Hey everyone! I'm here to share some general news on what's going on at Fandom as of the middle of March 2024, including technical updates and some other announcements.

Technical Updates

• A known issue with section editing by using the Visual Editor source mode (2017 source editor) is known - the entire page gets loaded instead of only the section being clicked on. The team is currently looking into a fix.

• Issues with usage of <bloglist> tags causing faulty rendering of code for the "Create blog post" button have been solved, with the corresponding button now displaying correctly. Other issues with button interaction continue to be looked into, though!

• An upgrade for CodeMirror (the syntax highlighting extension for the editors) will be tested by a few communities prior to being released to all wikis. There were many reported issues during our first update attempt last month, but local testing will help prevent more of those. (Witcher Wiki is not part of that early test. Only specific wikis that agreed to it beforehand are included.)

For more known issues, fixes and other details, feel free to visit the March 8 Technical Update (or also the previous one, from February 23).

Experiments and feature tests

• Visual Editor performance: Following a successful experiment, we increased the loading speed of VE in a recent update.

• Interactive Maps: Some experimenting has begun for Maps, with an option for visitors to mark in-game progress via checkboxes for collected items/visited locations. (For the wikis that are part of this, I have reached out to admin(s) already to give some details.)

• Welcome messages: A beloved feature from years ago could be making a comeback soon, as testing is happening to figure out if this makes sense. Experimenting on this will be very limited to begin with, but we'll see what happens!

Other announcements

• We have unleashed a new Community Culture blog series - a monthly post highlighting diverse people, programming, and entertainment topics. The February Community Culture post was the first post.

• Also published was our first Transparency Report, which shows data relating to Trust & Safety actions in 2023. This includes things like the number of rejected JS edits, closed duplicate/spam wikis, and more. (See announcement and the 2023 report.)

That's all for now, hope y'all are having a wonderful month!

Hello everyone! I’m going to share in this thread some general updates of what’s been happening at Fandom (as of October 2022). This was a month filled with more technical updates, and a very exciting change to mobile theming which was introduced last week.

Mobile Theming

This is probably the biggest news to share really - starting last week, Mobile Theming is now available for all wikis! Basically, Mobile Theming makes it so that the wiki’s main colors (background color, accent color, etc.) can be visible on mobile as well.

This update comes with a change to the Special:ThemeDesigner page, where admins now have to make sure colors have a good enough color contrast for the content to be seen without any major problems. If any contrast issues get corrected, the wiki can then opt-in to have those colors appear in the mobile display as well.

Witcher Wiki has mobile theming enabled already, so you should be able to see a change if visiting from mobile. But if anyone here is interested in learning more about the feature or how we’re looking at contrast, you’re welcome to check the following:

• Creating Web Accessible Content on Fandom

• Everything You Need to Know About Mobile Theming

• Help Page - ThemeDesigner (with brand new info!)

Fandom is also aware of a number of bugs relating to this feature already - it’s a big change, so naturally, there are things to iron out still - but a few of them have been fixed since last Wednesday’s release (those are detailed in this special technical update post).

Technical Updates

Aside from the work done on Mobile Theming, there are various other technical updates and bugs Fandom is currently aware of - these have been detailed in the updates shared on October 7 and October 21.

Some notable updates:

• The ability to partially block users - including blocking users just from posting on Discussions, which has been a long-term request - is now available.

• Admins can now set Discussions category names with a character limit of up to 64 characters (before, it used to be 20).

• Custom icons for map markers in Interactive Maps are live!

• LinkSuggest dropdown showing an empty link suggestions box when scrolling down the editor - issue now resolved!

• Reference cite errors now appear in the 2017 editor preview.

Discussions AbuseFilter

I mentioned this in the update I made for the previous month already, but just wanted to add that the Discussions AbuseFilter feature is now available to communities beyond the initial, little group that had them, and any wiki can request for it to be enabled.

If you’re a wiki administrator and would like it to be enabled, feel free to let me know, and I can have it enabled. If you’re a community user, you may want to discuss this with the admin(s) - in which case, they can contact me to request it :)

For more information:

• Introducing Discussions AbuseFilter

Other Events / Initiatives

Other than wiki-related news, there have also been some other events and posts going on, which I’d like to share as well - we’ve celebrated Las Voces of the Hispanic Community, had an update on National Bullying Prevention Month, and are just now looking at Halloween in Hocus Focus 2: The Wiki-ing Hour!

I think that’s all I have for now. Stay tuned for further updates from Fandom, and feel free to reach out to me if you have questions on anything ;)

Hi, as some of you may have seen, the new FandomDesktop layout has been made available for logged in users to check out (if you're not sure how to access this, you can do so under your account preferences > appearances).

Naturally, with the new changes on that skin, it's messed up a few design formats from Oasis, so if you see something off, like hard to read text, off-centered images, bright text on light backgrounds, etc., please let us know here so we can get that looked into or report up as feedback/bugs, thanks!

Here you can find the blog I just posted to gather your feedback and thoughts about unification with the Gamepedia Witcher Wiki.

Your opinion as the Fandom Witcher community is really valuable to us and we want to know it. I will wait for a longer time, probably a week, for feedback. A report for Fandom will be created afterwards.

Please comment under the blog to share your thoughts!

Note to moderators: if someone posts their feedback here anyway, it's fine, I will also read it here.