Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-20644-20141110180435/@comment-1038387-20141110185818

I'll admit, for a long time, I was the grumpy guy saying "a wiki is an encyclopedic database, not a social network". But not everyone is an edit machine who can churn out encyclopedic content or maintenance. People want to air their opinions, review things, play puzzles and games... Wikipedia doesn't offer that. Some wikis used to have separate, off-wiki message boards (from proboards and the like) and IRC channels. Adding those features to Wikia adds transparency. Since you are the only wikifarm that offers it, branding is an important thing to think of.

I'm not sure if any of my wikis is going to call itself "Wikia". Though we did think of renaming the DC Database, for the reasons Billy mentioned to just about everyone when we were in SF.