Newsletter 4
Dear Book Lovers Wiki Community,
We hope this newsletter finds you well and that you're enjoying your time on our beloved platform. As always, we're dedicated to fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment for book enthusiasts from all walks of life. With that in mind, we have some important updates and rule changes to share with you.
After careful consideration, we've decided to remove the requirement to censor swears when they appear in acronyms. We trust our community to maintain respectful and appropriate language while discussing their favorite books and topics.
We've revised the guidelines regarding moderator activity. Here's the updated section:
"After 3 months of relative inactivity in their area of Moderation (Content Moderators i…
Thank Feature
So as I'm sure some of you have noticed now when you go to the history of a page you will see a "Thank" option. This is a way for you to show appreciation of someones edits to an article. What it does is it sends a notification and an email to the user whose edit you thank. (you can turn this off in your Special:Preferences)
But anyways, it is an experimental feature that FANDOM is putting on some Wikis to test it out.
Lil rules regarding it:
Do not overuse the “Thanks” extension. It is there to show you appreciation to other users, but remember it sends an email and a notification to the user you thank so it can get very annoying. Do not spam with the thanks extension.
For more information see: Technical Updates: May 5, 2023
P.S. If you find a…
Enabling FANDOM Compass
I am currently working on enabling FANDOM Compass on our Wiki, but to do that I need help! The requirements for FANDOM Compas are as follows:
- Minimum 500 pages
- At least 75% of links to Fandom wikis (either own wiki or other wikis) rather than outside sources
- 0 broken links in topnav
- Less than 100 broken/red links on wiki
- No articles or blog posts under 300 words of meaningful content
- No redirect chains
- Openness to participating in SEO experiments (as needed; these will be communicated to the admin team)
So we need Articles, lots of them. This is one of the main and easiest things that users can help with! Please help us by adding pages, but also detailed pages.
Please don't link outside sources! If you copy a page from Wikipedia put at the bottom…
Winters Page of Tips and Tricks
If you have trouble with any of the following please shoot me a message on my Message Wall! I'm more than willing to help.
Also if you have anything you want to add just put it in the comments!
- 1 (UNFINISHED)
- 1.1 Magic Words
(all of these need to be added in 'source editing' mode)
these are some magic words I think are super useful!
inside the source editor. (note this will not work on other Wikis unless they have SpoilerBlur enabled on their Wiki)
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