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A light-on-dark color scheme (dark mode, night mode) is available to Wikipedia's smartphone apps and website (for users using the default skins) since July 2024.. In addition to this there is a gadget on English Wikipedia, and various volunteer-written CSS files that allow customization for logged-in users.
WikimediaUI Dark mode is a gadget for enabling dark mode in modern browsers, based on experimental work of Wikimedia Design team members Volker E. and Alex Hollender in support by volunteer MusikAnimal and others.
After I enabled the dark mode gadget, when I opened Wikipedia in a mobile browser (Firefox Daylight 36.0 in iOS 12.4) the toggle didn't appear in the menu on the mobile page (en.m.wikipedia.org) where it's shown here, and when I switched to the "desktop site" (for which I use the Vector Legacy skin), there was just a gap of blank space at the ...
Light on dark color schemes require less energy to display on OLED displays. This positively impacts battery life and reduces energy consumption. [16]While an OLED will consume around 40% of the power of an LCD displaying an image that is primarily black, it can use more than three times as much power to display an image with a white background, such as a document or web site. [17]
To use native dark mode, you can visit Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets and untoggle the "Dark mode toggle" option. Continue using gadget To continue using the gadget, click "Light" in the appearance menu.
Dark mode mitigates this by giving us a darker background with light text, reducing glare and minimizing eye fatigue. This feature is especially helpful for night-time readers or readers who spend lots of time on their devices. Many readers and editors favor dark mode.
@Nervelita: Hello, which dark mode are you currently using? Could you please provide some of examples? Thanks. SCP-20 00 11:55, 23 August 2024 (UTC) I use the gadget. I went on the Wikipedia:Dark mode (gadget) page and it notes that images (and things like templates) are colorshifted which is a real shame because it works beautifully otherwise ...
The dark mode already exists in mobile Wikipedia. Wouldn't it be easier to start from that? El Millo 02:24, 18 June 2020 (UTC) @Facu-el Millo: Unless I missed a major announcement, it only exists for the mobile app, not mobile web (right?). The apps have their own rendering engine, so designers have considerably more control over the appearance ...