Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-8620375-20130424200125/@comment-303594-20130427152219

Both these wikis serve a role for Wikia that being public wouldn't allow. The community council is a test wiki to test features that Wikia doesn't want to release globally, and allows them to get feedback from a small group of users (but one that's larger than just people working at the company).

Our internal wiki is somewhere that we can post sensitive user data and scripts for staff and VSTF to see, it helps us do our job. If we didn't have it, it'd go into another private channel, as we can't share other user's sensitive data with you.

The wiki creation policy is designed to help achieve Wikia's core goal: A website collaborating as a community. Without it, the first person who grabs a wiki's URL could say "I want this wiki to be about this, and I'm the only one to use it" - which means that wikis for popular topics might not be as users expect. If you don't want a community collaborative website, Wikia isn't the site for you, this has always been the case.