Mark Holmquist wrote:
The beauty of this is, it's a fast solution that we can push out and not need to do much work on it. The community is pretty good about responding to calls for feedback on BetaFeatures, and JS/CSS fixes for something this small will likely not take much engineering resources.
Agreed. From what I can tell, easyreader is just a bit of styling. It reminds me of the Typography refresh/update beta feature, so making this another beta feature or part of the same beta feature might work.
easyreader could also easily be a JavaScript gadget or even a new MediaWiki skin, if you wanted. There are lots of options here, but none are particularly difficult from a technical point-of-view.
Changing the implicit ?action=view is nice, but it may also help to focus on ?action=edit as well. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/45300 discusses adding a "zen mode" to the wikitext ("source") editor. A similar mode could be added for reading (cf. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/14501).
These are fun projects and none would be very difficult to implement, if anyone is interested.
MZMcBride