[Wikia-l] quick update...

[JohnQ]

Hi everyone,

Two things I wanted to cover quickly.

1. A while ago we talked about a new skin that we were developing and 
showed some screen shots... that skin (Monaco) is now ready for rollout 
and can be previewed here: http://communitytest.wikia.com (keep in mind 
it's a test site... not much interesting content). Go to 
http://communitytest.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Preferences to select one of 
the Monaco skins. On Monday, we'll be enabling this so that it is in 
everyone's preferences on all wikis ... we'd appreciate getting your 
feedback all through next week before we start enabling this as the 
default on more wikis. One nice feature is the ability to build your own 
personal sidebar by creating a user sub-page. You can check out more on 
how to customize the Monaco skin here: 
http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Monaco_Skin_Customization .

2. As part of the work on this skin, the underlying widget framework was 
rewritten to be smaller and faster. Unfortunately, this meant we had to 
reset the list of widgets... so if you had dropped any on your sidebar, 
you'll need to pull those down again. http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Widgets

You can see a list of new features (both released and about to be 
released) here: http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/What%27s_New

Thanks,
John Q.