Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26534542-20160214134311/@comment-25739558-20160214193327

Wikia runs on a custom modified version of the MediaWiki software to fit their needs for the site. Part of the custom software is various bot accounts which aren't used for anything but configuring the wikias. The easiest way to change the settings on a per-wikia basis was to create profiles for basic functionalities which were added to the software as custom modifications. The easiest way to configure these settings was through the Thread namespace for whatever reason, so that's the reason it's in Thread:. If I were to go in-depth to this, it would take an understanding of MySQL databases, so I'm not going to.