Hey guys!

I'm here to let you know that staff have exciting plans for the future of video on Fandom, including the future of what was Featured Video (FV) and what is replacing it.

A replacement for FV, titled The Loop, is set to be a mini-show that will be different for each vertical, highlighting the latest news from topics relating to that vertical. The best bit? These videos will use wiki articles and will encourage users to visit the wikis featured in the videos to find out more.

As a new episode of The Loop will be released weekly, you will see a wide variety of wikis of featured so there is every chance yours will be featured too!

Please see the latest staff blog for more details and feel free to ask me any questions!

Secondly, staff posted a blog about Fandom in 2019 and the amazing things achieved! Here's to a great 2020. :)

Hi guys!

Fandom staff posted two important and exciting blogs recently which I wanted to make you aware of!

Global taxonomy

The title sounds really fancy and complicated, but this boils down to Fandom recommending content you want to see. Fandom has received feedback from users who are receiving recommendations to visit certain wikis they are not interested in.

With this data driven approach, users on a wiki will receive recommendations for new communities to visit based on what typical readers of that subject are interested in. That way you can attract like-minded users to your community and you get to visit other wikis you are interested in!

Please do read the blog for more information. If you have any questions on this, please feel free to let me know!

Templates and scripting

This Best Practices blog talks about what a lot of users have questions about - templates and JavaScript.

A key message on the blog is not to do overdo the templates and JavaScript on a wiki as that can slow the wiki down and make the experience not so good for users.

The blog goes into how you can effectively use templates and JavaScript and ways you can make the user experience better. For example, it is really recommended communities use user-friendly parameter names for templates so new users can edit the wiki article and contribute to the wiki.

The blog is packed with details so please do give it a read! Also feel free to ask me any questions.

Thanks guys!

Hi everyone I am new here to Fandom and the Golden Girls wiki. I leaned about it while doing research for my Women and Girls In Popular Media class. This has been my favorite show for many years and I would just like to connect with some other fans.

Hi again guys! I'm just dropping by to let you know of a new scheme introduced at Fandom called Editor Rewards. This is a great new scheme designed to reward editors on Fandom, with merchandise ranging from free video games, hoodies, collectibles, and more!

To find out more about the scheme, please feel free to read the blog post Fandom staff posted. Also, please do leave feedback in the comments section of that blog as staff will be able to respond quickly and answer any questions you may have.

Thanks!

Hey guys!

So I bring some great news on a new feature introduced at Fandom!

Special:Analytics is a new statistics tracking tool for admins on all Fandom wikis.

While you don't have access to the feature on this wiki yet, the feature includes some really insightful statistics that should allow admins to inform some wiki decisions, such as:

• Top viewed pages

• # of page views (daily over the past 30 days)

• Most visited files

• Desktop vs mobile sessions

• and more!

So as I mentioned above, this feature is really great as it allows you to see what areas are doing very well and how you can capitalise on them. For example, the tool shows us the vast majority of readers view the wiki from mobile phones (73%) so this is why the wiki uses Portable Infoboxes to make the viewing experience easier for those readers. It may also be appropriate to give the wiki an updated mobile main page to give users more categories to navigate through. :)

Hopefully you like this feature, it's been highly requested for some time and we would really appreciate your feedback on it. Hopefully you can make use of it on your wikis too! For more help with it, please feel free to ask me questions and also refer to these two super useful articles:

• Introducing the Wiki Analytics Admin Dashboard

• Help:Analytics Dashboard

Thanks!