Since its earliest days in 2001, Wikipedia's fundamental user experience has gone through a series of small, iterative changes, but the site has never had a significant overhaul. That's about to change.
Now the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, announced that it would soon be pushing through some major changes to the look and feel of the popular user-created encyclopedia, the first time that it has proactively done such a thing.
"We are changing our default look to a new theme we call 'Vector' which makes essential functions easier to find," the Wikimedia Foundation wrote on its blog Thursday night. "All users will...see that the site layout has changed noticeably. We've simplified the site navigation, relocated the search box to satisfy user expectations and to follow other Web standards, reduced some of the clutter and made sure that the new features work with different resolutions, browser formats and window sizings."
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20001274-52.html
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Now the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, announced that it would soon be pushing through some major changes to the look and feel of the popular user-created encyclopedia, the first time that it has proactively done such a thing.
"We are changing our default look to a new theme we call 'Vector' which makes essential functions easier to find," the Wikimedia Foundation wrote on its blog Thursday night. "All users will...see that the site layout has changed noticeably. We've simplified the site navigation, relocated the search box to satisfy user expectations and to follow other Web standards, reduced some of the clutter and made sure that the new features work with different resolutions, browser formats and window sizings."
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20001274-52.html
