User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-1613840-20100818012916/@comment-8072-20100818020325

"As we developed the above prototype, we combed through stats, emails to staff, and user testing results" - And, based on input from the community, you discovered that an entirely new mandatory skin was necessary, not an opt-in/opt-out one?

I'd say this "record-breaking" comments section is a testament to that being quite inaccurate.