Night Mode for Wikipedia

Switch your Wikipedia site mode to dark or light with just one click.

What is Night Mode for Wikipedia?

The 'Night Mode for Wikipedia' extension is a tool specifically designed to protect user's eyes when reading Wikipedia at night. It effortlessly modifies the Wikipedia website's background to black and the text to white, reducing glare and eye strain. Easily toggle between modes with one click. This software is independently developed and not affiliated with Wikipedia. Feedback is appreciated and updates occur regularly.

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.58 (26)

Version: 3.0.1 (Last updated: 2023-10-31)

Creation date: 2022-05-08

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

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Size: 45.08K

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Ranking

# 9060 ▼ 28

Other rankings

#433 in Social Networking ▲ 1 #9 in wikipedia keyword 21 #17 in night mode keyword 57 ▲ 1 #22 in wiki keyword 14 ▲ 1

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Extension summary

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Do you like using Wikipedia on your computer? Try installing this extension to protect your eyes when you use Wikipedia on your desktop computer at night time.

Night Mode for Wikipedia allows you to rest your eyes when you use the Wikipedia website at night. It allows you to change the background to black and the text is changed to white color. This would reduce the stress on your eyes when you are surfing Wikipedia at night.

To turn dark mode on and off for the Wikipedia website, just click on the extension icon when you're on the Wikipedia website.

You can toggle the dark mode/night mode for Wikipedia to be on and off.

Please note this extension is NOT created by Wikipedia and is created by a team of independent developers. We're constantly updating this extension and you can e-mail us if the extension is not working as Wikipedia updates their desktop website and can cause our extension to break.

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Good contrast and readability compared to official dark modes.
Easy ON/OFF switch for quick use.
No ads included.
Does what it promises without making articles impossible to read.

Cons

Incompatibility with Wikipedia Gadgets, especially with Vector 2010 Design.
Page crashes and long loading times, particularly during editing.
Math images are not inverted, making them unreadable at night.
Some users reported a weird tint of yellow on the text.

Most mentioned

Good contrast
Crashing/resetting issues
Incompatibility with Gadgets
Usability for casual reading
Functionality without ads

Recent reviews

The contrast is very good. I say better than Wikipedia's official Dark Mode that has been out recently. But sadly this extension keeps on resetting and crashing. Usually incompatible with enabled Gadgets offered in Wikipedia. Especially those that come by the Vector 2010 Design. As much as I want to like this extension, it is quite troublesome as a Wikipedian Editor. Crashing the page unexpectedly, constant reloading, the incompatibility with source editing. Not to mention the long loading times (had you not gotten in a crash) that takes up to a half to even a minute of waiting. I might have a differing opinion that normal readers. Maybe the only one critical here; as others click 5 stars away. Nevertheless, if you want to have this extension, better to have it as a casual reader of Wikipedia than using it for, lets say, initial research or editing. 3/5.