Last Friday, the wikia-l mailing list announced these changes: - Articles will have ads in the content area. - No ads on talk pages or user pages. - Logged-in users will see one 300x250px ad at the top right. - Where ad would disrupt a table, it will render as a banner. - Main page will change to accommodate a 300x250 ad. - Monaco skin (modified) will be shown for anonymous users. - Logged-in users can choose skin. - Rolling out over next few weeks, starting Tuesday.
I couldn't see much more info than what I have summarised above, but if you want to read the hostile feedback from admins of large wikis, see "Wikia's New Style" at: http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/wikia-l/2008-June/thread.html A slightly expanded version of my summary is at: http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia's_New_Style The talk page on the above redirects to a forum with more hostile reactions, some of which are extremely well written. Clearly we will wait and see what happens. I didn't notice any mention of the type of ads, or what anonymous users will see. If ads are animated, we'll have to try to move our wiki elsewhere IMHO. John _______________________________________________ Vim-l mailing list Vim-l@wikia.com http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/vim-l
