User blog comment:Yyp/New Wikia Skin:What we can expect?/@comment-1405841-20100929024843/@comment-1454424-20100929035328

Well this is the way I see it. Back in July I created a wiki for Giant Killing (I love this anime!). It has 51 pages and the most complete page is the page on the soccer football club (ETU) at the centre of the anime.

That wiki is new enough to adapt to the new skin. In fact, I was looking at the ETU page and realised that the narrow confines would just eliminate white space for most sections. Not that it doesn't have the text and image heavy history, current season etc sections, but I think the main change for that would be shorter paragraphs. Not reduced texts, no, no, the content would remain the same but the text would be distributed in shorted paragraphs.

But the main point is that, that wiki is new enough for that I think I can implement and make the new skin work and work reasonably well. However, problem here is that we have 1219 pages. now a lot of these won't need changing. But a bunch of them would. So at this point its really a matter of choice. Do we, as users and editors of Bleach Wiki,

1. Wait for the new skin and see what we can do with it? Remembering that Ichigo's page WAS supposed to undergo a text reduction because a lot of the information is now covered in the fight pages and the zangetsu information was supposed to be isolated out into its own page. I mean, it's not like we haven't gotten complaints that Ichigo's page is too long to be readable.

or

2. Start writing the bot that'll help us migrate to Shoutout

I guess what I am saying is that, as terrible as the fixed content area is, as terrible as the images having "added by" attribution is, with imagination and problem solving skills, we can work around them without losing content. I firmly believe we can do it. But are you guys willing to give it a go or just throw-up your hands and say it can't be done?