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Collaboration on Wikia is all about fans getting together and working on something that they love. It's so much fun; you get to chat, write, and share good times together, and the outcome is the greatest source of fan knowledge on the web.

Of course, any time a group of people come together, different opinions can lead to conflicting ideas about the best way to write content and carry out a wiki's goal. That's why remembering the keys to collaboration is so important.

So what do we mean when we t…

Last year, we had a big idea: what if we brought a group of nearly 30 administrators to our office in San Francisco? Not only would we be able to speak to admins in-person about the future of Wikia and the products we're working on, but those admins would be able to provide immediate and in-person feedback directly to Wikia staff. That idea became our first-ever Community Connect last September, and it was a great success.

This year, we wanted to make it an even bigger event. Instead of just hav…

Think of all the things you can do at Wikia: edit articles, live chat with other users, collect badges, organize content, or just spend hours and hours reading away on your favorite topics. Scale that over our 360,000 communities, each with its own unique design and content, and you can see just how much variety we have here.

Our communities are built on that. What goes unseen by communities, though, is how a lot of variety can lead to big coding challenges for our engineers and product managers…

Wikia is always evolving. Whenever a new product is introduced, it's our goal to give you all of the information you need about it for your community. That information is then taken by other community members, who in turn work with their communities in embracing these products and making them a success.

Those community members are an important but often-overlooked part of any product release process, because their contribution happens on the grassroots level. So in April, we had an idea: what if…

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 mana…

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.…

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 d…

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 surp…

Greetings, fellow Wikians! Ever heard of the stories of a little boy and his tiger? Well, if you haven't, I'm Kylo, an admin at the Calvin and Hobbes Wiki and I'm here to inform everyone of this wiki.

"You still haven't answered my question. What is Calvin and Hobbes?"

Calvin and Hobbes was a daily comic strip published in, at its height, 2,400 newspapers from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. It follows the humourous adventures of six-year-old Calvin and his energetic - yet stuffed - tiger…

Greetings fellow Wiki users. I'm TARDIS2010 lead Admin at the Dad's Army Wiki and I am here today to inform you all about the wiki.

Dad's Army is a classic British sitcom which ran on the BBC from 31 July 1968 – 13 November 1977 and produced 9 series & 3 Christmas specials along with 2 feature films, one of which you may have come across as it was released this year.

Dad's Army was set in the fictional south coast seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea, during the Second World War. Alternating moments…

Hello, Wikians and... Tenretnians. Yes. I said that. What is a Tenretnian? It's an inhabitant of Tenretni. What is Tenretni, well, there are two, that's right, two definitions:

1.Astronomy A large KBO that somehow has light, it is definitely an anomaly. It is speculated that the light is provided by a group of people in the planet's core, but it is mostly denied.

2.A series created by AngrydroidForce99 that details the adventures of a group of people who live on Tenretni

"Angry, what is the meanin…

"Bless me bagpipes! You, Wiki whippersnapper! I need your help. I made a bet with me rival Glomgold that I could get the DuckTales Wiki in good shape before the reboot in 2017. The Wiki had been abandoned and so I put this lad, RadSpyro in charge, and he's takin' his sweet, sweet time getting everything back up and running. Can ya help him out? ...What? No, of course I'm not paying you money for this. Kids these days!"

Hello all! I'm Rad, and I've taken over the DuckTales Wiki which had been aband…

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

Note: this release includes the items from Tuesday's postponed release.

• We will fix an issue in Discussions where admins and moderators were sometimes unable to recategorize posts.
• The new global footer had a few incorrect links for inter…

UPDATE: Due to an unexpected release blocker, today's release has been CANCELLED. We will release today's planned code on Thursday along with any additional fixes and changes.

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

• We will fix an issue in Discussions where admins and moderator…

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

• WikiActivity will once again hide rollbacked edits.

Recent mobile app updates are listed on Apps Technical Updates, and detailed site CSS-related updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net

• Discussions users will begin receiving email…

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

• We will be launching a 4-week test of a prototype feature, Appreciation. Ever wanted to thank a user for their excellent edit, but don't want to start a whole message wall thread about it? Now you can. The goal of this test is to see if…