Hi everyone,
I have what may be an early "Winter holidays" present for many of you...
We've been working on a new look for Wikia based on both the positive
and negative feedback we've gotten on the V1 and V2 skins. We know the
effort it takes for you to adjust to these skins but we think we've hit
the right balance based on all the feedback. To recap, the biggest
criticisms we received were:
* don't push the article too far down the page (V1)
* the right-hand sidebar is too wide (V1/V2)
* we want something more like Monobook (V1/V2)
With that input, we built a V3 that we believe addresses your concerns
while still including the things that will help us grow the site:
* a left-hand sidebar
* a wider article space
* more like Monobook
* incorporate the features from V2 that are working
* browsing behavior via top content and the more prominent
search box are up (V2).
* search suggest is useful for visitors (~30% of all searches
use it... on some wikis 70%).
* we still believe giving the community more visibility is the
right thing to do.
In doing this, however, we had to make one big trade-off. The only way
to reduce the width of the right sidebar was to remove our best
performing ad size (some of the ad networks will only buy that size).
So... we need you to understand that the box ad format is good for the
long-term health of Wikia and, while taking it off 99.99% of pages, we
don't want to get rid of it entirely but rather only show it on the main
page of each wiki since that one page still gets a decent amount of
traffic. This is shown as a "featured media" box on one of the mockups.
I'm including some mockups that show you what we've been working on. In
addition, there's a new forum topic on it here:
http://inside.wikia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=141
Thanks,
John Q.
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