Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-2056021-20140522220633/@comment-452-20140714122637

I contacted wikia about this and they confirmed that it is intended behaviour because the creation of the default templates were causing excess load for the global search index, due to the volume of wikis created every day, but that they're still looking for solutions to the problem.

I suggested having the default templates created by request instead. I wrote:

Perhaps
 * Via a link in the founder emails
 * A checkbox as part of the wiki creation process
 * A new module in the admin dashboard

Any of these would cut down on them being created on spam wikis, or test wikis, or by people who just don't want them. I assume there are a great many wikis created and immediately abandoned, so a one-time-use link in the admin dashboard might be a better option than a checkbox during the wiki creation wizard.

But for right now, Iynque's suggestion is the best.