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Wikipedia itself is also working on a new UI: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Deskto

Wikipedia itself is also working on a new UI: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements 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).

ciphol 5y ago
Wow, that is shockingly bad. Different objects just floating in space without lines between them to visually differentiate them.
donkarma 5y ago
That is really bad, what were they thinking?
rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y ago
Wow, it's much more readable (though a bit disjointed): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing#History https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatique#Histoire https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatique#Histoire
- lostgame 5y ago
  It's a lot of what m.wikipedia.com looks like, actually. Just hitting m. on any given Wiki article on a Desktop makes it so much easier to read in my experience. YMMV. :)
lucb1e 5y ago
Every time I get to a French article somehow, I'm reminded that I should be dreading the day this gets merged into master. It's like this half-baked cards feature: whenever you search on the page and hit a link, that card will stay open indefinitely. You can't hit escape to close it, you can't hit tab to move off the link because then you'll just get another card for the next link, you have to go for the mouse. It was supposed to be an onhover feature for when you're using the mouse in the first place, instead it obscures text all the time. Luckily, cards are something you can turn off; with the narrow new style I doubt we'll have such luck. Language switching also became a mouse-requiring operation in the new design (or much more involved), other than that and the squished text I don't actually see any attempt at making it look modern.

ciphol 5y ago

Wow, that is shockingly bad. Different objects just floating in space without lines between them to visually differentiate them.

donkarma 5y ago

That is really bad, what were they thinking?

rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y ago

Wow, it's much more readable (though a bit disjointed): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing#History https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatique#Histoire https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatique#Histoire

lostgame 5y ago
It's a lot of what m.wikipedia.com looks like, actually. Just hitting m. on any given Wiki article on a Desktop makes it so much easier to read in my experience. YMMV. :)

lucb1e 5y ago

Every time I get to a French article somehow, I'm reminded that I should be dreading the day this gets merged into master. It's like this half-baked cards feature: whenever you search on the page and hit a link, that card will stay open indefinitely. You can't hit escape to close it, you can't hit tab to move off the link because then you'll just get another card for the next link, you have to go for the mouse. It was supposed to be an onhover feature for when you're using the mouse in the first place, instead it obscures text all the time. Luckily, cards are something you can turn off; with the narrow new style I doubt we'll have such luck. Language switching also became a mouse-requiring operation in the new design (or much more involved), other than that and the squished text I don't actually see any attempt at making it look modern.