User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-76.116.8.166-20101005063458

So here's the thing. All of this is based on a flawed premise that Wikia is a website, which has a community. It isn't. It is -many- websites, which each have their own particular community. There is bleedover between them, certainly, but that can be said of any webring. Heck, there's bleedover between the community of Wikipedia and other non-Wikia wikis and Wikia wikis. That has less to do with Wikia and more to do with users who are used to wikis.

Now, if you're willing to accept my premise that each wiki is a community unto itself (and I understand that you're skeptical; you have a corporate model and everything, but I assure you that I'm right and you're wrong), it should pretty naturally follow that the leaders of each of those communities -know what's best for their community-. You want more advertising and more cross-wiki linking, fine, you're a business, you need to make money, but let the communities figure out how to apply that to their particular wikis.

Viva la Monobook.