User blog:LokiIsAwesome/Future of Wikia updates

Hi guys, I thought I'd let you in on some exciting updates to Wikia overall that may be useful for many of you. We're always willing to try out the latest and greatest, and be one of the first to keep its community in line with new Wiki technology, for a better experience.

So according to the official staff blog on Wikia Communtuy Central, this is what we're being offered in the coming weeks: So a rundown of the forum if you don't want to view the link, it includes these features: More things in the future... So what are your thoughts? What are you/are you not interested in? Thanks for reading!
 * An all new forum, hopefully one which will be a part of 'Wiki Features', that is found in the Admin's dashboard for this Wiki. You can see what it's like here. This Wiki will definitely be using a forum, and promoting it, so hopefully so we can get some great discussions going on. If possible, I'm thinking of even replacing the featured blogs with featured forum posts on the home page, as blogs are pretty much the same thing, you have a topic, your point, and you get comments. You discuss. A forum is a more efficient way of doing this, and you can easily see everything at once. But we will see how it turns out and involve the community.
 * Kudos feature which is like Facebook's 'like' button, or a support button for posts.
 * Discussions are threaded, so you can follow individual conversations rather than pages with multiple conversations
 * Notifications, both on-wiki and in e-mail, help you keep track of the conversations you're involved in
 * Wiki admins can create Boards to organize threads
 * Threads are automatically sorted by most recent reply, or by most active thread
 * Automatic signatures and timestamps
 * A new way for admins to highlight discussions that they want everyone on the wiki to see -- a more efficient system than the Community Corner! :)
 * Community-editable space in a thread for wiki project work -- tables or lists that everyone can update
 * Polls in threads
 * Quoting to reply directly to a previous post
 * A place for policies & FAQs
 * A way to connect discussions that are about the same topics
 * Mobile support for Message Wall and Forum will be coming, hopefully early in the fall. We totally agree that it's a good format for people who want to contribute from phones and tablets.
 * Search support (for Forum and Message Wall threads) will also be coming as part of the Forum project.
 * Thread-categorising ideas that will be in development over the next month or so.
 * Wikia are possibly looking at ways to reduce "chattiness" in Message Wall, so there are less useless tiny posts which clog up message walls.
 * Answers Wikis will be looked at, for example, the new thumbs up (kudos) feature will sort threads by rating.

Source

 * Touchpigs user blog