User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-129646-20100824101616/@comment-1280533-20100824215657

That sums up what I wanted to say too. I want to re-emphasise a paragraph, which was also my initial thought:

''Wikia is not Facebook. [...] I did not join the Wikia community to socially interact with other users, earn badges or edit points, "like" posts, [...]. I join Wikia to edit articles. To contribute to encyclopaedic content on specialised subjects. Why Wikia seems to be obsessed with adding elements from social networking and blog sites is beyond me. Surely the content of the articles [...] is the most important thing?''

I also want to query where all the useful links in the left-hand, customisable Monaco-sidebar would go, as it's a useful navigation tool that a lot of wiki admins spend time on organizing.

Overall, it's a nice design, but I feel that navigation is more important to a wiki than socialising, which is where this seems to be directed.