Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-20644-20141110180435/@comment-4142476-20141117004334

I use "a wikia" sometimes, but only when the context is to stress that I don't mean any wikis outside Wikia. I like editing wikis not because they're specifically on Wikia, and I will never refer to any of my wiki communities as "a wikia". Also, "Wikia Language Brigade Wikia" would really just sound horrible.

One thing I think a lot of English speakers also forget is that it may work in English, but it doesn't go so well in other languages. In German, Russian and other languages, it sounds odd and forced at best (as also mentioned above). In other languages, like Korean, Japanese, it literally means no distinction with the company name: ウィキアは２００４年に作られた. (Wikia / the wikia was made in 2004.) Are we trying to confuse our users?

Sounds like with the change from "wiki" to "wikia", we're trying to add "Advertising", and that's how I feel many users will feel this change as.