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

Here is the size difference in the new "improvement". Two times more of your wikis are going to be taken up with these new bars.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100914002936/dead-rising/images/c/c0/Twice_the_size.png

Notice the original side by side with the new bars.

I signed up for beta testing and just tried out the new skin, it is terrible, absolutely terrible. The toolbar is gone, replaced with irrelevant advertising which takes up a larger part of the screen on the right side. I have no idea how to do many of the things I did before without the side and toolbar.

At least when wikipedia started with a new skin which most veteran editors hated, they gave editors the choice to revert back.

How is completely changing the format to a completely alien system different than mediawiki and wikipedia going to help wikia?

Is there some kind of arbitration committee or head of wikia we can appeal too? Is their any precedents where wikia made radically unpopular changes and were forced to revert them because of their unpopularity? If so, what case and when? What did they do? I am not familiar with the bureaucratic history of wikia.

Why are wikia bureaucrats continuing to alienate their most dedicated editors with heavy handed changes?