Forum:Your First Look at the New Wikia (discussion)

Reminder: the team is only watching the blog for comments and feedback. If you want your comments read by staff, leave them there. 16:34, 17 August 2010

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 * User blog:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia
 * File:LoggedIN for blogpost.jpg
 * File:LoggedOUT for blogpost.jpg (talk)
 * User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/Peteparker-20100817170309/Sannse-20100818003612
 * Yes, we tried a right hand navigation with Quartz. That version just didn't work well. We think this horizontal navigation, above the article, is much more comfortable to use.
 * In response to this.
 * User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/Bentendo-20100817195623/Sannse-20100818005220
 * No, on the prototype it's just the top three categories that show.
 * -- In response to this: A few (important) pages on my Wiki have several categories (up to twenty). They won't all appear at the top of the page, will they?
 * User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/Fandyllic-20100817225651/Sannse-20100818005728
 * We'll be adding to that over time... we just wanted to get the obvious first questions in there to start with.
 * -- In response to: "The FAQ is pretty weak."
 * User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/Bobofango-20100817235426/Sannse-20100818010057
 * You'll still be able to customize the colors to suit your wiki.
 * User_blog_comment:Sannse/Your_First_Look_at_the_New_Wikia/Sarah_Manley-20100818012916
 * Wikia’s new look - FAQ
 * Wikia’s new look - User Qs
 * Forum:Wikia’s new look - User questions

Discussion
Make sure to read: User blog:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia and Wikia’s new look - FAQ

If comments to this blog entry are the way Wikia gets feedback, that sucks. However, I like the clean look of the new design. It is hard to tell much from a screenshot, though.

I'm hoping they have a good transition plan from Monaco long before the roll out. We'll see.

Comments? Speculation? Any beta testers out there? -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:37 AM PST 17 Aug 2010
 * I hope monobook's still going to be available -- Random Time  17:25, August 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * What's the fixed width of the article space? Duskey ( talk ) 17:36, August 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * That question can only be answered by Wikia Staff or maybe beta testers. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 2:54 PM PST 17 Aug 2010


 * The "clean" look is the "look, ma, no ads" look. Get your 300x400 flash ad on the sidebar and a fixed banner across the bottom, attached to the toolbar (this is mere speculation on my part), and it it's going to look a lot less enticing.
 * This skin wins if it validates with less xhtml errors than Monaco does.
 * I'll not be applying for the beta. I've left detailed feedback on new features for Wikia in the past, and I found the rewards to not be worth it. -- ◄mendel► 22:38, August 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * I guess mendel's last sentence is a word to the wise. We'll see if Wikia has learned any lessons from the Monaco experience. I suspect their tactic will be "the less information, the better" so we can't complain, having been left mostly in the dark. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 11:10 PM PST 17 Aug 2010

Astroturf or audience partcipation?
The people who posted comments to the blog today between 6:30 and 9:00 were SawBucks, JohnnyLightning, Chicken7, Thebrains222, Gebezis, Richmond2010, Pip25, Gourleyo, Gluetube365, Ldude893, Technobliterator, timmah911. Of these 12, Special:Editcount counts at least 7 with no more than max. 3 contributions, all of them on this wiki, all of them in User blog Comment:. If these are bona fide readers and not sockpuppets, getting them to voice their opinion is quite an achievement. --80.228.212.39 13:44, August 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * For the record, a global talk page message went out yesterday linking to the blog. Everyone had the opportunity to see it and post a comment without actually having to be on Central to find out about it. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 18:37, August 18, 2010 (UTC)