User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-1656767-20100913210344/@comment-1656767-20100917010606

I have been reading the history of wikia. Editors were even more angry about the monaco change, and it went through. See the "wikia" wikipedia footnotes  for more details.

As sannse mentions, there has always been a skin exception for uncyclopedia. They were exempt from the monaco skin and will be exempt from this skin. I suspect they must have a lot of clout and influence that other wikias such as Ghostbusters and the wikias I edit clearly lack. I wonder if some of the other largest wikias would get exemptions too if they spoke up. Like the star wars wikipedia (4th largest according to wikipedia) or the world of warcraft wikia.