User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-1996889-20100928202713/@comment-122657-20100928203055

They won't respond to it. They've said their user testing shows that people's eyes get tired reading long strings of text, so they're using the small content area to address that. It won't be changed, (until the new skin proves to be a failure and they lose serious money two months after implementation, like Quartz).