The Drax Cave/Darwin is here!

As you may have heard if you've spent any time at Community Central, Wikia are moving to a different iteration of the main skin. We might call it Wikia 2.0, but Wikia have labelled the project Darwin.

The idea is to force content to the fore by making the content area expand and contract depending on the size of your window. This should make the experience of Wikia a whole lot easier on the eyes than the current fixed-width approach. It should especially help people who are on iPads and laptops — as well as those who have the luxury of much larger screens.

Those of you who were around for the adoption of the Wikia skin might remember the that one of the bones of contention was around this very issue. Monobook had been — and still is! — a free-flowing skin, but Wikia wasn't.

Darwin, and especially this free-flowing component code-named Fluid, offers an answer to these criticisms, while still giving helpful boundaries, so that pages can't be warped out of all recognition.

Eventually, all Wikia wikis will move to Darwin. But I've asked for early adoption just so that we can help Wikia troubleshoot some of the kinks before the 50th anniversary kicks in. So please, take a look around the joint. Stretch windows wide. Pull 'em narrow. See if things look weird. If they do, come back here and give a link to the problematic page so that we can examine what's going wrong. This will give useful feedback to Wikia so that any problems we encounter might be incorporated into the final product.

Not only will Tardis admin staff be watching this page and making appropriate changes, but Wikia Staff will be lurking around, too. So please: speak up and speak often!

Let's get the Tardis lookin' great for the anniversary!