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I like the mobile version of Wikipedia, I find it more legible even on the desktop. Comparison: New design: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Accueil_princ... Mobile version: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Accueil_princ...
I hope it goes in that direction.
I can share my userstyle on demand, looks similar and like this: https://i.imgur.com/jUhG107.png
Sticky menu, hidden sidebar on the left (mouse over reveals it and language switch moved to top). I just pulled it from stylish.org because of their malicious add-on.
The mobile site on desktop has fantastic UX. The m-wiki chrome extension smoothly redirects you to the mobile version every time. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/m-wiki/ibnmikddaop...
If someone asked me to critique the UX of Wikipedia, the first two things I’d point out would be that I almost never use the left hand side bar (and I have a feel almost no one does) and that when paragraphs are that wide they become harder to read (especially when they snake around floated images). Not changing for 10 years, watching as some trends fade and others become law-of-the-land, and then making two changes…
> I almost never use the left hand side bar (and I have a feel almost no one does) The left sidebar has two killer features for me: 1. Finding canonical translations for technical terms. You need to know what the standard way to translate "hardware acceleration" or "differentiable manifold" is in French? Go to the wikipedia page and hover over the language switcher link in the left sidebar. Done. This has become one…
I have claustrophobia, and having text forced into narrow columns actively triggers it. Taking a look at the Basque Wikipedia, I can tell right here that it's completely unusable for me. I'm willing to pay real money for someone to write me a script to override it.
If I host my own mediawiki, will the fixed line length be enabled automatically, or do I have to configure something? I've deployed 1.34.2, but lines still seem to span the entire screen.
It should be the same, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in Special:Preferences (at least, it is for me in 1.35rc3). I haven't found a setting to make that the default, however.
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Well, it's secret on mobile. I had the same problem - I wanted to switch languages on mobile wikipedia, but the page appears to provide no way to do that. Functionality that has been carefully designed so you won't find it isn't really an improvement over functionality that isn't there.
> Functionality that has been carefully designed so you won't find it The button is labeled 文A, which is quite common for translation service, and is just under an article title so it’s literally the most visible UI element. It’s difficult to make it more accessible than that...
This to me is a testament to the fact that most buttons should actually be text unless extremely common like the hamburger menu, but even that's debatable.
I don't know why they did that, now we have empty space on the left and right, it's really useless, why is it better than using the full screen? "Our second change introduces a maximum line width to our content on pages where reading is the focus, such as article pages and discussion pages. Research has shown that limiting the width can lead to better retention of the content itself, as well as a decrease in eye stra…
No it isn’t. There’s ample research showing that shorter lines are more readable. Check out the sources on this page for more details: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length
