Forum:I want an explanation

Can anyone care to refresh my memory?

I want to know why the space is shortened for all Wikis to 640px, and is impossible to request Staff for an expanded space, or illegal to modify space for articles, asides from Wikia ToU violations.

And why was Community Corner a replacement for MediaWiki:Sitenotice. Community corner is obviously inferior to the sitenotice, as we can express our messages to the viewers sitewide. What technical reasons are there for the removal of these two things on Wikis? Why can't we just have options to get it back or switch between looks?

I want technical explanations and not your reasons for "Oooh, because that space are now for our ads". I want reasonable explanations.

Ever since these two features were gone, I only come here whenever Wikia makes another error in their system, and right now, they're introducing this white footer for advertising. As if most ads conquered most of our editing space? How can my wiki compete with other websites with "wider space" for innovative tables?

Also, don't tell me the "Every Website is going changes every year, live with it" crap. These "changes" lately in Wikia have all been very impractical.

And don't tell me the "Ohh, if you're ticked off about it, use another Wiki farm host and leave". As if that would work, and Wikia would never bother to delete a popular wiki. I don't want to hand our position to some random people. If I'm leaving this place and transferring to another wiki, we'd leave with our hardwork and content.

So please, just please. Valid and sane explanations for the removal of these two features.

-Head Explodes- Mckrongs 16:40, December 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * The sidebar is 300px because the ads are 300px. If it were any smaller, the ads wouldn't fit. The content area is 670px because the "page" width is 1000px (with 10px of padding on either side, plus 10px between the rail and the content). Why the page width is 1000px I don't know - it may have something to do with average screen resolutions. Sitenotice was replaced with Community Corner to encourage the use of WikiActivity, and because staff thought it would work just as well. This has since been shown to be practically wrong - Sitenotice is definitely superior in getting a message out to the editors of a wiki. However, to my knowledge, staff have no plans to replace Community Corner.
 * I would also like to point out that these are the valid reasons - you're free to use Special:Contact to try to solicit better ones, but you aren't likely to get any.