User blog comment:Gp75motorsports/Wikia Staff - Please STOP implementing changes without communities' consensus./@comment-1142365-20150507153421

While the Wikia Mobile Skin is in dire need of improvement, part of that improvement comes from making wikis consistent. A mobile skin is by definition a watered down version of a website, and as such it can't possess the power to display a wide variety of content from wikis who all want their own thing. A good mobile skin and consistency across the network go hand in hand with each other.

Guess what most of the upcoming updates to the skin and so on are going to be for? To improve mobile usage. Calling changes "unneeded" is possibly some of the least useful feedback to give. Ask yourself this: if they were unneeded, why would Wikia invest time and money into them? Wikia is a business, businesses don't waste resources on things that are "unneeded". What is not necessary to you could be necessary to someone else, or to a feature that is being worked on, or to a business plan that's trying to churn out more money.

A lot of changes that are going to be rolling out over the next year are going to be to improve the mobile skin and how people use Wikia on mobile devices. That will mean that changes that affect all wikis will continue to roll out, because a clean and efficient mobile skin depends on consistency between the sites that it is designed to be used on, for better or worse...

Again, I ask how do you suggest that Wikia obtain a "consensus" to implement changes? Who will make the final decision as to whether or not a consensus has been met? How can you be sure someone has a neutral standpoint? Who can participate in the consensus-making? What constitutes a good argument? How do you demonstrate "need" and how can one show that there is enough of it? You make suggestions that may work well in your ideal world, but no so well in actual practice..

I share your concerns about transparency and I would also like Wikia to better explain why they make the changes that they do. Do I like the new navbar? No. Do I like the sharing options? No. Do I like the new visual editor? I don't know, I don't use it. I don't like a lot of the changes that Wikia make but my suggested improvement to this is for them to seriously listen to feedback, rather than literally not make any changes ever until we give them a de facto permission by some sort of abstract consensus that you talk about.