User blog:Herald of meridian/Imminent Changes on December 4! Wikia's Fluid Layout to Go Live Soon

Hello everyone! The Toaru Majutsu no Index Wiki is going as smoothly as ever, with content and readership steadily flowing through its 1,700+ pages. However, we are once more going to encounter big changes to the wiki, with the release of the fluid layout, replacing the one we have for some time now and integrating itself into the default Wikia skin, on December 4 as part of Project Darwin.

This is not the first time we had encountered reworks on the look and feel of wikis under Wikia. Remember that we started as a wiki that adopted the Oasis Skin for some time until Wikia changed up a lot of things and introduced the Wikia Skin as a default skin for all wikis in Wikia. (Let's just say that it was quite the transition period.) And with the Fluid layout to show up at the start of December, we will — inevitably — be reworking more things here.

For those who have just heard of this news, this is the time to be informed about Project Darwin and the changes in store for this wiki and many others (personally, I have to steel myself as well as an admin on multiple anime wikis). For starters, the Darwin Wiki (w:c:darwin) will allow users to view this new layout planned for extensive support for mobile devices, touch-interface devices included. There are also news of these new changes on Wikia Community Central (w:c:community), so please head there to know more.

There's no need to panic, everyone. As many Wikia Staff members have said, these changes aren't going to screw up our wiki really bad. We just have to prepare and adapt for these changes and we're fine.

For now, the best thing to do is to talk and discuss about our plans for the wiki as December 4 approaches.

Hopefully, by December 4, we'd be able to make the smooth transition to the fluid layout.

heraldofmeridian♣ 09:45, November 19, 2013 (UTC)