Web Design Critique of Wikipedia

Wikipedia.org has a website layout with incredibly strong continuity. It's one of the last few mainstream resources that doesn't have any extreme code dressing in its layout, but it's also not minimalistic to a fault. Too many websites nowadays feel the need to incorporate as much "white space" as possible on any given monitor but not Wikipedia. Wikipedia is filled wall-to-wall with carefully-organized text, and in the context of an encyclopedia, that's only appropriate.

With that said, this approach to design is not without limitations.


    The Faults of Wikipedia

  1. Images often have low supplemental quality
  2. It doesn't scale images very well for mobile devices
  3. Navigation can often look cluttered
  4. Sections are often too long to read comfortably

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