User blog comment:Ohmyn0/What's Going on with Chat/@comment-1474707-20110427120200/@comment-118323-20110427204115

We hope to have it available on all wikis, but in no way would we make it mandatory for you to sit in chat and talk to people. :-)

Chat, like existing communication methods on Wikia, will most likely necessitate community guidelines as to how decisions made in chat affect the wiki. As always, we'll let each wiki decide how to use the new tool.