Let’s talk about fanon wikis
We need to talk about… fanon wikis! We have decided to start a series of blogs about the lesser-known and misunderstood wikis of Fandom, and I chose fanon wikis to kick it off! Fanon can be ill-perceived by certain individuals or entities for reasons such as: violation of canon, quality concerns, m…
Editor-Oriented Upgrade for Community Central Live Today
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As you are reading this blog post, you are currently on Community Central, and you will have noticed some things have changed - these are part of the work we did to make Community Central more useful for all kinds of editors and users on Fandom!
Earlier this year, we set out on a simp…
Improving Inclusiveness: New Ways For Beginners to Join the Community
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We have heard your message clearly that you want us to do more to bring new editors to Fandom. Recently, on the product front, we already have communicated some of the great success we've found, and to complement these efforts on the social side of things, we have set out to make it …
Updates to Help Documentation on Fandom
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Have you recently been visiting our help index? There's been a major update to it!
As part of our efforts to improve the effectiveness of Community Central, our goal for improving our Help Documentation and the index, which is one of the most visited pages on Community Central, has be…
What's Happening at Fandom - Introducing the New Community Programming Hub!
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Many of you have heard of individual programs before, like Fandom Stars, Fandom Compass, or Admin+. And that Fandom does some events on their Discord server.
But did you know that we do so much more?
Today, as part of the Community Central upgrade, we have published a new improved page…
Makeover for Community Central
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It's been a while, but as part of the efforts to make Central more editor-oriented, we've been updating several parts of the wiki. Most obviously, the wiki main page and wiki navigation, our team listings and a visual refresh for our policy hub.
Navigation - what's changed?
Mostly the …
Updates to Forums & Moderation on Community Central
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This time, we'll talk about what's changed for forums and the moderation approach on Community Central.
A while back, we adjusted the categories on our forums to be more in line with the advice categories we intended to use after launching the advice section. But that's only part of w…
Fandom Compass
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I’m here to announce a new project we are launching to celebrate the effort and passion you all put into your favorite wikis: Fandom Compass! The goal of the project is to recognize the work communities put into creating authoritative wikis, encourage more fans to visit, and hopefully inspir…
Announcing Fandom's 2023 Community Connect in Atlanta
Great news: Fandom is going to be hosting another Community Connect this year!
This year’s Community Connect will be from Sunday, April 23 to Thursday, April 27 in Atlanta, Georgia. We’ll bring together 50 admins and editors along with dozens of Fandom staff members to talk face-to-face about what F…
Admin Plus Update
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Earlier this summer, we released Admin+, Fandom’s admin certification program. The program set out to help admins create healthy communities where fans can come and join others in celebrating their favorite IPs. It has been awesome seeing everyone take the courses and share their badges! No …