Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

• Following on from the launch of tabbed images, portable infoboxes now also support collapsible groups! This feature is live right now - see this section of the help page for more information.

• The action of unticking the "Hide all" preference for the "My Favorite Wikis" profile section will no longer be mysteriously reversed.
• Some additional fixes around Facebook plugin localization will go live.

Detailed CSS updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net - the diffs show changes to .c…

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

• Portable infoboxes now support tabbed images on desktop and image galleries on mobile, meaning you can now showcase multiple images in your infobox. Visit the discussion here if you'd like to learn more!

• Links within <poem> lists in portable infoboxes are no longer removed.
• An issue that prevented some SVG images from displaying will be fixed.
• Saving images with special characters in their name to your device will now retain those characters (instead of replacing them with spaces).
• An is…

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

• We have fixed an issue that could cause an ad to appear within new portable infoboxes. This fix is already live.
• An issue was identified over the weekend that caused certain kinds of updates to get backed up (e.g. certain email notifications, article updates) - this queue has been catching up over the past few days and is getting back to normal.
• We are in the process of making further tweaks to help ensure Wikia emails can continue to be sent to an account even if one particular email…

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

Note: this release includes planned changes from last Thursday's cancelled release.

• We have fixed an issue that caused Wikia Maps to occasionally be inaccessible (with an error message that the map server can not reached). This fix is already live.
• On Monobook, the JavaScript review process tab will be restored to working order.
• Text labels in Facebook widgets/plugins will be localized according to a user's language preference (or the community's content language, for those not logged i…

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

Update: today's code release has been cancelled. The next code release will the regular Tuesday update next week.

Detailed CSS updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net - the diffs show changes to .css, .scss, .tmpl.php, .html, .sass and .mustache files in Wikia's codebase.

• The special syntax highlighted editor currently used on portable infobox pages will be rolled out to all template pages, to give a consistent user experience.
• For performance reasons, the reply button will be…

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

• We have fixed an issue where some SVG images were not displaying properly. This fix went live today.
  • This fix has been reverted due to some unintended side-effects. We'll work on a better fix.
• An issue that caused the 'pagetitle' text to be incorrect in certain situations has been fixed. This fix is already live.

Detailed CSS updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net - the diffs show changes to .css, .scss, .tmpl.php, .html, .sass and .mustache files in Wikia's codebase.

• We will be…

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

• An issue that caused some welcome tool settings to be ignored will be fixed. Note that we're currently investigating some more general issues with this tool, which we hope to have resolved soon.

Detailed CSS updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net - the diffs show changes to .css, .scss, .tmpl.php, .html, .sass and .mustache files in Wikia's codebase.

• We will be making a tweak to account confirmation behaviour that should help avoid users needing to reconfirm their account mu…

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

• On Curated Main Pages, it was sometimes not possible to add a sixth category to a section. This fix is already live.
• Portable infobox images will be prioritized when articles are shared on social media.
• Text labels in Facebook widgets/plugins will now be localized according to a user's language preference (or the wikia's content language, for those not logged in).
• Users logging on international Community Centrals will no longer be sent to blank pages.

Detailed CSS updates can be found at…

Traditionally, each Tuesday and Thursday, we release system updates to add new features and fix bugs on Wikia. This week, we have cancelled both our releases and I would like to spend some time explaining why.

On Sunday, an attacker appears to have gained access to a staff account that we used for QA (Quality Assurance) testing and used its staff privileges to close and redirect some of our most popular wikias. Our weekend staff and VSTF caught this issue quickly and we were able to undo most of the damage within two hours.

However, the attacker was able to use a different strategy Monday to regain access to a number of staff accounts. At that time, we elected to throw our network into read-only mode (preventing the attacker from making any …

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

• An issue that caused some emails to Wikia to be rejected over the past 24 hours has been fixed. This fix is already live.
• An issue where the infobox migration tool could ignore template permissions has been fixed. This fix is already live.

Detailed CSS updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net - the diffs show changes to .css, .scss, .tmpl.php, .html, .sass and .mustache files in Wikia's codebase.

• MediaWiki:Pagetitle has been added to the MediaWiki namespace whitelist. This change i…