Help:Improving your community

There are many ways that you can improve your community. Below are a number of tips for how to build and improve a great Fandom community.

• Attract contributors to your community.
• Design your community. You should upload a nice header image through your theme designer, and create a main page that will allow people to find your best content.
• Explore your Admin Dashboard. Finish the tasks on your Progress Bar so your community is fully set up. Use WikiFeatures to enable community-building features like Article Comments, and Message Wall.
• Build a smart, user-friendly navigation so people can easily find their way around your community.
• Avoid common mistakes when you set up your community.
• Create sensible policies, but not too many! Creating too many policies can drive away contributors, especially if the policies become complex.
• Be aware of the best practices for administrators and bureaucrats.
• Add videos to illustrate your content with more than just images. Videos help keep readers on your community longer, and can turn readers into editors.
• Set up wiki descriptions:
  • Add a description in the mobile main page editor, which appears in Discussions and other places to promote your wiki.
  • Add a description in MediaWiki:Wiki-description-site-meta, which appears on the mobile main page.
• Learn how to make your content portable so users can enjoy your content on a mobile device.

See also

• Help:Joining a Fandom community
• Help:Making a successful community

Further help and feedback

• Browse and search other help pages at Help:Contents
• Check Fandom Community Central for sources of further help and support
• Check Contacting Fandom for how to report any errors or unclear steps in this article