User blog comment:Dopp/Wikia Reaching New Heights/@comment-791183-20110601212928

The reason Wikia went ahead with this whole change was because it is for-profit. That's why Wikia are aiming to get more "editors", more user involvement.

More editing = more returning users = more adverts = more cash

The new wikia is more editor-friendly, yet the whole point of wikis are to educate the reader, not to become a social network - otherwise it defeats the purpose of the site. The wikis collapse in on themselves while Wikia rakes in the cash.

Old Wikia with Monaco and Monobook was reader-friendly not editor-friendly.

Yet I still don't understand why users do not have the ability to close down their wikis.... my wiki moved off Wikia. The whole community followed along apart from some 3 or so users left mantaining an inactive vandalised hellhole, but Wikia still get the money of our efforts, while the new wiki is now lower down the google search (yet has more content) and is not earning anything.