Wikipedia's new look

It's a minor improvement--it's cleaner, it probably loads a little faster. Nothing drastic.

Also, mouse-hover on an internal link brings up a snippet view of the resulting page. What is really cool is, this works for links in the snippet view as well, so you can open nested snippet after snippet.

These had been available to logged in users as a Beta for quite a while now (~3 months? Can't remember when it started..)

Looks better, but the new autosuggest search has a horrible race condition: type fast, hit enter quickly, and you end up with a truncated or blank search string. Not an improvement!

I was hoping that this would fix my only issue, but alas I think my issue is with Chrome.

When I was a Safari user, I could call up Wikipedia and I knew that I just had to hit the TAB key once to get to the search field.

Now that I've been lured away by Chrome, I go to Wikipedia and hit tab about half a dozen times before I give up and use the mouse pointer to put focus in the search field. It's a frustrating detail that I think Safari got right.

The only drawback for me is the navigation across the tops of pages. Fade effects might be a current fad but it doesn't quite work (I feel quite strained reading the nav)

My biggest wish for Wikipedia UI: enable the "languages" feature in the mobile version. Having to switch to the standard layout on the iPhone really sucks.

Looks good. Line lengths can still get way too long when surfing full screen on a high res monitor. My browser window is at the moment only 970px wide and one line already has more than 100 characters – that’s nearly too much.

Yeah, it sucks when you get wide empty margins but running away from the problem won’t help.

I stoppped editing Wikipedia when I realized the majority of my time was taken up by doing things that should have been automated by software. I was using the beta version at the time. I don't think this update will change things that much, although a good toolbar will help.

While I really like the look of the sidebar I find it weird that the Discussion page is deemed more important than the History.

It's clean, but losing left-side navigation hurts a bit, since that's my default on almost every website. I'm not going to need to change languages or contact Wikipedia very often.