User blog comment:BertH/Layout and navigation updates coming October 3/@comment-3186827-20120919230613/@comment-168424-20120920000929

Hopefully Wikia will realize it is behind the times by restricting content width as much as it has. I believe the standard laptop screens (13" or greater; below is really a netbook) are now generally no less than 1280 pixels wide to match the HD 720p standard of 1280 by 720 pixels, so Wikia's 1030 "expansion" is still too little too late.

Also, since most tablets and smartphones use a special skin, restricting width for PCs doesn't make much sense.