Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-20644-20141110180435/@comment-20644-20141112005240

Tupka217 wrote: You can be an information site if you want to, and you can be a community site if you want to. Wikia can cater to both. Just don't turn on the community aspects of the wiki.

You do need views. Without views, you'll never get edits.

I agree. Without readers and views, you're not going to get editors.

DEmersonJMFM wrote: You have to balance between community and information. Personally I don't think it's a great idea to have all features in wikilabs enabled and, on the other hand, disabled either. Some social aspects can help inspire edits, too much inspires a social network and not a wiki. Wikia is between the two.

Whether all features are enabled or disabled (though hopefully not the latter) also depends on what kind of community that wikia wants to be. Some can be strictly encyclopedic if they want. Others can be extremely social. Most communities tend to be in between, and make judgment calls about what features best serve whatever their mission is as a community.