User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-173.76.10.151-20100826001037

As someone who often reads wikis, I am utterly baffled by Wikia's supposed "improvement." The margins seen in the screenshot make the article's text seem horribly squished and difficult to read. Attention is being drawn to other parts of the page when the primary focus should be on the article.

Individuality is extremely important; it makes each and every wiki its own and different from the rest. There's a big link that allows anyone to create a new wiki, but what good is that to people if they know their wiki will look just like the rest?

Encouraging more people to contribute to the wiki? Focusing on the content will advocate people to edit articles more than a social networking site approach, and that's the feeling I get by this toolbar. The effort to allow socialization on wikis is appreciated (the addition of blogs, to name one), but it cannot be forgotten that the purpose of wikis is to be encyclopedias of information that anyone can edit.