User blog comment:Dopp/Meet More Wikians with Improved Profiles/@comment-3569803-20110801235055/@comment-1393830-20110802001333

The push towards social networking is damaging content when you are on a wiki that focuses purely on content. We get users who make hundreds of edits to their userpages but never edit the content. We ask them to work on the content and they refuse. In this case they are not helping the wiki but instead are just flooding recent changes and harming the wiki. So yes, the social networking is harming wikis. For every 20 users we get who just want to edit their userpage, we only get maybe 1 user who wants to help the content.