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Did you disable cookies or something? Table of Contents sidebar hides and stays hidden across page loads, browser restarts, etc. Appearance sidebar is the same. Appearance sidebar lets you set the article width as well, with the default being slightly slim, but the wide option being the full browser width. The only way I can get it to reset is to clear my cookies, so its likely that.
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Is the WMF in debt?
The WMF is clearly unable to reduce expenses. If donations ever decrease, it will be bankrupt within two years.
Nothing about this is clear. What makes you think that, if the donations were to significantly fall off, they would be unable to reduce expenses?
I use Redirector in Firefox to rewrite URLs to the old Wikipedia: { "description": "Old Wikipedia", "exampleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page", "exampleResult": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=vector", "error": null, "includePattern": "^(https?://)([a-z0-9-]*\\.)wikipedia\\.org\\/wiki\\/([^?]+)(?!=\\?useskin=vector)", "excludePattern": "", "patternDesc": "Adds ?useskin=vector to any Wiki…
{
"description": "Wikipedia Mobile -> Regular",
"exampleUrl": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypernucleus",
"exampleResult": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypernucleus?useskin=vector",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "https://([^.]+).m.wikipedia.org/wiki/([^#?]+)(#(.+))?",
"excludePattern": "",
"patternDesc": "Remove .m and add ?useskin=vector to end",
"redirectUrl": "https://$1.wikipedia.org/wiki/$2?useskin=vector$3",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
},
{
"description": "Wikipedia (Use Vector instead of Vector2022 skin)",
"exampleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato",
"exampleResult": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato?useskin=vector",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "https://([^.]+).wikipedia.org/wiki/([^#?]+)(#(.+))?",
"excludePattern": "(https://[^.]+.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:.+)|(https://([^.]+).wikipedia.org/wiki/[^?]+[?].*useskin=.+)",
"patternDesc": "Add ?useskin=vector to end",
"redirectUrl": "https://$1.wikipedia.org/wiki/$2?useskin=vector$3",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
},
{
"description": "Wikipedia (Use Vector instead of Vector2022 skin) -- Query String Redirect",
"exampleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petabyte&redirect=no",
"exampleResult": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petabyte&redirect=no&useskin=vector",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "https://([^.]+).wikipedia.org/((?:w/index.php)|(?:wiki/([^#?]+)))[?]([^#]+)(#(.+))?",
"excludePattern": "(https://[^.]+.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:.+)|(https://([^.]+).wikipedia.org/wiki/[^?]+[?].*useskin=.+)",
"patternDesc": "https://([^.]+).wikipedia.org/wiki/([^#?]+)[?].+useskin=.+",
"redirectUrl": "https://$1.wikipedia.org/$2$3?$4&useskin=vector$5",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
}I’ll answer deeper question “why” if you don’t mind. Wikipedia itself has become corrupted and politically and ideologically biased in past years. It has been shown multiple times. When you stop pursuing the truth and start pursuing an agenda - things get ugly over time. It’s a general pattern.
> It has been shown multiple times. Feel free to share.
Here is just one I’ve found https://manhattan.institute/article/is-wikipedia-politically...
Another fresh example that comes to mind is systematic anti Israeli whitewashing of radical movements and ideologies.
I’ll answer deeper question “why” if you don’t mind. Wikipedia itself has become corrupted and politically and ideologically biased in past years. It has been shown multiple times. When you stop pursuing the truth and start pursuing an agenda - things get ugly over time. It’s a general pattern.
this post is about layouts
Did you disable cookies or something? Table of Contents sidebar hides and stays hidden across page loads, browser restarts, etc. Appearance sidebar is the same. Appearance sidebar lets you set the article width as well, with the default being slightly slim, but the wide option being the full browser width. The only way I can get it to reset is to clear my cookies, so its likely that.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. Corruption is fought best by not allowing it anywhere at all.
Putting aside that I don't believe WMF is 'wrong' here at all, it's simply not reasonable or healthy to get upset about every wrong thing. One needs to pick their battles.
The real battle is in oneself.
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The WMF is clearly unable to reduce expenses. If donations ever decrease, it will be bankrupt within two years.
> The WMF is clearly unable to reduce expenses. Nothing about this is clear. What makes you think that, if the donations were to significantly fall off, they would be unable to reduce expenses?
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> The WMF is clearly unable to reduce expenses. Nothing about this is clear. What makes you think that, if the donations were to significantly fall off, they would be unable to reduce expenses?
To be fair, you don’t have any evidence that they could. It’s speculation either way. The only data we have is they spend more every year, and that they still have the audacity to aggressively fundraise constantly by plastering every article with ads begging for money. Sometimes I think I’d rather it just had a big banner ad for Coca-Cola on the top.
> they spend more every year
They also bring in more money every year.
> audacity to aggressively fundraise constantly by plastering every article with ads begging for money.
This is ... really unnecessarily dramatic and not really truthful. They do a fundraise campaign once a year with an easily-closed banner, the proceeds of which they use to fund many projects that enrich humanity's collective knowledge.
Seriously, you guys need to direct your energy elsewhere. The WMF is not the type of org people should be complaining about on HN.