Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24302820-20140924103835

Do not use this layout.

You will get a blank page. On everything. On every single Wikia site. That makes changing your preferences back, or even searching for help. Said search, by the way, gets lots and lots of lotions, spas, and video games. Because Wikia. That's why you get page after page of video game hits.

I had a Hell of a time trying to work around this.

And by 'blank page' I mean pretty damned blank. It's as plain and white as a snowstorm. Even when checking the page's source it only showed a single blank nothingness.

After several hours of fruitless searching, I stumbled across a solution. Add ?useskin=wikia after the URL. ?useskin=monobook works as well, but the primary default skin is the Wikia one, and I don't imagine that anyone prefers Monobook.

You may have to clear out all cookies as well. That involves closing out every tab with any Wikia site open. Any at all; close them completely. Get rid of every cookie with 'wikia' in its name. Then you can do the parsing trick.

The first thing you need to do is change your skin/layout back. Go to http://midian.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Preferences?useskin=wikia first. Type (or paste) that into the browser in its entirety before entering. Even after you've changed your preferences back it might still grief you for a while. I had to resave my preferences a few times before it stuck. It still showed the proper layout choice, but still returned blank pages.

So don't use Venus. 