User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1656630-20110926232610/@comment-1393830-20110927001421

Dopp, this is false, come on. Wikia was started as a wikifarm where people could be given the mediawiki software, all set up for them and easy to use, in order to make an encyclopedia on a subject in the style of Wikipedia. Now, we have such things as the rich text editor, this new slow loading editor, article comments and now these facebook walls. All of these degrade the ability to build a proper wiki. Yes, wiki. I think it is time we started calling Wikia wikis wikias again as they have come too far from a wiki. A real wiki has talk pages, a real wiki has red linked non existent categories, a real wiki is about the content. Wikias have everything blue linked because red is not friendly enough, a wikia cannot be customized to suit the needs of the subject and community. A wikia has a wall like facebook rather than proper talk pages. Each new feature pushes Wikia further and further away from what a wiki is supposed to be. I joke around at times and say that Wikia will soon start calling the software they run off of MediaWikia but I truly fear this. Will there be no default MediaWiki feature left untouched? MediaWiki works perfectly. Each feature now takes away the ability to be build an effective encyclopedia and instead makes it look like Facebook where people post an article and comment on it all day long. So, yes, Wikia is no longer what it was but is instead a facebook knock off.