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Description from extension meta
Wikipedia gets a beautiful, clean, modern interface.
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Enhance your Wikipedia experience with a beautiful, clean, modern design that's fully customizable.
Once installed, Modern will simply apply the new look and features to existing Wikipedia article pages, without you having to do anything.
All current features on Wikipedia are supported, this extension simply builds upon the existing interface to offer many improvements, including:
✔ Themes (light, dark, sepia, slate, black)
✔ Fonts (sans, serif, change font size)
✔ Styles (column width, line height)
✔ Languages (menu to switch, fully translated interface)
✔ User accounts (all wikipedia account features accessible from menu)
✔ History (quickly jump to articles you've previously viewed)
✔ Search (powerful autocomplete with preview text & images)
✔ Trending (see today's most read articles)
✔ Contents (fixed to left side for easy navigation, can be hidden)
✔ Editing (full editing controls, history, watch etc)
✔ Switch back to the old design (if needed) with one click
✔ More improvements planned for upcoming releases!
If you have any questions, need help or have any suggestions, please get in touch: [email protected]
Note: If you're logged into Wikipedia, you must use the default skin for the extension to work.
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Wikipedia™ is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
This extension is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or sponsored by Wikipedia™.
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Updates:
v1.41
- Upgraded to Manifest V3
v1.40
- Listen to articles with new text-to-speech feature
- Fixed redirect bug on wikipedia home page
v1.25
- New wikipedia design fix
v1.24
- History bug fix
v1.23
- Fix for mobile wikipedia pages (redirect to non-mobile version)
- Fixes for image viewer
- Style fixes for Italian articles
- Scrollbar style fixes for dark themes on mac
- New icon
v1.22
- Contents sidebar settings (set font size, line height & width)
- Better support for large screens (more width settings)
- New settings
--- Auto dark theme (changes to your last used light/dark theme)
--- Fixed header (turn off to hide when scrolled down)
--- Open links in new tab
--- Hide article links
--- Justify text
--- Show bullet points on contents
- Fixed bugs with article width / centering
- Brought back red links for articles that don't exist
v1.21
- Mac scrollbars reverted to native style
- Contents scrollbar only visible on hover (windows)
v1.20
- Search box for languages menu
- Nicer scrollbar styles
- Centered article text when contents hidden (removed left padding)
- Added left padding to article text when contents visible
- Fixed french dark theme + languages menu
- Fixed user menu for non-english languages
- Fixed font size not changeable for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
- Removed system-ui font (fix for east-asian windows fonts)
- Fixed display of math equations in dark mode
- Made search box usable at narrow widths
v1.11
- Bug fixes
v1.0
- First version
Latest reviews
- (2025-07-04) Amin: Very useful and beautiful. Please add Right To Left direction to the setting menu.
- (2025-06-24) Chester Wang: It's back! It's alive! Thank heavens this extension has been updated. This is the best extension for Wikipedia.
- (2025-03-12) Nick DiMatteo: As of today, this extension is automatically disabled even when installed due to: "This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions." Bummer, since this is arguably the best extension for enhancing the Wikipedia UI. No updates or info has been shared about an updated release either, so this extension appears to be dead. RIP.
- (2025-03-04) Rabab Rahman: Awesome extension, but please update it so that it can be supported with Chrome, thanks! I meant Manifest V3 compatibility
- (2025-03-04) Aleksei Polovinkin: RIP Manifest V2, please update
- (2025-02-01) Aleksandr R.: The best extendsion, imporved my expirience so much
- (2025-01-19) R. Akbar: Thank you for this great extension!
- (2025-01-10) Tamim Arafat: Absolutely beautiful. I love it. The only issue I have is that tables are unstyled and they stand out like absolute eyesores in dark mode. Also I think that the "color-scheme: dark;" property should be applied so that the scrollbar isn't also as prominent. The style is also borked in edit mode.
- (2025-01-10) Tamim Arafat: Absolutely beautiful. I love it. The only issue I have is that tables are unstyled and they stand out like absolute eyesores in dark mode. Also I think that the "color-scheme: dark;" property should be applied so that the scrollbar isn't also as prominent. The style is also borked in edit mode.
- (2024-11-21) Belay Mulat: This extension made the edge's sidebar act strange. how did it even managed to work on the sidebar? Wikipedia links not opening while it continuously shows the logo of the extension.
- (2024-09-05) emby: please port to manifest v3 before google kills v2 off... this extension is great
- (2024-09-01) Otto Leipälä: It needs to be port to manifest v3, it will stop working when Google removes old manifest extension support from Chrome....
- (2024-08-25) Kyrylo Khovrenko: Listen function doesn't work(
- (2024-08-22) mvx: very nice extension👍
- (2024-08-06) phamquoctrong: Please update responsive for see in small screen. Thank you!
- (2024-08-03) Mads Bojesen: As Wikiwand now is useless this is the obvious successor. It has all the right features and works well. Thanks for this!
- (2024-06-21) Reznord: Was forced to move from Wikiwand due to country restrictions (jeez bruh, isn't it named "the free encyclopedia"?). Glad to see the extension that works well and available for everyone who is not allowed to read articles in Wiki comfortably. Keep up the good work, guys!
- (2024-06-11) doggo cabos: I installed it despite putting up with the slowness, and it makes me angry that they don't remove the extremely annoying donation ads. Please explain why you don't remove the annoying donation ads. Release a version that removes the donation ads as soon as possible.
- (2024-06-06) Max: Very good. Better than expected.
- (2024-05-16) Alexander Holmsley: This extension is amazing, making Wikipedia much nicer on the eyes. The dark mode is also much better than what a general dark mode extension would make. I highly recommend it. That being said, the only flaw in the dark mode I found is that equations still have black text that looks invisible in front of the black background.
- (2024-03-09) Bill Foley: Great extension! Reading Wikipedia is easier and more enjoyable.
- (2024-03-03) serban gruianu: Best Wikipedia modernization extension. ever
- (2024-03-03) Haroon Ishaq: It is an excellent extension, wikipedia is a site we come across daily but its old UI looks ugly. It makes Wikipedia look better while keeping its original atmosphere unlike wikiwand which completely changes the way wikipedia looks and feels. Wikiwand is also good but it redirects you to a different page which makes it difficult to share links. I will definitely recommend this extension to everyone.
- (2024-03-01) Nick Gall: I love this extension. Two minor problems: (1) the toolbar icon for the extension is almost invisible in Chrome dark mode (2) equations on Wikipedia pages ARE invisible when using the black theme; I had to switch to the gray theme.
- (2024-02-29) Daniel Mare: Great improvement for Wikipedia pages. Very similar to Wikiwand from what I've seen, though Wikiwand's text to speech is a bit better, specially because you can jump between sections, but I much prefer this one for one reason: I hate the fact that Wikiwand redirects you to a different URL, so if I share or save the URL of the Wikipedia article, I'm actually sharing Wikiwand's URL rather than Wikipedia's, and it annoys me a ton. However, this is not the case with Modern for Wikipedia, so given the similar feature set, it gets my recommendation.
- (2024-02-02) Tyler Snow: Everything but the "Auto Dark Theme" option seems to work. Additionally, the front page of Wikipedia is unthemed in dark mode and sticks out like a sore thumb. If these can be fixed, the extension deserves a perfect rating.
- (2024-02-01) be smart: Downloaded for the text-to-speech feature. The plus side is that it doesn't read citation numbers. It reads some unnecessary words and transcripts. For example, it would read all those weird signs and words in this: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky[a] (UK: /ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfski/,[1] US: /ˌdɒstəˈjɛfski, ˌdʌs-/;[2] Russian: pre-1918: Ѳедоръ Михайловичъ Достоевскій; post-1918: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский[b], tr. Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj] ⓘ; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881[3][c]), Also, it stops reading and loads often. Please fix these issues and release an app for iOS. You will deserve 5 stars if you do this. Thank you."
- (2024-01-29) A407RAC: Came for the dark mode, stayed for the gorgeous layout and customisability. Exactly what I wanted and more, thanks!
- (2023-12-19) Rohan Ledger: Redirects correctly from Google unlike Wikiwand.
- (2023-12-11) Lev S: I use it for two years already. Great extension.
- (2023-12-11) Lev S: I use it for two years already. Great extension.
- (2023-10-26) Leonardo: Worse app ever, only 2 fonts, black theme is impossible to read the white fonts, can't increase brightness, they save the page as a new bookmark in chrome even if i had already saved it in the normal wikipedia version, and most important they won't answer your emails regarding all the problems, delete it google!
- (2023-10-26) Leonardo: Worse app ever, only 2 fonts, black theme is impossible to read the white fonts, can't increase brightness, they save the page as a new bookmark in chrome even if i had already saved it in the normal wikipedia version, and most important they won't answer your emails regarding all the problems, delete it google!
- (2023-10-25) Андрей: Расширение неплохое, но есть баг в отображении цитат на странице статьи при включенной темной теме.
- (2023-09-29) Brandon Crabb: Worked really great so far. Will update if any issues. Site now looks elegant, clean, and the dark mode is much easier on the eyes.
- (2023-09-29) Brandon Crabb: Worked really great so far. Will update if any issues. Site now looks elegant, clean, and the dark mode is much easier on the eyes.
- (2023-08-22) Tyler Keller: killer
- (2023-08-22) Tyler Keller: killer
- (2023-08-09) П: Omg this is just the perfect one!
- (2023-08-09) П: Omg this is just the perfect one!
- (2023-08-05) Kaloogh: Lo que dijo el bro de abajo hace 8 meses xd Los colores son muy brillantes falta añadir brillo y contraste o personalizar con rgb, por ejemplo a mi me gusta mucho el sepia pero mas oscuro tirando a café (#7f6d52) Y si se puede conseguir con Dark reader pero se buguea mucho
- (2023-07-14) Entropy B. Ball: Everything I needed and more! Amazing
- (2023-07-14) Entropy B. Ball: Everything I needed and more! Amazing
- (2023-06-15) Ahmed Rasha: Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful work.
- (2023-06-15) Ahmed Rasha: Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful work.
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- (2023-05-10) Guilherme Martinez: Except not being able to change the title font style (seems to be stuck in serif), its really good