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✅ Emmanuel Macron dark mode error

Links to other pages turn invisible!!!

✅Radiosoul dark mode error

Hello! I noticed while browsing that wikilinks in infoboxes are no longer visible with dark mode on. I've also observed this issue on several other pages, including Keir Starmer and Paint It Black. This issue only seems to affect certain infobox parameters (i.e. headings). SupremeLordBagel (talk) 23:17, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

I've also noticed similar info box issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPNE1 Almost everything in the infobox on this page is invisible. Largely Legible Layman (talk) 23:41, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛1995 NBA All-Star Game dark mode error

Dark mode interferes with the color of the images (in this instance, the illustrations of the uniform colors on the sidebar). In dark mode, the illustrations are the same dark gray shade as the background. In light mode, the proper colors are displayed.

This is a problem for all pages that use this uniform display graphic template, including several other NBA All-Star Game pages, as well as those of many US college basketball teams (both men's and women's--e.g.: Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball and UConn Huskies Women's Basketball).

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

📢20th Century Studios dark mode error

The number of different shades of gray found between the body text, the sidebars, and the extra space on my monitor were distracting. I would much rather all the black is the same.

Issue Description

❓Preferences dark mode error

Issue Description Editing while in dark mode was hard on my eyes

@Buffalkill: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing? Thanks. --SCP-2000 (talk) 10:57, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

📢Algorithmic efficiency dark mode error

Issue Description - difficulty reading & monitor breaking.

I used to have dark mode in wikipedia with custom css however I noticed that having it too dark, made reading it difficult and my monitor was also making faulty vertical lines for some reasons...

Can you slightly reduce the darkness.

I found this issue generally but first at - [[1]]

❓Tenka Sanbun no Kei: Ōmisoka New Year's Eve Special dark mode error

Issue Description

Dark mode makes the source editor almost unreadable.

Possibly relates to syntax highlighting? Jdlrobson (talk) 19:14, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Spamdexing dark mode error

Issue Description: The coloured bars alongside the warnings at the top of the page display as gray in dark mode.

This is en:MediaWiki talk:Common.css/to do#Dark mode: metadata +- phab:T365330. Izno (talk) 21:47, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

❓Witch trials in the Holy Roman Empire dark mode error

Issue Description

❓Preferences dark mode error

Issue Description Skin color is distorted.

@HumanBeing240: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing? Thanks. --SCP-2000 (talk) 10:58, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

❓2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Challenger Cup dark mode error

Issue Description

🐛L-DOPA dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description

Infobox and synthesis chemical drawings are black images with transparent background and not visible in dark mode.

✅System of a Down dark mode error

Issue Description

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:System_of_a_Down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:MTV_Europe_Music_Award_for_Best_Alternative Text of headers of templates in the bottom of page is black and unreadable when background is black. I guess it may be a problem of all templates across whole wiki

✅ Malatang dark mode error

Issue Description

The "Part of a series on Chinese cuisine" panel still has a white background, which makes it hard to read

✅Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents dark mode error

Issue Description

Sections set off with {{Tqb }} are illegible on this page, though the examples on the template doc page are fine. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=1233836581 for an example. Thanks.

This looks fine to me? Izno (talk) 21:28, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

❓ Dungeness dark mode error

Issue Description If a word is ontop of a map, the word(s) background aren't transparent, blocking the view of the map.

I found this in the map section for the article about the Dungeness in England.

✅ Struggle session dark mode error

Issue Description The colors of pictures are inverted on my screen.

✅Billboard 200 dark mode error

Issue Description The Billboard logo has a transparent background, which makes it invisible.

📢Lena Raine dark mode error

Issue Description

Some boxes on Talk pages are still white.

🐛Preferences dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description On chemistry pages, the molecules are made in black and they become very hard to read against the dark mode background.

✅Severed Survival dark mode error

Issue Description The table in the Track Listing section in the dark mode behaves as if it is in the light mode, i.e. black letters on white background.

✅ Reducing sugar dark mode error

Issue Description Make transparent diagrams with black borders hard to read because the background is dark as well

🐛Ketosis dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description Ketone bodies: acetone, acetoacetic acid, and beta-hydroxybutyric acid in the infobox not visibile

✅Fall of Constantinople dark mode error

Issue Description The History of the Byzantine Empire sidebar has a title "Part of a series on the History of the Byzantine Empire" that is black text on a black background and therefore invisible.

Kabelsalat22 (talk)

📢Preferences dark mode error

New dark mode text is too bright

The new experimental dark mode appears to disregard common UX recommendations for dark mode, particularly the default color for text being far too bright.

Specifically, text (#EAECF0) is now significantly brighter compared to the beta version (#DFDEDD), which was more in line with common recommendations for reducing eyestrain. Referencing Material Design's guidelines for dark themes, they recommend using #DEDEDE (white at 87% opacity), which is more suitable for extended reading sessions. Note how close that text color is to the beta version.

While I would prefer to revert to the beta version until this is resolved, doing so causes a white flash on every page load or refresh. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 22:12, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Also I have found that #dedede #dfdedd seem better than #eaecf0. --ZandDev (talk) 21:08, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛2024 Indian general election dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description The file 2024 Indian General Election in the infobox has black text on a dark grey background. The background should be made light grey in dark mode or the SVG should be swapped out for a version with accessible text.

Kabelsalat22 (talk)

🐛Earth dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description File:Earth_cutaway_schematic-en.svg and File:Seasons1.svg are both SVGs with a transparent background and black text labels on a dark grey background. The labels are not legible.

Kabelsalat22 (talk)

🐛The arts dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description The image File:MozartExcerptK331.svg in the music section is black text on a black background.

Kabelsalat22 (talk)

🐛Human dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description The image Human.svg in the "Gender" section is a black outline on a black background and is not visible.

Kabelsalat22 (talk)

✅Planet dark mode error

Issue Description Tables of planetary symbols images are black lines on a black background and are not visible.

Kabelsalat22 (talk)

🐛 List of Green Bay Packers NFL Anniversary All-Time Team selections dark mode error

Issue Description The use of the dark green custom colours for link titles in Template:Green_Bay_Packers makes them difficult to see on the dark mode background. Kabelsalat22 (talk)

✅ Unsolved dark mode error

Issue Description This template is utterly broken in dark mode. White text on a white background. Should inherit CSS variables in dark and light mode for colour compatibility.

Kabelsalat22 (talk)

✅ Mathematics dark mode error

Issue Description The following images have black labels on a black background that are not visible:

Quadratic_formula.svg

Markovkate_01.svg

IllustrationCentralTheorem.png

Supply-demand-equilibrium.svg

Nuvola_apps_edu_mathematics_blue-p.svg

Kabelsalat22 (talk)

📢 Preferences dark mode error

Issue Description

1. Compared to the Dark Mode Gadget I'd been using, this beta Dark Mode feature is not as dark. It's comparatively more grey and not pure black.

Aside from being brighter than I'd like, LED screens turn off the pixels with pure black, so the Dark Mode feature would draw more power than the Dark Mode gadget. (I don't personally have an LED screen laptop though to really know if it's pure black to turn off pixels).

2. A **new** error is I now can't seem to re-enable the Gadget version of Dark Mode, even when I switch the display back to Light Mode or Automatic prior to enabling the gadget. Newly opened pages only briefly (less than a second) show as dark, but then it's instantly bright.

Short version:

1. Dark Mode is not as dark/black as the Dark Mode Gadget.

2. The Dark Mode gadget cannot seem to be re-enabled after trying the Dark Mode beta feature.

Section of article(s): Global

BlindingDarkness (talk) 02:59, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

EDIT/Update: I was able to re-enable the Gadget by clicking "Dark Mode" in the user menu on the top right, where it now shows pure black again. This is after I tried re-enabling it through the Gadget area of Preferences, when it would only briefly show pages in the pure black I prefer before turning bright incorrectly.

BlindingDarkness (talk) 03:04, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

In trying to replicate what I did, I noticed the "dark mode" option in the user menu at the top right is not there if the gadget is disabled, so looks like that option is tied to the Gadget and not the new Beta.

Basically, to re-enable the gadget correctly, it has to be done first in the Preferences Gadget area, and then Dark Mode has to be clicked in the user menu at the top right. I'll continue using the Gadget and try the beta again later to see if it's made darker.

BlindingDarkness (talk) 03:11, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

✅ Navbox musical artist dark mode error

Issue Description
The headers on this template become completely unreadable in dark mode (this includes the name of the artist, names of band members and the icons in the top left). See Sultans of Swing for an example of this on a mainspace article (the template is at the bottom of the page). Thanks, SupremeLordBagel (talk) 11:15, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

✅Reliable sources/Perennial sources dark mode error

When I'm trying to read the table where the various sources is, the text in these colored (light red, light green, light yellow/lime?) lines/blocks is light grey/white (I can't tell...) and is very difficult to read.

The solution would be that these blocks/lines are way more darker colored (in dark mode, if possible), so it is definitely easier on the eyes and definitely easier to read. Hope that helps. I hope I didn't missed anything I could change. Thanks, MtrdCtchr (talk) 12:20, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I've flipped en:Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources/styles.css for dark mode for the primary content. Further adjustment should be requested on the talk page of RSP. Izno (talk) 17:39, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Forceps dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description backgrounds of images with transparent backgrounds turn black reducing their visibility

✅ Justin Woodall dark mode error

Issue Description

Found another infobox that becomes unreadable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Woodall Largely Legible Layman (talk) 18:00, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

✅Wyoming Highway 352 dark mode error

Issue Description

The bottom row of the template: "1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi" is light grey on white and consequently illegible. Largely Legible Layman (talk) 18:06, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Preferences dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T364285

Status bar on iOS Safari is still light color This can clash with the overall dark theme and make the rest of the page harder to read.

📢Infobox album dark mode error

Issue Description
On light mode, the headers on this template are a different colour to the usual white (See From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, where the album title and other headers are coloured orange). This helps to distinguish the headers from the other content, and it is color-coded so that particular types of albums (e.g. live albums or soundtrack albums) have differently coloured headers. On dark mode, this feature is non-existent - everything has the same background colour, making it more difficult to distinguish information. Thanks, SupremeLordBagel (talk) 22:01, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

📢The Cat Empire discography § Singles dark mode error

Issue Description
The N/a and TBA templates on this page stick out very noticeably, as they are much brighter in colour than the other info in the column. I would recommend making them look a little more subtle. Thanks, SupremeLordBagel (talk) 23:01, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

✅Task Center dark mode error

Issue Description
The headers are unreadable in dark mode, as they appear as white text on a white background. SupremeLordBagel (talk) 00:06, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

This one is fixed. Izno (talk) 14:30, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

📢Watchlist dark mode error

Issue Description When companies design a dark mode version of their website, the most important priority is color contrast. The current state of Wikipedia's dark mode keeps blue text from light mode the same color. However, the shade of blue should be slightly adjusted to contrast enough with the black background to make the text more readable. I've linked the watchlist page, which contains a lot of blue text, to demonstrate how it strains the eyes.

📢Firefangledfeathers dark mode error

Issue Description

Wikitext box background is white, should be black, no text is visible.

Is this reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Module:Contentious_topics/aware ? Jdlrobson (talk) 19:14, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

📢Dark mode error

Table's cells with color FFF are hard to read (Maybe make them more dark) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_products, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iPhone_models

📢2024 Russian presidential election dark mode error

Issue Description The Link colors could be a softer/ shade of blue in dark mode, so they don't so aggressively contrast with the white text. That's the only issue I'm seeing. The shade of gray works. This applies to the general interface, not just this article.

✅ VisualEditor Citoid Manual.png dark mode error

Issue Description

✅Homepage dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T368795

Issue Description I can’t use dark mode unless i am logged in to a Wikipedia account.

🐛Greek alphabet dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description The side panel table showing the full Greek alphabet includes an SVG image file showing "Aα...Ωω". However, when using dark mode, the text in the image remains black, making it difficult to read against the dark background.

🐛WelcomeSurvey dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370079

Issue Description

📢🐛 Twinkle dark mode error

Twinkle drop down menus unreadable in dark mode When using the Twinkle gadget for tasks such as warning vandals, I have observed that, with dark mode enabled, the text in drop down menus is nearly unreadable as the text colour has changed to white but the background colour of the dropdown has remained the same white colour. DigitalChutney (talk) 17:22, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal Jdlrobson (talk) 00:26, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Looks like this was fixed? As I understand it, Twinkle uses mw.util.addPortlet and mw.util.addPortletLink, so the styles should be fully controlled by the skin without any changes needed to Twinkle. — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:58, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

📢Odetari dark mode error

Some table colours directly contrast the colours of dark mode by using a white, which contradicts the point of dark mode. This is likely an error since it does not contrast the colours of light mode when in light mode.

🐛Special:Contributions dark mode error

Go to the contributions of a partially-blocked user (pick one here). The block notice near the top has white text on a yellow background, making it completely unreadable. Site-wide blocks are unaffected. Rummskartoffel (talk) 17:48, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

This was supposed to be fixed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.css#Interface-protected_edit_request_on_5_May_2024 so I followed up there. Jon (WMF) (talk) 16:53, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

📢Comment from User:GoldMX

I'm a huge fan of Dark Mode across all platforms, but some do it better than others...unfortunately, y'all have great intentions but the execution suffers..."garish" is the word that comes to mind...the colour choices for the hyperlinks need rethinking amongst other things, a softer "white" for the text would also be something I'd look at, a light gray perhaps? I know you want to keep to your proven theme, but a rethink beofre just reversing the colour palette would be suggested. Good first effort, needs work though.

📢List of Mac models dark mode error

Light tables and light timelines.

❓Preferences dark mode error

Issue Description

@Odonnellb: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail? Thanks. --SCP-2000 (talk) 07:08, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛PDF dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T369391

The .flaggedrevs-color-1 sets light background without changing text colour, so the revision history of an article with pending changes protection is completely illegible in the dark mode. Pending and unreviewed are probably affected too.

📢Community portal dark mode error

Issue Description The signpost is still in light mode and the help out titles are still in light mode

• Fixed the signpost box. Izno (talk) 02:20, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Chroma subsampling dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description The black text of the first image which is transparent is hard to read.

🐛 Homepage dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370454

Tip popup after confirming my e-mail for my account is still in light mode

The text says: "Welcome to your homepage! You can always click on your username to return here. ..."

🐛Hexadecimal dark mode error

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Task T370074

Dark mode incompatible with alpha channel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal has the "Bibi-binary" image and the "Ronald..." image that are just all black in dark mode. This has been very common since the advent of the Dark Reader plugin (and similar) and can be fixed by making the background for all images off-white, or automatically "flattening" the alpha channel from all images.

❓InvalidateEmail/3c0192d958d6e0a239d96f5ed2a45d78 dark mode error

Issue Description

✅ Lists of political office-holders in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia dark mode error

Issue Description Most table contents are invisible, except for the header and marked rows.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Officeholder_table_start Jdlrobson (talk) 00:25, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Kuratowski closure axioms dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuratowski_closure_axioms#Definition, the backgrounds of the boxes are white, and the text is black. Furthermore, the equations are impossible to see.

❓[List of countries by total fertility rate dark mode error

Issue Description there area little bug when you editing a value of country , pay attention

📢Screenshot of Google Sites editing.png dark mode error

Issue Description White text in the template is unreadable with a light purple background.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Non-free_use_rationale Jdlrobson (talk) 00:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

📢Main Page dark mode error

When I switch to dark mode in my login in English Wikipedia, it does not replicate the dark mode in other languages.

🐛The Righteous Gemstones dark mode error

Issue Description In "Episodes" section, episode title rows display as dark text on a white background, which is very jarring against the otherwise dark mode screen.

Needs reporting to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Episode_list Jdlrobson (talk) 00:21, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

✅ Contents/Portals dark mode error

Issue Description Light on light tables, nearly unreadable

Fix to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/styles.css is required. Jdlrobson (talk) 00:19, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Jadwiga of Poland dark mode error

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Task T370074

Issue Description

The main picture on this page is black on black until you click on it. Largely Legible Layman (talk) 00:07, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Homotopy lifting property dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description

In the formal definition section, the commutative diagram is difficult to read, since the arrows and text in the diagram and the background are both black. This only occurs on the browser version of the wiki page; on the mobile app version, the background of the commutative diagram is white, while the text in the diagram is black, and the background of the entire page is black with white text.

I think a better fix would be to make the text in the commutative diagram white, if possible.

This old entry from July 13 was blocked by an abuse filter. I've rescued it from the logs. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 05:10, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Phase-change memory dark mode error

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Task T370074

Issue Description

🤖📢 Cosmetics dark mode error

Issue Description The link colour of the “improve this section” text in the “Globalize section” template is too dark when in dark mode. This is however only when logged in, and I am using gadgets like Twinkle which might cause it.

I can make a screenshot, I wasn’t sure if I am allowed to just straight upload to MediaWiki.org or if I have to upload it to something like imgur?

I forgot how to properly test and disable gadgets and other beta functions easily, so feel free to ignore this report. It does happen with all browser plugin disabled on both Firefox and Safari, as long as I am logged in. Cepeli (talk) 19:07, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

📢🐛 Oblique projection dark mode error

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Task T370074

Issue Description

In the section "Military projection" / "Examples", the SVG graphics are displayed in an unreadable way, everything is very dark, practically unreadable. Opening only the graphics allows to see it properly.

Additional (general) note

The text in the dark mode is too bright (probably pure white), it hurts the eyes.

IMHO, for comfortable reading in a dark environment (as the dark mode is meant mostly for that), the text should be light grey (not too dark either!). With pure white, the contrast is way too strong, not comfortable for the eyes.

I understand there are some options to customize it, but maybe balancing it slightly better by default is worth considering.

BIG THANKS!!!

THUMBS UP FOR THE DARK MODE IN WIKIPEDIA!!!! AT LAST!!! I was waiting for this for YEARS, wondering when finally Wikipedia devs will stop confusing computer screen with paper (as is the case of majority of applications since Microsoft Word entered the scene and everyone followed...).

I was forced to use resource consuming "Dark mode" plugin to be able to read the articles.

As for me you can abandon the "light mode" and help people save their eyes (though probably it must be kept for those reading Wikipedia on the beach, in the desert, while skiing etc. ;-)

Thank you for the effort providing the Dark mode in Wikipedia!

🐛 Miguel Zambrano dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description Sport wrestling symbol in the stub template is black on black, invisible.

✅Conservation status dark mode error

Issue Description Labels of conservation status shorthand dark grey on black, nearly unreadable.

🐛Diffusion equation dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

Issue Description The equations are white text on a white background and therefore impossible to read.

✅WikiProject Council/Directory dark mode error

Issue Description Project directory forces light mode

• This is more or less fixed. Inputbox allows a manual color to be added with wikitext like <inputbox>bgcolor=white</inputbox> which should probably have a dark mode workaround. Izno (talk) 02:30, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

✅Tahoma (typeface) dark mode error

Issue Description In the infobox, every link shows up as unclicked blue links, whether the page has been clicked on or doesn't exist.

📢The Ashes dark mode error

Issue Description Dark mode is too dark and the white text bleeds, the dark background should be more like grayish and not pitch black

❓Cathy Freeman dark mode error

Issue Descriptiondoesn’t work all the time

🐛Watchlist dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370423

--Trương Mạnh Dinh (talk) 06:21, 18 July 2024 (UTC) Issue Description

✅Epping railway station, Sydney dark mode error

Issue Description The "Services to" are too dark in the infobox.

❓JMGN dark mode error

Issue Description

@Cevap86: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail? Thanks. --SCP-2000 (talk) 17:58, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Redirects from shortcuts dark mode error

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Task T370074

Issue Description

✅Pending AfC submissions dark mode error

Issue Description [[w:en:

Wikipedia:Article alerts/Bot use warning]] if transcluded onto that page, but the font color is not white.

Issue with Cmbox, specifically html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cmbox Jon (WMF) (talk) 17:40, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Froude number dark mode error

Issue Description

See the section "Definition and main application."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froude_number#Definition_and_main_application

Equations in the green boxes are not readable. They switch to black text. The white page background flips to black. But the light green stays the same, so you get white on light green.

Fix idea: these math symbols need to not flip from black to white. Either manually (some flag set by wiki editor) or automatically (never flip if it's in a box with manually set background).

I don't know how to achieve the fix.

--Officiallyover (talk) 18:30, 19 July 2024 (UTC). Wikipedia talk page.

We're discussing this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Equation_box_1#Dark_mode Jon (WMF) (talk) 18:40, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

📢CrowdStrike dark mode error

Color of the links

Great to see the dark mode on Wikipedia, however the color of the links in dark mode can be difficult to read. Here are potential improvements could be done in terms of accessibility:

• Increase the contrast ratio between text and background: The color of the links should be a brighter color that contrasts more with the background color.
• Use a different color for visited links: If you are going to update the color of links, please assure to update the color of visited links as well, which currently is dark purple, which is even more difficult to see against the dark background.

Thanks for the efforts --Mehran (talk) 23:15, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Toys (film) dark mode error

Issue Description Under the section "Soundtrack", the dark mode settings do not adjust on the table used in this section.

📢Protection policy dark mode error

Issue Description The "Are you in the right place?" boxes below are white

🐛List of MythBusters episodes dark mode error

Issue Description The tables are not in dark mode.

❓️Preferences dark mode error

Dark mode is not turned on when the settings are saved.

I tried to open up a dark mode in the settings, but when I clicked save, It switched back to light mode! I have no idea what happened. This bug only exists in the classic version but not in this version.

This is a but that needs to be fixed.

Lots of love, Ayham

2A00:F29:248:703C:41EC:97AC:C09F:995A 06:45, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Is it possible you are trying to use the gadget? The gadget doesnt work on preferences page for security reasons. Jdlrobson (talk) 19:39, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

✅ List of trigonometric identities dark mode error

Issue Description The background of four tables remains in light colors, making the content unreadable. Here are listed the Sections with a problematic table:

1. Angle sum and difference identities
2. Multiple-angle and half-angle formulae (x2)
3. Relation to the complex exponential function

✅Definite matrix dark mode error

Issue Description in the #Definitions section, the background colour of the Equation boxes is not updated, whereas the text colour is, making white text on a white background, which is not readable

🐛Dark mode error on history listings on pages with pending changes protection set

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T369391

Issue Description: Articles with pending changes protection have history entries that are basically unreadable in dark mode. For example, en:Eglinton, County Londonderry looks like this. It looks like .flaggedrevs-color-1 is set to a specific background color intended for light mode: background-color: #eaf3ff;.

❓Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 July 20 dark mode error

Issue Description When I go to edit an article, anything that is NOT a link is grey text on white background. --Jax 0677 (talk) 21:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

@Jax 0677 Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail and provide the screenshot if possible? Thanks. SCP-2000 (talk) 03:07, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛 Soulfly dark mode error

Issue Description At {{Soulfly }}, the actual link for Soulfly is an extremely dark grey that is difficult to see on a black background. --Jax 0677 (talk) 22:03, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Being tracked here JScherer-WMF (talk) 18:27, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

❓Main Page dark mode error

Issue Description: It just doesn't work. Anywhere. On any page

@PrinceEKC: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail and provide the screenshot if possible? Thanks. --SCP-2000 (talk) 03:12, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛2024 CrowdStrike incident (actually applies to any editable page) dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T365311

Issue Description Source editing with dark mode and syntax highlighting both on results in plain text having very low contrast with the editing window.

✅Horsepower dark mode error

Issue Description

Running English Wikipedia in dark mode, most stuff looks pretty great! I do see some diagrams ending up with low contrast such as this SVG diagram snapshotted on the w:Horsepower article:

The text and markings in the image are solid black on a transparent background, which shows through a dark gray from the infobox in dark mode. This ends up difficult to read.

Long-term ideal fix would be to allow SVGs to use theme-aware colors, but this would require some retooling. --Brooke Vibber (WMF) (talk) 14:53, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Added the phab task Jon (WMF) has been working on which would add a background colour to images in dark mode to catch these black lines on a black background bugs. JScherer-WMF (talk) 18:00, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370074

🐛 2024 Formula One World Championship dark mode error

Issue Description The overall points in the championship table for drivers and teams is coloured black on a black background and as a result it is unreadable

Tracked in F1_Drivers_Standings --JScherer-WMF (talk) 17:54, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Wikipedia Signpost/2024-07-04/In focus dark mode error

Issue Description On the title "The sign Post" the text gets highlighted as grey. Also the text "With this adminbot script, a user can be blocked for vandalism, spam, inappropriate or promotional username. If the script is used by admin, he could block user, hide his contribs and delete pages, created by him, with a single click. Non-admin can also cancel a block imposed by him." is hard to read, since it's grey on black.

🐛 Village pump (technical) dark mode error

Issue Description In dark mode, at {{Soulfly }}, the actual link for Soulfly is an extremely dark grey that is difficult to see on a black background. Also, when editing, anything that is NOT a link is grey text on a white background. It was not this way before. Does anyone know how to fix this? --Jax 0677 (talk) 21:36, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

✅ Hunter Line dark mode error

Issue Description The box below intercity stations is still in light mode

📢Sockpuppet investigations dark mode error

Issue Description The "How to open an investigation:" and the box when you open the section is still in light mode

feedback for Jdlrobson (talk) 19:45, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛 Report from User:Glutnix

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T366380

Issue Description

Dark mode appearance settings from Wikipedia are ignored on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events, which is linked from the main sidebar on Wikipedia.

✅ Cross-entropy dark mode error

Issue Description It appears that the display of mathematical expressions such as those in the boxes marked eq 1 and eq 2 are not displayed in dark mode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-entropy

🐛 Dirac equation dark mode error

Issue Description The boxed Dirac Equation in section "Covariant form and relativistic invariance" is not properly displayed in dark mode, probably because the box background and equation text are both white.

Tracking on Equation_box_1 --JScherer-WMF (talk) 17:34, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛 2024 Formula One World Championship dark mode error

Issue Description Black numbers and text on dark grey background in the "points" columns of the charts which show the standings for the drivers and constructor's championships. Low contrast, poor readability.

Reported bug on template talk page F1_Drivers_Standings --JScherer-WMF (talk) 17:33, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

✅2024 United States presidential election dark mode error

Issue Description Dark mode works, but the text remains black, making it impossible to read. This is site-wide for me

-- Wikipedia:TattooedLeprechaun (talk) 13:47, 22 July 2024 (UTC+1/IST)

I can't reproduce this. Is it possible that you have local CSS enabled for your profile or a gadget enabled that could be creating the issue? - JScherer-WMF

ping @TattooedLeprechaun: --SCP-2000 (talk) 17:01, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

@JScherer-WMF: Furthermore, you can type four tildes (~~~~) to add the signatures. --SCP-2000 (talk) 17:01, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! JScherer-WMF (talk) 17:32, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

I think it was just a glitch with Dark mode. It seems to have fixed itself now. @JScherer-WMF: Apologies. TattooedLeprechaun (talk) 12:42, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

🐛 Suggested edit popup dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T369588

Issue Description Suggested edits pop-up is not dark mode compatible. Pop up appeared after I made an edit. Kabelsalat22 (talk) 17:38, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

📢Cheatsheet dark mode error

Issue Description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet The entire chart of this article is a flash-bang in the darkness of dark mode.

✅ List of flagpoles by height dark mode error

Issue Description

The second item on this list "Saint Petersburg Flagpoles" is rendered in black on black, making it completely invisible. Largely Legible Layman (talk) 02:19, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛w:en:File:The alleged photo trump fist etc.png dark mode error

This is presumably not exclusive to that file, but text on the right in w:en:Template:Information and the preamble in w:en:Template:Self is not readable at all due to its very light color. Sdrqaz (talk) 02:48, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

❓Search dark mode error

Issue Description In search results, the snippets of article text are rendered as white text on a white background.

@Quick and Dirty User Account: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail and provide the screenshot if possible (you may upload the screenshot to imgbb.com)? Thanks. --SCP-2000 (talk) 03:56, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into this. I don’t know that I really can describe the issue better in words, but hopefully this screenshot will be worth a thousand of them. Please note that the issue occurs in Firefox. I now have loaded the same search results page in Chrome and Edge, and the background in question renders as black instead of white in those browsers, so the problem may be exclusive to Firefox. I admit that I sorely need to update the version of Firefox that I am using (107.0); therefore, it’s possible that the issue is attributable to that.—Quick and Dirty User Account (talk) 05:06, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

@Quick and Dirty User Account Thanks for your reply. I'm using the latest version of Firefox and I don't have this problem. So maybe you update your Firefox to the latest version? SCP-2000 (talk) 12:02, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

@SCP-2000: Indeed. I did finally update Firefox today to the current version (128.0.2). However, I am still having the search results issue. While the page is loading, those article snippets do briefly appear as white text on a black background, but the background changes to, and then remains, white. Thanks . . . Quick and Dirty User Account (talk) 02:37, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

It looks like you have a gadget enabled. I see an "English Wikipedia" dropdown by the search button which is not there by default. Any idea what gadget that is? Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-PrettyLog.css ? Jdlrobson (talk) 03:12, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

@Quick and Dirty User Account: Have you tried to using Firefox's private window and safemode? It seems to be a problem with your custom css/js, gadget or Firefox settings/extension. SCP-2000 (talk) 03:14, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestions. @Jdlrobson, I identified the gadget you mentioned; its function is listed as “Add a selector to the Wikipedia search page allowing the use of external search engines”. However, disabling it did not resolve the issue. @SCP-2000, neither using a private window nor running Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode (formerly Safe Mode) fixed the problem either. I also tried changing the website appearance setting in Firefox from automatic to dark; switching the preferred language for displaying pages to different dialects of English; and disabling the extensions and restoring the default theme manually. Additionally, I tried disabling some of the Wikipedia gadgets individually. Nothing changed in regard to the issue.—Quick and Dirty User Account (talk) 10:04, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Update: the backgrounds still come up as white, but the text is now black, so the article snippets are entirely legible. Not sure whether the change was on my end or at the source, but thank you again, @SCP-2000 and @Jdlrobson.—Quick and Dirty User Account (talk) 08:43, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

It is en:MediaWiki:Gadget-PrettyLog. Please disable it if you want to remove the highlight. Jdlrobson (talk) 19:56, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Ah, you are correct, @Jdlrobson. PrettyLog doesn’t seem to do what it’s meant to anyway (and its help page is marked as inactive). Thank you!—Quick and Dirty User Account (talk) 21:41, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

📢2024 CrowdStrike incident dark mode error

Issue Description The blue hyperlinks are too dark to be read easily on the dark background. It seems obvious, but the hyperlinks should be changed into a lighter shade of blue to compensate. (Article I happened to be reading was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident) - Jetro (talk) 06:59, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛 Bar chart dark mode error

Issue Description Chart does not appear in dark mode. White text on a white background. See September 11th Attacks. Added comment to talk page--Kabelsalat22 (talk) 15:52, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

This should now be fixed, Rjjiii (talk) 20:38, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

✅Java version history dark mode error

Issue Description This page includes a table of software releases. The first column contains colored boxes (e.g. red for unsupported) and text for the version. On light mode, the text within is black and is quite readable. On dark mode, the text is a light gray and nearly impossible to read, especially in the yellow and green colored boxes. If it could be modified so that it's still readable on dark mode, that would be appreciated.

Also, the last column has several boxes with a `—` in them, which are colored light gray. This looks fine on light mode, but on dark mode it comes across as several cells that are stuck on light mode. Not sure what the solution is to this; maybe just getting rid of the light gray background entirely? –Thunderforge (talk) 18:25, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

📢C dark mode error

Issue Description Inline code and code blocks are rendered in light mode, while the rest of the article is in dark mode. The section "Lambda expressions" shows both. -Thunderforge (talk) 18:30, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

I've run into this issue on most pages that display code. Elm (Programming Language) being one example. IntangibleMatter (talk) 00:13, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

Could it be possible for the editors to get the mode of the code block, or the coloring they prefer? Eason Y. Lu (talk) 22:13, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

🐛"Report an issue with dark mode" doesn't generate the correct title for articles with non-letters

Issue Description If the article title has non-letters in it, the "Report an issue with dark mode" doesn't generate a report with the correct title. Reproduction steps:

1. Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++

• • If it matters, I'm doing this on my Safari web browser on macOS 14.5, which displays the URL in the address bar as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B

2. Click the "Report an issue with dark mode" link on the article's sidebar, near the light/dark mode settings

3. Observe that the report title is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++ C ] dark mode error, which replaces the ++ with two spaces.

In this particular case, it was confusing because there is also a thing called "C" that is related, but distinct from "C++". -Thunderforge (talk) 18:41, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛Empire of the Sultans dark mode error

Issue Description On today's featured article, the end of the article after "External Links" is a box of article links with the title "Nasser David Khalili". The title is nearly illegible in dark mode, appearing as dark brown text. —Thunderforge (talk) 18:46, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

This is being discussed in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Navbox#c-Jonesey95-20240723180300-Jdlrobson-20240723175900 Jdlrobson (talk) 22:20, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

🐛 2024 North Carolina Tar Heels football team dark mode error

Issue Description As I was browsing the schedule section, I found that the dates and kickoff times remained black. I also found that hyperlinks remained a dark purple colour.

If these fonts could be changed to a lighter color, such as white, it would make dark mode a much better experience.

Issue in . Jdlrobson (talk) 16:16, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Reported https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:CFB_schedule#Dark_mode_support Jdlrobson (talk) 19:04, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

📢Help:Menu dark mode error

Issue Description The text field and button are in dark mode, along with the "Tip of the day" section, but everything else in light mode. –Thunderforge (talk) 18:56, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

✅️Translation to english arrow.svg dark mode error

Issue Description This file contains a symbol, an arrow, and the letter A. The symbol and letter A are a dark gray, which are difficult to read on dark mode.

This file is used on 85,716 articles, mostly via the Template:Expand language family of templates. For example Nguyễn Phú Trọng (a recent "In the news" article) has it. Improving the legibility of this file will consequently improve the legibility of the tens of thousands of articles that contain this image. -Thunderforge (talk) 19:08, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

✅️The Keys to the White House - Wikipedia dark mode error

Issue Description:

In this page The Keys to the White House - Wikipedia on the Table for Lichtman's prediction record, the sections with the text that Leans True/False are black in dark mode, thus rendering the text invisible unhighlighted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ainny27 (talk • contribs)

📢 Report by User:Hypersilly

Issue Description

On dark mode, tables or whatever you call them are still white when in dark mode.

For example, on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names#Compounds, the table is white on both light and dark mode.

✅️Report by User:Ainny27

Issue Description:

In this page The Keys to the White House - Wikipedia on the Table for Lichtman's prediction record, the sections with the text that Leans True/False are black in dark mode, thus rendering the text invisible unhighlighted.

✅Wizardry dark mode error

Issue Description

For the big table in the Games section of the Wikipedia article on the Wizardy video-game series, the majority of the text in that table was the exact same colour as the table's background, and thus completely invisible.

📢Template:Endorsements box dark mode error

Issue Description en:Template:Endorsements box does not change when dark mode is enabled (still has white background with black text). This can be seen in the template documentation, see here for an example in a page.

📢Talk:1912 suspension of Ty Cobb dark mode error

Issue Description Talk pages such as this one (chosen because it's a recent featured article) have a [reply] link after each section. That link is dark blue, which is difficult to see in dark mode. I don't see any reason why it needs to be a different color than the [edit] or [subscribe] links. -Thunderforge (talk) 05:07, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

❓Rhenium dark mode error

Issue Description

❓[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_&_the_Beast_(2012_TV_series) Beauty

Issue Description

@Stam098c: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail and provide the screenshot if possible (you may upload the screenshot to imgbb.com)? Thanks. --SCP-2000 (talk) 04:12, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

✅2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum dark mode error

Issue Description

Under the Results section, in the table, the text on rows 5-6 column 1 ("Valid votes" and "Invalid/blank votes") look invisible because the text color is the same as the background color. The only way to read it is by selecting the text.

Issue with en:Module:Election_results not adhering to Special:LintErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color. Jdlrobson (talk) 18:59, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

✅ Algebra dark mode error

Images with transparent backgrounds may become illegible

An example of this in action is in the English page on Algebra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra where the images in the upper right box have formulas with black text, which becomes illegible on a dark background.

✅️Exact trigonometric values dark mode error

Issue Description Dear Wikipedia Team, I am writing to bring your attention to an accessibility issue I noticed in the trigonometry diagram on the page "Exact trigonometric values" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_trigonometric_values). The current dark mode version of the diagram has poor visibility of the x and y axis arrows. The black arrows are nearly invisible against the dark background, which significantly reduces the diagram's clarity and usefulness for users viewing the page in dark mode. To address this issue, I suggest:

Changing the color of the axis arrows in the dark mode version to a light color (e.g., white or light gray) to ensure proper contrast. Reviewing other diagrams on the site to ensure they are equally legible in both light and dark modes.

This change would greatly improve the accessibility and readability of the content for all users, particularly those who rely on or prefer dark mode. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Wikipedia's commitment to open knowledge is commendable, and addressing this issue will further enhance the user experience for your global audience.

The issue you're facing with the dark mode version of the trigonometry diagram is that the black arrows representing the x and y axes are not visible against the dark background.

✅️ Report by User:Aayush jadhav007

Issue Description: The transparent images aren't visible appropriately due to dark mode.

@Aayush jadhav007: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail (e.g. which page) and provide the screenshot if possible (you may upload the screenshot to imgbb.com)? Thanks. --SCP-2000 (talk) 16:56, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

I encountered on this wiki page about diols(in organic chemistry) [2] in dark mode.

The screenshot of the issue [3]. I do understand it's because of transparent background and black color of text, but it is pretty inconvenient. Aayush jadhav007 (talk) 17:31, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

✅️ Talk:2020 United States presidential election dark mode error

Issue Description

1. Under "Other talk page banners", click "Show"
2. Under "Consensuses on pre-election presentation of candidates", click "Show"

The entire template that is revealed is illegible due to appearing as black text on a dark brown background.

✅️2020 United States presidential election dark mode error

Issue Description The "Close states" section of the article has legibility problems. The dark red lines are odd but readable, while the dark blue lines are completely unreadable. Similarly, the "County statistics" section following it has problems with the dark blue percentages.

📢Freshwater snail dark mode error

Issue Description (1) i have an issue with link color seems to dark against black back ground and hard tell apart visited links

(2) when in bright light as outdoor, reflections on the screen are more notissable

Articles for deletion/Nonperson dark mode error

Issue Description The box has a white background with black text, defeating the purpose of dark mode. This applies to all closed AfDs (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2024_July_14) and many tables and templates. Helpful Cat (talk) 08:35, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/examine/log/38326790 dark mode error

Issue Description The table shown has light grey text on a white background, making it completely unreadable. Rummskartoffel (talk) 08:45, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

❓general dark mode error

Issue Description This happens on all pages, but it seems even pages that don’t exist show as blue. I think it’s a general dark mode error.

📢Love on Top of Love dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T365311

Issue Description

The shade of blue used to differentiate links when syntax highlighting is enabled in the source editor is an awful choice which makes it nigh impossible to make out what is written — there is far too little contrast between it and the color of the background, they blend together. In the article I'm reporting from, this can be seen anywhere & everywhere links appear (for example: the infobox), and is an issue not just here, but on every page.

Known issue. Jdlrobson (talk) 05:00, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

📢Imperial Chemical Industries dark mode error

U4C banner is not dark mode aware

The U4C election banner on Wikipedia is not dark mode aware, and uses hard coded white background with black text. This occurs on any page, even the homepage.

--Deanna Earley (talk) 22:32, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Banners are intentionally light themed only right now per phab:T365324#9818110. Jdlrobson (talk) 05:00, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

❓Watchlist dark mode error

Issue Description When editing source code for any article, the background is white and the article text color is so light that it is unreadable. This makes source code editing very inconvenient and pretty much impossible. Ltwin (talk) 02:58, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

@Ltwin: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail and provide the screenshot if possible (you may upload the screenshot to imgbb.com)? If you are logged out, do you face to the same issue? Thanks. SCP-2000 (talk) 14:00, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

✅Northeast blackout of 1965 dark mode error

Issue Description Wikipedia's dark mode makes all unhighlighted parts of the map at the top of the page appear in a washed-out gray color. It is hard to distinguish North America from the oceans and the state/province borders are not clear. However, the Dark Reader extension produces a much more readable map when activated.

🐛Articles for creation/Categories dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T369391

Issue Description Highlighted text is illegible, FlaggedRevs related issue. History page.

📢Thermoelectric effect dark mode error

Issue Description Dark mode contrast is too high. Even though the background is not pure black, the #101418 color is too dark on LCD screens with good backlight "bleed" control or OLED panels. The eye discomfort due to high contrast is less intense on poor quality LCD displays because the backlight makes the background less dark. Also dimming the text color a bit could help.

✅Report by User:Robbert o biond

Issue Description While consulting the webside in dark mode, both from mobile application and via desktop (browser), content as images (especially symbols or latex diagrams, loaded as images) blend into background. An example is the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullback_(category_theory). Maybe a forst solution would be adding a white background to prevent such contents to show up messy or unreadable.

❓Report by User:MarsatzBrand142

Issue Description Some of the lines in the templates are white and others are not.

@MarsatzBrand142: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail (e.g. which pages) and provide the screenshot if possible (you may upload the screenshot to imgbb.com)? --SCP-2000 (talk) 14:10, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

📢Report by User:Woodge200000

Issue Description

enabling dark mode does not make any wikipedia page dark except for the "preferences" page. after opening an article, there is a split-second where it is dark and then it immediately defaults back to a blinding white.

You have the gadget enabled. Please disable the gadget per these instructions. Jdlrobson (talk) 02:07, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

cc User:Woodge200000. You may see above comment. --SCP-2000 (talk) 16:44, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

📢Main Page dark mode error

Issue Description I'm on the main page, and there is a link which I've visited before (in this case, it is World War 1) When the link I've visited is highlighted in the dark blue (as opposed to the light blue for unvisited links), the lack of contrast with the background makes it hard to read. (disregard - I had a custom CSS style applied that was causing this!)

📢Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election dark mode error

Issue Description The colors for clicked hyperlinks for all articles could be improved. The purple could be brighter, or at least lighter.

📢Second Industrial Revolution dark mode error

Issue Description The chronology section on the Second Industrial Revolution page is still a block of white with blue links. Unknown if this is applicable on other pages Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Industrial_Revolution

📢Table cell templates dark mode error

Issue with Not Yet template When using Dark Mode, the Not Yet template retains its light color. The N/a template, however, changes color to match the mode. If this is the wrong location, please let me know.Redacted II (talk) 01:44, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

✅Glyphosate dark mode error

Issue Description Problem is, that all organic structures are pngs with black molecules on them, therefore dark mode is unusuable for the whole organic chemistry part.

📢List of Pokémon dark mode error

Issue Description Dark theme isn't staying enabled, as soon as I reload the page or enter a new one, it just automatically switches back to light theme.

You have the gadget enabled. Please disable the gadget per these instructions. Jdlrobson (talk) 21:51, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Goo Hara dark mode error

Issue Description The banner that displays when you use a VPN and try to edit a page with it (This IP address has been blocked from editing Wikipedia.) is completelly off. All yellow and text unredable.

✅List of highest-grossing media franchises dark mode error

Issue Description The List present in the article has its text staying in the same color in dark mode and light mode, making it dificult to read in the former.

📢Main Page dark mode error

Issue Description

Everywhere it makes it so laggy to scroll the website, I'm not sure why but I regularly encounter an input delay of 1-2 seconds scrolling through a page. No individual page, this happens everywhere

You have the gadget enabled. Please disable the gadget per these instructions. Jdlrobson (talk) 11:36, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

LMS Coronation Class dark mode error

Issue Description Trying to edit using the source editor - the source editor is still shown in light mode instead of dark mode.

Sequent calculus dark mode error

Issue Description Section: Reduction Trees https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sequent_calculus&wvprov=sticky-header#Reduction_trees

The table with left/right math formulae is white on white, making it unreadable. My math display style preference is SVG.

Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament dark mode error

Issue Description Could not read the dark text in the tables on this page.

Dot chart dark mode error

Issue Description Regarding, en:Template:Dot chart: the template's text is unreadable in dark mode. This is visible on the /doc page. The template is not used in any articles currently. Rjjiii (talk) 23:17, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

It's fixed, Rjjiii (talk) 00:08, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Labour movement dark mode error

Issue Description Originally reported by User:Etothepi16. The color of the infobox title "Part of a series on" is black against a black background, but other links are perfectly readable. See also the screenshot. --SCP-2000 (talk) 04:37, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Javanese script dark mode error

Sections: any table. All Latin characters blend completely into the white background

Sulfur trioxide dark mode error

Issue Description There's an issue when displaying chemical articles in dark mode.

The main issues are with:

1. NFPA coloring in the right sidebar (global issue)
2. Structural formulas with transparent backgrounds at the top (*.png and the likes)

While the NFPA background may be forced to remain white within the diamond itself (e.g. via CSS), no quick fix comes to mind with the structure display.

Search dark mode error

Issue Description

Editing a page in dark mode, get an error message about taking too long, use a faster browser, and the screen changes to dark grey with light grey letters... Almost unreadable... and not usable. Quebec99 (talk) 12:46, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

✅K dark mode error

Issue Description The links in the History table are black.

WikiProject Military history dark mode error

Issue Description Black text on page does not invert when in dark mode. Almost impossible to read.

🐛Homepage dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T372064

Issue Description

the message:

Wikipedia is built by people like you working together.

Your edits help improve Wikipedia and further the mission to share free knowledge with the world. Continue to start with small suggested edits.

uses dark text and its verry hard to read, it should be white text. this happens on my home page

Reference desk dark mode error

Issue Description The Reference desk page has its primary button section is in bright white while using, at least for the Vector 2022 layout under darkmode.

✅Hindi dark mode error

Issue Description Black SVG image in the infobox and similar images below are not visible in dark mode Kabelsalat22 (talk) 17:36, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

"This article is part of a series about" switches text color and isn't accessible

On en.wikipedia:Emmanuel_Macron the "This article is part of a series about" text switches from white to a more black text, with the background not changing color since it's likely derived from a color for his political party or some specific color for French politics. "This article is part of a series about" is then not readable, but "Emmanuel Macron" is readable for both light and dark mode as it's white over the same dark blue background for both.

✅ Arbitration Committee/Procedures dark mode error

(No summary. Probably "List of contentious topics") Jdlrobson (talk) 11:36, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Template is w:Template:Contentious topics/table Matrix (talk) 11:30, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components dark mode error

In the source editor, when syntax highlighting is enabled and the choice of colors is "Automatic" but ends up being dark, the unhighlighted parts of the text that ought to have the default color stay illegibly dark on black background instead of turning light. At least in Firefox. The problem doesn't manifest when the "Dark" option is explicitly selected in the appearance menu. MwGamera (talk) 21:23, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

🐛Homepage dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T372064

Issue Description There are articles that use transparent images where the only color is black, obviously making it difficult to read. One of the articles is List of musical symbols.

Suggested Edit modal highlights are unreadable

Issue Description After going to any suggested edit, the side-modal with quick start tips shows "Reaching Mercury from Earthh poses significant technical challenges.", with the typo highlighted with a red background.

However in Darkmode, it's completely blacked out.

Using the default skin (Vector 2022).

OneShot-Niko (talk) 17:29, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

📢dark mode error

Issue Description Too high contrast in dark mode, it's difficult to read

a little lighter background would help a lot — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mightypork (talk • contribs)

✅️Alice of Champagne dark mode error

Issue Description Under the "Childhood" section is a genealogy tree. It has a header "Genealogy of the ruling houses of Jerusalem and Champagne", which is dark gray and thus is illegible in dark mode. This is today's feature article, so it is important to fix it.

2024 Summer Olympics dark mode error

Issue Description In the infobox logo, the words "Paris 2024" are black on the dark gray background, which are difficult to read.

Aya Nakamura dark mode error

Issue Description This template has a header "Aya Nakamura". It is dark gray, which is nearly impossible to read in dark mode.

Transition metal dark mode error

Issue Description dark mode needs to be more pastel, the used colors are too bright try to use the gray color for the background

🐛Homepage dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T372064

Issue Description Some text boxes such as the "Suggested Edits" page on my account homepage are showing with little to no contrast. This makes it near impossible to read.

🐛Homepage dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T372064

Issue Description On the special logged in homepage the images for the most viewed edits are color inverted and appear demonic

🐛SJ AB dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T372205

Issue Description Links to non-existing articles are marked blue instead of red.

Safari version history: dark mode error

Issue Description Some links are illegible. (non existent article, issue relating to interface message.)

Existence dark mode error

Issue Description I cannot see the existential quantifier on the home page on en.wikipedia.org on Aug 6th, 2024. The entry is "Existence". If I open the Existence entry through the link, I can correctly see the existential quantifier.

Report by User:Billv22

Issue Description

It seems like on some articles, the "Part of a series on..." board can mix the color of the text with the dark mode, therefore making the text invisible unless I select it,

Unfortunately I can't upload a picture, but this happened on the wikipedia page for the chromosomes.

✅️Report by User:PitConclave

Issue Description

On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SVG_help, the background colour of the box is hard-coded to #F2E6FF, which causes the now-white headings like "General suggestions" to be very difficult to read.'

✅ 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament dark mode error

Issue Description

Tournament Bracket section has white text on white background in the regional final template (black text in light mode)

Sfn dark mode error

Issue Description Template:Sfn and Template:Harv renderings are not visible/blend in with dark background and can only be seen when highlighted by cursor. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sfn#Usage)

✅️Tabletennisbox dark mode error

Issue Description

The template is not legible in dark mode. This affects a huge amount of pages such as Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's team.

✅ Report by User:JohanWikiPaul

Issue Description

The Math symbol is still dark colored in dark theme, which is more suitable in white or way lighter color rather than black text.'

@JohanWikiPaul: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail (e.g. which pages) and provide the screenshot if possible (you may upload the screenshot to imgbb.com)? Thanks.--SCP-2000 (talk) 17:45, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

I was on Wikipedia homepage at the time, and there's a Math symbol as the thumbnail article preface and it was in dark text colored symbol. I forgot what the details and the URL, sorry about that.

But now, when I read Math related article with Math symbol images in it, the dark theme is as expected. JohanWikiPaul (talk) 12:54, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

@JohanWikiPaul: Thanks for your reply. Feel free to file a new bug report if you see another issue. SCP-2000 (talk) 17:39, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

📢Nikki Bella dark mode error

Issue Description The blue on links looks dimmed on black background. I think this "hue" of blue is for black text on white bg, and a cyan would work better for white text on black bg.

✅ Iraq War/GA1 dark mode error [non existent page]

Issue Description [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Iraq_War/GA1&action=edit&editintro=Template:GAN/editintro&preload=Template:GAN/preload editintro renders text in white, making it barely legible.

The issue seems to be w:en:Template:GAN/editintro, but that is displayed okay when looking at that template's page. Not sure why issues occur when it's as an edit notice. Sdrqaz (talk) 22:05, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

✅️Regular graph (section Special cases dark mode difficulty

Dark mode makes the edges (i.e., connections between the nodes) more difficult (although not impossible) to see correctly.

🐛 Crocuta dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T372205

links to non-existent pages show the same colour as normal links within the infobox

Issue Description

🐛 Report by User:Psinclairshaw

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T369588#10004348

Issue Description The dark mode colors make the lettering a very similar colour to the background colour, making it difficult to read. I found this on the 'Try a suggested edit' bottom pop-up.

✅ArticleHistory template

w:en:Template:ArticleHistory has dark text on a "dirty" yellow background under the "Article milestones" mini-header. See w:en:Talk:Frank Sinatra for an example of the issue. Thanks, Sdrqaz (talk) 23:47, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

For clarity, the text is illegible (so not general feedback). Sdrqaz (talk) 12:31, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

DownloadAsPdf dark mode error

Issue Description

TCP congestion control dark mode error

I have tried the new Dark mode. It's in contrast with the bright text color (white) and hyperlink color(Blue). In my opinion it would be better to put a darkish gray or gray-brown color.

Dependency hell dark mode error

Issue Description Preformatted code blocks still use the light mode color scheme.

Nations at the 2016 Summer Olympics dark mode error

Issue Description Black on black text in the template header.

✅ P-T extinction graphical timeline dark mode error

Issue Description Black on black text

❓ Mok dark mode error

Issue Description

✅ Template:Editnotices/Group/Wikipedia:Arbitration

w:en:Template:Editnotices/Group/Wikipedia:Arbitration, acting as an edit notice on w:en:Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment, is pretty much illegible on dark mode. There's already some dark mode markup by Snowmanonahoe, but it doesn't seems to be fully working. Thanks, Sdrqaz (talk) 01:56, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Template wizard dark mode error

This isn't specific to the page I was editing, but I'm unable to figure out how to report this issue otherwise on MediaWiki: The title bar for the template wizard (css class .ext-templatewizard-templatetitlebar) is unreadable because:

• the text color is set via load.php to the --color-base variable, #eaecf0
• the background color is set inline, and to #f8f9fa.

I hope that's helpful enough!

Spida-tarbell (talk) 04:13, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

@Spida-tarbell: Could you give a screenshot of the issue (you can upload to imgur and send link)? Matrix (talk) 09:21, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Southern Poverty Law Center dark mode error

Issue Description

The SVG image with the SPLC logo at the top of the page has very low contrast (black on grey) in dark mode.

--Kulupona (talk) 14:23, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

❓ Report by User:Guilhfer

Issue Description

Tha main content is shown in light mode (white background and other elements), but the text has changed to adapt to a dark background, making it impossible to read unless the text is highlighted.

@Guilhfer: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail (e.g. which pages) and provide the screenshot if possible (you may upload the screenshot to imgbb.com)? SCP-2000 (talk) 17:43, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

🐛Brainfuck dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T365926

The syntaxhighlight extension always displays a code snippet in light mode regardless of what the user has selected.

Novitiate dark mode error

Issue Description the link to Secular institution at the bottom of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novitiate has a white gradient

🐛 dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370042

Issue Description

The background of unread notifications is too bright, making white text difficult to read. Once the notification has been clicked, its background turns darker, making it readable.

🤖 ✅ ToadetteEdit/common.js dark mode error

Issue Description When clicking "Manage user scripts", the content of the resulting box is almost illegible.

✅ Infobox rail service dark mode error

Issue Description

BSicon-based route diagram map has a white background despite having white text, making said text difficult to read.

🐛No dark mode on code snippet

Issue Description Code snippet doesn't have an intended appearance when enabled. If necessary, it should have an slightly gray color, and an thin white outline, if preferred.

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T365926

✅ The First Law dark mode error

Issue Description On the English-language page for "The First Law" fantasy book series, the first table under the "Published works" section has dark gray text in dark mode, making most of the rows almost unreadable.

📢Issue of Readability of Hyperlinks in Dark Mode

The current dark blue color of hyperlinks in Dark Mode on both the Wikipedia website and mobile app is difficult to read. The issue is the low contrast between the dark hyperlink color and the dark background.

This issue affects all articles and wiki pages across the entire Wikipedia platform, making it a general usability and accessibility concern.

I suggest changing the hyperlink color in Dark Mode to a brighter, more readable color, such as yellow (#FFFF00), to improve readability and accessibility for users who prefer Dark Mode.

🐛 Uno (card game) dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T373164

Issue Description The "latest accepted version" icons are black on a black background.

✅ Nitrous oxide dark mode error

Issue Description The links in the fire diamond are blue, causing one of them to blend in with the health part. --Antured (talk) 13:38, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

❓ Report by User:Felipeduquedeparma

Issue Description Names on location map displayed in black text over a black base, making them impossible to read without highlighting.

@Felipeduquedeparma: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail (e.g. which pages) and provide the screenshot if possible (you may upload the screenshot to imgbb.com)? SCP-2000 (talk) 16:27, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

✅Gaussian curvature dark mode error

Issue Description The text in the green bordered box stating the gauss-bonnet theorem remains black while in dark mode, making it almost impossible to read

❓ Report by User:High.Mars

Issue Description

Image of the Greek alphabet on the table on the side (Δδ) does not show up well on dark mode'

@High.Mars: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail (e.g. which pages) and provide the screenshot if possible (you may upload the screenshot to imgbb.com)? SCP-2000 (talk) 09:20, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

🐛 OCaml dark mode error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T365926

Issue Description <syntaxhighlight> tags do not respect the background, as found here.

❓ Homepage dark mode error

Some letters on my homepage are not inverting. This mainly includes suggested articles page and its settings.

@TitanXprime: Hello, could you please indicate which specific part of the suggested articles page and its settings has this issue, and provide a screenshot if possible (you may upload the screenshot to imgbb.com)? Thanks. SCP-2000 (talk) 01:45, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

❓ Main Page dark mode error

Issue Description Cannot read some texts.

@ZeetBaralWiki: Hello, could you please explain the issue you are facing in detail (e.g. which pages or which part in the page) and provide the screenshot if possible (you may upload the screenshot to imgbb.com)? Thanks. SCP-2000 (talk) 08:15, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election dark mode error

If you have "automatic" set, the text in the editor is unreadable. The text is black on black.

✅ Talk quote block/testcases dark mode error

Issue Description As can be seen at Template:Talk quote block/testcases#Archived, when the Talk quote block template is embedded inside an {{Archive top}}, the template's dark-mode TemplateStyles colors are inverted back to light mode. I attempted to apply the mw-no-invert class to the template's <blockquote> element, but if I'm reading the CSS applied by enWiki correctly (wrapped for readability):

@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .skin-invert-image img,
  html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .skin-invert,
  html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .oo-ui-iconElement-icon:not(.oo-ui-image-progressive):not(.oo-ui-image-destructive):not(.oo-ui-checkboxInputWidget-checkIcon):not(.oo-ui-image-invert):not(.mw-no-invert),
  html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator {
    color-scheme: light;
    filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg);
  }
}

...The mw-no-invert class will only disable the invert filter if the element in question has the oo-ui-iconElement-icon class, which the template's <blockquote> obviously does not.

(That CSS is taken from my browser's inspector view, I'm not quite sure where it comes from on the Wikipedia side. It's not in Vector-2022.css.) FeRDNYC (talk) 15:40, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

This was fixed with changes to the Archive top template . FeRDNYC (talk) 19:09, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Homepage dark mode error

Issue Description Upon account creation, the cached Appearance (Dark Mode/Light Mode) setting is ignored, and the setting can be configured for the newly created user account instead. For users with Dark Mode on, this resets the appearance to Light Mode until the user sets it to their preference again.

New users are prompted for a reason that they created their account. After creating a Wikipedia account, the user is directed to their newly created user homepage. This page has user-specific content but a constant URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Homepage

This page has a Suggested Edits section for new users. For users who selected the "fix a type or error" option on the previous prompt, a Suggested Edits window appears on this page. The text at the beginning of this section has a light blue background instead of white. This text does not invert to white with the rest of the text when Dark Mode is enabled.

(AKA: the first thing a user sees when they create an account is their Dark Mode setting is reset, and as soon as they turn Dark Mode back on, the first block of text on their new user page is unreadable - not ideal for new user experience.)

For reference, the text that does not invert with Dark Mode is:

"When you created your account, you said you wanted to fix a typo or error. Here, you can find suggestions of small edits to get started. If you would rather go straight to fixing a specific article, you can search for the article and click "Edit"."

Additional notes: I think it's related to this JavaScript file in the GitHub repo for MediaWiki, or something around it: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-GrowthExperiments/blob/master/modules/ext.growthExperiments.Homepage.SuggestedEdits/StartEditingDialog.js

I filed the bug report regarding the Special:Homepage Suggested Edits section first phab:T373434. "the first thing a user sees when they create an account is their Dark Mode setting is reset, and as soon as they turn Dark Mode back on" seems to be the general feedback. SCP-2000 (talk) 12:51, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

✅ Mongolian script dark mode error

Issue Description

Writing direction symbol in preamble, generated by

{{TextDir|tb-lr|full}}

in wikitext.

Gerald Ford dark mode error

Issue Description In dark mode links are a dark blue - a similar blue (possibly the same) to the blue used for links in light mode. A dark blue link text color in dark mode does not have enough contrast against the black background and is a significantly different level of contrast from the white body text in dark mode, which visually breaks up articles into links and body text instead of them appearing relatively similar. The dark blue link color in dark mode works differently than how dark blue appears in light mode, where it has a similar level of contrast to the black text. In dark mode, a lighter blue link color would be easier to read by having more contrast with the black background and a level of contrast more similar to the white body text.

✅ Maximum entropy probability distribution dark mode error

Issue Description In the "Table of probability distributions and corresponding maximum entropy constraints" table under

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_entropy_probability_distribution#Other_examples

the latex equations are unreadable because the table background is white and so is the text.

A Coruña dark mode error

Issue Description

Name of the city is not displayed correctly in map sidebar of the article when dark mode is activated through Automatic color mode. When explicitly selecting Dark mode the came is displayed correctly with black font color in a transparent text color box. In Automatic dark mode the name is displayed with black font color in a black text color box.

screenshot
Everything normal on the map in the sidebar with Dark mode explicitely activated. Everything normal in Light mode When Dark mode is set automatically the text box of the city name is black and not transparent, making it impossible to read the name of the city. Note that the text box in the topmost map showing the copyright is also affected.]]

✅ WikiProject Climbing dark mode error

Issue Description Nearly-invisible, dark-gray-on-black text in dark mode. Caused by the style="background: transparent;" used to style the unclosed table at the end of transcluded w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Climbing/tabsheader. This affects the body text immediately following on the transcluding project page. Removing the unnecessary style="background: transparent;" makes all text visible. FeRDNYC (talk) 19:06, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

I got the go-ahead to make the necessary table style fixes from a participant on the project talk page, and did so. FeRDNYC (talk) 16:40, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Washington Metro dark mode error

Issue Description The "route diagram" in the infobox does not display correctly in dark mode. The background will be light with most of the elements in the diagram being dark which is the expected behavior. The problem is that most of the text on the diagram has a light font color which makes it almost completely invisible when dark mode is enabled. Additionally, all the links on the page use the lighter blue color which may be readable by some people (myself included), but it is certainly not WCAG compliant. This could potentially be a more widespread issue with Template:Routemap

ElijahAppleUser (talk) 21:46, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

📢 Fore people dark mode error

Issue Description "Automatic" setting displays Dark Mode no matter when it is selected

• It depend on the browser setting, so it is not a bug. SCP-2000 (talk) 05:57, 31 August 2024 (UTC)