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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass

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Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass

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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    Do not start a headline with “Darkness reigns over Wikipedia”!!!

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      What’s wrong with Darkness?

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        Wikipedia is about to become a really weird place…

        • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.worksBanned
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          • Mia
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            whut

            • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.worksBanned
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              • Mia
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                No I just don’t get what any of that has to do with a joke about Wikipedia becoming weird because it’s being run by a crazy anime girl from Konosuba, that’s all…

                • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.worksBanned
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  • Someplaceunknown@fedia.io
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    At last, I won’t get blinded whenever I open Wikipedia

  • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
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    These are dark times

    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world
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      Indeed.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        No, thats the job hunting website. Wikipedia is the one anyone can edit historical facts.

        • ummthatguy@lemmy.world
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          (Which is apparently a workspace AI company)

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    The year is 2024, hacker news stands strong as only remaining website to not offer darkmode.

    Thou art forbidden to peruse our content in the dead of night; verily, our content is for the light of day alone.

    • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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      deleted by creator

      • fossilesque@mander.xyz
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        Get on my level.

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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          How long were you searching for “worse than Comic Sans” before you landed on that one?

          That purp though, fully behind it

          • MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz
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            I believe it’s a more dyslexia friendly font

            • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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              I take it back @fossilesque@mander.xyz !!

              • fossilesque@mander.xyz
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                Open Dyslexic browser extension and the Dracula theme! :) I am not Dyslexic but I find it helps when I am tired.

                https://draculatheme.com/

                • suction@lemmy.world
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                  You know what also helps when you’re tired? Sleep.

            • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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              Yeah they usually have that extra heavy weight on parts of some characters, especially curves around the bottom

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        “Getting paid is weird and sometimes hard” Wtf…

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned
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          spoken by a true philosophy major

        • PopShark@lemmy.world
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          Just hacker things

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      Have you heard of lightbulbs?

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    deleted by creator

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned
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      my favorite thing about wikipedia is the information density, there are few things that match it, except for books, and those often cost money.

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    If you are on desktop and you aren’t sure how it works, try out this Wiki page and in the top right corner you can see an “eyeglasses” looking icon. Click that and set it to Automatic or Dark.

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    Hello DarkReader my old friend…

    Which you still need for mobile. Edit: Nope.

    • GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world
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      Nope, its available on mobile too. Just go to

      Sidebar>Settings>Colour

      (Options to choose from)

      • Light

      • Dark

      • Automatic

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        Yeah but that requires cookies. Not everybody allows them. I block everything that isn’t a first party cookie, and set them to delete every time I close my browser.

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          To be fair though, “The website doesn’t remember my settings because I don’t let it,” isn’t really a problem the website can solve.

          I just had a thought that I’d like to see a plugin that independently remembers whichever cookie-based settings you want it to on a per-site basis and then re-inserts those settings into fresh cookies whenever you visit using some sort of search & replace or markup interpeter. Basically a way to maintain personal control over what data cookies can hold.

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            They could solve it by not using tracking cookies so that I don’t have to do this in a futile attempt to protect my privacy.

          • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned
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            maybe it’d be nice if we just had “config registers” alongside cookies that just allowed us to store a single bytes worth of information in it or something. Would be perfect for things like darkmode.

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        Oh look at that. It was hiding from me.

    • janNatan@lemmy.ml
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      The Wikipedia app has had dark mode for a while. Plus dark mode in Firefox works fine with no extensions.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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      Dark Reader on Firefox mobile works well for me!

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
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      pretty sure mobile darkmode for wikipedia has been avaliable for a while now

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    Very happy to see it come to wikipedia!!

    But I think it also needs some polish. The contrast is too high and the blue on black of the hyperlinks is too garish for sure.

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    The Washington Post: “Democracy dies in darkness”

    Wikipedia: “Knowledge that is shared in torchlight is fucking awesome”

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      Democracy dies in darkness

      From what I’ve seen, it dies in plain sight to standing ovations

      • DUMBASS@leminal.spaceBanned
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        And memes, lots of memes.

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    I thought this was gonna be about Wikipedia finally shutting down because nobody donates

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      They are actually getting too many donations, many times more than they need to run wikipedia. There was and is a big conflict about the unsustainable growth of donations to the foundation and its questionable use of those funds.

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        Wikimedia Foundation (the org behind the Wikipedia and similar projects) does get more donations than their operational cost, but that’s expected. The idea is that they’ll invest the extra fund[1] and some day the return alone will be able to sustain Wikipedia forever.

        Although, some have criticized that the actual situation is not clearly conveyed in their asking for donation message. It gives people an impression that Wikipedia is going under if you don’t donate.

        Others also criticized that the feature development is slow compared to the funding, or that not enough portion is allocated to the feature development. See how many years it takes to get dark mode! I don’t know how it’s decided or what’s their target, so I can’t really comment on this.

        They publish their annual financial auditions[2] and you can have a read if you’re interested. There are some interesting things. For example, in 2022-2023, processing donations actually costs twice as much as internet hosting, which one would expect to be the major expense.


        1. https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_Investment_Policy ↩︎

        2. https://wikimediafoundation.org/annualreports/2022-2023-annual-report/#toc-by-the-numbers ↩︎

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        Similar to Mozilla (but not from donations but instead of its millions paid to it by Google)

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned
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        they’re a non profit, so their either banking money in a proverbial “war chest” or they’re just nabbing donations to be used in the future, for large expansions or what not.

        It’s an interesting problem to have, being a non profit entity.

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  • Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Finally I don’t need to have an account just to have dark mode

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      People were making accounts?!

      Ive been using browser extensions.

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        It was an experimental gadget setting under your profile.

        I’ve been using userstyles, but nothing seems to have worked as well as the built in feature for me.

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    finnaly I’ll use wikipedia on my laptop more

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    Finally the l33t hax0rz from Anonymous can browse Wikipedia in peace

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    Dark mode, night mode, light-on-dark design, or whatever you want to call the version of computer content that doesn’t feel blindingly bright at night…

    Don’t wanna be that guy, but these template news-article openings always make my brain hurt. Come on, as if everyone has ever called it anything else than “Dark mode”.

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