User blog comment:BertH/New Forums now available in Labs/@comment-30962703-20121204140308/@comment-1536121-20121204161848

heard u loud and clear there. it's inevitable for wikia to be a bit of socialish.... there are chats, commenting system, blogging, and now forums. They are all for attract editors and readers. and for a better word, the social is the "community". and to create a ecosystem where unpaid people and volunteer wants to contribute something to a certain topic in a wikia.