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I 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.
I 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.
Looks good, but I think the adjective "modern" to be overly aggressive towards other design trends. From what I saw, the design trend here is for a flat and rounded interface with dynamic searches.
Why you need this permission "Read your browsing history"? I think you only need access to: "*://*.wikipedia.org/*"
I've just looked into this, it seems Chrome displays that because of the "tabs" permission: > "Technically this permission allows observing the history via chrome.tabs.onUpdated, but not read the previously existing history, so the phrasing is not entirely correct, strictly speaking." https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64063754/chrome-extensio... To be clear, the extension doesn't access your browsing history at all…
The design is interesting, but I can't help wonder why the design insists on keeping a specific page width instead of using the whole browser window. Even worse, for really wide pages, it just shows a column in the middle.
Text becomes less readable at large widths. I sometimes use the mobile Wikipedia on desktop for that reason, especially on ultrawide monitors.
Can I suggest a specific font for Persian language? At the moment there is a single font for all languages, but Wikipedia manages it very well, and it has a different font for different languages.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...
The English Wikipedia isn't one of the "early adopter wikis" but if you visit, say, the French-language Wikipedia you can see the changes (e.g., different width to improve readability).
- If the browser window is narrower than about 1024px, there are no margins around the body text and the text width slider has no effect.
- As the browser window becomes narrower, the body shrinks but the contents sidebar doesn't shrink.
- The measure feels a bit small to me. It looks like the body text width is limited to 660px — having a limit is good, but it feels tight, especially when there are embedded figures and infoboxes. You could try making the measure a bit larger, or perhaps letting the figures extend or sit outside the main column of text when the window is wide enough.
- When you turn off the sidebar by clicking the three-bar icon, the sidebar just leaves an empty space instead of providing more space for the body text.
- As the window becomes narrow enough, the search box becomes unusable.
- The page indicators like the "featured article" star, the protection icon, and the Spoken Wikipedia button are missing.
- The home page, talk page, history page, etc. don't respect the typography settings.
- The menu option "View history" is inconsistent with the other options; next to "Talk", "Edit", "Watch", simply "History" would work better.
- When you scroll down, the page title scrolls off the main body, but remains at the top of the table of contents. Somehow this feels backwards to me, and it's not immediately obvious that you have to click the title in the table of contents if you want to see the intro section. Perhaps the page title could be sticky, and the first section could appear as "Introduction" in the contents? Something like this? https://imgur.com/a/kqaNbWo — I'm not sure where to suggest that the page title should go; you might have to try a few options to find one that looks right.
Sorry that turned out to be a long list, but overall the page does look a lot nicer and easier to read and navigate. Hope these ideas are helpful!