I am trying to build a wiki based site and I see that most of the UIs are not keeping up with the times? Is it inherent to nature of wikis or is it just a coincidence?
Eg: https://wikitravel.org/en/Altai_Tavan_Bogd_National_Park<p>Are there any good skins/theme for these (or any other) wiki's.
If it ain’t broke...<p>I don’t really see how wikis could be improved by any modern design trends. They function well and are designed to be accessible by everyone on as many platforms and devices as possible.
I guess my question is: what is wrong with that interface?<p>Is it missing a popup asking if you accept the cookie? If you accept the privacy policy? That the EU passed a law? That they want you to subscribe? That they can't send you spam unless you give them your email address?<p>If medium looked like that site, I wouldn't have medium blocked in my /etc/hosts file.<p>One trouble with Wikis is that the control of the content is not very tight, so if you want to make a layout which expects images and texts to line up in some complex way you are using the wrong tool.
I did make a few CSS changes to my Wikipedia account. The mains thing I did were:<p><pre><code> * Serif font (Libre Baskerville).
* Larger font size.
* Fewer characters by line.
* Hyphenation with left align.
</code></pre>
Basically I tried to improve readability for me.
Why change it when it ain't broke. See the aim of Wikipedia is to provide information in easiest possible way and I don't see a point of adding better UI smooth scroll, gradient nav bars, responsiveness.
How it is present now is probably the MOST easiest for a user to understand.
What specific changes would you care to see?<p>I've made some modest styling changes (via Stylus) to Mediawiki: mostly a max-width main body constraint.