User:GhostInTheMachine/Evil Vector

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Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Features/Limiting content width

mw:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Features/Limiting content width § Goals and motivation
mw:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Frequently asked questions § Why is the width of the content limited? Why is there so much white space?

3 May 2022

White space fix for Evil Vector https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tol/global.css

15 July 2022

Posted in Village pump (proposals) as part of Defining a process for the discussion of making Vector 2022 the new default. This diff

Maximum line width

We have introduced a maximum line width to articles. Research has shown that limiting the width of long-form text leads to a more comfortable reading experience, and better retention of the content itself.

Our studies with readers showed that readability was an issue with the current interface, in particular being able to focus on the content
Pages that are not in a long-text format (such as diffs, special pages, page history) will be presented at full-width as before
Logged-in users who wish to read articles at full width are welcomed to set up a script or gadget that will allow for this, such as this one
For more details on research and motivation, see ourresearch section

OVasileva (WMF), SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 16:14, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

28 July 2022

Posted in Village pump (proposals) as part of Defining a process for the discussion of making Vector 2022 the new default. This diff

An update after two weeks of discussion

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4. What changes will be made before deployment?

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3. Issues that will not be addressed at this time (issues that are not part of the Desktop Improvements project, belonging to other teams, etc.)

A preference which allows the fixed width of the page to be turned off.
A local gadget (currently experimental) or personal userscripts may address this at an individual editor level. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:10, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Gadget "wide-vector-2022"

Posted in Village pump (technical) This diff

The gadget is only listed at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets if your skin is Vector 2022. Here is a comparison of Wikipedia in Vector 2022 without the gadget (assuming you haven't enabled the gadget) and with the gadget. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:56, 21 August 2022 (UTC)