Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13301-20170502181922/@comment-1824272-20170508220730

PI is a specific solution for a specific problem: infoboxes on mobile. Fandom recognized the problem, created a solution, and now we have to implement it to conform to mobile standards.

Infoboxes may be 5% of your page content area, but it's certainly more than 5% of what your average reader is looking at, especially on mobile. That's the point I'm trying to make - infoboxes are massively important, far more than just 5%, to the people looking anything up on a wiki.


 * About 1.19, it lacks lots of features like api endpoints

http://www.wikia.com/api/v1/


 * view how many hidden revisions are between a diff, etc.

You're telling me you don't see "5 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown" on this page?


 * Anyway, this post wasn't about how good PI are, but how Wikia staff imposes a decision despite having 0 support from a community.

Fandom staff imposed that decision because, as I have been trying to explain, it is a mutual win-win for both Fandom AND your wiki and its users, both logged in and logged out, both desktop and mobile. You wanted a better mobile experience, Fandom gave you PIs, you rejected and asked for something that does exactly what PIs do... what more are you looking for here?

@Speedit:


 * I recall that a wiki requires Discussions to have a Community App.

That might explain it, I don't know if WikiDex is integrated in the English Pokemon Community App. A community indeed has to enable Discussions to have a Community App because that's how the app templates are designed, and Fandom can't easily change that to suit an individual wiki.