User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-1073312-20101020174100/@comment-1899984-20101025203649

Again, despite the fact that I have done so with Monaco, for a Wikia, where it was entirely unnecessary to do so, for a game that would be near impossible to play with the resolutions they claim they have made this fixed width for, why should I have to reconstruct my entire site? I may as well move to another wikifarm, where I can do things the way I want, as is one of the key ideas of a wiki.

Other than that, I've seen "points" made (by both users like you and the Wikia staff) that contradict each other regarding the fixed width being for larger screens and for smaller screens. Yet at the same time, I've heard complaints from users who have both small screens, notebooks, laptops and those with portrait, widescreen, large, etc. screens that things are too cramped and screwed up.

Let's revisit the whole WoWWiki thing, every single gaming wikia made within the last few years falls under the same reasons that they stated the WoWWiki recieved such special treatment for yet, we still get snubbed?

If people were having issues, they should've gotten in contact with those who designed those templates. Forcing a width on us for such a stupid reason as "templates were too big.....for some people" as an excuse to destroy wikis where this wasn't the case (pretty much every gaming wiki) is absurd and completely unacceptable.

So, yet again, I shall ask, why does a Wiki about a game that was realized 6 years ago get special treatment because most of it's users use widescreen monitors (or so they claim) gets a wider space to work with yet, other gaming wikis, let's say mine (FFXIV Wiki), which are about a game that came out LAST MONTH, get a big "screw you" from this change?

Final: There is no rhyme or reason to get rid of Monaco so suddenly, as the staff is going to "assess our decisions over the next few months". Simply leave it as an option UNTIL such a time as they are done "assessing". If you want to re-argue the most absurd argument that Monaco would degrade much faster than Monobook does if left un-updated, refer to the prior regarding keeping it around only a few more months, un-updated, rather than getting rid of it completely so suddenly.