User blog comment:Dopp/Giving User Profiles Some Love/@comment-670668-20110708162205

Hyperfocusing on user profiles is not the way to go if you want more people to stick around. Wikis are collaborative, while user profiles are not. People want to share, contribute, and edit things, together, not by themselves.

Honestly, when was the last time you cruised through people's user pages to learn more about them? More than half of our editors (Call of Duty Wiki) don't make their user pages a true personal profile, and the people who do, more often than not, don't stick around for very long.

Why? Because wikis aren't Facebook or Twitter. Unlike the users of those websites, we simply don't care about your garage band.

If you're looking for a social way of keeping people on Wikia, give us actual (non-wiki style) forums. At least they're collaborative, and everyone can contribute to the discussion.

In any case, enhancing wiki user profiles will do nothing to augment user activity.