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this changes the width of the article (resembling the old style a little bit), as well as the SIZE of the text, which is very different from your browser changing the size of the page. Very convenient.
Only seen on the Dutch wikipedia
It is there on English Wikipedia too, either on the sidebar or with that button if you hide it from the sidebar. However, it seems to not show up when you are logged out. Wikipedia often does not give as much customization options when logged out because they rely heavily on caching pages for logged out users to keep things fast
You can still change the width of the page by clicking the
button in the bottom right of the screen
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vector_2022
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Frequently_asked_questions
is it not possible to inject some URL or SQL piece to set those preferences without logging in? I really don't want to be logged onto wikipedia...
There's some browser extensions you can use too. I think one of the things I linked mentioned some of those
I installed a few but afaik they ALL change a heck lot more than just font size, unfortunately...
A bit more effort but you could also use some extensions that let you put any custom CSS styling on a page to
DONE.
// ==UserScript==
// @name en.wikipedia font size LARGE
// @version 1
// @match https://en.wikipedia.org/*
// @grant none
// @require http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
// ==/UserScript==
(function(){
'use strict';
// Use the .css() method to change CSS properties
$('.vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref--excluded, .vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-0').css('--font-size-medium', '1.10rem');
})();