Eyo! As of today, Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) has officially come to an end. Observed from September 15th to October 15th, Fandom focused on Hispanic creators in Entertainment who often go unnoticed, such as those behind the scenes like directors, writers, special effects artists, makeup artists etc. Fandom highlighted these people as well as some content creators from our very own userbase through a Makers Series. The goal? Hear their stories and learn from them.
In case you missed some of these initiatives, you can still check them out below, cause celebrating diversity and striving to be more understanding and inclusive should never be limited to specific time periods!
September 15th: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Fandom's Community Team Presents the Makers Series
September 29th: Hispanic Heritage Month Maker Series: Fearless Diva
October 11th: Editor Stories: A Maker Celebration with JazieCult
October 12th: Editor Stories: Bridging Borders Through Fandom with Taxcymus
October 13th: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with the Fandom Community
October 13th: Editor Story: Exploring The Power of Community with Supeika
And of course, as has become a nice Fandom tradition this year: you can also still give the Hispanic Heritage Month Playlist a listen while you continue to use the platform!
Other than Hispanic Heritage Month, Fandom released two blogs with technical updates, the first on September 22nd and the second on October 6th. Stay tuned for a third one this Friday, October 20th! You'll find several released bug fixes in there, as well as some of the more high profile fixes currently being worked. There's also information on experiments Fandom is running/has tried out, and future Fandom projects, some of which I wanted to highlight:
Thanks extension - this has been tested for some time on some communities and several styling improvements have been made. Once fully released, it'll be a toggle on the Admin Dashboard. Until then, if you're an admin on a community with a Wiki Rep assigned and you'd like to have this enabled, feel free to reach out to them or otherwise contact staff
Reported notifications - this feature will send a notification to thread mods and admins about a reported post on Discussions, Message Walls, or comments. This has been rolled out to 25% and is being analyzed further. Thus far, it's proven to be a real gamechanger in terms of mod reaction time!
Quick Answers - a module that formats information into questions and answers, which is easily recognizable by search engines and can thus help make your wiki more discoverable by fans. The QAs are written by AI and only appear to logged out users, but to balance the scalability of the feature and user control, admins and moderators will soon be able to edit the Quick Answers via a special page dashboard. You can read more about the details in this blog.
Per usual, if you have any questions about any of it, feel free to comment below and/or otherwise reach out!