User blog comment:Dopp/Technical Update: June 28, 2011/@comment-1656630-20110701163329/@comment-13301-20110701181628

How many "red link" categories does a normal wiki have? Normal wikis shouldn't have any, or very few ones, which indicate that some needs to properly create them.

You are creating another problem here: With making nonexistant categories as if they exists, there's no proper way to users to learn that they should connect categories with each other, so you are effectively condemning it to the extinction, since unconnected categories does not allow a complete navigation. New users won't even know that those category pages are editable.

Of course, you can still use the special pages... except that they are extremely hidden in Oasis and the vast majority of users won't even know of their existance.

This is against the wiki spirit, so I want this "feature" to be disabled on our wiki, since this is now making things more difficult. I want to know if a category placed on an article exists while I review articles without checking special pages constantly (that need 24h to update) or clicking every category page.

About what you said: ''The change is forcing you to adjust the way you do things a bit, and that's annoying, I understand. But it's also making the experience of visiting a wiki make a lot more sense, and the folks who made the decisions on this feature believe that's worth it.'' Wikia is being more intrusive every day. You guys think you know what's right for us and try to impose everything, even if that's not right. An example is the idea of editing the pagetitle to put some keywords on it to "boost search results", which was proven to be a complete fail and was even harming the position on web results.

Maybe some wikis may benefit from that, but big wikis not, so you shouldn't force those features on all wikis as if all were the same. Maybe Wikia would get less negative comments if those "features" were always optional, making use of the Wikia labs.

I don't think I've said something new here, but yu continue to ignore our feedback and petitions, and then Sarah Manley calls for a conference? That doesn't make sense. All I have to say has been said already. It's Wikia not considering our petitions.