User blog comment:Dopp/Technical Update: November 29, 2011/@comment-1613840-20111201194242/@comment-1613840-20111201214619

This means it automatically on new English wikis - but they still have the option to go into Wikia labs and disable it if they would like. At this point it will remain in labs. We will continue to update you here as to when it might move out of labs.