User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-88790-20100819152000

I'm going to echo other users again about it looking like a social media site.

Wikais are meant to be about building a community based encyclopaedia, this revamp isn't about helping us do this.

The like button could just be an upgrade of the 'rate this article' heart thing, I've never seen a point to this, once you reach a certain level of articles it's a fairly large spread. So I'm guessing it's for advertising purposes; more likes on a page means more advertising / higher priced adverts. Tell us, be open about the ads, the main pages were altered to accept the adverts because we were told about it.

I really like a clean, simple interface, this isn't everything's spread out and just somewhat oddly laid out.

If this is about advertising, which seems like a good way to hide it by pushing out such a massive overhaul, is there anyway we can work the new advert layout into the existing format? I could live with extra adverts rather than this revamp.