I'm liking WikiWand a lot.
* Nice table of of contents indeed.
* Interesting use of well-performing transitions (for desktop) that smoothen the load (they start just after the first half is rendered so there's no visual building blocks like we have, it's delayed enough to avoid a rendering spree, but quick enough to not be an annoying delay).
* A fullscreen media viewer for thumbnails.
* Not being full-width near-edge fluid (imho a no brainer).
* No awkward sidebar that is empty when you scroll down and too prominent with things not used as much by readers when you scroll up.
It does seem to have those sidebar and top bar features (like Discussion, Edit, History) and toolbox sidebar (What links here etc.) too tucked away though.
Here's this, which appears to be a reskin, with a browser plug-in. Languages are front-and-center, which is nice. many texture. so color.
http://en.wikipedia.org.advanc.io/
And then there is this:
http://www.wikiwand.com/
which will "upgrade" Wikipedia for you if you want (I'm too scared to click that button, so let me know what happens). They have a nice ToC interaction - just scroll around in here and you'll see it: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ferrari_599_GTB_Fiorano
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Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
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