User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-98221-20110927044558/@comment-1401334-20110927052741

I agree that having the avatar on pages would squash messages too much. This is especially important when I'm demonstrating chunks of wiki-code or templates for another person. In such cases, we need all the width that the squashed oasis pages can allow.

Perhaps (if Wikia does go through with this change) they should include buttons that will allow viewers to expand message content to cover the avatar space.