User blog comment:FishTank/How Portability Works for You/@comment-3474542-20160219171012

Hi, Isaac! *waves* I don't remember if we've officially met, but I've been following some of your activity on Wikia for a while. I'm glad that you (and others on Wikia) have chosen to work on content portability (thank you). Portability and accessibility hold a special place in my heart (right up there with books).

It is my wish that most of Portability Wiki's content be incorporated into this wiki, similarly to the way that most of the the Admin & Founder wikis were merged into this one (except for the part where you can play with the Admin Tools).

Specifically:
 * Help pages really need to be here, so that there is a central location where regular edits and updates can be made. And so that the shared help system can distribute them across all wikis. Wikia has a hard enough time keeping up to date with the Help articles it has now, having them in multiple places just makes it more difficult.
 * Blog posts need to be here so that portability is a primary concern of editors and admins, instead of an afterthought. I think that the blogs are very important to all audiences, especially for raising the awareness of those who are only used to using desktops/laptops and/or advanced smartphones.

I think that it's unfortunate that most of the Portability content is being shuffled off to a separate wiki. I believe that portability and accessibility are things that all wiki editors and admins need to keep in mind when designing and maintaining their wikis. Because the problems of portability are being hidden from obvious view, there is more resistance than necessary to things like the infobox changes. Because portability is an afterthought, people don't design their articles for things like visually impaired, color-blind users, or epileptics and migraine sufferers. Things like color choices, font choices, flashing animations, and complex/nested tables are all things that cause a surprisingly large number of Wikia readers and editors problems. Also, using images instead of text makes it impossible to use machines to easily translate between languages. So, having the tools like Portable Infoboxes (provided by Portability Wiki) that can help fix these problems is a great thing. And in the process, it makes it easier for people to use Wikia on more devices. ;-)

Once again, thank you (and the rest of the team) for taking up the task of Portability. :-)