User blog comment:Sarah Manley/New Editor Scheduled for Sitewide Release/@comment-530703-20110910100852

I'm sorry if I repeat anything that's already going to be resolved in the next update, but I'm not going to read through nearly 1000 comments to find that information. (Please consider adding some sort of sticky code to Wikia comments in the future.)

I don't know why Wikia continues to downgrade the user experience. Wikis are mostly used for for conveying information, not social media interaction, and so removing such essential things as what templates are used on the article. Don't tell me the little sidebar thing can be "slid" over to show it. It adds two unnecessary clicks, whereas I could simply scroll down the page a short way. I could keep it open, but then it wastes valuable real estate (another problem Wikia has created, with it's a-third-of-the-page margins) on my screen.

Also, it's counterintuitive to think that the submit button will be above the textarea. What's the point? EVERY other site has their publish buttons below the form itself. But no, not Wikia. We have to be different.

Also, the vertical wrapping of the 'reason for editing' box is ridiculous. Why, in a single-line edit box, would you set the wrapping vertically? The standard is to let the text continue to scroll horizontally.