User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: May 14, 2013/@comment-22460-20130515021914/@comment-452-20130515031656

On the eighth, Wikia sent an email titled "Hello from Wikia", to the same people who were invited to take the survey back in (whenever it was)

The email had a whole section devoted to the file page redesign, which really helped me understand the reason behind it better than anything I ever read here.

I'm not sure why this explanation wasn't posted here someplace, or maybe it was but I missed it.

You can read it here: http://specops.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:SilenceInTheLibrary/Update_and_Alert_from_Wikia#File_Page_Redesign

I don't agree with hiding the useful information away on other tabs either, but at least now I better understand Wikia's motivation for doing it.