User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-1393830-20100930031155

Since Wikia has yet to comment on any of our serious questions I will ask them again here. Dear Sannse or Susan or whomever:

1.Why is ad space prioritized over content space. I want the real answer not some pre prepared speech. Right now, ad space and unused space on the new skin takes up more room than the actual articles do. This is not an opinion this is clear fact, we have measured.

2. Why does the sidebar have to be so large? This is another factor reducing the space available for our articles. The sidebar could easily be reduced to the monaco size and still function the same. So why?

3. Why are you limiting customization options? Each wiki should be unique to reflect its source material and yet you are taking out the ability to do so. Once again why?

To give you an example of the limited content space. I will give you an example from the Bleach wiki where I edit the most. This came from one of our admins and deals with our main character Ichigo Kurosaki's page. "Ok did some measurements and this is what i came up with. Mind you scale it to your own computer screen as I am using mine. 13 in

Current Monaco skin: Page Width: 13 in; Left Bar: roughly 2 in; Page Width for content: 11 in; Infobox: roughly 3 in; Unused Space: none, not counting the 2in taken up by the left bar.

Preposed Oasis skin: Page Width: 9 in; Right Bar: roughly 3 in; Page Width for content: 6 in; Infobox: 2 1/4 in; Unused Space: roughly 2in each side of the centered content.

In this skin the right bar takes up about 3 in out of the total page width of 9 in leaving you with 6 in for content and we are supposed to believe that this is better for reading. In light of that the font size is scaled down a level because of the cramped conditions of the text. So basically no longer is the bar out of the way on its own but now taking up much needed content space. Its quite clear that according to whatever staff member that came up with this idea content was less important then whatever they were attempting and any attempt to suggest otherwise is a blatant lie. How else would you explain taking away content space and giving no option to control the width.

Also just for a general note, the we (the admin) dont like it at all. As I mentioned below the amount of information on the sight will have to be changed along these lines.

We can all look at the main page and take out the recent manga and anime on the right as well as the poll. In the center portion you take away everything to the right of the C in the word Bleach. That will be what is left of the main page. so the current organization will have to go.

Then go to Ichigo's page and take out the infobox as it takes up precious space so its gotta go. 95% of the personality section, AS arc, SS arc, arrancar arc, HM arc and FKT arc will need to be deleted as will most of the pics on the page. The powers and abilities section will need to be summarized down significantly and placed in paragraph format and all the pics in the section will most likely have to go. This will be similar for all character pages."

I am trying to be civil but you are not making it very easy. If you could please just address these things, most of us would stop being so disrespectful and would stop complaining so much