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Sir Pikmin – TALK – Tuesday, May 7, 2024 If you have been on the Community Central Wikia lately you will notice that they are changing how Wikia looks. And it's not just some optional thing, it's mandatory for everyone. There will not be an option to change back to Monaco, it's permanent. Now after all of almost every wikis' hard work in making a unique and cool custom skin, it's going down the drain and getting removed from existence. And the worst part is that they are acknowledging that nearly everyone who has commented on it hated it, and they do nothing about it! Now I know that a regular non-admin user might not realize why I'm mad, because they have not done anything with MediaWiki and the skins. I personally have put over 10 hours in customizing the various Monaco skin features, and now they are going to be wasted! </rant> Ok then, what do you all feel about the new skin change?

This sucks, especially since Greenpickle and Blueninjakoopa were testing out a sweet new skin for he Kirby Wikia. --User:Gamefreak75/Sig

Sir Pikmin – TALK – Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Yeah, I know. I was going to maybe get a list of users on this wiki that didn't like the new Wikia style and then add them to the ever-growing list on the comments of the blog announcing it. Can I add you to my list?

Yes! --User:Gamefreak75/Sig

Volatile Dweevil – TALK – Time: {{{2}}} Count me in!!! P.S.-Maybe we could bribe or torture convince one of the wikia staff members to keep ours, Pikipedia's and the Kirby Wiki's skin in the original Monaco style.

Volatile Dweevil – TALK – Time: {{{2}}} I sent the following message to wikia today. I will continue to message them every day and will post my messages on this forum once I have written them. This is the first and most polite message, sent on August 25th: I know that the members of Pikipedia (pikmin.wikia.com), the Pikmin Fanon Wiki (pikminfanon.wikia.com), the Kirby Wiki (kirby.wikia.com), and several other wikis would like to keep our Monaco skins. We are fully aware that certain members of the wikia staff are fully capable of allowing us this and we would really appreciate if you strongly considered our request. If you are not convinced we will send you a petition signed by a large number of users from these wikis and the ones listed below. Other Wikis that would like to keep the Monaco skin: pikminideas.wikia.com swb.wikia.com Several other wikis will probably want to do this as well, but remember, we took the trouble to email you and we will be persistent on this problem until it is solved. Thank you for your compliance, Volatile Dweevil

Template:Swear! I hate it! The worst thing about it Almost all of the wikias will look the same.Pikness34,.The Researcher Of Fate

Do almost all of the wikia wikis look the same now? --Yoshord 16:01, August 26, 2010 (UTC)

This SUUUUUUCKS *sniffle* D;< john says, "wooferwoof1 is good for your health!" 16:19, August 26, 2010 (UTC)

I give up... Wikia staff members ignore us... In my eyes, we have only two options now.

1. Live with the new style (we could do this, albeit with much frustration)
2. Relocate (this might not be such a bad idea, though, if wikia continues to make bad updates)

• • To do this we could set up our own independent wiki and join NIWA.

I do not think NIWa accepts fan-made wikis. --User:Gamefreak75/Sig

My wiki is screwedPikness34,.The Researcher Of Fate

Sir Pikmin – TALK – Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Ok guys, all is not lost. What we have to do is get a large number of people to make the Wikia staff believe that we can go elsewhere easily. While technically this is true for this wiki (My site says hello) since I can easily add a Wiki app to the site, other Wikis aren't so lucky. We all just have to send differing emails to Wikia via Special:Contact and hope it does something. Wikia isn't just going to let most of its user-base walk away, they will eventually at least give us a non-BS reason for the skin change. I believe we can win here, but it requires coordination between us. And to all of the regular users I am going to send out an important email soon maybe answering some questions you may have about a particular badge set.... Or not. It appears only Peanut and I have our emails available here on Wikia, meaning I can't send it out to everyone. I do know that at least a couple of you do have emails, an example is right on this page. If you do have one, and enable it for just one day to be public that would be great. On another note you can still contact Wikia if your email is private, in case you want to file any complaints.

I am convinced that the Wikia's advertising department is certain that their new format will be so inviting to new members that they could double their users overnight even if all the old members left. I doubt that their mind could be changed by mere "I'm leaving and everyone else will too!" --Yoshord 02:36, August 28, 2010 (UTC)

Contrarily, are you actually beta-testing right now? Have you seen this skin? Is it really so bad that you feel the need to mass-organize a revolt so that you won't need to spend another five hours modifying the new skin to have a grassy background? Is it in the slightest worth it? --Yoshord 03:34, August 28, 2010 (UTC)

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