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So does anyone have a userscript to override the maximum line width?

I have claustrophobia, and having text forced into narrow columns actively triggers it. Taking a look at the Basque Wikipedia, I can tell right here that it's completely unusable for me. I'm willing to pay real money for someone to write me a script to override it.

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If you have a Wikipedia account, you can go to Preferences > Appearance[0], and choose a different skin. AFAICT "Monobook" and "modern" have unlimited content width.

If you don't then you can append ?useskin=modern to each article URL. (You can do it automatically with a redirect extension.)

Alternatively you can inject the following CSS (e.g. with Stylus):

    .mw-content-container {
        max-width: none !important;
    }

(The specific CSS selector might change with time.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...

Apparently you can add the CSS to your account based on, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24571570

Oh yes, thank you for saying that. We seem to be the only ones here that don't like this. I have a 2K screen, please let me see more content, not less on it.

All books ever made have text that has roughly the same text width for a reason. It's a well established pattern, and full width websites ignore the most fundamental design principle. Do books make you feel claustrophobic too?

Your sass is unwelcome. Books are a different, more constrained format.

If I had a book with 12" wide pages and only 6" centered were used for content, it would be uncomfortable.

How about a normal book placed on a big empty tabletop? That's a more fitting analogy since you provide your own browser but not your own pages for a book.

I don't think I have real claustrophobia (at least I don't have the slightest issue with sleeping in coffin-sized berths), but I do get a really unpleasant claustrophobic feeling when content is squished into a small area.

You can open the article in Reader View in Firefox and then set the margins to whatever you want.

I'm not interested in using Firefox, and having to actively switch modes every time I open an article isn't acceptable.

I want something that globally eliminates all max-width everywhere.

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