Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Repository

Overview

Features

Repository

FAQ

Map of Legacy Vector elements (September 2019)

Modifications of Vector 2022: new gadgets and user scripts

See our FAQ: How to customize Vector 2022?

• User-style that decreases padding overall: User:Aaron Liu/v22.css
• Auto change content width depending on the type of the page: Andrybak/Vectron
• User-script: Fixed top bar.css by Nux
• User-script: Vector-2022-condensed by Quiddity (changes to: whitespace, top-bar, sidebar, small-windows, misc other)
• User-script: Header links (Icons) / (Text) by Terasail: Add the user dropdown links to the static and stick headers.
• Changes to the table of contents
  • User-script to show numbers in the new table of contents: UnfoldedNumberedTOC(Vector2022)
  • User-script to restore the classical table of contents: ClassicalTOC(Vector2022)
  • User-script to move the Tools bar from floating on the right hand side to the left hand side as part of the table of contents: Vector 2022 Floating Tools Menu
• User-script: two-columns References by Izno
• User-script to hide the Welcome message at the top of the Home page (when a h1 exists): Utilisateur:Patafisik (WMF)/vector-2022.css by Patafisik
• User-script to add a pattern background (like nv.wikipedia.org): Utilisateur:Patafisik (WMF)/vector-2022.css by Patafisik
• User script to modify the background colour to grey for better readability and improved distinction minimally between the left sidebar (Table of Contents and main menu bars), page container, and content container: User:Hakimi97/grey-Vector-2022.css

Prototype feedback rounds

• Fifth prototype testing (June 2022)
• Fourth prototype testing (April 2022)
• Third prototype testing (December 2021)
• Second prototype testing (April 2021)
• Prototype testing (November 2019)

Posts and essays

• Behind The Curtains Of Wikipedia Redesign (June 2023)
• How the new Wikipedia design focused on accessibility (January 2023)
• Visual Testing: Building A More Robust Wikipedia Interface By Spotting the Differences (January 2023)
• The new Wikipedia appearance that took the whole village (January 2023)
• Explore Wikipedia's New Look. How updated features will make the site more welcoming and easier to use (January 2023 Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese)
• Prioritizing equity within Wikipedia’s new desktop (August 2022 Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese)
• Our improved desktop Wikipedia experience is almost here. Get the latest updates. (June 2022 English, Spanish, Japanese)
• Our designer Alex Hollender interviewed for the Between The Brackets podcast. Our topic begins at 00:38:45 (April 2022)
• Desktop Improvements project nearing an end at The Signpost (April 2022)
• Desktop Improvements from the Web team at The Signpost (March 2022)
• The iterative design of the Vector interface: the case of moving interlingual links (February 2022 English, French, Italian, Vietnamese)
• The story behind Wikipedia’s upcoming new look (August 2021)
• Improving the Wikipedia desktop experience: What have we been doing for the last six months? (April 2021)
• Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years. Here’s why. (September 2020)
• Desktop improvements – A request for feedback (October 2019)
• A History of Wiki Skins (September 2019)

Reports

• Accessibility testing (December 2022)
• Sticky Header and Table of Contents User Testing (March 2021)
• Collapsible Sidebar Usage Report (October 2020)
• Wikimedia desktop usage and behavior data analysis (October 2020)
• Hureo User Research Report (March 2020)
• First Prototype Feedback Report (March 2020)
• Language Switching User Tests (December 2019)
• Language Switching Research (October 2019)
• Wikimania Stockholm research report (September 2019)

Slides

• 
  Wikimania 2022 slides (August 2022)
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  Sticky Header and Table of Contents User Testing (March 2021)
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  Hureo User Research Report (June 2020)
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  Hureo User Research Report (March 2020)
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  Wikimania Stockholm research report (September 2019)
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  Wikimania Stockholm slides (August 2019)
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  Early project framing presentation (May 2019)

Other documentation

• Vue.js case study (May 2020)
• Changes to EventLogging and how they will impact our work (November 2019)
• AB testing and Opt Out possibilities (October 2019)
• Research and design: Phase 2 (September 2019)
• Research and design: Phase 1 (September 2019)
• New readership data: Some things we've been learning recently about how Wikipedia is read (March 2016)
• How the structure of Wikipedia articles influences user navigation (May 2016)
• Search and the differences between the current search widgets
• Language switching and possibilities on improving the language switcher
• T234907 - A technical RfC on what code-base to start with
• Changes to EventLogging and how they will impact our work