User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: October 11, 2011/@comment-3235402-20111012120252/@comment-3030984-20111012123658

As a fix, you can change the colour for your wiki with the following:

.WikiaSearch input.placeholder[type="text"] { color: #006CB0 !important; } .WikiaSearch input[type="text"]::-webkit-input-placeholder { color: #006CB0 !important; }

Just change the colour hex.