User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-75.71.39.16-20101004015226

A Reposting of the Wiki Declaration of Independence (In My Own Words):

We, the Users of Wikia, and the main source of content, content which leads to revenue, would like to declare our independence from tyranny, most specifically the way that a new skin is being enforced upon us. We declare that all are created equal, be they Staff, Anonymous, or Registered Editors. It has been found by many of those latter two groups that the new skin is an abomination, and in this document would like to set forth our complaints, and point out that if nothing is to be done about them, the penalty will many users leaving, along with many of our wikis. These complaints include, but are not limited to, those listed below:

Advertising Schemes, Reduced Content Space, A Section of Popular Blog Posts being necessary, A Mandatory Photo Gallery, Mandatory Article Comments, A Page of Recent Activity that serves no purpose, A Bar on the Top of the Page, The Similarity of Wikis to Blog Sites, and, last but not least, the Continuous Refusal of The Staff to Listen to Users.

In every stage of the staff's abuses of us, we have bonded together. To express our anger, we have used art. We have used prose. We have used poetry, and along with these elegant forms of expression have spoken in words easily decipherable to the common man.

Have we not suffered for this new design? Have we not repeatedly listed our grievences to a staff that is unwilling to listen to any complaints from the users, whom they find below them? Have we not repeatedly told them of the AWA, told them of how wikis are leaving, and otherwise shown the unhappiness wrought by the decision to switch to Oasis?

We have done all that was listed in the previous paragraph, and it has all been to no avail. As such, we, the editors, solemnly declare that all wikis have the right to use whatever format we choose. As this is our right, we take it upon ourselves to destroy the bonds of this tyranny, and build our wikis in Monaco if that is our choice.