User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-29943340-20180816181055/@comment-29943340-20180818005439

Then why bother unifying if Wikia is its own brand? FANDOM content can, to some extent, mingle with Wikia content, but it's become glaringly obvious that a lot of the Staff that makes these FANDOM editorials and FANDOM videos are not community members and don't engage much with the communities they try to include their content in. It's a big reason why so many are against FANDOM content being pushed into wikis. The community has little to no control, and Staff refuse to comply with the community's wishes, more often than not.

I can respect the attention to unification in your linked blog post, but it fails to mention the fact that staff often interfere with wiki editing, even when a majority of the community is against it, AND when this majority makes their opinion publicly known to the staff. It does mention the fact that wiki editors often don't know about an editorial, but it doesn't mention any real progress in unifying the communities.

If there was a more detailed blog about this, instead of just using the blanket statement "communities are at the core," then it would at least spark conversation and potential progress.

And yes, I'm aware of minor features like "script review," but that is only one bit out of an entire platform of possible content to wedge in a community. If FANDOM and Wikia communities are to ever unify, then content CONTROL is at the core of the problem. Let the communities control the content. It may not be that simple to pull off, but it sure is possible.