[Wikia-l] Monobook Wikia internal advertise

[Mindaugas Indriunas]

The main thing that discourages me from using is knowing that other
visitors won't not see a Wikipedia-like "Monobook" or "Standard" skin
when they visit a wiki for the first time.

My experience is this:

- I think of writing something on Wikia, so I come,
- Frequently my intent is to write something so that I could show to
other people, so that they could contribute.
- The best way to explain the principles of the site to the people I
know is to refer to the well-known Wikipedia,.. so I start wanting to
make the page look at least a little bit more Wikipedia-like.
- Then, after realizing that it's impossible, I give up thinking of
writing it at all.
...and thinking:

why on earth one need to pursue the unification of the style of wikis
accross the site?...

Is that some way of branding the site?

Does branding really matters so much as to require a full-blown skin
remake to be imposed accross the site without the choice to opt-out?

Inyuki

On 1/21/09, Cizaña <cizania at gmail.com> wrote:
> So when will wikia internal advertise will me remove? or preferable at least
> be move to another spot? I notice how it looks for uncyclopedia in monook
> and i like it that way and i dont see why not, due to the following reasons:
>
> A) Monobook is ''user'' only
> B) And users dont see comercial advertise (except in main pages).
>
> Or can something be move to that extra missed space? like the toolbox (this
> will be hard to get use to it) or wikias own news box or some kind of
> widgets
>
> Ciz
>


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Mindaugas Indriūnas (Inyuki/みんでぃ/明迪)
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