Technical Update: October 15, 2013
Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Wednesday, so we’re posting this on a Tuesday to give you advance notice. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- The new WYSIWYG editor (VisualEditor) is in Beta release. Check it out on Community Test.
- The achievements module was missing from user pages. This fix is already live.
Detailed CSS updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net - the diffs show changes to .css, .scss, .tmpl.php, .html, .sass and .mustache files in Wikia's codebase.
- The Chat entry point on wiki navigation is not working, in some cases.
Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. And if you have additional b…
Technical Update: October 8, 2013
Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Wednesday, so we’re posting this on a Tuesday to give you advance notice. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- Further fixes for messages being sent to 'Empty' walls. Please let us know if you see further examples after the weekly release.
- <pre> elements in Chrome were rendering incorrectly.
- Database downloads links are now working as intended.
Detailed CSS updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net - the diffs show changes to .css, .scss, .tmpl.php, .html, .sass and .mustache files in Wikia's codebase.
- To improve loading times for the primary page content, the right rail content will …
Technical Update: October 1, 2013
Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Wednesday, so we’re posting this on a Tuesday to give you advance notice. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- Chat windows were opening fullscreen in some browsers.
- Posting messages on Message Walls was broken in IE8.
- Replies could be posted on closed forum threads in specific circumstances.
Detailed CSS updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net - the diffs show changes to .css, .scss, .tmpl.php, .html, .sass and .mustache files in Wikia's codebase.
- Tables wider than the available content space will now allow horizontal scrolling in-place, rather than relying on a pop-up system. Plea…
Technical Update:September 24, 2013
Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Wednesday, so we’re posting this on a Tuesday to give you advance notice. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- Some users were still getting watchlist mail even when unsubscribed from all emails.
- IE8 users had some issues using global navigation bar items.
- Clicking on thumbnails in the 'Appears on these pages' section of file pages could take you to a page called 'Undefined'.
- Darwin: Search Suggest was not working when the search box was in the right rail.
Detailed CSS updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net - the diffs show changes to .css, .scss, .tmpl.php, .html, .sass and .musta…
Technical Update: September 17, 2013
Due to a scheduled datacenter move, there will be no release this week. We do not anticipate any downtime as a result of the move, and the regular release schedule will resume next week.
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Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. And if you have additional bugs to report, please send them to us via Special:Contact.
Technical Update: September 10, 2013
Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Wednesday, so we’re posting this on a Tuesday to give you advance notice. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- Notifications about the addition of photos, videos and categories were missing from WikiActivity. (This fix is already live)
- ThemeDesigner allowed blank text wordmarks to be created, causing issues with home page navigation.
- Anonymous users were not always notified that a message had been left on their talk page.
- Darwin: the list of users in the right rail chat module could not be scrolled through.
- Promoted wikis and WAM now list recently active admins first.
- To address remaining occ…
Technical Update: September 3, 2013
Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Wednesday, so we’re posting this on a Tuesday to give you advance notice. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- A right rail module is added to Special:Search, showing the 7 most popular articles (by page views) that include at least one image.
- The related videos module was occasionally displaying as empty. (Note: this fix is already live.)
- The title of chat windows did not always update when a wiki's name was updated.
- Theme Designer was showing broken previews when changing a wiki's theme.
- Darwin: while in the editor with the right rail collapsed, the preview dialog was too narrow.
- Darwin: th…
Technical Update: August 27, 2013
Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Wednesday, so we’re posting this on a Tuesday to give you advance notice. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- The Edit drop-down menu was obscured by the video on video file pages, in Internet Explorer 10.
- The Edit button was not changing to 'View Source' when cascading protection was involved, in some cases.
- Redirected images were not being counted toward an image's usage total during ImageServing selection.
- Game Guides 2.2 is released for Android. This update includes search enhancements and bug fixes.
- The signature character limit has been increased from 256 to 1200.
- The structure of th…
Technical Update: August 20, 2013
Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Wednesday, so we’re posting this on a Tuesday to give you advance notice. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.
- Comments could sometimes be posted to 'Empty' walls and forums.
- The 'Close this thread' option was broken in Monobook.
- Long forum titles could sometimes overlap the thread tallies.
- Some YouTube videos had issues playing in IE10.
- When a duplicate Wikia Video Library video was added, the attribution on the file page was changing to the newer user.
- We've made a change that should help alleviate browser memory issues when using AjaxRC.
- On Special:Search, Photo and Video filters will now …
Technical Update: August 13, 2013
Due to observation of the Polish holiday Wniebowzięcie Najświętszej Maryi Panny (Feast of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary), there will be no release this week. The regular release schedule will resume next week.
Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. And if you have additional bugs to report, please send them to us via Special:Contact.