User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Sneak Peek at the New Look - Community Activity/@comment-13301-20100829100655

Wikia is putting all the efforts to move towards a "social network", and make wikis less wiki-style.

Wikia say that this new skin is done to show visitors that the wiki is being run with other people, and so on, but I'm sure that wouldn't make people understand that we have wikis and here they could find rich content. This is the main focus Wikia should point out to people.

The new skin will not help newbies to understand what a wiki is. With this skin, newbies will believe that Wikia is just another WordPress blog or another Facebook social network. That skin is totally focused on the people, not the content, but the content is what our wikis should be important for them.

All the information they will be receiving is a lot of names or nicks of people that created/edited a page or uploaded a photo. This is not giving them idea of what a wiki is, but again it will make them think that those people are creating blog posts or forum posts, and uploading their photos or avatars, this specially because of you naming them photo instead of image.

So this won't bring people to us for improving the content of the wiki, but for writing blog useless blog posts and uploading random images. This is not the kind of people we want (or at least I don't want) in our wiki.