User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Sneak Peek at the New Look - Community Activity/@comment-473563-20100827181803

For pete's sake, be careful what you wish for!

Sarah Manley wrote: We sat testers down in front of a wiki on Monaco and asked, “Who do you think wrote this?” The most common response was “Ummm, I don’t know.” 

Yes! ... and it is a very good thing that such novices limit their participation to merely reading the various articles at a wiki for some time before it dawns on them that they too can contribute. Without that time spent familiarizing themselves with the wiki content we risk premature editors making willy-nilly edits and/or uploads before they've had a chance to learn by example what standard is expected of them.

If Wikia staff imagine that wikis populated with tweat-style edits or even edits like we tend to see in the vast majority of blog comments then I am afraid that this is not an environment that I have any interest in being involved with.

Each wiki has it's own way of inviting readers to become editors and it's own way of coaching those editors in that process. I may be alone in feeling this but I resent Wikia staff presuming that Wikia can do that job better by making uniform changes across all wikis.

Wikia staff are not creating and populating these community wikis so why are Wikia staff meddling in that process?