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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.
Very good news. I've been using the Dark Mode Toggle a couple years, on ENWP only because that's the one I read most, especially at night. Besides easier to read, Dark Mode looks very different; hence I don't forget when I'm in Simple English or Commons or Meta or whatever. Jim.henderson 00:54, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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.
This feature would be more effective at preventing eye strain if dark mode also changed the colour palette used for hyper-links, banners and headlines. Blue rich colours should be avoided in dark mode. A palette of amber or red colours would improve the readability of the site in dark mode 209.171.85.194 15:39, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
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]
Wikipedia's tracker for bugs and issues, Phabricator, shows a "Provide a dark / night mode skin or theme" ticket going back to June 22, 2010. Things really start picking up in early 2022, and the discussion goes lots of places, including accessibility, machine learning, and color-coded map keys.
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 ...