Forum:We love you, Wikia.

In case anyone isn't aware, Wikia have decided to make some unilateral changes to how "their" wikis look. Basically, they're going to shove ads in the top right corner of the article's rectangle (yes, right where the infoboxes and images go), and another bar on top of it. Also, the main page is going to go all slim and squished, so users with wide screens will see lots of blank to either side of the content. They're also apparently going to phase out monobook, though they've denied this. All of this is for an increase in revenue (not for us, obviously).

This will probably hit our wiki worse than most, because a lot of our articles are very small. It'll also push the main image down a fair bit, so that it'll be several inches below where the text starts (which in turn will mean we'll need to adjust any images adjacent to infoboxes). We'll also need to redesign the main page (and probably most of the site, really). To see what this will look vaguely like, see w:c:communitytest and make sure you're on monaco. Wikia have said they're planning to make some positive changes, but they haven't made anything resembling a promise, and frankly, nobody trusts them.

What can you do about it? Well, not that much. Wikia haven't informed any individual wikis about it, and plan to implement this plan  tomorrow  (they only announced it two days ago, I think). By all means, tell us and wikia about what you think of it, though it's unlikely to mean all that much, I think. For further reading see here, on Wookieepedia. You can block these ugly ads by getting Adblock Plus, but I think that's only available on Mozilla Firefox.

So there you go. Melodrama included.  AdmirableAckbar   15:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)