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Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
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#22Gorgeous. How can I buy you a coffee?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://wikiless.org/ is probably what you are looking for. There are also extensions that automatically redirect Wikipedia links
The only difference I notice between this and Wikipedia is that I can't hover over a link and get a pop-up description of the page. Is that all or is there more to it?
From the README [0] and code, I'd wager that the only thing happening is that JS has been filtered out, that the CSP rules are significantly stricter and that a dark mode has been added.
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#24I am one of those people who actually like Wikipedia the way it is. It's what I hoped the web to become.
But i am sure there are people who will appreciate your effort. Thank you for your work.
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#25From the screenshot: I absolutely adore the positioning of the table of contents. The design looks clean, utilitarian, and overall well executed. That being said - and this is more a critique of modern design - I absolutely hate the suffocating roundness of the element corners. It's an aesthetic that drips with overfamiliarity and a patronizing attitude. It's the visual equivalent of being put in a padded room, or ha…
This reads like a Guardian album review, very colourful - thanks!
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#26From the screenshot: I absolutely adore the positioning of the table of contents. The design looks clean, utilitarian, and overall well executed. That being said - and this is more a critique of modern design - I absolutely hate the suffocating roundness of the element corners. It's an aesthetic that drips with overfamiliarity and a patronizing attitude. It's the visual equivalent of being put in a padded room, or ha…
As a person who designs web applications to look somewhat modern because that's what is now-days expected, whenever critics go to such extreme similes about modern web design and their hatred for it... it's such an extreme opinion I tune them out entirely. You can't cater to radicals.
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#27OP, thanks for making this, I bet it was fun to build. That being said, I want someone to do the opposite of what this does. Less chrome, less bytes over the wire, less predictive search, less "flatness?", less timely, more timeless .
Hear hear. I wish more sites were like HN - more text/information density, less CSS magic, less JS.
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#28Thanks the UI is great. I don't know why but since at least a year we have a new design on the french version of wikipedia (you can check by yourself on any wikipedia page in french). But the english UI is bad it's hard to read on large screen. With your extension is really nice.
If you’re logged in, you might get the new design on English Wikipedia too. It can be turned on or off if you so prefer: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Preferenc...
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#29Reminder that the mobile Wikipedia page is accessible on desktop and looks pretty neat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Another reminder that you can get the "mobile" version for Wikipedia on desktop. Just add ”?useskin=minerva" (sans double quotes) to the end of the URL. Since my browser can't have extensions, I did a dirty userscript for doing that with JavaScript.
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#30Can you make a chrome extension that does the reverse of this? Make "modern" webpages on rest of the web look like wikipeidia?