| ▲ | How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated? |
| 21 points by countWSS 8 hours ago | 27 comments |
| Every single page is mostly sidebars, each has to be clicked
'hide' for every pageload(it does not save the state of sidebars!!) to reveal the article squeezed inside.
For the "full sidebars on" default, it requires either a 8k screen or 30% zoom to even see an article content. |
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| ▲ | josephcsible 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's especially annoying on pages that have big tables, where all the wasted space makes it need to horizontally scroll. Sometimes I wish that once a horizontal scrollbar appears, browsers would ignore max-width on that page from then on. |
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| ▲ | Olreich 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Did you disable cookies or something? Table of Contents sidebar hides and stays hidden across page loads, browser restarts, etc. Appearance sidebar is the same. Appearance sidebar lets you set the article width as well, with the default being slightly slim, but the wide option being the full browser width. The only way I can get it to reset is to clear my cookies, so its likely that. |
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| ▲ | sparky_z 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I also have the sidebars constantly reappearing, and I don't have cookies disabled. It's really annoying. | |
| ▲ | countWSS 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wikipedia.org :270 cookies, 110MB used.
Never cleared or disabled any. |
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| ▲ | Bhagya1111 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wikipedia pages now have more sidebars than actual history. |
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| ▲ | ateles 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/legacy-wikipe... |
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| ▲ | davisr 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I use Redirector in Firefox to rewrite URLs to the old Wikipedia: {
"description": "Old Wikipedia",
"exampleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page",
"exampleResult": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=vector",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "^(https?://)([a-z0-9-]*\\.)wikipedia\\.org\\/wiki\\/([^?]+)(?!=\\?useskin=vector)",
"excludePattern": "",
"patternDesc": "Adds ?useskin=vector to any Wikipedia page",
"redirectUrl": "https://$2wikipedia.org/wiki/$3?useskin=vector",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
}
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| ▲ | Figs 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I do something similar with Redirector, but a bit more involved (to also redirect mobile links to the regular pages + a few other cases): {
"description": "Wikipedia Mobile -> Regular",
"exampleUrl": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypernucleus",
"exampleResult": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypernucleus?useskin=vector",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "https://([^.]+).m.wikipedia.org/wiki/([^#?]+)(#(.+))?",
"excludePattern": "",
"patternDesc": "Remove .m and add ?useskin=vector to end",
"redirectUrl": "https://$1.wikipedia.org/wiki/$2?useskin=vector$3",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
},
{
"description": "Wikipedia (Use Vector instead of Vector2022 skin)",
"exampleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato",
"exampleResult": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato?useskin=vector",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "https://([^.]+).wikipedia.org/wiki/([^#?]+)(#(.+))?",
"excludePattern": "(https://[^.]+.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:.+)|(https://([^.]+).wikipedia.org/wiki/[^?]+[?].*useskin=.+)",
"patternDesc": "Add ?useskin=vector to end",
"redirectUrl": "https://$1.wikipedia.org/wiki/$2?useskin=vector$3",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
},
{
"description": "Wikipedia (Use Vector instead of Vector2022 skin) -- Query String Redirect",
"exampleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petabyte&redirect=no",
"exampleResult": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petabyte&redirect=no&useskin=vector",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "https://([^.]+).wikipedia.org/((?:w/index.php)|(?:wiki/([^#?]+)))[?]([^#]+)(#(.+))?",
"excludePattern": "(https://[^.]+.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:.+)|(https://([^.]+).wikipedia.org/wiki/[^?]+[?].*useskin=.+)",
"patternDesc": "https://([^.]+).wikipedia.org/wiki/([^#?]+)[?].+useskin=.+",
"redirectUrl": "https://$1.wikipedia.org/$2$3?$4&useskin=vector$5",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
}
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| ▲ | bananaflag 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I have been using MonoBook for years (early 2023 I think), I see nothing like that. |
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| ▲ | inigyou 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It might have something to do with Wikimedia Foundation and WP:CANCER. |
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| ▲ | josefritzishere 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... | | |
| ▲ | squigz 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | It seems a bit silly to base this entire analysis on Wikipedia page views without exploring what else the WMF does. And in any event, I have a really hard time getting worked up about the relatively small amount of money they deal with - and use to do a lot of good for the world - while corruption and greedy corporations are as rampant and filthy rich as they are. | | |
| ▲ | tosti 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Two wrongs don't make a right. Corruption is fought best by not allowing it anywhere at all. | | |
| ▲ | squigz 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Putting aside that I don't believe WMF is 'wrong' here at all, it's simply not reasonable or healthy to get upset about every wrong thing. One needs to pick their battles. | | |
| ▲ | tosti 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | True that. Getting upset about pretty much anything is rarely useful. IDK who first theorized this, but usually people get upset when they don't fully understand the situation. They who truly grasp the entire situation can't get upset. The real battle is in oneself. |
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| ▲ | tdeck 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Personally I'm not worked up over it either, but I find the argument that this puts Wikipedia at risk persuasive. If it some point WMF racks up debts they can't pay and puts itself up for sale, these days probably Elon Musk or Larry Ellison would buy it. | | |
| ▲ | squigz 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Is the WMF in debt? | | |
| ▲ | inigyou 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | The WMF is clearly unable to reduce expenses. If donations ever decrease, it will be bankrupt within two years. | | |
| ▲ | squigz 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | > The WMF is clearly unable to reduce expenses. Nothing about this is clear. What makes you think that, if the donations were to significantly fall off, they would be unable to reduce expenses? |
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| ▲ | chuckadams 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A quick reminder that reader mode works great with almost every WP article. |
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| ▲ | g8oz 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is there some kind of extension to block their begging for donations banner? |
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| ▲ | aristofun 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I’ll answer deeper question “why” if you don’t mind. Wikipedia itself has become corrupted and politically and ideologically biased in past years. It has been shown multiple times. When you stop pursuing the truth and start pursuing an agenda - things get ugly over time. It’s a general pattern. |
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