User blog comment:Zapwire/Wikia's new "features" are bugs/@comment-417287-20091024030550

Actually, I think a lot of these new features have been great for Wikia (in terms of introducing wiki editing to less-experienced people) and great for new editors. WYSIWYG editors are extremely difficult to make, and for the RTE team to have done so and with such a great product is actually impressive. The RTE makes it so that editing wikis is about content, not formatting, as that formatting is easily done by anyone, not just users that are experienced with such.

Blogs, are something completely different and are amazing for completely different reasons. A tool that is so versatile it can be used differently from wiki-to-wiki; the possibilities range from ranting about current problems, making announcements about the wiki as a whole, asking for help or an "editing-drive,"or posting relevant material (such as fan fiction on a fanon wiki.) If you take blogs in the general sense, as in those splattered across the Interwebs then of course you'll find fault with Wikia hosting them, but on Wikia they're not that (unless you want them to be.) From my experience with them and my experience with other Wikia features, these things... I liek them (even if I don't use them,) as I'm not the target audience, newbies are.