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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.
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.
The Wikimedia Foundation has seen many requests like these. Dark mode is available in the Wikipedia mobile apps, but still not in the web browser. It’s been a common request from editors in the Community Wishlist Surveys and the rollouts of the Vector 2022 skin — hundreds of comments! We would like to thank for all these.
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]
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To get Wikipedia search results while on any web page, you can temporarily set your browser's (web-based) search box to interface the Wikipedia search engine and land on Wikipedia's search results page. This trick removes the need to first navigate to Wikipedia from a web page, and then do the search or navigation. It is a temporary change, and ...
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 ...