Thread:TableWiz/@comment-23989026-20160927225135


 * My suspicions that Wikia has been neglecting their wiki-based "backbone" have been officially confirmed.
 * Is it really smart to be putting all your eggs into one basket, especially one as weak and shallow as Fandom?
 * So cancer wiki users are cancer fans?
 * I joined Wikia to expand factual, informative content.
 * "fandom" editors: all look like outcasts of society to anyone who looks at our screens.
 * The term "Fandom", like the term " \"true fan\" ", is used by geeks and nerds to disparage other geeks and nerds.
 * News media outlets always refer to fandoms as bad. Good luck trying to sway the mainstream media away from that connotation. At least wiki-editing is more respectable than being a fanatic.
 * "Wikipedia/Wiki" which is like the trademark in the internet for "free knowledge". That's what most of us have signed up for.
 * I'm a moderator on a wiki about gas masks. It has no entertainment (fandom) relevance whatsoever.
 * All the reasons given are meaningless, basically PR talk.
 * Where I was previously able to reference a research paper on my university's Wikia in my resume/CV, a "Fandom" brand publishing source is not going to fly for any academic reference.
 * Every time Wikia Staff makes a blog post like this, it's always "we're making this change, deal with it".
 * Discussions is a huge problem since it's full of immature users. Now the whole site is going to be "Fandom"... At this pace, Wikia Fandom will be full of younger and younger users, while the more serious/mature users will end up leaving.
 * Brandom seems to be implying that we as a community just need to be "more diligent" and work even harder to keep things sane on our wikia pages while the mobile crowd keeps flooding in. It won't be hard leaving if I have to spend even more time "moderating".
 * Fandom... a tumblr-pandering buzzfeed wannabe
 * I feel a bit sad for the corporations, schools, and maybe local governments that host their wikis here, though. There's a world of difference between a fan (i.e., fanatical) audience and a professional audience.
 * This strikes me as a bit ridiculous, after all the effort made over the past few years to build its Wikia brand
 * Ugh...This change is another trainwreck about to happen.
 * General population users don't sacrifice the time and effort just so a corporate entity constantly introducing new things and disregarding what you think is best for the wiki that you created.
 * Attracting more people to talk about fandom isn't going to help the wikis that need editors. We need editors that actually improve our content, not people that are going to post 50 screenshots of the mundane stuff that happened in their game.
 * I'm tired of Wikia treating wikis as products instead of projects.
 * FANdom: Brace yourselves for a massive influx of inaccurate edits as people start to add FANfiction and speculation to entries.
 * This seems like a case of "fixing what isn't broken".
 * It's sort of like Walmart deciding to call itself Great Value, because it pushes their generic products and keeps people from thinking it's a home renovation store... despite being one of the most well-known companies on the goddamned planet.
 * I am the founder and admin of a serious, research-oriented hockey wiki. I would be embarrassed to mention my wiki to other hockey enthusiasts with the term "Fandom" plastered all over the site title. I'm sorry, but "hockey fandom" is not a term I have ever heard, nor do I want to.
 * Every staff comment here has basically been "Well, we are fandom now because we want to be and fandom is a great word to us anyways!"
 * The staff here are all dictators. They don't care about you or how you contribute to your wikia community. All what they care is their glorious website which is built by sedulous contributors such as you and me.
 * This announcement looks like a whole lot of marketingspeak, with no coherent reason for the change to a confusing, convoluted name which doesn't even correspond to the domain it's in. There's also the potential worry, when you talk about "branding Fandom", that you'll try to trademark it and threaten to sue others who use the generic word.
 * I'm here to construct a database, why the heck would I regard it as a fandom as I have already had a lot of social network services like fb..etc...!
 * I can see it happening:
 * Chemistry Fandom
 * English Literature Fandom
 * Greek Mythology Fandom
 * Really?


 * To me, it sounds like a bunch of sites focusing on fan fic or something.
 * "Wikia" sounds way more professional than "Fandom" which seems pretty obviously created by out of touch middle aged employees in an attempt to pander to teenagers.
 * Sometimes I wonder if the staff has ever heard the phrase "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
 * Imagine what Wikia's band of restless techies and decision makers would have done to "Wikipedia" if they could have gotten their tiny fingers on it: Wikipedia -> Encyclowiki -> Wikiwiki -> etc. etc. etc.
 * I remember a time when wikias were places to build databases... Those were the good days.
 * I, as a long-time Wookieepedian, don't want to see what was meant as an encyclopedia become some sort of social media.
 * As many people have pointed out, the word "Fandom" has gotten a bit of a bad rep. Most people think of a community full of chaos, full of immature people who do nothing but whine and complain. I don't see how this will help Wikia's already fading reputation.
 * This staff blog is basically just a formality. When Wikia makes a change it has been decided upon long ago and no amount of disagreement from admins, bureaucrats and regulars users can change that. Individual wikias are all about the community and making decisions together; but Wikia itself is all about the unilateral decision making and over-ruling its editors.
 * I joined Wikia back in June 2014. However, as my journey has progressed, I have noticed that Wikia is slowly fading away from the "user-friendly" tag to the "enforcement" tag. I am deeply sorry to say that Wikia is not longer the Community site it once was.
 * Honestly, Wikia is crumbling, and the staff are not in the least bit worried about it. It is very sad to see what was once a great collection of communities fall all because of a stupid website.
 * Remember when the new global navbar was introduced there were many complaints about it being too big? And Wikia reduced its size, saying it listens to our feedback. Now they have made it larger again, essentially going against all of our feedback.
 * When I think “fandom,” I think “nerds.”
 * I still remember sometimes ago an Admin of a wiki once told me that "This is a wiki, not a fansite", and reduced the fandom in her wiki to the least there was.

 