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Modifications of Vector 2022: new gadgets and user scripts
See our FAQ: How to customize Vector 2022?
- Changes to background colors: Nclm/global.css
- Changes to the full width
- user-script: Anachronist/vector-2022.css
- user-script: vector-max-width-toggle by Jdlrobson
- gadgets: Gadget-wide-vector-2022 at Enwiki (retired), Vector Unleashed at Itwiki
- 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
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Wikimania 2022 slides (August 2022) -
Sticky Header and Table of Contents User Testing (March 2021) -
Hureo User Research Report (June 2020) -
Hureo User Research Report (March 2020) -
Wikimania Stockholm research report (September 2019) -
Wikimania Stockholm slides (August 2019) -
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