User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-24416108-20150115185018

I want to give the Wikia a word of advice.

For testing purposes, try and find volunteers, which will have the skin enabled(by preferences?), which will have it on every wiki they visit. That way, you can test without the entire community having trouble or a "what the h*** happened here" moment.

Also, once perfected, you could offer it as an option instead of a forced change. After all, options are good. idc if it's the default skin or not, but make it optional. It isn't that hard, and literally no more than ~12 different bytes at page load, maybe another 15 minutes of programmer time to add it to the preferences.