Forum:WikiAnswers - What's going on?

A while ago I created a dedicated Answers page for the wiki I'm working on. The mandatory WikiAnswers widget was displaying some unrelated questions and creating a dedicated Answers wiki seemed to be the best option to prevent that. I invested some time and effort in it creating it, making it look good and promoting it.

Now I've been busy for a while and just recently I noticed the Answers widget is gone and so are all the links to the Answers sites on the Wikia homepage, which makes me wonder: is Wikia abandoning the whole WikiAnswers/Answers sub-sites feature? Should I abandon ship as well? Is there any way to be noticed as a sysop if things like this happen? What's the plan? -BramTalk/IGW 15:22, July 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * We can't answer that here and Wikia have for the most part indicated they do not care what people say here in terms of pointing out bugs or making feature requests. Please use Special:Contact at the Wikia that lacks the Answers widget and request it there. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 5:40 PM PST 19 Jul 2010


 * You can see some feedback about this issue at Forum:Wikia Answers Sidebar Question, but it probably won't make you very happy. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 5:49 PM PST 19 Jul 2010


 * I do not really care about the Answers widget that much and I don't think I would have created the dedicated answers site if I knew Wikia was planning to remove the widget, but on the other hand: I still think a special Answers site is a useful feature for a wiki and a surely hope there will be a new place for it in the future, i.e. a new way of integrating a special Answers site into a 'normal' wiki, other than just linking to it. The widget was an option and an easy way for visitors to ask a question about the subject, but there should be more options. --BramTalk/IGW 12:57, July 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Here is an example of how you could create a widget to promote your Ibanez Answers site. Like the original Answers widget, it includes links to recent questions and has a box where people can ask questions. You can include it in a page by typing, but there's not any way that I know of to include it in the sidebar. Angela (talk | help forum) 04:03, July 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the help! I should be able to customize it even further now. --BramTalk/IGW 07:51, July 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's a pretty good substitute. Thanks for that. 12:37, July 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Better than nothing. I thought there was a way to create custom widgets, but it was up to the individual user whether or not to include them in the sidebar which pretty much leaves out anonymous users. Maybe there is something in w:c:help:Help:Widgets that will help. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 8:41 AM PST 21 Jul 2010