Hey folks!
We've been celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) from September 15 to October 15. This has focused on Hispanic creators in Entertainment that often go unnoticed, such as those behind the scenes including directors, writers, special effects artists, makeup artists - and more!
Read Fandom's Hispanic Heritage Month blog
Fandom is highlighting these people through our Makers Series. We want to hear their stories of how they got into the industry and how're they helping to shape their field.
Check out the first blog in the HHM Makers Series by Fearless Diva!
YOU can help!
Create blogs or Discussions posts on your wikis, highlighting those creators and their influence on the fandom
Edit articles about Hispanic creators and make sure they're up to date - you may learn something new too!
Finally - music! Celebrate HHM by listening to music by Hispanic artists.
Check out Fandom's Hispanic Heritage Month Spotify playlist
Spotlighting HHM and other celebrations is important for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). It's about everyone being treated fairly and with respect. Without raising awareness, we may take the contributions people make for granted without realizing the challenges many go through. We can all get involved and make a difference!
Check out our other recent DEI blogs and what you can do to help:
Technical updates - September 22
Next up, here are a couple of key things from our most recent Technical updates I wanted to draw your attention to!
Thanks extension - this has been tested for some time on some communities and we've made several styling improvements. Eventually, it'll become 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 allows post reports to appear in notifications under the bell icon. We've rolled this out to 25% of wikis and reviewing the results and feedback from this. Will keep you posted!
If you have any questions on these, feel free to comment below! Plenty more updates in the main tech update blog too.
Check out the the September 22 Technical update blog
Quick Answers
Fandom's been contuining development of Quick Answers and I have a new update on this!
For those of you who don't know what Quick Answers is - it's a module that appears on wiki pages that formats information into questions and answers. This information is relevant to the wiki page it's featured on and only displays for logged out users.
The key takeaway from this latest update is that admins and mods will soon be able to edit the questions and content for Quick Answers. This will be hopefully happen around end of the October (though this could change).
Read more in Brandon's update on Quick Answers