The ad will essentially act the way that an image or an infobox does, moving things on the right down a step. That will affect page design, and communities will have to look at the new format and decide how they want to adjust. Some wikis may decide that they want to change the way they approach certain templates or infoboxes.
Luckily, these are wikis, so everybody gets to help with whatever adjustments need to be made. Personally, as someone who works on wikis all the time, it took a while for me to get used to the new format. Initially, I had the same kind of gut response -- I liked the way things were, and I really didn't want them to change. Now that I've been working with the new format for a while, it's not really as much of a change as I thought. It's still just one ad, but it's in the right corner rather than spread across the top. The first part of the change is going to happen on Tuesday -- the edit bar will move up, and the ads will start appearing on article pages. Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing how wikis adapt to the new format. Wiki people are great at figuring out design tricks -- and when one wiki comes up with a good idea, it can spread to others very quickly. It'll be interesting to see what happens. -- Danny Danny Horn User:Toughpigs Community Development Manager, Wikia On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Greyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Except that the ad, if I'm understanding the pictures correctly on Central, > are going to (from some users' perspectives) drastically alter the layout of > existing articles with infobox-type templates aligned right. > > Greyman > > > 2008/6/6 George Pribul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Note that only the main page will have the fixed width design - all other >> pages will be full browser width as normal, with no requirements to change >> designs. >> >> Kirkburn / George Pribul >> WoWWiki admin, Wikia helper >> >> 2008/6/6 Gaylin Walli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> I have to say that of all the changes, this is the on that distresses >>> me the most. It means an entire revamp of the design of nearly all our >>> article pages. I am, to put it mildly, incredibly angry and sad about >>> this change. >>> >>> With incredible regrets, >>> >>> Kodia Tomekeeper >>> Senior Admin, EQ2i >>> >>> On Jun 6, 2008, at 1:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> > Article pages will have ads in the content area. Logged-in users >>> > will only see one ad unit on article pages -- a 300x250 ad unit at the >>> > top right. (On pages where a 300x250 ad would disrupt a table, the ad >>> > will render as a banner ad) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikia-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l >> > > > > -- > Greyman > http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Greyman > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l >
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