User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Beyond the Encyclopedia - A Wiki for Everyone/@comment-35301431-20100831162710

Now I feel that the reason the "comment on article" section was created, was to bring in the Social Network feel with the new mandatory layout, basically making it a blog complete with an article on top. Now I hear that comment thing appears the moment you create your own wiki.

Too much added spam imo and also the comments are hard to keep track of if there are rule breakers. If Wikipedia allowed such a feature it would be a mess.

The Wikia I work on was given the name pedia to emphasize the fact that it is meant to be an encyclopedia of the subject typed about. I get that you want Wikia to be popular, but you are basically breaking down what made it popular in the first place. Everyone liked the idea of creating a wiki that didn't have to follow strict Wikipedia rules and was looser in content. Editors liked the fact that they could let others(readers) know about their hobby with articles... now it is becoming blog posts.

What happens when Facebook and Twitter are no longer "the IT" thing online?