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What just happened? Wikipedia is the most widely used collaborative encyclopedia on the Internet, or as they like to say, the largest collection of open knowledge in history. Now, the updated design is designed to make this knowledge even more user-friendly and accessible to people around the world.
Wikipedia is getting a design update, the first major update to the site’s desktop interface in more than a decade. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia’s servers and other related projects like the MediaWiki platform, has announced a redesign just in time for Wikipedia’s 22nd anniversary (January 15).
“Wikipedia’s content and popularity have grown significantly over the past two decades,” explains the Foundation, with an information array consisting of more than 58 million articles written in more than 300 languages. Volunteers from around the world edit and manage the free encyclopedia, and Internet users visit the site nearly 16 billion times a month.
The Wikimedia Foundation cites a global analysis of digital trends for 2022 which states that the number of people not connected to the internet has fallen below 3 billion for the first time in history. More than 5 billion Internet users are online right now, and Wikipedia’s redesign is designed to meet the needs of this “next generation of Internet users.”
The new design should make it easier for everyone, “regardless of their Internet knowledge,” to find and use reliable and trustworthy knowledge. The improved desktop interface includes a new “contents” navigation bar that remains visible when users scroll down the page, a more visible link to search and switch the available languages in which the article is written, a maximum line width that should to make long texts easier to read and easier to remember.
The Wikipedia desktop now provides improved search with images and descriptions to make it easier to find articles, a new collapsible sidebar to access many of the tools Wikipedia provides without distracting users from reading, and an updated title for registered users that will remain at the top during the Text. scrolling.
Wikipedia’s redesign is the culmination of a long-term project to improve the desktop, and like all content published on the free encyclopedia, it is the result of the collaboration of 30 different groups of volunteers from around the world. The new design was created based on the results of global research and user feedback, and is inspired by the same core idea of equity in knowledge that gave birth to the Wikimedia Foundation.
“Updating the Wikipedia desktop is one of the major improvements the Wikimedia Foundation is making to help people easily access the world’s knowledge,” said Selena Deckelman, director of products and technology at the Wikimedia Foundation. The new features “aim to meet the needs of our increasingly diverse audience,” Deckelman said, “while maintaining a simple and intuitive feel that millions of people have come to trust over the past 22 years.”
What just happened? Wikipedia is the most widely used collaborative encyclopedia on the Internet, or as they like to say, the largest collection of open knowledge in history. Now, the updated design is designed to make this knowledge even more user-friendly and accessible to people around the world.
Wikipedia is getting a design update, the first major update to the site’s desktop interface in more than a decade. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia’s servers and other related projects like the MediaWiki platform, has announced a redesign just in time for Wikipedia’s 22nd anniversary (January 15).
“Wikipedia’s content and popularity have grown significantly over the past two decades,” explains the Foundation, with an information array consisting of more than 58 million articles written in more than 300 languages. Volunteers from around the world edit and manage the free encyclopedia, and Internet users visit the site nearly 16 billion times a month.
The Wikimedia Foundation cites a global analysis of digital trends for 2022 which states that the number of people not connected to the internet has fallen below 3 billion for the first time in history. More than 5 billion Internet users are online right now, and Wikipedia’s redesign is designed to meet the needs of this “next generation of Internet users.”
The new design should make it easier for everyone, “regardless of their Internet knowledge,” to find and use reliable and trustworthy knowledge. The improved desktop interface includes a new “contents” navigation bar that remains visible when users scroll down the page, a more visible link to search and switch the available languages in which the article is written, a maximum line width that should to make long texts easier to read and easier to remember.
The Wikipedia desktop now provides improved search with images and descriptions to make it easier to find articles, a new collapsible sidebar to access many of the tools Wikipedia provides without distracting users from reading, and an updated title for registered users that will remain at the top during the Text. scrolling.
Wikipedia’s redesign is the culmination of a long-term project to improve the desktop, and like all content published on the free encyclopedia, it is the result of the collaboration of 30 different groups of volunteers from around the world. The new design was created based on the results of global research and user feedback, and is inspired by the same core idea of equity in knowledge that gave birth to the Wikimedia Foundation.
“Updating the Wikipedia desktop is one of the major improvements the Wikimedia Foundation is making to help people easily access the world’s knowledge,” said Selena Deckelman, director of products and technology at the Wikimedia Foundation. The new features “aim to meet the needs of our increasingly diverse audience,” Deckelman said, “while maintaining a simple and intuitive feel that millions of people have come to trust over the past 22 years.”
