User blog comment:JustLeafy/Wikia VS Wikipedia/@comment-24258073-20170916081040

I'm an editor of both, but mostly Wikia. The main differences I've noticed is that Wikipedia is stricter about how articles are structured. Wikipedia relies more on sources to backup their information, even though the sources may not necessarily be correct. Labelling a song with the wrong music genres for one thing.

A lot of people don't seem to realise that just because a song has a heavy guitar in it doesn't make it hard rock. As a result, some songs may be labelled as hard rock, regardless of whether they really are hard rock, and then complaints arise when those genres are removed from the articles, if they were sourced.

Wikipedia seems to have a stricter policy with article talk pages as well. I can understand why Wikipedia is stricter, I mean it is a larger site, whereas Wikia is mostly made up of some large wikis, and a whole lot of smaller wikis. Both are good to browse and be a part of, editing wise. But overall I'd say I prefer Wikia, although Wikipedia would be my second favourite editing site.