User blog comment:Dopp/Giving User Profiles Some Love/@comment-166269-20110706215601

It would help those of us on Monobook if you changed the links to the example profile styles to explicitly state "?useskin=wikia", so we don't have to manually add that bit to the URL ourselves. ;)

While I appreciate how you guys want to respect those of us on Monobook by preserving the experience, that doesn't necessarily mean that we don't want some of the new features you've been developing recently - Chat, for instance, is every bit as useful for Monobook users as Wikia skin users, and making us jump through the extra hoop of adding a bit to the URL to use it doesn't exactly encourage us to do so. Instead of simply excluding Monobook from these updates, perhaps it would be better to ask Monobook users if they'd like these features on the Monobook skin, and if so, if they have any suggestions for how the features should look?

Now, on to the actual content of the blog post. I'm hardly calling this optimal, but whenever I contribute to a Wikia wiki, one of the first things I tend to do is interclude my Community Central profile page to my profile page on that wiki - this saves me the trouble of endlessly re-iterating myself, as well as allowing me to be able to update all these pages with an edit to only one. If you guys could turn this into an officially-supported, built-in aspect of profiles (perhaps with the option of defining a wiki of your choosing as the "source" wiki), there would probably be many more people making use of it.