A global event to showcase and educate about an essential part of the FANDOM experience and community: building strong communities! Presenters from the FANDOM Community Staff broadcast topical presentations, followed by a moderated question & answer session. Understanding how your communities can best work for the fresh generation of readers is key, so there is something for all skill levels.

* Seeding and Growing a Healthy Wiki: Strategies for launching, maintaining, and organizing communities.
* Communities of Communities: Working with inter-language partners and sister projects to build together.
* Understanding and Embracing User Diversity: How a variety of user backgrounds makes for a richer community.

See more (including the slides) at: http://connect.wikia.com/wiki/Building_Strong_Articles

Building Strong Communities: a Community Connect Town Hall

Wikia Community Connect 2015

A FANDOM Community Connect event. Copyright Wikia, Inc. 

Mercury: a Community Connect Town Hall

Fandom Sr. Product Manager Chris Fife addresses the Wikia community members to break down fandom.1eye.us and its offerings. 

Community Connect 2016: What is Fandom?

A global event to showcase and educate about an essential part of the FANDOM experience and community: making great articles! Presenters from the FANDOM Community Staff broadcast topical presentations, followed by a moderated question & answer session. Understanding how your communities can best work for the fresh generation of readers is key, so there is something for all skill levels.

* Making the Most of Contribution Tools: the infrastructure and tools FANDOM has for contributors.
* Developing Content: how to write and edit with a specific tone for richer, consistent articles.
* How Templates Make Great Articles: best practices for templates, and using them to enrich your pages.
* Article Organization That Draws in Readers: organizing articles to draw in readers from search and keep them engaged.

See more (including the slides) at: http://connect.wikia.com/wiki/Making_Great_Articles

Making Great Articles: a Community Connect Town Hall

Marvel Database admin Jamie Hari shares his knowledge to the Wikia community by discussing how to write wikis for an audience. 

Community Connect 2016: Writing Wikis for an Audience

Fandom Community Connect

A global event to showcase and educate about vital parts of the Fandom network ecosystem: CSS and design. Presenters from Fandom staff illustrate topical presentations, each followed by a questions moderated by Community's Bert Hall. From a primer on CSS fundamentals to "power use" on Fandom, there should be something for all skill levels.

CSS: a Fandom Town Hall

Wikia Community Connect 2015 Day 2 - 3 QA Life cycle of a feature at Wikia

3 QA Life cycle of a feature at Wikia

Community Connect 2015: Questions & Answers — Lifecycle of a Wikia feature

The Wikia community learns how to gain and retain new contributions to their wikis.

Community Connect 2016: How to Gain and Retain New Contributions to Wikis

Learn about the importance of video on your wiki in this Fandom University video. 

Wikia University - Video and Your Wiki

The Wikia community learns about portability.

Community Connect 2016: Portability on your Community

Right now, Fandom is testing four video styles on wikis

Wiki Video Tests on Fandom

FandomWiki

Fandom Wiki  

"Portability: a Fandom Town Hall" is a global event to describe and put a face on the Fandom portability initiative. 3 presenters, drawn from Fandom staff and the Vanguard volunteer team, will broadcast topical presentations, each followed by a questions moderated by Community's Bert Hall. The topic's broadcast is open to all Fandom users, who can submit questions during the presentations and for the final half hour, an Ask Me Anything style roundtable with portability staff and Vanguard.

Portability: a Fandom Town Hall (2016-11-19)

Wikia Community Connect 2015 Day 2 - 2 Apps

2 Apps

Community Connect 2015: Apps

Take a tour of Community Central in this FANDOM University video. 

FANDOM University - Tour of Community Central

Wikia Community Connect 2015 Day 1 - 8 Building and Strengthening Communities

8 Building and Strengthening Communities

Community Connect 2015: Building and Strengthening Communities — Growth Strategies

Willkommen zur Wikia-Universitt. Deiner offiziellen Quelle fr Wissen rund um Wikia-Communitys.Dieses Mal mchten wir dir zeigen, wie du Social Media-Kanle wie Facebook und Twitter nutzen kannst, um deine Wikia-Community bekannter zu machen sowie neue Leser und Bearbeiter zu gewinnen.Facebook und Twitter knnen gute Mglichkeiten sein, um auf deine Wikia-Community aufmerksam zu machen, aber auch um einfach nur mit Besuchern zu interagieren. Egal ob man ber eine brandneue Episode diskutieren mchte, Neuigkeiten mitteilen will, das letzte Spiele-Update analysieren muss, oder sich einfach unterhalten mchte: Facebook-, Twitter- und andere Social Media-Accounts fr eure Wikia-Community eignen sich dafr sehr gut.Neben Facebook und Twitter gibt es noch viele andere Social-Media-Seiten wie Google+, Instagram, YouTube, tumblr usw. die sich alle fr bestimmte Arten der Kommunikation eignen.  In diesem Video wollen wir uns allerdings zunchst auf Facebook und Twitter konzentrieren, wann sie Sinn machen und wie du sie am besten nutzt.Bevor du dir ein Social Media-Konto fr deine Wikia-Community einrichtest, solltest du sicherstellen, dass deine Community ber einige aktive Bearbeiter sowie eine ausreichende Anzahl an Artikelseiten verfgt. Nur so hast du auch die Mglichkeit, auf interessante Inhalte in deiner Community hinzuweisen.Finde einen entsprechenden Umgangston. Jede Wikia-Community hat bestimmte Charakteristiken, die sie ausmachen: In erster Linie lustig, oder doch eher informativ? Die Postings auf Facebook und Twitter sollten diese Eigenschaften reflektieren knnen.Sobald du die Social Media-Accounts eingerichtet hast, solltest du dafr Werbung in deiner Wikia-Community machen. Stelle Links zu den Seiten auf die Hauptseite, ins Forum oder die Navigation. Vergiss auch nicht, die entsprechenden Widgets einzubinden. Lass deine Community-Mitglieder wissen, dass es diese Seiten gibt und lade dazu ein, Facebook-Posts zu teilen und Tweets zu retweeten. Frage Freunde, die Facebookseite zu liken oder dem Twitter-Account zu folgen. Versuche regelmig etwas zu schreiben. Social Media-Kanle sind nur dann attraktiv, wenn auf ihnen auch tatschlich etwas passiert Gibt es gerade keine aktuellen Neuigkeiten zu eurem Thema, dann stell doch tolle Artikel vor, weise auf bestimmte Aktionen in eurer Wikia Community hin, oder lass dir etwas anderes kreatives einfallen. Verknpfe dich auch mit den offiziellen Facebook- und Twitter-Accounts von Wikia Deutschland, um auf dem Laufenden zu bleiben.Wenn du Twitter nutzt, denke immer an Hashtags, Hashtags, Hashtags! Verwende relevante und angesagte Hashtags in oder am Ende des Tweets wie Hashtag Final Fantasy, Hashtag Clash of Clans, Hashtag Mordors Schatten usw. So knnen deine Posts einfacher von anderen gefunden werden.Heute haben wir uns angesehen, wie Social Media-Kanle dem Bekanntheitsgrad und der Werbung eurer Wikia-Community zugute kommen knnen. Probier einfach mal aus, welche sich fr deine Wikia-Community am besten eignen.

Wikia-Universität - Wikia Communitys über Social Media bewerben

Community Connect 2015 - Communication Strategies

Communication Strategies

Community Connect 2015: Building & Strengthening Communities — Communication Strategies

Wikia Community Connect 2015 Day 1 - 5 Infoboxes Past, Present and Future

5 Infoboxes Past, Present and Future

Community Connect 2015: Infoboxes — Past, Present and Future

Wikia Community Connect 2015 Day 3 - 1 Presentation Preview of New Contribution Tools

1 Presentation Preview of New Contribution Tools

Community Connect 2015: Preview of New Contribution Tools

The Wikia SEO team educates the community on how to optimize their articles and wiki pages. 

Community Connect 2016: SEO Health 

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A global event to showcase and educate about an essential part of the FANDOM experience and community: seeing your communities grow and evolve over time! Presenters from the FANDOM Community Staff broadcast topical presentations, each followed by a moderated question & answer session. Understanding how your communities can best work for the fresh generation of readers is key, so there is something for all skill levels.

· Shifting Audiences: How to think about your community readers — they may not be who you think (and may not be who they were when the community started)!
· Modernization: What's new with the FANDOM tools, network, and platform. Where are we going this year?
· Out with the old: What are some older design patterns that no longer fit a modern web or wiki? How can these be replaced with something responsive and responsible without losing your community flavor?
· Converting readers to editors: How to get volunteers interested, and keep them involved. Why FANDOM is a different culture than Wikipedia.

See more (including the slides) at: http://connect.wikia.com/wiki/Evolution

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