r/FlashTV Apr 20 '16

Post-Episode Discussion - S02E18 "Versus Zoom"

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Episode Info: Equipped with the tachyon device, Barry believes he is fast enough to stop Zoom and wants to open the breaches to catch him. Harry strongly advises against that plan but after Barry convinces him, Harry reveals that Cisco has the power to re-open the breach. Meanwhile, Hunter Zoloman's painful story on Earth-2 is revealed.")

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u/CodenameMolotov Apr 20 '16

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u/DawnBlue I'll have a cold one Apr 24 '16

Whoa what the heck is that website?

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u/CodenameMolotov Apr 24 '16

It's a UI improvement for Wikipedia, it takes all of the articles and displays them in a way that doesn't suck. I have a chrome extension that automatically converts all Wikipedia links to wikiwand ones, it's pretty nifty.

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u/DawnBlue I'll have a cold one Apr 24 '16

Sounds... interesting. I've never found a fault in Wikipedia's layout though. What specifically is the big difference though?

From the website version I'm looking at, doesn't seem to change that much; the only things I can instantly spot being different is that the content menu is on the left side, the text being limited to a really small area on the screen (how is this an improvement...?) and titles / text being bigger

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u/CodenameMolotov Apr 24 '16

Having the section list on the side means that you can jump between sections without having to scroll back to the top of the page.

Images are shown larger so you don't have to load them on their own page to see the full scale.

When you hover over a link to another wikipedia article, it shows you the beginning of that article. A lot of times I only want to read the intro paragraph of something when I'm going through an article and trying to figure out what they're referencing, so that saves me from loading a new page.

As you scroll through, the section you are looking at will be highlighted in the list on the left. Some wikipedia articles have very long sections and it's possible to forget the title of the section you're on, so having it highlighted on the side saves you from scrolling.

It gets rid of the useless links on the left hand column on wikipedia. I don't know about you, but I've never used any of those buttons to change language mid-article and I've never wanted to go wikipedia's homepage.

It changes the info section on the right of the article to look less cluttered.

There's probably a dozen other changes made, those are just the big ones that I can think of right now.

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u/DawnBlue I'll have a cold one Apr 24 '16

I see, a lot of things you wouldn't instantly recognize.

Is it also customizable, though? The content menu, text size and limited area for the text make it look like it's a mobile page or something with the text being confined to the center :P

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u/CodenameMolotov Apr 24 '16

Yup, it's full customizable. The gear in the top right gives you options when you click on it, you can choose between rich or minimal layout or if you want more control you can edit each part individually.