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I actually like the redesign, it is cleaner and less distracting when I read. It does need some edge cases handled though. For instance, look at Russia's flag: http://wikipedia.moesalih.com/Russia vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unsolicited_redesigns
Maybe some kind of menu button could be added near the search bar with the edit, history and talk links.
The large font looks ridiculous, why do you people keep doing that? If I needed bigger letters on my screen I'd adjust the DPI on my display.
I prefer this redesign http://wikipedia.gkvasnikov.com
Last summer, I build a couple of MediaWiki skins; one based on Zurb's Foundation [2] and one based on Yahoo's Pure [3]
Both of these projects showed me many of the non-obvious challenges in redesigning Wikipedia; tabs, tables, and editor come to mind immediately. Cascading a new look&feel down to common (and uncommon) extensions is, of course, it's own level of effort.
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 2. http://foreground.thingelstad.com/wiki/Main_Page 3. http://filament.thingelstad.com/wiki/Main_Page
The only part of normal Wikipedia pages that I normally never touch is the sidebar with the different languages. I don't think I hardly ever click on anything there. It would make sense for my usage at least for the sidebar to be hidden by default.
The large font looks ridiculous, why do you people keep doing that? If I needed bigger letters on my screen I'd adjust the DPI on my display.