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.

• We're releasing an updated style for image sliders for mobile devices.

• When an article in the main namespace had the same title as a Category page, the Category page was displaying as the top search result in a search for the article title.
• We have fixed some wrapping issues with how the search box interacts with the AdminDashboard pages.
• Search was not returning correct results when the search query includes multi-byte characters.
• Page Layout Builder tasks were still showing on Ad…

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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.

• Significant updates to Chat (including a revamped kick/ban system) will be released to all English wikis. See our blog post for the full list of details.

• Improvements to how the Visual Editor works in Google Chrome, with bug fixes to prevent extra code from being inserted into the article in some cases, and fixes to prevent some code from being stripped out in other cases.
• The "Mark All As Read" link was not responding in the Notifications dropdown.
• Thanks to the new and improved …

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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.

• Moved files related to the video migration were showing as contributions from IP addresses instead of from User:WikiaBot.
• Top Ten Lists will now have a better description and alt-text when being shared to Facebook or Twitter.
• The "show hidden categories" preference was missing from Special:Preferences; it will now appear in the "Under the Hood" section.

• We're changing the way we handle extra-wide tables in our mobile skin. Previously, you'd need to click on the table to open in a…

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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.

It's a relatively quiet week this week...

• Blog post listings were not updating with new posts within the usual cache time.
• The "restore" button will once again appear when working with your favorite wikis list for your profile header.

• The "Restore Edit" feature will be removed for this week while we try to diagnose and improve visual editor load time issues.
• As a reminder, video files are in the process of being migrated to new URLs. For more detail, see our blog post.
• Thanks to th…

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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 mobile version of our site will now support logging in. At the moment, all you can do while logged in is leave comments under your username (well, that and log out...), but more exciting features are coming soon!
• We're adding our new Mini Editor (which we also released last week for Message Wall) to Article Comments and Blog Comments. It will be available on Community Test and a few other wikis on Wednesday, and we'll roll it out to all English wikis soon after. The Mini Ed…

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