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Provide setting for different color modes for Wikimedia skins
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Description

Use cases and benefits:

As proposed in [[Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Larger_suggestions#Yellow_mode]], there are people who wish to see warmer colors and have fewer blur night in the site's skin, to make their eyes more comfortable when reading the Wikipedia.

Likewise, as I have mentioned in T26070 , it is likely useful for astronomical purpose and other dark outdoor environment to have minimal light coming out of skin when reading wikipedia, especially with minimized stimulation to human eyes, by turning the background black, and then changing any content on the screen into red color.

Furthermore, it is also mentioned that, due to the popularity of AMOLED screen, especially on mobile digital devices, it can help save power as well as reduce battery consumption on user device, by turning the background of the website completely black, instead of just dark as T26070 proposed. Owning to the global widespread usage of Wikimedia-based website, it might help reduce global power consumption and carbon emission by slight bits too.

In addition, a high contrast mode would also be useful to people with low visibility.

Feature summary:

Hence, to complete these different needs for different color scheme for the website, it would be desired if Wikimedia skins can have this setting, both on desktop and mobile skins as well as other alternative skins.

Note:

Currently, there are some third party css files floating around that offer similar effects. However, those often goes unmaintained and cannot response to Wikimedia software design update. And the technical barrier behind that is also high. Hence first party support for different color themes with integrated easily-accessible switches in setting is desired.

Event Timeline

Aklapper changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Feb 20 2022, 4:47 PM

For warmer colors and to make eyes more comfortable when using a screen (whether reading Wikipedia or not), many operating system have a "Night Light" setting to change the color temperature of the screen. I don't see why this is something you'd want to implement only for some website, server-side?

dark-mode is an existing project for a dark background. Even more relevant, common web browser implement dark mode support themselves, as I again don't see why this is something you'd want to implement only for some website, server-side.

@C933103: I do not think that this task is actionable in its current state, given its broad scope, existing solutions, and already existing open tickets.

For warmer colors and to make eyes more comfortable when using a screen (whether reading Wikipedia or not), many operating system have a "Night Light" setting to change the color temperature of the screen. I don't see why this is something you'd want to implement only for some website, server-side?

OS is for entire OS, and such warmer color/blue-light-cutting features are often only available on more advanced computing environment.

Implementation of this at specific website server-side, given that those specific websites are dedicated to provide users with long time text reading, can allow users read comfortably for longer hours even on less advanced devices, for example a PDA or a feature phone.

dark-mode is an existing project for a dark background. Even more relevant, common web browser implement dark mode support themselves, as I again don't see why this is something you'd want to implement only for some website, server-side.

Dark mode is an existing project for dark background, but as mentioned in the tasks I mentioned, these proposed themes are beyond the scope of merely dark mode, and it have been suggested that a separate ticket on the issue is more appropriate.

@C933103: I do not think that this task is actionable in its current state, given its broad scope, existing solutions, and already existing open tickets.

The theme extension above doesn't appears to provide a easy setting to users desiring these specific color modes I mentioned.

@C933103: I see. Which one, specific feature request is this task asking for?

@C933103: I see. Which one, specific feature request is this task asking for?

Would it be clearer if I said to create a switch in setting for user to change to different color themes?

C933103 renamed this task from Create different color mode for Wikimedia skins to Provide setting for different color modes for Wikimedia skins.Mar 18 2022, 9:29 PM

That sounds out of scope (and lacks a clear use case not covered by a dark mode and night light settings of an operating system).