User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-88790-20100826161831

Every time I look at this page and the example I just get more annoyed.

What slice of the Wikia community was looked at to formulate this overhaul?

Images, yes, lots of wikis run on images. But they also use text, I'm sure it's written somewhere that we should be using and managing the Wikia resources and not uploading stuff that will be detrimental to the experience.

Many wikis also run on text, in fact that's generally what is the core feature of an encyclopaedia, many of the pages on the wiki I edit have 1 or no images.

People are coming to a lot of Wikis, as they do Wikipedia to READ the articles, not social network it, the images are a good addition but the main focus of a Wiki is edit TEXT, it's a reference encyclopaedia based on WORDS.

With all these extra boxes and floating bar at the bottom it's just detracting from what a wiki is.

If you really want to muck around in the social network / wikisphere why not create a new Wiki-space rather than trying to force this on the existing framework?