Last month, Wikia hit a significant milestone. With the continued creativity of our users around the globe, Wikia wikis now exist in over 200 languages - 211 to be exact. English remains the primary language on Wikia, but we also have a large and thriving base of wikis in such languages as German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, and Turkish. Furthermore, Wikia is proud to host content in smaller languages such as Tatar, Sakha, Malti, Sichuan Yi, and Buginese.

I grew up in a small town in North Carolina that is home to a large book translation center. Most of my friends’ parents were translators and every few months my friends’ families would get on a plane to go to some remote center of the world to learn about and document the language there. …

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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.

• Article names with special characters (such as '%' and '&') could prevent the media lightbox from working correctly.
• Interlanguage links now appear in the editor's preview dialog.
• Added some spacing to the category bar to make sure it can't collide with article content.
• When editing MediaWiki:Wiki-navigation, one of the instructions was showing up incorrectly.
• Videos now correctly show the 'play' icon in Monobook.
• Tables of contents were displaying with bullets in Message Wall and …

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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.

• Slider galleries now support the use of videos, which can be added via wikitext.
• When adding a video from Special:Videos or the Videos right rail module, the video search function is now available.

• A variety of issues have been fixed with the updated category tool, including: showing categories in the preview dialog, preventing duplicates, restoring the 'newcategory' CSS class, and some display errors. The issue that caused newly added categories to always be piped (e.g. A fix is…

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Think for a moment about all the tools and features you can use on Wikia to create and share content. There are editors, chat rooms, forums, photo galleries, categories, talk pages, and article comments, just for starters. To make this all work, a lot of code of many varieties - PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, and MySQL - is worked on every day by our engineers.

Unfortunately, coding is a difficult task. Sometimes, even simple things can have large consequences. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve forgotten to add a single comma or semi-colon to a piece of code I was writing, and then have to confusedly spend time trying to figure out why my code wasn’t working right. Other times, users ask a feature to do something we didn’t think about. For…

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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. This update has been postponed until January 31st, 2013.

• On wikis with the Forum feature enabled, the Forum Activity module can be added to any page using the tags.
• Clicking the "Add photo" button on an image placeholder does not open the upload window in Google Chrome.
• Some founder emails are being sent together (when they are meant to be sent days apart).

Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. And if you have additional bugs to report, please send them to us via Spe…

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