User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/Wikia is now Fandom powered by Wikia/@comment-25653892-20160926161206/@comment-20644-20160926175216

Wikis are absolutely the backbone of the site, and we don't want anyone to feel that they're being neglected&mdash;but this is a good point that you've brought up, since it's key in explaining this change to everyone.

We actually have a very large product development team focused entirely on wikis, particularly helping editors be more productive and self-sufficient. There are actually more developers focused on the core wiki product and the editor experience than Discussions, for example. You're just seeing more about things like news and stories in places like the home page, right rail, etc because we're still experimenting with what type of promotion works best across the entire platform. This is still a new endeavor there, and we're constantly analyzing the results of those tests to see what works best. Same with Discussions.

Meanwhile, wikis are pretty solid. We have tens of thousands of people editing on tens of thousands of communities, with millions more people reading the content. At the end of the day, we're satisfied with the performance of our wiki product and are excited about Discussions and news and stories. Once those are more well-established, we'll need to appropriately balance how everything co-exists on our site from a discoverability standpoint.

That being said, we know there is room for improvement in the wiki product so our wiki development team is going to continue working on that in the future. There's always more ways that we can help editors, so we don't want anyone to confuse new experiences with neglect on the core wiki contribution experience.