It's a lovely layout, but it's missing some usability engineering. I agree that we should shift to something as well designed as this, but please let's not make it the default skin just yet.
When we have server logs from the 'new' Wikipedia, we can consider doing some optimization, and then releasing a tuned version.
We can also gather some statistics about browser use, which will help us decide what to optimize for. 0
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