User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: January 6, 2016/@comment-1474707-20160110234717/@comment-1474707-20160111180608

Much of the data was actually very accurate - special:Top/community was always correct (quite a simple thing to display, ranking of editcount), and something we had linked in our navigation. On visiting a new wiki, it was a useful quick and easy way to figure out who the "big names" on the wiki were. Now we don't have that until you get around to replacing it? In my previous experience with Wikia updates that have been promised, we could be waiting 3 years or more.

Thanks for passing on my feedback - and I know the reason "articles without images" is there, because there is a correlation between pages with images and high search engine rankings. However, in the case of, for example, our wiki about a TV show, let me demonstrate why that does not necessarily imply causation: The more popular characters in the TV show are the ones that are featured most prominently, therefore have more exposure in the show and more images. Adding irrelevant images to unseen characters is not going to suddenly boost their search engine ranking because they were never popular to begin with. Any extra hits due to the image will be people clicking expecting something else. It will just be detrimental to the quality of the wiki, which, aggregating in the long term, decreases SEO of the whole thing. Thanks!