User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-22418-20101001033332

Hi Susan, thanks for you explanation.

I agree that fixed-width layout is a good thing, but 670 pixels are not enough. Why not 1280-300=980 pixels.

As I see different wikis in oasis skin (as a beta tester), Oasis is currently very good for small pages (~ almost all on Healthy_Recipes_Wiki, for example), but a big page (~50 K) becomes really long. Also, tables with many columns easily crash.

I believe that by increasing article space (by additional 200-250 pixels) you'll get more community support for Oasis. It's a good skin, people just don't like the way in which it is presented to them (extremely restrictive TOS changes etc.).