Wikipedia:Historical archive/Petition for the return of the Old Wikipedia

This is the petition page for the return of the Old Wikipedia. Recently, during a server upgrade, Wikipedia obtained a new look, in which it was redesigned with style more in mind than userfulness and accessability. Our requests:

1. Font-size and font-family (at least for the main text) are determined by the browser of the reader.
2. No distracting background.
3. A solid "printable page" option that removes navigation and possibly colliding foating things etc. (actually, I use this option for reading quite frequently as well).
4. No features that slow down loading the page unless really necessary.
5. The Wikilinks should have a permanent bar under them, so we can tell what they are. They're simply harder to see than before.
6. The tabs should all be put back where they go. Whose idea was it to put them all at the top of the page, in type too small to see?
7. The Wikipedia won two (prominent!) internet awards looking just the way it did. What people look for in an encyclopedia are ease of reference and content. The content is, as always, good, but the ease of reference, it seems to me, has lessened somewhat with all this flashy nonsense they've added.

(Original list thought up by Kornelis, and has since been modified by Litefantastic.)

Any more requests should be posted on Wikipedia: General complaints.

Any specific questions or comments should be directed to Litefantastic

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This user supports the Old Wikipedia.

This user supports the return of the Old Wikipedia, before it obtained this new "blog" look, and would like it changed back.

All those agreeing, sign below:

1. Litefantastic 18:35, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)