User blog comment:Penguin-Pal/The spice of chat/@comment-24473195-20150911095512/@comment-24473195-20150911131900

"I really don't understand how you can say that you're qualified to say that general users aren't qualified when it's those same general users that make the wiki, not just the admins."

Simple. Do most user understand copyright, do all them read the terms of use of the relevant site, and do they all know the impact of importing these or security issues related to simply allowing HTML? The answer in most cases is no.

"That literally says that wikis may NEED to change them - the only reason they can't right now is because of the security issues."

Changing text is different from changing colors, html or adding more functionality through javascript. Customizable javascript is a hack introduced by the WMF, the original software was not designed to include it. Most users are not competent enough to use javascript, yet admins were/are automatically given this right, despite >90% of them not being competent or understanding the risks.

"Dessamator, you've seem to have missed what the point of Wikia is. If that's the case then I'm certainly wondering why Community Central's chat is almost never talking about community central."

Some people also weaponize ordinary things. It doesn't change the fact that those things weren't created for those purposes.

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"The main purpose of articles in a Wikia community is to cover information and discussion on a particular topic in a much greater and more comprehensible detail level than what can be found on Wikipedia articles."

Every tool in a  wikia/wiki  is meant to directly or indirectly facilitate that goal, in cases where it doesn't it is definitely a failure.