User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Try the New Wikia Editor/@comment-957747-20110622000408/@comment-126761-20110623114634

Much of the JS involved is either to run the visual editor (wouldn't be possible without it), or is the jQuery library (which is used around the site). We're really not adding much extra, and wouldn't wish to anyway, we don't desire to slow things down - the opposite really. In any case, we'll look into the no-JS situation.