User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-1073312-20101020174100/@comment-1025281-20101026232655

If you can't list examples of my apparent hypocrisy, then stop accusing me of hypocrisy. If you do have examples, list them. You should stop trying to answer me by making accusations that you can't back up. I also note that hypocrisy means that I am not practising what I preach. I think I am practising exactly what I preach on my wikis. Perhaps you mean "fierce dissent".

I think you misunderstood the comment further below. Jedirogue does not refer to the look being cramped on smaller resolutions; he refers to it being "harder" to see. What he is actually referring to is that when you have a resolution under 1024 pixels wide, there is a scrollbar underneath the page, and not the full width of the page is shown. Since even netbooks generally have a resolution of 1024, this is rare case only applicable to older computers.

I am a bureaucrat and administrator on Avatar Wiki, if you are interested. I regularly template and use CSS that is applicable to what is necessary on a wiki. I am not ignorant of others' situations; I am frequently involved in the wider Wikia community and have helped out at a lot of other wikis, including gaming wikis. On the community forums here on Central, I help out on whenever I have the time, which has exposed me to a lot of different kinds of wikis and lot of different problems.

And you sound as though gaming wikis have a situation totally unlike others. This is untrue. Every wiki will use templates, and tables, and has an equal chance of having those stuffed up by a narrow fixed width if they are poorly designed. The issue is that those on gaming wikis have wider monitors (and yes, I do have one as well) and, often, they do not consider those computers who don't have such great monitors. And the statistics categorically demonstrate that at least a quarter have a resolution of just 1024 by 768, because they are either on a netbook or are using an old computer.