User blog:Opheuchus/New Wiki Recommendation System (Global Taxonomy)

Original post: https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MisterWoodhouse/Introducing_Global_Taxonomy

Ok, first thing's first. On YouTube, recommendations may seem random at first, but over time, the bots that recommend the videos on YouTube want to see what you are like, so they can recommend the videos that you are most likely going to watch. That is what keeps you on the site the longest, thus making YouTube more popular.

FANDOM wants to implement a similar system to this. They are going to apply "Global Taxonomy" to interconnect users to recommendations by looking at how every wiki connects with another, because before, there wasn't really a good way for users to connect to new communities they truly like besides Spotlight. While YouTube does content-to-user connections, FANDOM's new system will basically be a content-to-content kind of thing.

For all the juicy details, please look at MisterWoodhouse's blog post.