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==Problems between Wikia and | ==Problems between Wikia and its users== | ||
===Advertising=== | |||
Wikia offers free {{tag|MediaWiki}} hosting for a community to build a wiki-based website, in return for the display of ads. Some users complain that they have little say over the placement or content of advertisements their website displays. | |||
Wikia | Logged-in users don't have to see the advertisements unless they choose to. Users may set their preferences to see advertisements on Wikia in order to see how a page looks to logged-out users. A prominent advertisement is placed at the top right hand side of most pages, but when there is also a picture on the top right hand side of a page the layout for users who see the advertisement can be poor especially on short pages. Logged in users may not realize this when they add pictures. | ||
===Skins=== | |||
The default skin for Wikia wikis is called "Monaco", more colorful and customizable than the standard Monobook skin that Wikipedia uses. While individual users can view Wikia sites using the Monobook skin (by choosing it in their preferences), Wikia does not allow it to be chosen as a default skin for all wiki visitors, which is frustrating for some communities. Wikia says statistics show that Monaco encourages new users by making editing easier. | |||
===Criticism=== | |||
[[ComplaintWiki]] has been set up expressly to look at problems that Wikia users have, and includes comments from communities that have left Wikia hosting, as well as other critics of Wikia and Wikipedia. | |||
==List of wikis== | ==List of wikis== | ||