Recent and planned major updates on Fandom wikis!

George

Updated May 02, 2025 13:06

Interested in learning about recent and planned major updates to Fandom's features?

Please check out the following blog posts, and follow the Fandom staff blog:

2025

New accessibility resources and community initiatives (April 16)
Introducing the Admin Code of Conduct (April 15)
Help:Update to MediaWiki 1.43 (January)

Bi-weekly changelogs:

2024

2024 Product Wrapped on Fandom (December)
- Consumer Tools
- Traffic
- N&Rs
- UGC
- UXFCP
Going into the new year with a new navigation design (December 10)
Fandom will be upgrading to MediaWiki 1.43 in 2025 (November 27)
We are improving the performance of Interactive Maps (November 25)
Mobile Drawer for Product Release (November 22)
Expanding Our Universe: Introducing Universe Pages (November 14)
Overview of new anon editing changes and emailconfirmation requirements (October 29)
Fandom Publishes New Policy Regarding Offensive Language (September 18)
Helping New Users With Suggested Pages (September 16)
Progress in the Making: Checking in on Fandom's Product Roadmap (August 26)
- Progress in the Making: UGC (August 27)
- Progress in the Making: UX (August 28)
- Progress in the Making: Engagement (August 29)
- Progress in the Making: Ad Experience (August 30)
Community Ad Bash: How YOU Can Help Shape Fandom's Ad Experience (July 24)
Community Partnerships Update: Paid Partnerships and Community Benefits (July 23)
How Fandom is driving engagement to improve the user experience (May 30)
Help:Fandom Bug Bounty Program (May 20)
Reorganizing the VisualEditor (February 9)
Updates on Quick Answers and Adding a Vetting Period (February 7)

Bi-weekly changelogs:

2023

A Look Back at Our Work on Performance in 2023 (December 29)
Examining How Fandom Used Generative AI in 2023 (December 14)
Thanks extension is now available to all communities (November 20)
Everything You Need to Know About Reported Notifications (November 16)
Great news: the number of editors on Fandom is growing, and here's why (June 26)
Everything You Need to Know About Mobile CSS (April 22)
Arrived: Two-Factor Authentication for Fandom Accounts (February 23)
Everything You Need to Know About Post History (February 22)
MediaWiki 1.39 Technical Update: February 17, 2023
- Help:Update to MediaWiki 1.39
Announcing Fandom's 2023 Community Connect in Atlanta (February 9)
A new placement for Registration and Sign In buttons (January 25)

Bi-weekly changelogs:

2022

Extension Review Nomination (December 12)
Discussions and ArticleComments are now optionally available on Gamepedia wikis (December 12)
Admin Plus Update (November 17)
Welcome to FanCentral Beta! (November 8)
Coming Soon: Two-Factor Authentication for Fandom Accounts (November 3)
Fandom will be upgrading to MediaWiki 1.39 in 2023 (November 2)
Everything You Need to Know About Mobile Theming (October 26)
Introducing Discussions AbuseFilter (October 11)
Everything You Need to Know About the Interactive Maps Update (September 8)
Introducing Admin Plus (July 22)
New Discussions Moderation Tools, Including Discussions AbuseFilter, Are Coming This Year (June 9)
Mobile Editing Fixes and Mobile Theme Designer Are Coming! (June 7)
New and Improved Search Updates Coming to Fandom (May 25)
Interactive Maps are here! (April 21)
Introducing Fandom Auth - Our New Secure Login Service (March 10)
Fandom is upgrading to MediaWiki 1.37 (February 24)
Fandom is expanding Trivia Quizzes (February 22)
Fandom's plans for the first few months of 2022 (January 25)

Bi-weekly changelogs:

2021

Content Review and Dev Wiki scripts on historically Gamepedia wikis (October 12)
Theme Designer support for Discussions (September 22)
Site Notice and Anon Notice return to Fandom (August 25)
A trio of wiki enhancements for editors and admins (August 11)

For older posts relating to the rollout of the FandomDesktop layout and MediaWiki 1.33, please see I need assistance with the FandomDesktop wiki layout!