User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/Wikia is now Fandom powered by Wikia/@comment-24264457-20161005225556


 * Sees new Community Central colors*

* Throws up in mouth*

Ok that expresses my opinions on the new colors here. Now onto my opinion on the name. It just doesn't sound as professional as "Wikia." When I tell people about Wikia, I tell them it's like a smaller version of Wikipedia devoted to a certain topic with a lax atmosphere. Which is basically what it is, for the Wikis I follow. I primarily follow the Just Dance Wiki which is where we post official information about Just Dance. We try to make things look professional and fan made content is restricted to blogs and user pages. Now, let's talk about Fandom. I like the whole "by fans, for fans" thing, but that alludes to fan-made content as in fan-fictions. Not articles with official information written by fans. If I tell people I contribute to Wikia, they'll be like "Oh he makes contributions to articles with official info." If I tell people I contribute to Fandom they'll be like "Oh he just sits in his basement all day making/reading cringey fan-fictions about how Character A dumps Character B for C while secretly seeing D." I think all Wikis should have a choice. If they post official information about a topic, basically anything from Recipes to TV Shows/Movies/Video Games they can choose to be called Wikia. If they are a "fanon" wiki they can choose to be called Fandom powered by Wikia.