https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73137
--- Comment #2 from Grunny mwgrunny@gmail.com --- (In reply to John Mark Vandenberg from comment #0)
However Wikia has a redirect on the server from /wiki/ to / for those sites.
However the /wiki/ is needed for some sites.
http://cs.wow.wikia.com/wiki/Hlavn%C3%AD_strana works
But http://cs.wow.wikia.com/Hlavn%C3%AD_strana redirects to http://cs.wow.wikia.com/wiki/Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD:Our
So keeping the nicepath as /wiki/ is necessary, and we have to hope Wikia has redirects in place for all wikis where the wiki nice titles are not located at /wiki/Foo
Yep, we do. There are only about 26 or so wikis on Wikia that use short URLs without the /wiki/, the rest all use the standard /wiki/$1 article path. All those that do have short URLs have redirects from /wiki/.