User blog comment:Yyp/New Wikia Skin:What we can expect?/@comment-1906999-20100926223228

I'll add my perspective as a non-expert editor. I messed around on the Red Dead Wiki for a little while and here are my impressions.

First off, the side bar. It's a little awkward with it on the right, but that's not very important. That's something I could easily get used to in a week or so. The main problem I have with it is that it's big. REAL big. It could probably be a third of it's size and still function just as well. And then it only goes a short distance, which leaves the article with only about 2/3 of the width of the page. I could see that being a problem here, seeing as how long some of our articles are (i.e. Ichigo's). I don't think it would affect the actual article other than making it look a lot longer than it already does.

As far as looks go, it's pretty good. It looks a lot sleeker than the current system. I like having the links currently on the left side up top, but I'm not to familiar with the RD wiki, so I can't really comment on whether it's better or worse. I wish we could test it on our wiki, then I could give a little better interpretation of it.

The Wiki banner at the top is bad. Again, it's much too big for my tastes. I don't know about others, but I rarely switch from the Wiki I'm currently on to others, so I like the current system. Just having a small tab in the top left corner is a lot more favorable to me.

The toolbar at the bottom could be useful if implemented in the right way, but how it is now, it's kind of useless to someone like me. Moderate users aren't really going to have a use for it. I looked through the different tools we could add, and I don't think I would use any of them, which would make it more wasted space on my page.

I've skimmed some of the other posts, and it looks like others share some of my feelings. i don't care for it that much, but it's nothing that's earth-shattering-ly bad. If this went into effect, I don't think it would change my editing habits severely, but it would take some getting used to.

So to sum it up, I'd much rather prefer to keep the current layout, but if we did switch, I'd learn how to work with it. Hope I could help =)