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Mira Laime Mira Laime 14 May 2019
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Introducing long-awaited Discussions updates

It’s been a long time since you’ve seen a meaningful update to Discussions, leaving communities feeling rightly frustrated with the state of Discussions and with Fandom for not providing long-awaited features. Honestly, we don’t blame you. You weren’t wrong.

For the last eight months, we’ve been taking a long, hard look at our priorities and the things that we need to focus on in order to create a better community experience. There’s a lot we’re going to be announcing over the coming weeks and months because of that, but right now I’m excited to say we have some fresh improvements for Discussions that will go live next week!


When analyzing how people use Fandom, we see that there are a lot of users who drop in on your wiki, find what they’re…


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Sarah Manley Sarah Manley 21 June 2011
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Try the New Wikia Editor

Over the past couple of months, we have been working to re-design the Wikia editing interface. I am happy to announce that as of today, the revamped editor is available for testing in Wikia Labs. Wikia Labs is located on every wiki at Special:WikiaLabs (more info). If you are an admin, you now have the option to test the editor on your wiki. If you are not an admin, you can test the new editor on the Community Test or the Wikia Labs wikis.


We've reworked the layout and design of the editor from the ground up, so there are many changes across the board, including improvements to both the visual and source mode editing. The main changes you will see are:

  • The media features have been moved from the top toolbar to the right rail. Note: Unless you …


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BertH BertH 27 March 2017
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New on-site notifications

Tomorrow you'll see an addition to the Fandom navigation bar at the top of the site. We are very excited to share that a new area for notifications will be added, anchored to the "bell" icon. These new on-site notifications are the future of notifications on Fandom. They are part of a central notification service which is the foundation for a unified hub giving you access to all of the activity you care the most about. Our vision is to create a simple and easy-to-use notification system that will allow you to stay up to date on relevant activity across your entire Fandom experience. You'll be able to receive updates through email, app push notifications, and/or this new on-site display.

The most exciting benefit of this new system is that, …

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Cristina7 Cristina7 8 September 2016
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Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community

For the last several years, we've worked to broaden the ways that fans can participate on Wikia. At the core of that experience is and continues to be wiki editing - creating and expanding deep fan knowledge resources. We also knew that there was more to the fan experience than editing, which meant there was lots of untapped potential on the site. For example, we saw that fans want to share their thoughts about what they love, leading to the launch of our Fandom editorial hub earlier this year.

Editorial, however, is only one of the new parts of the Wikia experience. Late last year, we started working with communities on a new feature called Discussions. This new Discussions platform is the only way to seamlessly communicate with other fans…

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Kirkburn Kirkburn 30 June 2016
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Introducing the Community Page - a hub for community info

Hello Wikia!

We have an exciting new feature to introduce today: the Community Page, which can be found at Special:Community across the top 5000 communities on Wikia!


]] It's just what it sounds like - a place where any readers and editors can find out more information about your community! This feature is accessible and open to anyone on your community (logged-in or logged-out).

As a new visitor to a community, you might wonder:

  • who are the people in this community?
  • who is creating the pages?
  • who manages the content?
  • what can I do to help?

The Community Page answers these questions quickly and serves as a landing page for those who want to know more about the community before diving in. This feature will make it clear that there are plenty of ways n…


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Rupert Giles Rupert Giles 10 September 2015
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Introducing Curated Main Pages

Greetings Wikians! I’m very excited to announce a new feature today - Curated Main Pages on mobile devices.

For most communities the main page is its single most viewed page. Four out of the top five pages on Wikia are main pages, in fact, and that makes sense — a search for “Star Wars wiki” is very likely to return the main page as the first result.

Main pages on desktop are typically a large collection of content, galleries, templates, and design elements, representing each community very well. Unfortunately the styling that makes them look so distinct on desktop often results in a less-than-stellar mobile experience. Given that more than half of our users now access Wikia on something other than desktop, this tool aims to construct a high…

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BertH BertH 22 July 2015
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Anonymous editing and your community


The logged-in user experience offers a number of benefits on Wikia. Registered accounts have features like Notifications, Chat, and the ability to follow articles and discussions, just to name a few. In the coming months we’ll be working to highlight these benefits more and see what we can do to drive more readers and anonymous editors to create accounts. With more motivations and prompts to return to a community, a user with an account is much more likely to become an active contributor and discussion participant.

Starting Thursday July 23rd, administrators on most communities now have the option to prompt visitors to create accounts by disabling anonymous editing. This can be accomplished via a new switch in WikiFeatures.

Anonymous editing…


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Ducksoup Ducksoup 2 July 2015
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Mobile Apps Get a Facelift

Howdy howdy howdy, Wikians!

Today we’re (choo-choo!) hopping on the mobile train. We have mobile app news and features to share. And oh my goodness these apps are incredibly popular.

Wikia released the first five Community Apps in November of 2013. Simple premise: Wikians produce high-quality, engaging content, and apps are a good way collect and organize content for viewers. Since then, we’ve released over 100 iOS apps and more than 80 Android apps, with no end in sight. Combined, these apps surpassed one million monthly active users a couple months ago. By any measure, those are incredible figures, and three cheers for our Mobile Apps team and their amazing products, as well as for you, the Wikians who create the amazing content featured in …

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Gcheung28 Gcheung28 27 April 2015
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New sharing options on Wikia

Hello Wikians! This week you’ll start to see something new at the top of article pages — buttons for sharing your community’s work via social media.

These options will make it easier for both editors and readers to get your wikia’s expertly-crafted content out into the wider fan universe for your topic. Comments, likes, reblogs, and retweets can indicate how useful and relevant a page is for others. Some of those readers might even come visit and make some contributions of their own!



We’re especially excited to add sharing options for Reddit and Tumblr, and we’ll be adding language/region-specific buttons for non-English users in the coming weeks.

A few notes about what’s changing with this update:

  • The Edit button and Comments/Talk button will…



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Rupert Giles Rupert Giles 22 April 2015
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Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography


after the URL

For example: http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Tywin_Lannister?oasisbreakpoints=1&oasistypography=1


The breakpoint and typography changes will go into effect sitewide on Tuesday, May 19. If you spot anything broken or unusual, first check the help page to see if a solution has been documented there. If not, please let us know in the comments below or by using Special:Contact.


In order to resolve some scrollbar-related bugs, we have shifted the breakpoints slightly. The Desktop breakpoint is now shifted to 1084 px, and the Desktop XL breakpoint is shifted to 1595 px. The tables on the main blog post and information on the help page have been updated accordingly.

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