Forum:Wikia's New Look

What should the Narutopedia do about the new look? Redisign all the articles on the wiki to fit the new skin. Find some other place to host the wiki. If we moved elsewhere would you be willing to donate to help deal with our heavy server costs? No, I probably won't be donating. Yes, I'd be willing to donate a bit. Yes, I could donate a fair bit to help the wiki. Put down your pitchforks and raise the mobile bomb-shelters, the bombs are already in mid-fall. Wikia has already announced and begun plans for yet another massive skin change. And this time they're not compromising.

Wikia's first skin change long ago was when we left Monobook behind ([ preview]) Wikia originally started out building a skin called quartz ([ preview]) however after large rejection by the Wikia community they opted to instead develop the Monaco skin we see now ([ preview]). Wikia has announced an entirely new look for all of Wikia. On October 6th you'll be able to see what it will look like here, for now I've included a Cut & Paste job using content from Naruto Uzumaki and the skinning of Community Central in the thumbnail to the right, as well as a [[Media:Oasis Preview - CutPaste - Long.png|full page view]] (warning, it's huge in size and large in filesize). On October 20th the new skin will become the default on Wikia, the Narutopedia will be forced to use the new skin for readers. And on November 3rd Monaco will be removed entirely from Wikia, users will not have the personal choice of making use of our current look anymore.

The biggest problem with the new look is the size of the content area, it is about 1/2 the current size (from my perspective, right now it flexes to your monitor size), and infoboxes will take up 1/2 of the entire content area, images that are on the left in areas where the infobox is on the right will make for even less content area. In other words, under the new look we're probably going to have to redesign every article we wrote to look good.

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