Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151201202536/@comment-1038387-20151206174755

Wikia bought many early independent wikis. For a long time, many retained their own url and layout, or some other feature, as part of the agreement. DC and Marvel, for example, had anonymous editors turned off way back when. Wikis that still have Monobook usually fall in this category. Memory Alpha had their own url for a long time, but now it's under wikia.com. I don't know exactly what the reasons are (probably SEO) but I remember reading not everyone on Uncyclopedia was fond of it.