Let me summarize a bunch of news from Wikia's Community Central:
Wikia wants to
cater for readers on mobile devices. If you use the
Classic Editor to edit a page (in visual mode), you have two (freaking huge) buttons off the right that give you a preview of what the page'll look like on "a mobile device" and "a desktop", respectively. Instructions on how to improve pages for mobile viewing are supposedly accumulating as we speak, the information on how urgently you should follow them apparently remains stuck at "half the page views
of Wikia as a whole happen on mobile devices".
Also for the
Classic Editor, but in source mode, Wikia released an update (
sans announcement) introducing syntax highlighting. Note that the source mode of the
Visual Editor remains unchanged.
Remember the "promote" function that was already shut down when we discovered it? There's a planned successor called "
Hero Image" in beta now. Don't ask me what it does or how to use it, I seem to be unable to locate word one about
those minor details in Ducksoup's quacking.
The
Visual Editor (in visual mode)
got some more tooling, part of that being that it reacts "appropriately" when you start typing Wikitext into it. Today I noticed that, when I typed Wikitext ("{{" to include a template) into an
image caption, the editor lets me select the template, and then plain turns unresponsive.
Needs some work IMHO ...
Remember that they announced a complete revamp of the pages' layout? Rejoice,
it'll come piecemeal and we'll possibly have to fix stuff
repeatedly. Yay.
One of those changes that's already out there is
new sharing buttons (which is what I
noticed changed, and prompted me to look at Community Central again). Right now, Wikia is getting a lot of [ahem]
feedback on how the placement of old and new buttons is inconsistent and wastes space, and lo, they say they'll have a look at it. So things will likely change again.
