Google can easily retrain itself to weight verified Wikipedia topics higher than unverified. There is a lot of benefit to having these articles maintained by a

Google can easily retrain itself to weight verified Wikipedia topics higher than unverified. There is a lot of benefit to having these articles maintained by a non-profit; Wikia's load time on a phone browser is stupid long, mainly because of ads and tracking scripts. It is several seconds before they are loaded, then you start getting bombarded with full-screen ads. There are dozens of Wikia apps in the Play store, so effectively that means that, unless this is a topic that I have a deep and pre-existing commitment to, I can't have the accelerated app experience. Wikia is just not a replacement for Wikipedia. Yes, UGC sites are clamoring for content: so they can monetize the shit out of it with no respect for the content, community, creator, or reader. Your comment makes it seem like there's no merit to keeping the content on WP, but if you actually use some of these other sites I don't know how you can even compare the two.