If you had a cup of coffee on Wednesday and tried to jump down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, chances are your screen is wet. Wikipedia seems different.
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Perhaps your brain rejected all the new white space, or the way the “sticky” new table of contents hovers while scrolling. But maybe they just hate change.
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There is no right way to react to what is happening on the internet. inexplicable fear, Expected in times like this.
However, according to Annie Rauwerda, Wikipedia editor and superfan of the Twitter account Depths of Wikipedia, the update, dubbed “Vector 2022,” has been in the works for a long time, with little discussion before the changes are rolled back. It was done. out. “Wikipedians spilled more than 200,000 words on her Vector 2022 feedback page,” Rauwerda wrote in her Slate. That word count “means we have a longer corpus. Jane Eyre (and about the same period moby dick) button placement and table formatting.
But nothing fundamentally changed. The familiar links in the long, exhaustive sidebar on the left — you know, “Main Page,” “Table of Contents,” “Current Events,” “Random Articles,” and more — are still there. To bring them back, just click the small double carrot icon in the top left corner.
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And once you get used to the new maximum line width, users of high-resolution monitors may appreciate not having to read a single line of text as long as the entire Gettysburg Address.
But according to Rauwerda, the new design has already generated quite a stir, and it’s only been a day. According to the Slate article, Swahili Wikipedians voted unanimously to officially demand the change be reverted. And in a broad poll on whether the new version should be the default, “165 people who voted against the redesign outnumbered 153 supporters,” so no true democracy is in evidence. It looks like
So if this motivates you and you need to go back to the old Wikipedia, join one of the very long discussion threads about it.Or rather, from now on teeth After all, Wikipedia just customizes your experience, leave it to the Wikipedians’ weirdly offensive discussion of steam engines.
