User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: September 18, 2012/@comment-26686429-20120918153307

I've bugged you guys before, but here we go again: The message "Please switch to the Wikia skin to access this feature." directs to special:Preferences, it could instead point to ?useskin=Wikia to temporarily switch the skin to Wikia so that the user can use the promote tool (the same could be said for Chat, wikifeatures and Wikiactivity).