User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-93604-20100817232230

The trend in browsers is to consolidate toolbars, use fewer of them, and to make them narrower. More links in less space. A single, narrow toolbar with many drop-down menus is the way to go. This makes for more space for the content of a page.

For the same reason increasing the width of the sidebar is guaranteed to annoy many editors. It doesn't matter to me which side it is on. But most blogs give you a choice. Balance your need for ad space with editors' ability to jump ship to another wiki farm.

Wiki farms with integrated, interwiki watchlists will attract many editors to them, because each wiki will have the userbase of all other wikis. I suggest working on that more.