User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: October 1, 2013/@comment-10875806-20131002201432

Appreciate the update, but a few concerns:

One of the tricks we use on our wiki when we have a table that is just a tad bit too big is throw it into a div that will push out into what is technically the wikirail space. Of course we make sure it is not overlapping the wikirail itself, but rather that it is far enough down the page to not interfere with each other, but I personally see it as an excellent use of the dead space on the page that appears when the wikirail has no more content to give (such as the space directly next to this comment --->)

With this update, all of those divs have now been clipped and will not show up over the dead space of the wikirail. When your table only needs to expand about 100-300 pixels outside of the 650 pixel boarder that the article gives you, I believe many users would agree that using this technique would actually be rather preferable, as apposed to forcing the readers to scroll the table to view the last few columns (and lose the header column for each row). In fact, I had actually tried putting tables into divs with scroll bars on them and my readers absolutely hated it. I thought it was a neat feature, but without the ability to freeze certain columns when you scroll, the feature quickly loses its finesse.

For now, is there any way to take back control of the dead space of the wikirail? Maybe for future updates to the Wikia software, the wikirail might have a vertical indicator as well, so once it ends, the article limit could expand to take up the full page (roughly 1000 pixels?), rather than stay limited to the 650 pixels an article general has throughout the entirety of the page.