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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.
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.
A MediaWiki skin is a style of page display. There are differences in the HTML code the system produces (but probably not in the page body), and also different style sheets are used.
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Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions).
Regarding Wikipedia’s dark mode feature on the website settings. 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.