Erik Zachte wrote:
Paddington skin leaves even less screen space for the article itself. Remember we will have an oversized TOC soon as well. People with 800x600 screens (still plenty of them) will see hardly any text without scrolling.
Headers are still way oversized. Newspapers use headers this big whenever a Titanic sinks somewhere.
'Wikipedia English' in two different point sizes and grey for the variable part, very bad to the eyes.
This design (in progress, I know) will produce even more cases of Severe Wikipedia Reader Stress Syndrome.
Yes, those are good points. Recent comments & yours lead me to conclude we need 2 new skins:
* default: a simple, clear, "light" skin. most "system" links either removed or only present in the footer. This is aimed at casual users, readers, etc -- the Great Unwashed Masses who don't use Special Pages or maybe don't even edit * a redesign of our current standard skin. Most registered users may want to set this in their preferences