The “appearance” button seen on Dutch wikipedia is able to change the SIZE of the font (text) and the width of the article. This is extremely nice to have, but it’s not there on any English article…
It does have it but its in the settings menu instead. I believe the different language versions of Wikipedia are maintained by different groups so that’s probably why.
this settings page does not exist on desktop, only on the mobile version. If I go to en.m.wikipedia.org I can see it on desktop, but it’s not on en.wikipedia.org. It also does not save settings from mobile version to desktop version…
Individual Wikipedias have individual designs and Individual design features.
is there no overhaul to copy ideas from one to another? Or overseer to somewhat keep a consistent theming?
I remember when “new” Wikipedia came out with big press I was confused because it had already been in use on the French wiki for months.
My guess is as the biggest wiki, the English wiki is naturally more conservative on the rollout of new features.
other languages are just guinea pigs for the English wiki I gather
I would be very surprised if it wasn’t voluntary, as far as I know each Wiki is maintained independently with very little oversight.
This is all a conspiracy by big Font.
buys Dutch bathroom scale and turns into Marvel character
Ik ben Groot!
ben, not bin
Okeydoke, fixed!
I actually wonder if he’s still called that in Dutch.
You and me both 😁
Update: I checked and apparently they pronunciation is significantly different so that he doesn’t in fact just go around bragging about how big he is 😆
I love how funny they can make it.
There’s a button in the bottom right to make the page wide. As for text size, I guess it’s kind of redundant since you can just zoom in the page.
using the browser zoom makes the layout narrower again, as if it’s actively trying to reverse the wide layout by the button in the bottom right. It makes the page very weird looking. Just far from ideal.
EDIT: it’s also very inconvenient since my browser saves the zoom level per website (not between en.wikipedia and nl.wikipedia) so the zoom would always be off when going from one article to one in the other language.
TIL we have it. That is very useful, thank you!
Maybe it’s a default feature for all non-English languages to account for potential writing system differences? May not make as much a difference for other languages using the Latin alphabet, but maybe for East Asian scripts or Arabic or Hindi etc., they don’t want to assume the default layout is as readable as it is for English?
Just a shot-in-the-dark guess.
well the english wiki does have the wide layout option through the square button on the bottom left, ever since the new layout revamp. Just not the font size option.
