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Wikipedia website new design
MrMobodies:
Just came across this article at first of a Wikipedia website design
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/23/21453300/wikipedia-desktop-redesign-2021
--- Quote ---Wikipedia is getting its first desktop redesign in 10 years
The entire redesign should be complete by the end of 2021
By Taylor Lyles@TayNixster Sep 23, 2020, 8:28pm EDT
Wikipedia has been an integral part of web culture for nearly twenty years, letting users browse its millions of text-heavy, crowd-sourced encyclopedia entries from their computer, tablet, or phone. Now, the overall look of Wikipedia on desktop is getting a makeover for the first time in a decade to make the site more approachable for new users.
You can browse all the proposed new features in this MediaWiki post, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements#What_features_will_be_added and there are some animated GIFs to show you what they might look like. Personally, I really like how the new table of contents feature looks. I tend to curiously read Wiki pages of public figures and this could make it a lot easier to skip past certain sections of a page without having to scroll down on my computer.
Wikimedia Foundation, the site’s parent company, announced in a blog post that the changes will happen “incrementally over a long period of time,” allowing users to test the new features before they officially roll out, but that it plans to redesign the entire look of the desktop version of Wikipedia by the end of 2021. It didn’t say whether the mobile version would receive the same redesign.
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I prefer it the way it is at the moment, I read the contents, lots of detail, less scrlling , I can see everything, no excessive animations of things in the way that may annoy me.
The only proposal I like is that sliding left bar which doesn't bother me whether it hides or not as it doesn't get in the way of the contents. Also they are saying they are making it easy, but it don't find it difficult it looks pretty simple.
I would find it difficult to concentrate if there are things stuck over the contents that I may not need or want to see at all, the empty white spaces where I would have scroll more and the animations like the one that appears over the search in the preview which also reminds of something similar to what happened in one of the recent Firefox releases in URL bar that I had to edit to Userchrome.css to stop it.
Also as in the picture I woudn't want to be constantly reminded in large letters what I am reading like that sticky element "Toni Morrison". Maybe in small letters where I'd have to look to seek but I am unlikely to forget what I am actually reading but if it can slid in and out, by a little fixed symbol on the side when needed that would be a lot better for my concentration.
It looks like they have options on legacy skins and layout where the skin can be altered which is nice:
https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2020/11/wikipedia-lets-users-try-out-new.html
What do you think of the proposed redesign?
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james_s:
I hate it when websites get redesigned. Unless the existing design is complete crap I wish everyone would just leave things alone. Even when the original is complete crap, the redesign is usually even crappier. Some people love change just for the sake of change, they have an addiction to everything being "fresh", can't stand that personally, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
AntiProtonBoy:
It looks fine.
You wanna see redesign abomination? Compare the new Reddit with the old.
floobydust:
Wikipedia no longer loads on an old iPad, it rejects the security:
"could not establish a secure connection to the server", so this is progress- as the iPad goes in landfill because a crapola Safari/ios update would also kill it.
MrMobodies:
--- Quote from: AntiProtonBoy on November 23, 2020, 11:49:31 pm ---It looks fine.
You wanna see redesign abomination? Compare the new Reddit with the old.
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I always rename to "old.reddit.com as I want to see everything in the thread and not just an answer underneath and then a whole bunch of other threads.
When I signed to Wikipedia up I see these animations. I am not sure if they are recent or part of the old skin but I hid them:
--- Code: ---wikipedia.org##.oo-ui-pendingElement-pending
commons.wikimedia.org##.oo-ui-pendingElement-pending
##.oo-ui-pendingElement-pending
commons.wikimedia.org##.mw-echo-special-nojs
##.mw-echo-special-nojs
--- End code ---
I like the old skin. To me the new skins I have seen seems to shrink the content space on the sides and the others with the fixed search toolbar at the top is a big nono, unless they put something there small at the top corner to show/hide it which will be handy down the page to appear only when I need it shown.
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