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how come there is no "appearance" button on the English wikipedia? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 5 months ago by dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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The "appearance" button seen on Dutch wikipedia is able to change the SIZE of the font (text) and the width of the article. This is extremely nice to have, but it's not there on any English article...

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[โ€“] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don't know what the answer to your question is, but I love the way tekst is spelt.

[โ€“] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

yea I guess it has a visual ring to it

[โ€“] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

I am Groot.

[โ€“] starman@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Besides Dutch, tekst is a word used in Albanian, Danish, Estonian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish

[โ€“] Manzas@lemdro.id 1 points 5 months ago

Lithuanian has tekstas it is just two letters away from tekst .

[โ€“] kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

Current Setting: Breed Groot

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

buys Dutch bathroom scale and turns into Marvel character

Ik ben Groot!

[โ€“] Daxtron2@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It does have it but its in the settings menu instead. I believe the different language versions of Wikipedia are maintained by different groups so that's probably why.

[โ€“] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

this settings page does not exist on desktop, only on the mobile version. If I go to en.m.wikipedia.org I can see it on desktop, but it's not on en.wikipedia.org. It also does not save settings from mobile version to desktop version...

[โ€“] simple@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

There's a button in the bottom right to make the page wide. As for text size, I guess it's kind of redundant since you can just zoom in the page.

[โ€“] Microw@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Individual Wikipedias have individual designs and Individual design features.

[โ€“] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

is there no overhaul to copy ideas from one to another? Or overseer to somewhat keep a consistent theming?

[โ€“] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Technically these kinds of things are decided by the Wikimedia Foundation but they'll usually not do things that the editing community of the local wiki doesn't want.

In 2014 the WMF forced a new software feature (Media Viewer) on all wikis and enforced this by "superprotecting" the JavaScript on the German-language Wikipedia so local admins (who at one point even blocked the Deputy Director of the WMF from editing) couldn't disable the new media viewer. The WMF doesn't really want these kinds of constitutional crises to happen again.

[โ€“] TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

This is all a conspiracy by big Font.