Wikipedia's going a bit more modern.
But even as Wikipedia’s content has been kept up-to-date, its appearance hasn’t been. It’s had largely the same look and layout since 2003, though updates in 2005 and 2011 stopped it from looking like Geocities, and kept it readable as screens got larger and higher-resolution. The latest tweaks aren’t huge and certainly don’t change the overall “black and blue text on a white background” look of the site that everyone knows and tolerates, but they will make it easier to use.
As well as generally embracing a slightly more modern, minimalist design, there are two big features of note. The first is the new table of contents sidebar. Now as you scroll through an article, the sidebar will continue to display the article’s different sub-heads so you can easily jump around to the most relevant sections. If you don’t like it, you can just clickto get rid of it.
While the sum total of the changes might be small, all in all, they make for a nicer-looking Wikipedia that still maintains the site’s character—for better or worse. At the current rate, we can expect the mobile site to be updated in 2033.Sign up to receive Popular Science's emails and get the highlights.
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