Modern for Wikipedia

Wikipedia gets a beautiful, clean, modern interface.

Modern for Wikipedia: A Sleek & Customizable Extension

Modern for Wikipedia is a Chrome extension that transforms and enhances the Wikipedia browsing experience. By applying a modern, clean design to existing Wikipedia pages automatically upon installation, Modern for Wikipedia provides an aesthetically pleasing and customizable browsing interface. It supports all current Wikipedia features, offering numerous enhancements from customizable themes, fonts, and styles to language options, user accounts, and convenient search tools. It also presents recent page history, trending articles, an easily navigable contents sidebar, full editing controls, and an option to swiftly return to the old Wikipedia design. Further improvements are planned for upcoming releases, making Modern for Wikipedia a continuously evolving tool for boosting the efficiency and enjoyment of Wikipedia use.

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Extension stats

By: https://modernwiki.app

Users: 20,000+

Rating: 4.62

(164)

Version: 1.40 (Last updated: 2023-05-03)

Creation date: 2021-12-06

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
storage
*://*.wikipedia.org/*

Size: 400.38K

Email: su*****@modernredesigns.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 5,958 ▲ 35

Other rankings

#3324 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 4 #9 in wikipedia keyword 22 ▼ 5 #37 in wiki keyword 15 ▼ 12 #102 in math problems keyword 18 ▼ 4 #247 in design keyword 25 ▲

Other platforms

Modern Cannon Strike (v3.6)

3.80

(3,520) 3,725,242+

Modern for Wikipedia (v1.25)

4.36

(97) 3,090+

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Enhance your Wikipedia experience with a beautiful, clean, modern design that's fully customizable.

Once installed, Modern will simply apply the new look and features to existing Wikipedia article pages, without you having to do anything.

All current features on Wikipedia are supported, this extension simply builds upon the existing interface to offer many improvements, including:

✔ Themes (light, dark, sepia, slate, black) ✔ Fonts (sans, serif, change font size) ✔ Styles (column width, line height) ✔ Languages (menu to switch, fully translated interface) ✔ User accounts (all wikipedia account features accessible from menu) ✔ History (quickly jump to articles you've previously viewed) ✔ Search (powerful autocomplete with preview text & images) ✔ Trending (see today's most read articles) ✔ Contents (fixed to left side for easy navigation, can be hidden)

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Makes Wikipedia more visually appealing
Dark mode is superior to general dark mode extensions
Better than Wikiwand, which has become buggy and unsupported
Enhances the reading experience on Wikipedia

Cons

Requires update to Manifest V3 to ensure future compatibility
Presence of annoying donation ads
Some features like the listen function do not work properly

Most mentioned

Need for Manifest V3 update
Dark mode features
Comparison to Wikiwand

User reviews

Zoltán Rácz, 2024-12-19

This extension made the edge's sidebar act strange. how did it even managed to work on the sidebar? Wikipedia links not opening while it continuously shows the logo of the extension.