Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1370845-20141227162737/@comment-1073312-20141227165224

My reasons to support this move is that I think blogs (and other new wiki features like the Rich Text Editor) has made had a detrimental effect. This is my hunch, its no fact.

I think Wikia has changed over the years. More adverts, the new Facebook-like design, the rich text editor and blogs. This is to attract a wider user-base, and in turn, create a larger marketing space for advertisers. It makes sense as it makes wikia more money. But what it means is, there is a wider user-base. Now I'm not against having more users, but there are inevitably going to be less dedicated ones who expect things to be laid out easily (like the rich text editor). But what this also means, is that it can erode community oriented thinking. Its happened our wiki...

Furthermore, I've less and less new users experimenting with editing and scripts, and more asking for help before they have even started. I find this sad, its not a great deal of effort if you have time, and it can be quite satisfying. And perhaps users are less bold about making edits, encase they make a mistake? Despite this, we can make our wiki a better environment. Not to steepen the learning curve, but encourage more of it. Its not up to a few users to mop up everything.

How does this relate to blogs? Well we either remove them or restrict them. Delegate other uses to the forums. And we continue to encourage users to learn code, principles of a wiki and decision making for a whole.