User blog comment:Yyp/New Wikia Skin:What we can expect?/@comment-44061-20100925192929

Ok did some measurements and this is what i came up with. Mind you scale it to your own computer screen as I am using mine. 13 in

Current Monaco skin: Page Width: 13 in; Left Bar: roughly 2 in; Page Width for content: 10 in; Infobox: roughly 3 in; Unused Space: none, not counting the 2in taken up by the left bar.

Preposed Oasis skin: Page Width: 9 in; Right Bar: roughly 3 in; Page Width for content: 6 in; Infobox: 2 1/4 in; Unused Space: roughly 2in each side of the centered content.

In this skin the right bar takes up about 3 in out of the total page width of 9 in leaving you with 6 in for content and we are supposed to believe that this is better for reading. In light of that the font size is scaled down a level because of the cramped conditions of the text. So basically no longer is the bar out of the way on its own but now taking up much needed content space.