Board Thread:Admin Noticeboard/@comment-3367060-20160907221019/@comment-25285745-20160907233254

Because if we simply launched the new Wikizilla, there would be much less of an incentive for people to stop visiting the old Wikizilla and start consulting the new one. This is what happened when Uncyclopedia split from Wikia, resulting in two Uncyclopedias. We want Wikizilla to remain the definitive Godzilla Wiki, so we needed to make it immediately superior to the old site.