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OP, 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 .
I always found it weird and annoying how the table of contents in Wikipedia is a tiny thing jammed at the start. It's so darn awkward to use.
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.
Actually, I'm wrong. It looks like they FINALLY added it less than a week ago.
Took them long enough.
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This is hard and often done wrong- mobile phones are usually high dpi and have gotten quite large, so it can be hard to distinguish between a large phone and half a desktop screen. Some people get quite annoyed by being bumped into a mobile experience when you resize your window from fullscreen on a laptop.
I don’t understand those people at all. If my browser window is the width of a mobile phone’s screen, than a version of the website designed for that size is exactly what I want!
It's not, is the thing.
I have a 23 inch screen for my 1080p screen. My phone has a 6ish inch diagonal.
When I make a window 960 x 1080, that's still something like 10 inches across and 11 inches tall. It's sheet-of-paper sized. I'm perfectly comfortable reading that as it was designed for a desktop layout.
For folks who appreciate elements from this redesign, I'd love to humbly suggest checking out the Wikipedia iOS app from the Wikimedia Foundation. The app supports 4 reading themes, is privacy friendly, includes: truly private reading history, trending articles, a persistent TOC on iPad, on this day in history, language and multilingual support, in the news, random articles, bookmarking and folder-ing capabilities, a…
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 miss the Encarta encyclopedia content/design. I wish Wikipedia could get to that level of content quality. The multimedia and interactive articles were way ahead of its time and were only partially matched by some Flash-based interactive animations.
Wikipedia is a cancer
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Equally, I don't like it when websites try to guess what kind of browser I'm in and force me into the mobile experience when I have a window take up half the screen on a 1080p monitor, ... so I guess there's really no easy win for this :(
I think proper media queries breakpoints solve this
Its funny I was actually looking for a wiki extension that allowed more readability on desktop a couple of days ago. I tried out Readable Wikipedia [0]. Which I really liked (kind of turns it into mobile, which is good enough for me) But it seems to have been abandoned, since images didn't load for me. I then tried out WikiWand [1]. Although I've been using it and its been ok for the most part, it seemed over the top…