MediaWiki info edit
Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Features/Limiting content width edit
3 May 2022 edit
White space fix for Evil Vector https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tol/global.css
15 July 2022 edit
Posted in Village pump (proposals) as part of Defining a process for the discussion of making Vector 2022 the new default. This diff
Maximum line width edit
We have introduced a maximum line width to articles. Research has shown that limiting the width of long-form text leads to a more comfortable reading experience, and better retention of the content itself.
- Our studies with readers showed that readability was an issue with the current interface, in particular being able to focus on the content
- Pages that are not in a long-text format
(such as diffs, special pages, page history)
will be presented at full-width as before - Logged-in users who wish to read articles at full width are welcomed to set up a script or gadget that will allow for this
, such as this one
- For more details on research and motivation, see ourresearch section
OVasileva (WMF), SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 16:14, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
28 July 2022 edit
Posted in Village pump (proposals) as part of Defining a process for the discussion of making Vector 2022 the new default. This diff
An update after two weeks of discussion edit
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4. What changes will be made before deployment?
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- 3. Issues that will not be addressed at this time (issues that are not part of the Desktop Improvements project, belonging to other teams, etc.)
Gadget "wide-vector-2022" edit
Posted in Village pump (technical) This diff
- The gadget is only listed at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets if your skin is Vector 2022. Here is a comparison of Wikipedia in Vector 2022 without the gadget (assuming you haven't enabled the gadget) and with the gadget. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:56, 21 August 2022 (UTC)