The Sims Wiki:New skin

It's official: we have only until the new skin (nicknamed Oasis) will be mandatory. This page exists to coordinate the efforts of as we transition into the new skin. This page (and its associated discussion page) does not exist to complain about these changes, to suggest moving off Wikia, or to suggest ideas for circumventing the new skin.

Initiatives
This page will take a communication-based, administration-guided approach to revising nearly all pages on the wiki. Our initiatives will fall into a few main categories:

If you have used the new skin at all, and have looked at many of our articles, you have likely noticed the decrease in space for article content. In articles which contain infoboxes - a lot of them do - this decrease in room is even more apparent. As a community, we need to decide what to do with these infoboxes, or how we can more naturally place the information to fit the reduced space. This portion should be fully discussed before any implementation is carried out. A topic will be open on the discussion page for full discussion.
 * Revision of article style

When using the new skin, you will notice that the sidebar navigation - those pop-out menus located on the left side of all pages - are no longer there. Instead, four drop-down menus have been placed at the top of pages. Those menus are each limited to seven items, meaning that it is difficult to determine what things from the sidebar nav were carried over, and which ones had to go. You can weigh in on your ideas for navigation on the discussion page.
 * Navigation

Bleeh and a handful of other administrators have been tinkering with the appearance of under the new skin. In order to perfect the new theme, feedback and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 * Themes and styles

Under the new skin, there are minor issues regarding aesthetics on the main page. Aside from this, it is likely that with the reduced navigation capabilities of the top-menu over the sidenav, we are going to need to add more navigability to the main page, so that it links to many other places. Please chime in with any suggestions you may have.
 * Main Page

News and Blogs
The staff here at have been trying to keep the community as up-to-date as possible on the transition into the new skin. There are a few blogs written specifically to discuss this subject - they are listed below, from newest (top) to oldest (bottom):

  The Sims Wiki News box date Blog posts/New Skin more...

More postings will likely be added to this list as we progress towards the new skin.