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Pet peeve of mine... 'wiki' does not exclusively mean Wikipedia. Wiki is the name for all of the early directly editable content based websites.

All in all though, this is nice to look at, but doesn't really add anything over and above the mobile version. Maybe you should add theme options for people who really don't like the standard Wikipedia colour scheme (or for colourblind people / low-vision users) that would add a unique service that Wikipedia doesn't offer.

This doesn't work on mobile. Looks like a fixed-width single column page that's too wide, but can't check for actual reason now because am on mobile.

Layout-wise, this looks like the mobile version of Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It (compared to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It)

What other features does this offer?

I use this script for tampermonkey which forwards all Wikipedia pages to the mobile version, a much more pleasant browsing experience https://gist.github.com/phelma/45c111839dc96bc1456018a584791...

I would prefer the mobile version if the sections weren't collapsed by default and there was a TOC.

I made the contents even sticky on the left:

Hacky desktop CSS for stylish: https://pastebin.com/W0QKXMSi

looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/NQc3m0z

top and left has small grey bars you can hover for some more stuff that's hidden.

I pulled it from stylish in order to boycott them and haven't had time to move it elsewhere yet...

I got an inverted version too on request. (even more hacky, but should even work with formulas)

For one thing, it offers all the sections not collapsing every time you load the fucking page...

when opening m.wikipedia on desktop, none of the sections are collapsed.

Thank you for this useful piece of information. What browser are you using? Do you have JS enabled? Have you tried it on a mobile device, the target segment for m.?

On a mobile device, they are collapsed. On desktop, they are not. that was the point of my comment saying that on desktop they are not collapsed.

as a comparison to the linked reader view, which only works on desktop, the behaviour on mobile isn't really relevant.

And totally orthogonal to his point. It was pretty obvious his point was about using it on mobile, whereas your post came across as pedantic and flippant. Specially when you say things like "the behaviour on mobile isn't really relevant" about the mobile version of the website!

Why are people so aggressive towards each other on this website lmao

Seems to hide all the extraneous buttons and controls that are not applicable to read only mode. Much cleaner style than the mobile version.

I really like Wikiwand and the Chrome extension that automatically redirects you to it. The layout can be a little wide for some but on a big 4k screen it's perfect.

http://www.wikiwand.com/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikiwand-wikipedia...

Totally agreed. Wikiwand has made me excited every time I see a Wikipedia link because the reading experience is so well thought out.

Example link: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paper

Please do not remove the link underline in continuous text. It makes the links inaccessible for people who cannot perceive color differences.[1]

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F73.html

Wikipedia lets you change its look. It has six themes. Plus you can add your own CSS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...

Can you post screenshots of what they look like? I can't even see them without creating an account and logging in, and I don't really want to do that sight-unseen.

I'm using a mobile browser with JavaScript turned off. Site isn't responsive. Requires horizontal scrolling.

It's not responsive with JavaScript enabled either.

Wikipedia has themes and also lets you add whatever custom CSS you want to your account.

My personal favorite is WiTeX, which makes Wikipedia look like a LaTeX document [1].

[1] https://github.com/AndrewBelt/WiTeX

Removing everything related to editing is actually harmful. Wikipedia is losing editors as is.

I recently learned that wikipedia allows you to set custom CSS for your user: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:User_style

For me, adding a simple .m between en and wikipedia in the url does the job well enough :)

Very nice indeed! I was just in the user contributions view and article history view, those records are so horrendously aligned its nearly unreadable. Would be nice to have a table rendering of all that.

Wikipedia Rotane theme for Stylish extension is better IMO.

would be nice to be able to consume this via RSS

Pretty amazing

A blueprint for how the web should be.

No, doesn't work on mobile.

Needs bootstrapping!

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