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

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