User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-737801-20110927202532/@comment-13301-20110929092149

Sannse: I've seen several wikis with blogs active that were initially a source of information (like encyclopedias) but with the blogs active they became just a site about fanon, and people stopped editing articles focusing only on blog posts and comments.

And some of them, then decided to disable blogs on their wiki, and then the number of edits on article mainspace is now growing and lots of new and quality content is being written on content pages.

An example of what I mean is the English Pokémon Wiki, which I have a close eye on it since I'm a sysop of the spanish one, that decided some weeks ago to disable the blogs. Since then, the users are now focused on the content, and it's growing really fast.

Please, double-check your sources of information about how socializing features help encourage people to come back participate in that heart of the wiki, or either double check what does heart of the wiki means for you: quality content or random chatter.