User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-13918697-20141212003701

I've looked at many wikis in Wikia and, other than page color, many of them have little or no distinguishing original styles. Many of them have home pages so overcrowded with text and boxes that the feel you get from them is of a visual desperation. My wiki, for one, does have a unique design. It also has an across-the-board formatting standard in place for creating pages and adding image files so that it retains a consistent style regardless of who creates and/or edits a page. Not only has this rule of thumb made it an attractive wiki, it has maintained the integrity of the wiki. It is a wiki that has received many compliments.

My wiki, the Lost Girl Wiki, was founded in September 2010 -- more than four years ago. As the admin and bureaucrat of the wiki, I want to be able to select the font size that complements the design of my wiki. And I do not want the latest layout rabbit pulled out of Wikia's hat to ruin the labor and creativity that has been put into creating a unique and outstanding wiki.

If Wikia wants to continue to profit from the myriad of actively involved users that produce the reason for attracting advertisers to this site and earning revenue from them -- it needs to give wiki founders, bureaucrats, and administrators some flexibility in what is done with the nuts and bolts of their individual wikis.

If Wikia doesn't, all wikis and their users will become the soap dropped during Wikia staff's communal shower.