User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Drax Cave/@comment-188432-20140925205904

If you've been on Wikia for a while, you may know of the existence of a skin called "Monobook". Most — that is, 99% — of users never see it anymore, but there are still some power users who prefer it. The official Wikia position is that it's offered on an as-is basis, meaning that many new Wikia features don't necessarily work in the skin. A good example is Special:Chat, which doesn't at all work in Monobook.

Our local position is that it's a lower priority than Wikia, and indeed sometimes we forget about it. A few of our local innovations really aren't working in Monobook, but these are mainly just the main page and transmat pages. Otherwise, Monobook is a perfectly legible environment.

However, we do want to make sure it's as useful as possible. So if you do use Monobook, and you see things that are going dramatically wrong there, please leave us a message here, noting the page where you found the error and what you think a reasonable solution would be.

As Wikia do not officially support Monobook, I feel a need to stress that this is a service I'm offering as an admin of this site, not as a Wikia employee. It follows on in the tradition of a long-open discussion at Forum:Monobook styling continues and Forum:Monobook fans: read this.

Also, note that if you are a Wikia Star/Community Councillor, and you just can't stand the way our Monobook looks, we'll gladly give you admin access to fix up the joint to what you see as a reasonable standard of excellence for the Monobook skin.

Further, be advised that this wikia bypassed CSS development of Monobook, and — unusually for a 10-year-old wikia — began its CSS styling with the Oasis/Wikia skin. Monobook is very much a retrofit, so it would be churlish of us to be "precious" about that design.

So again, whether you want to take on the duties of a full redesign, or just want to offer feedback about a particular page that's not working, please put your comments below. Thanks :)