Fandom updates - Admin Plus and External Platform Guidelines
Hi all! Hope you're all enjoying your summers - a couple of quick updates from me this July. Diving in!
Admin Plus is a course designed to teach admins the fundamentals of building and maintaining a wiki community on Fandom. It covers three core areas:
- Technical Foundations
- Content Development
- Community Building
Any users can watch the videos to learn how to contribute to their wikis, but please be aware that Fandom awards badges of completion only to admins who:
- Have served in an admin role for at least 90 days
- Manage wikis that have 100 pages or more
This was brought in due to feedback from wiki admins who wanted to know more about what being an admin entails. Admins have also been putting their adminship status on their resume or CV. With Admin…
Interactive Maps are here!
Hey all!
Fandom recently announced that Interactive Maps are live on the platform. As a recap, Interactive Maps is a feature available on Fandom where communities can design their own customized maps. You can place pins on an image that will lead to wiki articles when clicked on!
Interactive Maps are available to all communities, accessible from the the "Explore" menu on the local navigation, or by visiting Special:AllMaps directly in the URL. Map creation and editing is currently limited to those with the user right editinteractivemap, which is automatically given to administrators and Fandom Staff.
If you're excited about this feature and would like to start playing around with one, reach out to an active admin to receive the necessary rights.…
Wiki Rules and Blocking policy updates
Hey guys!
Recently, Fandom staff posted updates to the Fandom Wiki Rules and Blocking Policy. As a reminder, this is a global policy to aid the wellbeing of communities that all wikis have been following since 2021. These new changes go into effect on April 4th.
- An added section outlining what it means to be a good admin. Some tips include being open to users asking for advice, not acting as if you are the “owner” of the wiki, assuming good faith etc
- The “Need ideas for rules?” section was moved to its own page and added more example rules to be used if needed.
- An added section requiring a pathway to adminship. This is a system your community can set up to allow for long-time users who care about the wiki and community to eventually become admins…
The Downstream - September 10
Hey again folks!
Fandom is holding another edition of The Downstream on Friday, September 10 at 11am EST.
This 2-hour event is held on Twitch at https://twitch.tv/Fandom and is a bit like a mini Community Connect 4 times a year. Fandom staff brief viewers on what is happening on Fandom, with the latest news and updates.
In this edition, guests include:
- Joey Merkel, Director of Social Strategy & Operations, who will be presenting on how Fandom approaches social media and answering questions about how admins can manage social media accounts for their wikis.
- Maggie Owens, Sr. Analyst - Site Analytics, who will be explaining how Fandom tracks traffic trends on the platform and connects them to external events, like how the Spider-Man trailer caused cert…
The FandomDesktop opt-in is LIVE
Hey all,
FandomDesktop is available for users to opt-in and test NOW!
To access the new skin, you need to do the following:
- Go to Special:Preferences
- Click "Appearance"
- Click "FandomDesktop"
- Click any FandomDesktop preferences you want such as light/dark mode, content width, and right rail
- Click "Save"!
There you go, you're on the new skin! Now not all wikis will have theming set up and templates may look different. To help with this, there is a Preparation Guide to help admins prepare their wikis. Admins - if you have any issues - please do contact me via my wall or on Discord at Spongebob456#7402. You can test out the new Theme Designer and if you feel your wiki is ready to be fully migrated to FandomDesktop, there is a button to mark it as such in…
The Downstream - 28.05.21
Hey folks!
Today Fandom hosted The Downstream where they offered news extended from coverage from Community Connect.
This included news on:
- The FandomDesktop (UCX) design
- An appearance by a representative at Fanatical
- An appearance by a representative for branding at Fandom
- SEO and UCX
- Trust and Safety
Here is a link to where you can watch the video!
Feel free to comment below with thoughts, questions, and comments! :) --Spongebob456 talk 18:20, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
FandomDesktop: Share your navigation feedback
Hey everyone,
In 2021, Fandom is releasing a new, redesigned skin called FandomDesktop. We have been reaching out in order to help communities prepare for the change, but also so they can offer feedback.
I have more to show you, this time about Navigation for desktop users on the new skin. We have new looks at Search, Profile submenu, and Notifications.
Feel free to check them out!
What do you think of these? What do you like/dislike? Would you change anything? Please comment below and the more feedback we receive, the more areas we can give extra attention to. Thanks! --Spongebob456 talk
Post your FandomDesktop feedback
Hey everyone!
Fandom posted a preview of the new Fandom desktop experience, called FandomDesktop.
The blog outlines some areas which are seeing significant changes such as:
- Native support for Light and Dark mode
- Flexible content area width
- Collapsible right rail
- Redesigned editor toolbar
- And more!
We really want your feedback, both good and bad, so please feel free to fire away! If we know of your concerns beforehand, we can pass that on so those areas can receive extra attention, to help the transition go as smooth as possible.
What do you think of FandomDesktop? Do you have any concerns/highlights? How do you feel it will impact the community?
Comment below! :) --Spongebob456 talk 11:25, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
DARK Opening title PIXEL
Hi! I did a reinterpretation of the opening title in pixelart. I hope you enjoy exploring a different view.
See full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzToSPeqKF4
Interactive Family Tree
In order to help understand what was going on in the show I made an interactive family tree using a Sankey visualization, which I found useful to follow. Hopefully it might help someone else as well! You can select a person to zoom on them, select a world, or select a season to avoid spoilers.
How the loop can repeat in the origin world.
As we saw in the last episode of S3 on Dark, the split of worlds was prevented. So, the Nielsens were never born. But, eventually, at some point, Aleksander WILL come to Winden. If he met Regina, or someone manipulated this, Bartosz will be born. Egon and Hannah exist already. They will give birth to Silja, She and Bartosz will give birth to Agnes and Noah. Tronte will be born. So,Ulrich and coz of him, Martha, Magnus and Mikkel. Mikkel will become Michael if he is taken to the caves by someone, Jonas will be born. And in my opinion, Jonas is enough for everything going back to shit again coz he is bloody ADAM for God's Sake! Anyway, now, Martha exists. Both exist and May The Cycle Begin! You can reply if you have any probs with this theor…
Jonas Can Operate a Nuclear Facility with a Limited Education?
How is Jonas able to operate a nuclear facility to control the God Particle when he hasn't finished high school? How could he possibly interpret the diagrams and schematics with his limited knowledge of math and physics? Yes, Claudia left some tapes but they weren't semesters of physics and advanced math. It's not like a map through the caves to operate a nuclear site.
Alternativa paths?
Ok, there are two alternative paths right before Adam's world apocalypse: 1) Martha saves Jonas and takes him to Eva's World 2019; and 2) Martha is convinced by Bartosz and doesn't save Jonas, leaving him to save himself in the basement.
My question is: what is so important about this scene that enables the reality to fork? Why doesn't reality fork other times? Why does reality fork this time?
My brain exploded (Genealogy)
I spent so much time trying to imagine the origin of the loop, and even now that it has been revealed I'm still having a hard time with it, some many paradoxes.
To help me out, I re-created the genealogy tree as seen in the TV show (spoiler alert if you haven't seen season 3 yet): https://dark-netflix.fandom.com/wiki/User:Tof42/Genealogy Maybe it will help some you guys as it did me.
Jonas = Adam - Really? Kilian Obendorf or Bartosz??
Is Jonas really Adam?
Given that the makers of Dark go to extensive measures to find actors who have a striking resemblance to each other for the characters they play at different ages, I have always found it odd that Adam does not have the same facial structure as Jonas especially in the chin.
I have two theories on who could actually be Adam:
Kilian Obendorf - The guy in the play with Martha. I presume he is Erik's brother and it seems like he's going to play a far more significant role in Season 3. Maybe he is trying to find a way to find Erik and save him?
Bartosz - I still believe there is a chance Adam is Bartosz and he's trying to create a world where Martha loves him rather than Jonas. Remember, he was the one who found Erik's phone wi…
Duvidas sobre dark
about the last episode of the first season. if jonas let the jonas of the past leave the bunker the jonas of the future would not exist, but the jonas of the future already exists and so would adam, that is, he (jonas of the past) would not even leave? And there is already that paradox in the case that ulrich made it possible for the helge to still stay alive. someone help me??
Who is Regina’s father?
OK I don't see too much speculation but who is Regina's father? Who could've turned Claudia's head? Yes she had an affair with Tronte but I think that would've been discussed if he were going to be the father...
WINDEN CAVE MAP CREATION winden cave map
Dark Cave map (no longer being made.)
I WAS / AM making the Cave map from Dark and im in need of help photos an tips