Forum:Wikia's New Skin

Wikia is making some changes to the Monaco skin (which is what the HPW uses by default now). The changes are outlined here and there is a discussion occuring here. The Community Test Wiki is currently using the style if you would like to preview it. What it does pretty much is move the content panel (including from like the edit button all the way down) up to the top bar. Then the ad that is there is pushed into the content as either a banner of a box of the top right of the page. The main page will also have this ad on the top right. There are no changes being made to Monobook/Quartz if you use those.

I would suggest using Firefox (if you don't already) with the AdBlock Plus add-on and then subscribing (its free, don't worry) to EasyList, EasyElement and ABP Tracking Filter. That should insure you do not see the ads.

It seems there is a similar extension for Internet Explorer here. (Note: I have never used this so cannot vouch for it in any way.)

These changes go live TOMORROW so hopefully Wikia will reconsider some of its changes by then, but for now this is the situation. If you have any questions we'll try to answer them as best as we can, or you can ask directly on Wikia's forum (linked above). -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 15:34, 9 June 2008 (UTC)