Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-4356266-20150913150353/@comment-168424-20150915025855

What you're seeing is completely true and Wikia knows there are problems.

Here's what they've said they are doing to try to make it better:
 * They recently introduced Special:CuratedContent, so you can at least have some control over how stuff appears on your main page and a level or two beyond.
 * They are trying to unify the look between apps and the mobile skin.
 * They are adding more tools like Portable infoboxes and upcoming Flags (too hard to explain here).

I tried to get them to explain why they just don't give us simple tags to choose what renders on mobile vs. not and they were kind of vague. I suspect they are worried about breaking base MediaWiki rendering if they put something too general in or they don;t want to give admins that much control. They seem to be making a common UI for mobile a priority without admitting it.