User blog comment:Ducksoup/Why Wikia Evolves/@comment-1142365-20150618205838/@comment-3361105-20150620150945

I think one gap in understanding that we as users have versus wikia staff is that, typically, there is not much crossover between wikis. wikia considers themselves a platform for community and interaction, whereas each wiki, pretty consistently, thinks of ITSELF as a community, hosted by wikia.

And wikia should think the way they do when they're talking about reader experience, because readers far outnumber editors, and can come to wikia for many vastly different needs and interests.

But they must remember that the editor's experience of wikia is pretty insular and confined to the wiki or small selection of wikis that they edit on. So each community (read: singular wiki) is going to handle site wide changes differently. Some with more know-how than others. But for those communities who aren't handling changes well, they look to the community here for support, and there isn't much to motivate a well-versed user to teach another user the ins and outs of a (ludicrously unintuitive) language like Lua besides the opportunity to look smart, when they have no stake in that wiki's survival.