Modern for Wikipedia

Modern for Wikipedia

Wikipedia gets a beautiful, clean, modern interface.

What is Modern for Wikipedia?
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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Stats
Users: 20,000+
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
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Modern for Wikipedia
Modern for Wikipedia (v1.25)
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Summary

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)

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User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Modernizes Wikipedia interface
  • Dark mode option
  • Customizable layout
Cons
  • Issues with text-to-speech feature
  • Limited font options
  • Problems with black theme readability
  • Lack of response to user emails
Most mentioned
  • Great modernization of Wikipedia
  • Dark mode option
  • Similar to Wikiwand but without URL redirection
  • Text-to-speech feature
  • Lack of response to user emails
Recent reviews
Omg this is just the perfect one!
by П П, 2023-08-09

by Dewith Miramón Dewith Miramón, 2024-04-15

by David Perez David Perez, 2024-04-13
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Safety
Risk impact

Modern for Wikipedia is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Modern for Wikipedia if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Modern for Wikipedia has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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