it, and I love working on this wiki, that has such a wonderful and loving community. I would like to become an admin, wiki manager, or content moderator. I think that doing this would really help me moderate or add on to the wiki.
THINGS I ATTEND TO DO AS ADMIN/MODERATOR:
- Take a look at the analytics to see which pages are being viewed the most and edit and/or fix them for the viewers.
- Update the Navigation bar.
- Block users who vandalize the pages (There have been a lot of users doing this, and I've had to restore the page to its original form)
- Set up new templates
- Change user rights for the dedicated users who have been working hard, and limit the activities of users…
Umbrella Academy Season 2 Cliffhanger
(DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DONT WANT SPOILERS AND HAVENT FINISHED THE SERIES YET!)
So, I have a theory for SEASON 3 of the Umbrella Academy. When they used the briefcase to get back home to 2019, Reginald Hargreeves was there and said, "I'd eventually knew you'd come". The Umbrella Academy members were shocked to see that their father was alive. The members then said they were back "home" in the umbrella academy house, but not really, Sir Reginald Hargreeves introduced them to the Sparrow Academy". I thought of that and realized, when they were invited by their own Father(Reginald Hargreeves) Five had talked about the things they had done in the future and how they were his kids and how they got scattered around in Texas 1963. Basically, my po…
How can I even wait over a month????
OMG!! I just can't stand it. Been waiting so long already for the second season. I'm so excited! Why can't it just come out now?
Who is funnier?
Klaus Ben Five Diego Allison Luther Vanya Hazel Cha-cha
or are they all hilarious?
Adoption
Greeting, fellow Umbrella Academy fans.
As i looking through this wiki, i noticed that it really didn't have any administrator nor bureaucrat either. As the series will grow bigger with the upcoming season 2 of the Netflix series, as well as the comic book itself, i think the wiki could really be benefit for having at least an active staff.
Therefore, i decided to adopting the wiki so i can set a couple things up. The first thing is, of course, policies and guidelines, considering that many articles on this wiki had been repeatedly vandalism. The second thing is CSS and stuff, just to modified some thing and that. The most important point of this adoption is so this wiki can have an active admin, to watch over this wiki for a period of time.
So…