User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: September 7, 2015/@comment-24473195-20150909130617/@comment-24473195-20150909153123

@Kirkburn:

Good to know.

@Sannse:

Well, I can only say that it is a bit ironic considering that in a "community.wikia"  the community seems to largely ignore the maintenance of pages or any activity to improve its "state of disarray".

There's a concept called dogfooding, in which people who develop products or services are expected to use them. But staff maintained wikis seem to go completely in the other direction:


 * Portable infoboxes are not used here, despite staff pushing for their use everywhere


 * Insights list claims that a good wikia needs to clear those items, yet it doesn't do it


 * Pages are left in disarray despite "having" a community

The simple fact is that aside from "wikia.com" this is essentially the face of Wikia as a company. It is like an enviromentalist claiming that people should reduce pollution, all the while sporting a car, a house, and other tools that pollute heavily.

Most of the so-called maintenance tasks can be handled by good bots, so given the expertise of both staff and admins in this wikia that is hardly an excuse to not keep a "clean house". One simple way they can be more efficient is develop FAQs, rather than endlessly answer the same things.

As your own Help pages say,  admins are not "special" users  and they are part of the community, and should in theory act accordingly.