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Hey there, Miller here! The Community Manager for this community, here to bring you the latest updates that's been occurring with Fandom! Check it out!
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Interactive Maps Improving
New Navigation Design (click here to learn more)
Fandom is redesigning the navigation system! Let us re-introduce you to the horizontal navigation bar. Other content panels will also join in this position switch. Where the horizontal bar is new, the left-side global navigation also received a makeover! On December 11th, this change will go live to all users everywhere with the exception of those living in the United States of America. On December 12th, these users will receive the new navigation with content panels as well.
Universe Pages (click here to learn more)
These dynamic hubs are designed to be the ultimate entry point for discovering the rich lore, characters, and stories of your favorite IPs. Universe Pages build upon the foundation of FanCentral, transforming them into IP-centric hubs that provide a comprehensive overview of everything the respective universe has to offer. If you haven't done so already, please check out the Universe Page for this wiki.
Editor / Staff Stories (click here for Barbie) • (click here for Musicals)
To celebrate the release of Wicked we're sharing stories from some of our community members and their experiences with musical theatre. We're also celebrating Barbie's 65th Anniversary and sharing some inspirational staff stories!
Upgrading to MediaWiki 1.43 in 2025 (click here to learn more)
Fandom is upgrading to MediaWiki 1.43! With this update, it allows Fandom to leverage the latest advancements in MediaWiki technology to further enhance performance, security, functionality, and user experience for its massive community of editors and readers.
Interactive Maps Update (click here to learn more)
After a whole year of revamping Interactive Maps, Fandom is now improving the performance of Maps, changing the internal engine to use the canvas system, and enhancing the rendering of markers.
As a heads up, I will be "Out of the Office" from December 21, 2024 - January 5, 2025. For any immediate support during that time, you are welcome to reach out to Fandom Support. In the meantime, is there any news and or update that you're most excited about? Let's discuss! If you have any further questions, comments and or concerns don't hesitate to reach out! :)
I need to make this clear to Discussions users:
The wiki considers Yamato’s gender to be male, and male pronouns (he/him, etc) should be used for the character in Discussions as well. The same goes for other Transgender characters like Kiku and Morley, etc.
But I also want to say that mods aren’t going to go around warning or banning every person for every time the incorrect pronouns are used. Personally, I suggest using gender-neutral pronouns or Yamato’s name if you disagree with the wiki’s classification and would like to play it safe.
However, with that said; Purposefully starting arguments to say that Yamato’s gender is female is not allowed, and is a ban-worthy offense.
It’s okay in my book to have your own opinion on the issue, or to slip up and make a mistake, or just be unaware of the issue. But to go around starting shit and purposefully making the Discussion section uncomfortable for people because you disagree with the Wiki’s stance is not something I will tolerate in this community.
I also will not tolerate in the comments of this post. I hate the idea of locking comments to a mod announcement, so I will leave them open for now. I’ll answer legitimate questions people might have about the topic, or this rule, but anyone who is rude, dismissive, or disrespectful in the comments could also be banned without any additional warnings. This topic has been debated to death for years on this wiki, there’s not a single shred of evidence that hasn’t been brought up at least a dozen times, and I will not allow this post to become another place where it’s endlessly debated.
Hello everyone; there’s been an uptick in a couple of types of posts that violate the rules recently, so I wanted to clarify the rules around them:
First off, tournament type posts are allowed, but they must be approved by me or another Discussion Mod BEFORE they start. Things we’d like to know when you apply to start one are things like:
What are your rules?
What’s the format?
Will you be using polls?
How long will it go for?
I don’t want to be strict about how people apply; I’d suggest making a post reaching out on a mod’s User Talk page, or reach out to one of us mods on Discord!
If it all sounds good to us, and it’s approved, please just @ the mod who approved it once it starts.
Next I want to say that we haven’t always been clear with this, but AI-Created Art is not considered “User-created” and it is not allowed to be posted in the “User-Created Fan art”. The rules now clearly say this. In addition to supporting art and artists, etc, I just don’t want to see a bunch of arguments about AI in the comments.
Hey there, Miller here! The Community Manager for this community, here to bring you the latest updates that's been occurring with Fandom! Check it out!
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Fandom's 20th Anniversary
Anonymous editing / Emailconfirmation
Offensive Language Policy
Fandom's 20th Anniversary (click here to learn more)
Fandom is 20 years old! That’s right, Fandom – formerly Wikia, formerly Wikicities – was founded on October 18, 2004! This summer, on July 25th we kicked off our anniversary celebration with our annual, highly-anticipated Fandom Party in San Diego! Check it out! Also stay tuned on Community Central to see another celebration in honor of the anniversary!
Anon editing / Emailconfirmation (click here to learn more)
Logged in editors will be required to confirm their email addresses before they can edit or comment on wikis where anonymous editing is disabled. Fandom will also be disabling anonymous editing on wikis that have had inactive admins or moderators for at least seven days (while retaining the option for admins to turn anon editing back on when they return from inactivity). Thanks to feedback presented by community members, we arrived at these changes announced as an alternative, with no impact on anonymous editing.
Offensive Language Policy (click here to learn more)
On Fandom, users can create wikis on many topics, including ones with mature themes like violence, sexuality, and profanity, as explained in our Community Creation Policy, sometimes however, certain words or phrases, aren't allowed on the platform according to our Terms of Use. This new policy helps clarify Fandom’s position on certain terms and descriptions that we do not permit on Fandom.
Is there any news and or update that you're most excited about? Let's discuss! If you have any further questions, comments and or concerns don't hesitate to reach out! :)
There have been a few edits by mostly discussions users to wiki articles recently that are considered vandalism. I would like to caution any Discussions users that if you think I'm harsh with ban lengths because of discussions, you'll be surprised at how much longer bans for wiki vandalism can be.
Doing things like changing the gender of Yamato typically carry a minimum 1 month ban, with most being 3-6 months, even for a single edit. Same thing for changing the alive/deceased/unknown status for characters. There's reasoning and talk page discussions that go into why the wiki takes the stances on these issues, and if you don't understand how to participate in those, you shouldn't be making those edits.
It is also considered vandalism to edit another editor's User Page without permission or for wiki housekeeping.
I'm happy to answer any questions y'all may have about editing the wiki, and I encourage those who want to make a positive impact on the wiki. But, if you think it's fun to vandalize the wiki, you'll quickly find it's not.
We don't want stealing other people's post ideas. We may like a an idea for a post someone made which inspires us to make our own original post, however, we don't want to just steal the post and then basically duplicate it. That is not fair to the original creator . I won't name names, you know who you are.
Hi everyone, Fandom has new "Offensive Terms Policy" that has come out today, and it has necessitated a change in the rules here.
You can read the whole thing here:
But if you want the TL;DR version there's a few offensive words that we will no longer be allowing on the wiki:
The n-word - As a racist term directed to a person of African descent.
We also do not permit variants of this word where the spelling is different but the meaning is equivalent.
The c-word - As a sexist term directed towards women
The f-word - As a homophobic term directed towards members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
This is also not permitted in its shorter, three-letter variant
The r-word - As an ableist term typically directed towards individuals who have a mental disability
This also includes the words in its “-ed” form.
These words will not be allowed with any alternate spellings, or in any kind of censored form either. So please don't try to push boundaries or claim alternative definitions that make your use of the word "okay", we will not be allowing them period.
Other curse words are still allowed, in moderation. But they are not allowed in any insulting or abusive contexts.
Also there's a clarification of something already in our wiki's policies, but now is echoed in Fandom's global policy: that graphic, detailed descriptions of violence and/or sexual acts are forbidden.
We already didn't allow the majority of the ways these words were most commonly used, so this shouldn't be a big change for regular users. We'll warn people that violate that rules who seem that they're unaware of the rules before I resort to banning them.
Please feel free to ask questions, but remember to not use the words in your comments on this post. ~~~~
Hi everyone! Many of you saw a troll tonight that was spamming all kinds of hateful and vile language. And they got away with it for awhile, and made a lot of comments for a couple hours. I'm sorry that happened, it's definitely a failure on my part!
So I figured I'd make this post so some of you can learn some options that regular users have to deal with it in the future!
First thing to do is use the "Report Post" feature! That gives a popup notification to me and all the Discussion Mods that will bring us right to the post! Usually one of us is online to delete the post within a few minutes, and the mods can let me know via Discord to discipline/ban them shortly after.
If the spammer continues to post, and it seems like none of the mods are online (like what happened tonight), the next thing you can do is tag me with an @JustSomeDude... comment, or better yet tag me in the Discord server if you're on there! My username is the same there. I'm more likely to see the Discord notification than a Fandom one these days.
So I'm the only wiki Admin that deals with the Discussions section on a day-to-day basis, but I'm not the only Admin on the wiki! If there's an obvious or hurtful troll that's been trolling around for over an hour without the mods or myself checking in, you can @ the other admins too! You can find them by looking in the "Help" dropdown menu or by searching the wiki for "Administrators", "Admin" or "Admins"! But I'll tag them all here too:
There's also multi-wiki volunteer spam reduction team, SOAP. And there's Fandom Staff too, but regular users shouldn't really have to contact them unless something goes on for over a day. We're all online often enough that will probably never happen if you guys take the steps above!
As usual, I'm happy to answer any questions! Thanks for reading!
As per the SPOILER guidelines, users cannot discuss the latest chapter (1115) until it's officially released. Once Mangaplus or Viz post the chapter on their website, then you are free to discuss it. Here's a link to the official sites:
Hi there! I'm Miller, a Community Manager for Entertainment on behalf of Fandom. It's a pleasure to (virtually) meet you all! Happy to announce that I'll be the Community Manager for this wiki. I'll be your point of contact moving forward. As you may have heard last month, Fandom introduced new Community Managers who would be coming in to support wikis. I'm excited to work with you all, and look forward in being an advocate for you based on the needs of the community. If you ever have a question or issue relating to the wiki, don't hesitate to contact me and I will do my best to assist you! I'm looking forward to working with you all!
As per the SPOILER guidelines, users cannot discuss the latest chapter (1113) until it's officially released. Once Mangaplus or Viz post the chapter on their website, then you are free to discuss it. Here's a link to the official sites:
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Hi everyone;
It's been about 12 years since I started editing on the wiki, and a bit over a year since I started overseeing Discussions. I've been thinking a lot about the wiki as a whole, and where each part fits and what its purpose is. I think one thing I haven't explained very well is that I view the discussions as follows:
The purpose of Discussions is to be a place where users create engaging threads to talk about the series, but at a slower pace than the Discord Chat. Discussions are more friendly to our international community members, since they don't have to be there when a conversation starts to take part in it. But discussions also need a higher threshold for quality/engaging posts than a chat room, otherwise people won't engage with them.
With those ideas as my guiding principles, I've tried to keep the rules simple as I can, while still weeding out the content that's not helpful to Discussions. I don't always get it right, and I really do appreciate feedback from the community. So I want to take a bit to go over some rules that I see broken most often, and some new rules I want to add, and open the floor to talk about rules we have that could be changed.
The rule I see broken the most these days is the "minimum content requirements". Users need to post at least two complete sentences with their post or else it's deleted. I see a lot people just posting images and a title, which don't count. I saw a thread recently where a user asked a mod if people just adding two sentences to their post was essentially "cheating" to get their post not deleted. I don't think it's cheating at all! When you put effort into a post by adding more content and thought, it makes it easier for others to chime in! Meme threads have helped a bit with this, but I wonder if there's a way to include other image-based posts into the meme threads without them becoming a revived Super Thread (because we aren't dong those again). I'm curious if anyone has ideas for this!
Something that has been bothering me for awhile is a practice called "pinging" where either in a post or in the first comments, users are just @ tagging other users they want to comment on their posts. I don't like pinging, because it feels like spam nobody wants to read, and more importantly, it makes the wiki clique-y. If you're not getting pinged, you don't feel popular or as welcome here. It also has more of a chat room vibe, which again, I'd like to keep to the Discord. It does have a legit purpose, but I fear it's over-used right now. My proposal is to not allow pinging on posts until 24 hours have passed, and if the person you want to comment hasn't seen the post on their own, then pings would be allowed.
Fanon content is a big thing I've been avoiding making a decision about. It has traditionally never been allowed on our wiki. We've traditionally just referred people to our affiliated wikis that are dedicated to Fanon content. But when I took over discussions, posts about fan-made Devil Fruits seemed to be common and harmless, so I allowed them to continue, even if they shouldn't have been allowed. This post by @Charys the 2nd brought this topic back to my head, and check out my response for some backstory:
My gut right now is that we should either allow everything or nothing when it comes to fan content. So I ask all of you: How do you feel about Fanon content? Does it interest you? Do you like or dislike it? If it was allowed would you even interact with it?
I always want people to feel welcome to ask me about the rules. I know they don't seem fun, and why they exist isn't always apparent. I saw someone comment that the mods/admins would delete criticism of the rules, and that's not true at all! As long as someone isn't insulting (which should be true on ALL posts anyways) when they bring it up, it's always allowed here.
ABSOLUTELY NO POSTING ABOUT ANYTHING to do with this chapter until the official release! Not even how hype or un hype it is. Violators will be subject to a ban.
Fan translations and unofficial translations do not count as a release of the chapter.
Just a quick note since I’ve seen a lot of this going around lately: It is against the rules of the wiki to use alternative, secondary, or “sock puppet” accounts to get away from bans or break the rules. If you make a secondary account to avoid disciplinary action, it will only result in the infinite ban of the secondary account, and likely stronger punishment (if not an infinite ban) of the original account. If you have your original account deactivated or stop using it, I will still treat all offenses as being from one account, and I will not start with 1 day bans like I would with a new user.
Fandom has been around a long time and there are many ways for staff to identify and deal with this type of thing. I will not name names, but I am always monitoring for this type of issue.
Hi everyone, in the days since we the issues with the Monthly Super Thread arose, I've been tweaking the categories we have for posts. I've added categories for "Polls" and "User-Created Fanart" based on suggestions from the community! I've also renamed the "Monthly Super Thread" category to "Mod-Created Monthly Threads" to include more types of threads, like User Awards & Meme Collection threads.
But if anyone has ideas or suggestions for how to make the categories more useful to us, by changing or removing some, please comment below! Please keep in mind two things; 1) there's a maximum of 10 categories we can have and we're already at the limit, and 2) posts can only be in one category at a a time.
Here's our categories as they sit now:
General (auto-created by Fandom, cannot be removed or changed)
Mod Announcements
The Manga
The Anime
Polls
User-Created Fanart
Predictions
Site/App Questions
Editing & Wiki Articles
Mod-Created Monthly Threads
Hi everyone, at least for right now, I have deleted December’s Super Thread. It’s been particularly off the rails the past couple months, and this afternoon it went particularly off topic with several topics that are not acceptable on Fandom. It makes me question if we should even have the Super Thread at all.
The Super Threads existed before I started overseeing discussions, and I pretty much just let them go without paying much attention myself. It’s become evident to me in recent days that MANY users are trying to use it as a chat room; checking in, just saying hi, trying to get the comment count up, posting memes etc. Those are all things that I believe belong in the wiki’s Discord server, not here. I don’t think that makes sense with my vision of what discussions should be to allow that to continue here. One of the main reasons I’ve heard for the Super Thread to exist was to allow fanart, which I’ve recently amended the rules to allow.
So my questions to all of you are these:
Do we need to have the Monthly Super Thread?
Are there rules we can change to move acceptable content from the Super Thread to other places?
Or should the Super Thread change form to something else entirely?
Please comment with your thoughts, I’m really hoping to get some in-depth feedback on this issue from everyone. Please stay on topic, and use full sentences in this, emoji, memes, one word responses won’t help me make a decision or result in a detailed discussion.
Hi everyone! There's been an uptick in activity here in Discussions lately, just look at the number of Moderator actions all of our mods have had to take in the past couple months!
I will take applications personally, either post to my User Talk page, or in a Discord direct message. If you send me a request on Discord, please just include the topic so I know why you're messaging me.
For my User Talk Page, click this link:
To join the wiki's Discord, click this link:
I will decide how many people to promote based off the number and quality of applicants, I don't have a set number of positions in mind currently.
The application doesn't have to be a long, involved, and formal world document, etc. Just a small paragraph detailing why you'd like to be a mod is fine! I'm looking for users that have a track record of being nice to people on the wiki, and have been helpful with reporting posts/comments that violate the rules in the past. I'll take a look at your posts as part of the process as well.
There are a few requirements as well:
Being a mod means being aware of, and adhering to the rules that already exist on the One Piece Wiki, and Fandom overall.
Applicants must have been an active user of discussions for at least two months or more. (Exceptions may be made for users with longstanding editing history on the main side of the wiki.)
Applicants may not have been banned on this wiki or globally within the past two months.
Applicants must be able to access discussions through means outside the Fandom App, as it lacks many moderation features. The Wiki's desktop view (on desktop or mobile) is preferred.
Applicants must be an active member of the wiki's Discord. There is a private thread where discussion mods can discuss issues and decide things together, report issues to me directly, etc.
Please include rough estimate of what time (in UTC time) of when you' re generally on the wiki and available to mod. What timezone you're in is also a plus, but actual availability is more important.
I'll look at these as I have the time in the next week or so and let everyone know once I've filled the positions. And as always, I'm happy to answer any questions in the comments!
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