User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-25653892-20160908185606/@comment-20644-20160912171118

We're actively working to enhance the user experience with more capabilities. The wiki experience remains largely the same, but Fandom news and stories as well as Discussions are enhanced offerings to create other opportunities for fans to contribute to and take part in Wikia. That's a key part of the evolution of Wikia.

It's still important to us to maintain a great experience for existing members, of course, which is why we bring users into the process as we develop and test new features and ideas. Discussions has been the subject of numerous conversations in the Community Council, and a nearly year-long beta preceded last week's announcement that Discussions was moving into a wider release.

So it's a balance between existing offerings and new ones. So while we continue working to maintain the wiki experience, we're still going to grow the overall fan experience so people can more easily and dynamically share what they love.